Whether you’ve scribbled some notes in the margin of a book you’re annotating or diagramming the outline for a research paper on a flip chart, take a snapshot from within Evernote and you’ll be able to find those notes anytime you need them, simply by searching for a distinctive keyword you remember from the text. Thanks to its built-in optical character recognition (OCR), Evernote can even read your lousy handwriting.
I love Evernote, because it's always available. Read the above article for some wonderful tips on using Evernote for research.
