23 Things for Professional Development's ninth 'thing' is Evernote. From the looks of it, it seems like a combination of bookmark-type managing and note taking that can be accessed anywhere on the web. That sounds like a pretty good idea, though I think it would be hard to break out of the habit of bookmarking things.
I will admit things get a bit fuddled via bookmarks. Sometimes I'll tiredly bookmark a page, shove it into my 'library/articles' folder, and then forget what the heck it is when I'm scrabbling through the bookmarks in search of a post topic. And then I have to click through every single one and skim it to remember why it piqued my interest. Boo!
Evernote sounds useful and I'm installing it as I write this with the intent to play around with it. I would like to see if the clipping is good for, say, saving content that might later be taken down. Again, I would like to caution that you do make sure you save items of importance in multiple areas in the case of service failure.
I've been experimenting with Evernote to do exactly as you mention here: replace my bookmarking habit. I think bookmarks have a place for frequently-visited sites, but if it's just an article I liked and may want to refer to someday, I'm trying to put it in Evernote moving forward.
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