Over the past few months I have been using Evernote. This cloud application has changed the way I take notes as well as organize all my notes. I tested the value of this application when I attended the BLC10 conference earlier this summer. Evernote made it easy to organize all my notes from the sessions I attended. I also had the ability to tag my notes and reorganize them into new notebooks as needed. The user interface is intuitive and it is available from my Android phone, the web, as well as local installation on my laptop. I can "sync" my notes from pretty much anywhere! I recently told my sister about Evernote and she is using it to organize all her notes for her college courses.
A caveat with all cloud applications is that we trust others to keep much of our data safe. Earlier this month Evernote acknowledged that there was a hardware fault that resulted in 6,323 users losing some of their cloud-stored data. Luckily most users were able to restore their data but for some it remains lost.
A challenge for many of us is figuring out how to protect all our data as more and more of our professional and personal information is stored in the cloud. What steps will we need to take to ensure that our data is safeguarded? For me the benefits far outweigh the risks and I will continue accessing my cloud-based content from wherever life takes me!
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