it's not desktop tool for me. It is webtool called diigo. It's integrated with browser both for taking notes on a web page(annotation) and retrieve them as bookmarks. Yes evernote has a nice OCR technology.
- pankaj
Adrienne: that's because you haven't seen what Evernote can do.
- Robert Scoble
Notepad. Viva la Old School! Yes. I'm serious.
- Art Lindsey III
Onenote most often, but Evernote is a good clip capture tool.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Evernote - use it every day. Notebooks need to have sections or chapters, and the Mac version needs to add audio recording, but otherwise it's great.
- Dean Terry
best notetaking for me is my moleskine for on hand, and jott when behind the wheel.
- sean808080
Notepad++ largely, but increasingly using Google Notebook.
- Derrick Burns
Evernote. mostly use it to keep track of real estate listings. (used to use OneNote--haven't opened it in months!)
- Jasmin Smith
Franklin organizer. Paper is the best.
- Victor Ryden
Jott for voice notes, Evernote for pictures and text but iPhone produces very blurry and unusable business cards with Evernote so far, needs a focus-adjuster app to be effective.
- Sally Church
Google Notebook. Trying to find practical uses of Evernote. It still doesn't seem to have a collaborating notebooks feature.
- Chris Chua
Evernote, has more flexibilty then Google Notebook. There are a few fearures I would like to added but it does the trick for me.
- Paul
from twhirl
evernote all the way. rich internet app with clients for most major PC and mobile platforms, and sync to cloud is quick and reliable. text deco of images is a nice bonus. they do need to spend some time observing the list features of OneNote and the search search ux of Spotlight - even the best apps can always improve.
- Jon Price
Right now it's Gmail and IMAP but I am playing with Evernote. I do have concerns though about trusting my info with your cloud. You're doing all the right things. It's just that you're new and I need to get to know you. I trust Gmail.
- Steve Rubel
Vim! In second place comes Mousepad. Third place is "cat - > note.txt".
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Evernote is a great service/app, but I still find I can write faster in OneNote.
- Rafe Needleman
Rafe: I'd be convinced if you could get me OneNote on my iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
Evernote + Reqall is a killer combo on the iPhone/Web/Everywhere
- Nicholas Molnar
Google Notebook on computer, Jott when mobile.
- Ian May
I love Google Notebook, need to find a good mobile alternative.
- Rahaf Harfoush
Honestly, a moleskine notebook and a decent pen. A recent development for me, but it's working great. I get WAY too distracted taking notes on a computer where there are so many fun things I could be doing with my spare seconds! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
I have a voice recorder on my mp3 player and on my phone, but I still mainly use a moleskine and a box of mechanical pencils. Old school, that's me.
- Steven Perez
While on foot, it's either my Nokia N95 8GB or my Moleskine, but with computer access it's either Evernote or Google Docs.
- Niklas Pivic
from Alert Thingy
Mail.app. Comes pre-installed. Easy to use. Notes are synchronised across all of my devices (Mac Mini, MacBook and iPhone). Notes are also available online via MobileMe. I don't need to wait for any app to launch since I always have Mail.app running anyway.
- Paul Grav
Evernote is great but needs a printer driver and better inking. OneNote is king on TabletPC's for inking. Evernote is king for syncing.
- Andrew Forde
from twhirl
Evernote has great features, but I still find the desktop client a bit hard to use at times. Would like it a lot more if there was a proper app for my Symbian phone.
- Sam
from twhirl
/agree with @Dukeswharf. An S60 client would be awesome. I've been trying to get the imap setup to work but it doesn't seem to want to cooperate.
- patrick
Social bookmarking and annotation service provider Diigo has acquired web page clipping and archiving service Furl from publicly listed search advertising network company LookSmart in exchange for equity. The deal is being pitched as a partnership but looks more like a smart decision from LookSmart to offload a property that had little to do with its core business and Diigo jumping on a relevant opportunity without having to spend any cash. Either way, Diigo has now bought a service that in many ways can be compared to its own product. Both offer a way for website visitors to save entire web pages or just parts as well as annotate and share with others what they consider interesting on the web.
Actually, it seems to me like the recent opening of the Evernote API should increase the chances of such a thing, just perhaps not from Evernote themselves.
- R. Francis Smith
I use the client on Windows and Web interface on Linux. Funnily enough I've found the Evernote Web interface faster than the client for a few use cases - mainly deleting tags from action items with that sexy AJAXy 'X' to make my Evernote frankenGTD system work. That said, +1 for a linux client!
- Andrew Codrington
Evidence based law: Should there be a requirement that health or "public safety" type laws must be supported by credible scientific evidence? (to avoid "feel good" but ineffective or counter-productive laws)
Think about how long it would have taken to get the anti-smoking laws passed. Quite frankly, I quite enjoy the non-smoking environments in restaurants. But given such a requirement, the tobacco companies would have kept restaurants smoky places for years.
- Piaw Na
Evidence can be faked. Just squash or stretch the graph a bit and there you have it: evidence.
- Stephan Miller
@Amit Morson: Laws, as any other rule for future behaviour, cannot be only based on facts. They need to have a judgment of value behind. Paul, your point is fair, to me the biggest issue is: who decides if the "credible scientific evidence" is there?
- Simone
It would be great if law had sound basis, when it applied. But how would that work? Maybe the best you could hope for would be that it was Congress's policy that law should be based on evidence, and something like the OMB would somehow try to make that happen?
- j1m
It would be great if lawmakers understood the scientific method. Heck, it would be great if voters understood the scientific method.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Is hands-free actually safer, or just less obvious? If people are holding their phones, at least I can see that they are on the phone and be extra wary.
- Bhasker Chari
from Alert Thingy
Paul, who would validate whether they're backed by science or not? Remember a lot of the politicians in the US think "intelligent design" is perfectly good science. I'd rather not mix my science with politics...
- Chrimmus Tad
"all laws based on scientific facts" is most probably unfeasible model in any country in world, as there is no country where religion is not given a (un)written rights, and majority usually religious enough. I wish there was completely secular country in world, i.e. where churches of any kind were prohibited (but not beliefs) - I would consider emigration there RIGHT NOW.
- A.T.
just driving with a phone in your hand is not that unsafe, add a stick shift and a cup of coffee and i can see how it might make sense
- Bryan Power
Is there any credible scientific evidence that that kind of law would work?
- Jim Norris
This is coming at it from the wrong direction. We need to de-politicize *science* so that there *is* such a thing as "credible scientific evidence." What we have today is people waving around a single study "proving" that X causes/doesn't cause global warming, or Y is/isn't carcinogenic, or Z is/isn't a safe & effective drug, and these studies are funded by groups with political axes to grind. Once you have evidence that is truly credible, the laws automatically follow.
- Karim
The problem isn't the evidence, the problem is the lack of understanding of the meaning of "credible". Science education is so poor in this country that far too many people have no basis for evaluating so called "evidence". The basic differences between "hypothesis", "theory" and "law" are widely misunderstood.
- Jason Wehmhoener
@Simone: Thats obvious, we do want our laws to be reasonable.
- Amit Morson
How about for laws in general? I'm sure Bruce Schneier woud have something to say about this in regard to security as much as public safety. E.g. the assault on photography in public places based on the idea that you might be a terrorist.
- Robin Barooah
I'm with Julian....natural law...personal responsibility....not Nanny State.
- Chris Rossini
That won't help; you can get statistics to say anything you want.
- Gabe
You would implement this as a Constitutional amendment, to be enforced by the judiciary? I'm pretty sure the legislature would route around that, but I'm not sure I've seen any examples where a Constitution limits the *rationale* for a law rather than its *effect*.
- ⓞnor
What about morality laws? The definition of 'harm' differs between the individual and societal level, and how can we empirically determine what constitutes 'harm'? I'm all for keeping abortion legal and protecting gay marriage, but depending on your definition of harm it would be easy to produce numbers saying that abortion is not in the interests of 'public safety'.
- Kevin Fox
Also, if we normalized laws based on harm, cigarettes would be instantly banned, and cars would be soon to follow, not that I would mind if federal spending followed the same pattern, and we spent a trillion dollars on the War on Cancer.
- Kevin Fox
And what about harm to the environment, or to people outside our own country?
- Kevin Fox
I think this is heading in the direction of the "Futarchy" concept, a proposed system of government where the electorate (indirectly) creates metrics which represent their values, but actual policies are set according to whatever prediction markets say will maximize those metrics. The futarchy motto is "vote on values, bet on beliefs", but critics point out that values and beliefs are hard to separate.
- ⓞnor
It's a noble sentiment in theory, but an unworkable one in practice for the many reasons already enumerated here. All laws *should* be grounded in facts and reason and reality, but that's a lot to ask for
- Eric P
If laws had to have some sort of evidence to back them, at least there would be some sort of operational definition of their intent that could be reviewed later, rather than an opinion that has one meaning when it is framed, and a different one when it is interpreted years later. Science is wrong about almost everything, but it at least has a mechanism for relating purported facts to behavior to enable iterative improvement.
- Robin Barooah
WOW... a BABY Buchheit entered the world while I wasn't looking...amazing! great secret there Paul!! Congratulations on your new addition to your family!! :-)
- Susan Beebe
"Dr Rosenberg told The Daily Telegraph the new work is an "interesting study that helps to confirm the effectiveness of cell transfer immunotherapy for treating cancer patients. We have now treated 93 patients with metastatic melanoma using their own anti-tumour cells with response rates up to 72 per cent. Mark Origer remains disease free now over three years after treatment.""
- Paul Buchheit
Really bummed to see you go Chris, but congrats.
- Mike Yang
Good luck and thanks for your work in making GReader so awesome.
- Dana Franks
from twhirl
Thanks for your work on GReader. It's an essential part of my daily workflow. Good luck!
- Chris Baskind
Without Google Reader, I would be so much more productive. And also more boring and less knowledgeable since I'd read fewer feeds. Thanks for all the hard work and good luck for the future!
- Tony Ruscoe
Wow, thanks a lot for your great work on Reader. It's really changed a lot of peoples' lives (including mine).
- jakebf
Definitely thanks for your work. It changed my life so much that I decided to build one.
- Elias Torres
I wonder what Googlers realy mean when they congratulate other Googlers when they announce their plans to leave....
- Bindu Reddy
Bye Chris...THANK YOU... gReader is my friend and you made that possible :-)
- Susan Beebe
@Bindu I suspect its "Take me with you!" ;) j/k
- EricaJoy
Google Reader -- one of my top 5 favorite programs of all time.
- Sean McBride
I'm so glad that these screenshots have survived and (sort of) been released. I wish the content weren't blurred though -- I'm pretty sure it wasn't super-personal or anything -- I was usually careful to avoid that. It would also be nice to have the actual screenshots instead of photos of screenshots.
- Paul Buchheit
We should ask Keith if we can get real screenshots since they've made them available for photographing anyhow.
- Kevin Fox
I'd love to see the pre-release logos TechCrunch blurred out. Would that violate some policy?
- Voyagerfan5761
crossing fingers that the real screenshots make their way onto FF
- Adam Kazwell
I love how they started off looking like other web-based mail readers and then quickly moved to the trademark UI. Very, very neat.
- jakebf
This is great! All of those interface changes were crazy!
- Brandon Titus
The logos were just random placeholders (such as the trout, which wasn't blurred out for some reason). They really weren't particularly interesting or meaningful.
- Paul Buchheit
I think Gmail has always been missing something since it eliminated the trout...
- Chris Reed
There are great, especially given what Kevin said in Philipp's recent interview about not being able to discuss what Gmail looked like before release. Now, the trout... does that have any relation to TroutBoard.com? ;-)
- Tony Ruscoe
from fftogo
Yes, I was inspired by the "Trout Farm" in eXistenZ
- Paul Buchheit
i like some of these layouts better than the current one :)
- Tim Hoeck
Trout, fail whales, something's fishy.
- Alex Haar
Paul -- another Cronenberg fan! Glad to know there are a few of us oddballs out there.
- Phil G
I'm being honest when I say "inspiring"... I've built some homemade Intranet stuff at work and I love to see the evolution of the design. I want to go back and redesign everything now! Fantastic stuff.
- Vince DeGeorge
is this anything like the lockin flash frontend radio player from CBS/AOL that was going to fundementally change the way we listen to the radio?
- Steven Hodson
I am writing a new FriendFeed feature, and I am load-testing it with fake data. The fake comments, constructed by randomly string words together, are oddly fascinating.
It's like YouTube, but with a better vocabulary.
- Paul Buchheit
ROFL .. sounds like Jerry Yang's speech the troops come Monday <snicker>
- Steven Hodson
Sandosh, I only can tell you one thing: Profounder costarred resolver Pianola's anticyclone's Byelorussia's opiates Cochabamba Gehenna's dolt's genteeler despot's inconsiderable releasing imbibes flatfooting
- Bret Taylor
I think you can stress test it right now... You might even get more accurate results.
- Gadiel Rivera
And the number one feature you didn't mention? The new "Loading" rectangle. Kevin wants props for that. (EDIT: Looks like the Loading box is gone! Code corrupts. Absolute code corrupts absolutely.)
- Louis Gray
Love the mini-profiles, and the loading rectangle is the best use of the loading rectangle I've seen, except the one on my company's Web site, which utilizes the rocket in our logo rising into space....
- Chris Reed
haven't seen the loading rectangle yet, but the mini-profiles are a great addition
- Frederic
Hmm... People shouldn't be seeing the loading rectangle...
- Kevin Fox
I love the mini profiles! Awesomesauce stamped
- Corvida
Mini-profiles are cool but now there's no way to see the link to a user's profile in status bar. That's bad. Can you fix that? Should be possible.
- Alex Kapranoff
Also missing: Mute this thread's comments? Where did that go?
- Louis Gray