Back in February we took a look at the Evernote Beta that introduces an online synchronization aspect that plays nicely with their desktop offerings. After just two months of the Beta they have hit a huge milestone: 1 million notes have been posted! They’ve decided that a good way to celebrate the milestone would be to let anyone and everyone register for the Beta by visiting this “secret” site.
That’s right, you have until 9:00PM PST to hit up that URL so that you can instantly become part of the Evernote Beta. After you get your account setup you’ll want to head on over and download the software for either Mac, XP/Vista, or Windows Mobile. All of your notes will then sync with the online service, and it will keep all of your computers in sync with each other. Not to mention that any text in your photos will be recognized and indexed so that they too can be searched. Now that is cool, but I have heard mixed reviews of how well it actually works.
Instant Evernote Beta Access (expires April 24th @ 9:00PM PST)
[via jkOnTheRun]
Great post. Love your site. One problem though. Could you list that a program is Leopard only if it is so we don’t get excited and go over to the site for nothing? It will be a little while before I can afford to upgrade to Leopard. Unfortunately, I’m starting to see more programs coming out that say Leopard only.
The OCR in Evernote is something that disappoints me regularly too. I’m not that surprised when the resolution of the photo is small or the scribles too unreadable for OCR, but it’s touted as a major feature so I guess my expectations were just too high. Nevertheless it is a nice feature when it works well
I have 129 notes in Evernote now, and still love the beta
No problem… we’ll try to keep that in mind.
Is it just the hand written stuff that you seem to be having troubles with? Just curious because most of the people I’ve talked to have said that typed notes are definitely recognized more accurately, which is understandable.
Not just hand written stuff, also low res jpegs of typed stuff. I was not surprised about the first, but I was about the last. I thought that the jpegs, though low res, were easily clear enough for OCR.