Tools of the trade

In my never-ending search for online tools that will work between my Mac lap­top, my iPod Touch and my Windows desk­tops at work and home, I have come across dozens of appli­ca­tions and Web sites that I think might work until I lose inter­est in them and move on. Usually, mov­ing on means “man­u­ally” shuf­fling infor­ma­tion back and forth between fold­ers on my hard drive and my Exchange inbox.

Well, today I’m giv­ing EverNote a try. I dis­missed the pro­gram when it was in beta, say­ing to myself, “Self, what the hell would you ever use this for?” Yet I have come back to the site after find­ing that my needs have not been met by other pro­grams like Google sites, home­spun wikis and blogs and even 37signals’ Highrise software.

Oh, you want me to describe what it is that I want soft­ware to do. Well, every­thing, I guess. I’m not really sure. I know I need some sort of orga­ni­za­tion solu­tion, some sort of all-in-one holy grail of orga­ni­za­tion and pro­duc­tiv­ity apps. You know, just a sim­ple goal like that.

So any­one else out there have sto­ries to share about EverNote?