What's you favourite note taking practice, do you fill your desktop with dozens of notepad documents or keep a single document with random notes? Until a couple of weeks ago these were the only note taking options I had until I came across Evernote. Evernote is a free note taking program that tries to look like a real notebook and acts as a very useful one.

As you'd expect from such a program Evernote allows you to create notes, organise them with tags, and search for notes. The greater benefits of Evernote though is when it comes to take notes from web pages. Evernote interfaces with both IE and Firefox (through the Web Clipper Extension) to allow you to directly cut and paste text, images or whole web pages with through the right click menu. Gone are the days that I'll have to bookmark a whole site for a sentence never to return to it again. The other feature that completes the usefulness of this program is the export facility. Evernote exports the notebook's contents into a single XML file, which can then be imported and merged into another instance of Evernote on a different machine, thus making it very practical to transport notes between different computers.

The only pity with this great product is that there is no Linux version, otherwise it's the best product I've come across in the last few months.