Evernote is great for genealogy research and for my photography notes. I keep camera & lens reviews, camera settings for certain situations, and lists of photo projects I want to try.

I do not have a smartphone, just a regular cell phone (Sanyo Katana DLX), plus a cell phone plan with unlimited web access. The Opera Mini cell phone browser is another must-have for me. It works great on my Katana, and it works great with Evernote, RTM, and Google calendar.

Internet Explorer has an integrated tool to clip complete or part of webpages. That’s great! I use it often to clip an interesting article on a webpage, that I want to read later. I let new notes arrive in a notebook called Inbox.
You can create multiple notebooks to organise your notes. I use e.g. Inbox, Interesting iPhone apps, Car info, Family matters, Work matters, Holidays, Ideas, Fun etc etc.
With the Premium account you can also read various attachtments on the iPhone, like .doc and .xls

In combination with Remeber The Milk (also web and iPhone) I organised my life much better and helps to keep my head clear! :-)

Give it a try!

also, i wanted to say that a great feature of evernote (and one that I don’t use enough) that you could probably utilize for several of your items above is the voice recording method… then you could simply record your friends giving you advice and listen to them later! easier than typing.. and could save you some time.

If you don’t have the phone piece I could still see some utility but as others have stated there are other tools out there that do the job just fine without adding another piece of software (or website) to the mix.

But … as far as I know, Google hasn’t released an intuitive mobile interface for syncing up a picture you snapped on your phone to your google document that’s sitting on a server somewhere.

In my case I just carry a small deck of cards and a pen to take all the notes that I need and tear off the cards whose all tasks I have accomplished.

@Joy — I don’t have a web-enabled phone either, so that isn’t a requirement. I’ve never much wanted one until I started using Evernote … and now I can start to see the utility of one. But frankly, I’m too damn cheap to pay all that money.

@Perry — I often use pen and paper as well. It’s jsut how I think. The beauty of Evernote is that I can scan in my analog notes and EN will convert it to a digital format. I’m amazed with the text recognition software they have. Not perfect by any stretch (my handwriting is often illegible) but it is amazing how much it picks up. Always enough for the EN search engine to be able to quickly find any note I need.

I started using EN for school — scanning in all my class notes and handouts. The search capabilities are amazing and useful. I ended up using it for work and home as well. I have my scanner set up to automatically scan any doc into my EN account. Scan it and a couple of minutes later it is in my account and completely indexed and searchable.

Works great with business cards, btw.

The three most used apps (web- or otherwise) that I use are gmail, greader, and evernote.

I really like the idea of being able to use some sort of hand held device (iPod/cellphone) to utilize these notes as well.

Thanks!

My thinking simply is, KISS and to use fewer simpler applications to accomplish the same set of tasks, however given that such requirements are people-specific, my suggestion may not be appropiate for all.

This is a big disappointment from a service that (should)
run (at this point) without those issues.

For me I have the hardest time organizing so I need a simple easy to use extremely basic system where I see a task, and mark complete. That’s what I get with Tadalist. There’s a mac widget but I think it doesn’t work anymore. No biggie, the site works on all browsers.