Moving Notebooks to the "cloud"... trying to do this with Evernote

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I have been an Evernote user for a little over a year now, but I never really used it to its full potential. This may have been in part due to the fact that I had a BlackBerry for a while and there was no Evernote application for the BlackBerry (there is now of course). I recently bought an iPhone, and there is a pretty solid Evernote client for the iPhone. I also have been feeling the need lately for better organizing and mobilizing (is that even a word? - looked it up... it's a word, but not the definition I am using here) my notes. I suppose I have simply used email in the recent past, but that's not a great solution and is too cluttered (in my opinion), so searches tend to have a lot of junk I'm not interested in sifting through and wastes time. I have also used Microsoft OneNote for some things, but it's SOOO limited to a PC (or Windows Mobile device which I don't own any longer... and even that mobile app is lame for mobile notes access IMO). My main concern, similar to my Task Management Solution concerns, is that the solution needs to be ubiquitous and work on all of my devices... which dictates some form of web-based backend and syncing.

Evernote seems to fit that bill, and since I have an account and notes already in it, I am deciding to experiment more with it and see if I can make it work better for me. I am trying to

Appigo Todo and Toodledo… a dynamic duo!

I recently purchased both Appigo's "Todo" iPhone app (for $9.99) and Toodledo's Pro account (for $14.95/yr) which offers advanced features over the free account that were important to me. However, the free account itself is pretty spectacular, in the sense that every other web-based backend that works with an iPhone app charge you a yearly fee, and generally over $24.99/yr (which is what Remember The Milk charges for the account that works with its iPhone app or Appigo's Todo)! You, personally, may never need anything more than the free account from Toodledo, but I like what the Pro account offers in conjunction with what Appigo's Todo application offers with such grace and ease in their iPhone app. The most important to me being subtasks to create "projects" and "checklists", both which *require* sub-tasks (in all honesty, Toodledo can still handle this in the free version, but the subtasks show up as regular tasks. For you, it may not matter, but I like seeing where they are associated and also be able to hide them to remove the clutter). To demonstrate this, I suggest that you visit Appigo's site and watch some of the screencasts. It helped me better understand what the capabilities are, and is partially what sold me on this iPhone app over others. I also first downloaded the Appigo Todo Lite app, which is free, signed up for the free account at Toodledo and upgraded to the free 7 day trial of the Toodledo Pro account to check it all out together. The Todo Lite app only allows 10 tasks total, but it was enough for me to see the benefits over other solutions out there. By the way, checklists and projects seem to be considered 1 task for the limitation, but there is also a limit of about 5 subtasks for these in the lite version (NOT in the full version).

I suppose I should give a little background on my situation regarding task management so you can better understand what I was looking for in a system. I've read

N800 PIM with google calendar synchronization by erminig

N800 PIM with google calendar synchronization by erminig

This looks promising... but I think the sync is manual.

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My post after this talks about just using web clients for email and calendaring... but on devices that may be offline for a large portion of the time, having this content is VERY useful and almost a must (like for having alarms). Google Calendar does however offer SMS alerts for events in your calendar, so even if you are offline, if you have good signal on your phone you can get alerted.

Sync Evolution Calendar with Google Calendar « Ubuntu Blog

Sync Evolution Calendar with Google Calendar « Ubuntu Blog

Possibly a better solution than the previous post since the previous post only deals with reading Google Calendar into Evolution. Especially since I will soon have an N800 and want to be able to just go to Google Calendar to see ALL my events, whether entered in Evolution, Outlook, or straight Google Calendar (or if I check from a PC that isn't mine).

Google Calendar in Evolution « Johnny [Life & Code]

Google Calendar in Evolution « Johnny [Life & Code]

Now that I'm getting back into Linux, there is a LOT I need to learn again. I'm very interested in the ability to sync/open Google Calendar in Evolution, and the fact that Gmail supports IMAP now makes me want to start using this service more! I was leaning, recently, to the Windows Live offerings... and while they work great if you are straight Windows and IE, if you want to use them on any other platform it really isn't that great.

Again, I plan on coming back and giving a review/tips/tricks after checking it out. A friend of mine and I are thinking about taking the "30 days of nothing but Linux" challenge to see if it could be a viable solution for a personal workstation (for us). My fear is that I have too much dependency on Windows centric applications. We shall see.

Syncing with the N800

» linux.conf.au Johns Blog

Didn't want to lose track of this, but also haven't had a chance to read it through fully. Looks like it may be referring to software that can be used to sync files with the N800.