![]() Now, you may think, "I can do this with Google Docs." Or even Google Desktop plus whatever Office-like software you use. Evernote supports tagging and keyword search, and allows the user to set up separate notebooks or folders of notes for strategic organization. How can you keyword-search your hardcopy?Īt long last, I've found a tool that seems to offer everything I need: Evernote.Įvernote offers a fairly basic service: online storage of your rich text files. A complete unwillingness to write anything anywhere - even on paper. The sheer volume of the losses I encountered led me to a place I'd never been before - existential angst. However I didn't take the necessary precautions to secure my files (see The Saga of the Crashed Flash Drive for more on this). I slowly acquired a number of legal pads and binders stuffed with the products of my creativity.Įventually, after undergrad and during my graduate work, I transitioned to a primarily digital archive. Because they seemed so limited I held back from fully committing myself to any digital format. ![]() They were primitive, promising very little functionality. I experimented with every archiving and search tool I found. I typed document after document and then lay in bed, eyes wide, terrified that my precious words would somehow vanish, zapped into the ether. Ever since I got my first computer (a late 80s Radio Shack Tandy), I've been completely obsessed with archiving and search.
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