Worthy of Note - UberNote

Ever since I’ve needed to take handfuls of tablets on a regular basis, my memory has leaked like a sieve! I’ve tried many methods to try and overcome this but they have usually fallen at one of the posts they have come across. Once again, the biggest hurdle has been Internet Explorer 6. Unfortunately, this is just about the only thing I can’t change because of my employers bizarre insistence on using this out of date dinosaur.

What’s Available

There are several worthy contenders when it comes to online note writing. These vary in complexity but most people will probably find all they need in Evernote, the market leader.

Evernote has the full trilogy of Desktop, Web Based and Mobile applic­a­tions. They cover most of the Smartphone oper­ating systems (not just iPhone) and have browser integ­ration that works both on and off line.

Unfortunately though, they don’t support IE6. Not a problem if you can install the Desk Top programme but this is another facility that is not available to me at work!

The altern­ative I’ve opted for up until now is good old Email. I have a fant­astic little app on my Windows Mobile called Thought. It is set up to send an email to a single address. So I can open the app with one click, write the note and send it with another click. Off goes the email! Combine this with Gmail’s ‘plus’ and label features and I can have the note high­lighted in my inbox.

This is good. But, all the notes are given the same priority and it’s a bit of a guddle trying to separate them from my normal emails

Enter Ubernote

I had seen Uberbnote in the passing a while ago but never gave it much thought. Second time around though, it really caught my eye.

Ubernote is web based. It doesn’t have the apps that Evernote does but this makes it much simpler to get going with. There is a special ‘mobile’ url that creates a mobile friendly envir­onment and there are exten­sions available for Chrome and Firefox.

When using IE6, they post a friendly note about your use of an outdated browser. Once that’s gone, the system works perfectly. All notes can be tagged and searched for in a simple, user friendly UI.

End Note

Of course, there are loads of other options out there but these are the best I have used. I did like Google Notes which had a nice slick interface but although it still exists, I am a little unsure of using it since Google withdrew support.

For now, it’s UberNote instead of email.

Let me know if you think I’ve missed some­thing better.

References:

http://​UberNote​.com

http://​Evernote​.com

http://​www​.trinket​software​.com/​T​h​o​u​g​ht/ (Note: This was MUCH cheaper when I purchased it through Windows Mobile Marketplace. Once purchased, WMMP doesn’t let you see prices so I don’t know if this is still the case. Worth checking though!).