Writing. Reference management. Let x=x › Evernote.com as a tool for scholarly research. I’ve recently started to use the software Evernote to help organise the morass of notes I’m wading around in while doing my M.A. thesis (I am not doing a Master’s degree in any comp.sci related area – it’s a Masters of Arts in Ancient History, and my thesis is on an aspect of the Roman historian Livy’s writing).
Evernote actually uploads the information placed in the Mac client to the web site (this afternoon I purchased an upgraded account to get more upload capacity). It has clients for Mac, Windows, iPhone/iPad, etc. However apart from backup, this is not really a feature I need for my thesis, although it might be useful to organise my life as a professional programmer. This is used in conjunction with Endnote (my university supplies me a free licence) to manage my references and bibliography in the actual chapters I write (so far, one down, two to go!). There are a few features that I think Evernote needs to have to be a fully successful scholarly research tool.