It is there when you need it and want it. You get the idea and that is the beauty of it. Evernote is a cross platform app that runs on any computer, from any browser, has a chrome app as well as a mac app etc. My personal feeling on this is that there is a reason that we right this stuff down and that is to remember it and to have access to it at a later time. That is the big question here right? Why use this over any of the hundreds of similar apps out there and especially for photography. Not to mention that it is primarily free. It is how this information is gathered, stored, presented, and organized that makes evernote so great. This is the basic question and I am not going to give the same rundown that everyone else has but I will say that it is basically an app that lets you store and organize information across all platforms from your computer to your device. However, the usefulness of Evernote is growing on me and the more that I learn about how to use it, the more that it has become apart of my photography planning and educational workflow. I will also state that it did take a bit of training to force myself not to revert back to the my notebooks as I do love a good pen and some fine paper.

So I must admit that it was a long process to adopt and accept Evernote as my medium for holding my photo ideas and whatnot. The problem was that when I needed to see what I wrote, especially out in the field I a) didn’t/never had the same notebook or b) didn’t bring one at all.

When I needed to write something down, I reached for the first notebook that I saw and scribbled something down. I used to have one dedicated “photo notebook” but it was just never where I wanted it. That means that a lot of my thoughts, ideas, location picks, designs and whatnot were scattered across countless notebooks. I used to be a pen and paper kind of photographer.

Evernote review for photographs