During the past week I came across two very useful Mac apps that I wanted to share with my readers. Those apps boost your productivity and respond very well to some common needs always-online people like me have.
Both apps are strictly connected to a cloud service and some of them also provide a client for all the major mobile platforms.
Evernote is a Mac app which lets you easily take written notes as well as collect screen-shots, photos, audio recordings, web snapshots and so on, tag and reuse them whenever you need.
The most interesting part of the story is that since you mostly need to take notes when you are on the go, Evernote provides you with a mobile app for iPhone (very popular on the App Store) and Blackberry devices. I decided to install it as soon as the BB app was made available (a few days ago) and it works great.
The usage is very simple: from your device you decide what type of note you want to take then you can save your note on the cloud. Photos, written notes, snapshots, audio notes, files can be immediately tagged (even geo-tagged through the integrated GPS) and upload to Evernote’s servers and you will automatically find them available on your Mac application.
Smart, right? The screenshot below have been taken with CaptureIt for Blackberry and uploaded thanks to Evernote for Blackberry.
As soon as you have your notes on your Mac app, you can easily add content, modify them, add other notes or rich content to your pictures.
New Notes Available
The free version offers a limited amount of space (max 40MB / month) available on the cloud to store your notes while with $5 / month (or $45/year) you can get 500MB/month plus the ability to upload all file types (now word, excel and so on are not allowed).
Dropbox is the best service I found so far to store documents in the cloud and make them available from any computer. As soon as you install Dropbox (available for Windows and Linux too), you choose a folder where your shared docs will be stored.
Each time you add/remove/update docs in that folder those events will be tracked so you always have a comprehensive snapshot of your activity on Dropbox.
While they don’t provide a mobile client, Dropbox can be easily accessed from any smartphone, so your documents are always at your fingertips. While it works well on the iPhone thanks to a dedicated web interface, I couldn’t use it from my Blackberry Bold by accessing the regular home page, www.getdropbox.com, though. However, there is a workaround: you just need to access to the iPhone page directly, so it works well on the BB too. It is http://www.getdropbox.com/iphone.
Dropbox offers 2GB storage for free, that can become 3GB if your refer up to four users to the service (250MB / user). If you need more space, you can get one of the two plans they offer: $99.99 / year for up to 50GB or $199.00 / year for up to 100GB.
Please leave your comments and recommendations, especially if you found these apps useful. Other apps that are worth a look?
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