I take notes extensively - round the clock, be it while traveling, watching movies, in middle of lectures, meetings, you name it, I take notes of things everywhere. Recently I touched 10,000 notes and it was becoming increasingly hard to manage those. 

Keeping all those notes in flat files ( Word files ) was making them useless as I couldn't search through them / edit them readily. I edit my notes extensively so it was crazy hard to achieve that in Google Docs as well as then you have unsegregatted notes spread across hundreds of documents. 

I used to use Catch app as well which worked nicely for segregatting the notes and it was easy to use but it shut down its services in ~2011 leaving me with a few options.

That's when I started using Evernote ( started in 2011, turned premium a month back ) which turned out to be blessing. It was such an amazing app to use as it allowed me store thousands of notes including voice recordings, tables, images so that was pretty great and served my notes taking habit well. 

So what are some of the most appealing features of using Evernote?

1. It stores all the versions of your notes - For Premium user 

So let's say if you are writing on a particular topic and you are adding new points everyday and refining the writeup then it becomes important to see different versions of the same note and to see how the note/ your thought evolved over time. 

Evernote lets premium users access different revisions of the notes and you can rollback to any of the other versions of the note. 

Imagine having this feature for thousands of notes, it is truly a blessing. 

Apple notes doesn't have this feature and if by chance you change any text and navigate to the other note, the accidental changes you made can't be rolled back. So beware!

2. Syncs across multiple devices - I use 2 Macs, 2 phones ( Android, iPhone ) 

Since I use multiple devices most of the times, I have to ensure that everything is synced all the time as I keep on taking notes in one of those devices at any given point of time (whenever required). 

Apple's Notes app is awesome but doesn't have a web interface and can't be used on android devices - so a thumbs down.

3. Documents scanner & Business Card Reader 

Evernote can scan documents with ease and saves those documents in PDF Format which you can share using any social media platform / email / any other service.

4. Web Interface is awesome, so are native apps for different platforms 

Since I use multiple devices ( macs, ios, android ), there are native apps for them so everything works out of the box. When I use friend's machines then I login using web interface which is equally powerful.

5. Web Clipper - AWESOME AWESOME!

Suppose you read a lot of blogs and you frequently clip the webpages / copy paste the contents from the webpages then Web clipper tool is awesome for you as it has extensions for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and once you are done with installing them, you can clip entire webpage ( 2 modes - in identical formatting & simplified formatting ), bookmark it within evernote.

You can also tag those clipped webpages and categorise them for faster retrieval of content for notes making, reading. 

To get fully functional one month free premium account, register here. 

After one month if you choose not to renew the premium account ( which is the paid one ) - you will still get the basic evernote account and all your previous notes on evernote will be safe ( I tried that and all my notes are intact ).

Different Evernote's packages are as follows:

To get fully functional one month free premium account, register here.