Workshop: Store and find anything on your PC

Evernote turns a PC into the ultimate note-taker, filing cabinet and organiser

You don’t have to use a computer for long before realising that fond notions about typing notes into it to keep yourself organised are just pie in the sky. Documents, tables, notes and pictures end up scattered all over the hard disk and a host of programs is needed to retrieve them ­ – assuming you can find them in the first place.

Help is at hand from Evernote, a free program that creates an electronic scrapbook containing items copied from any document or screen or typed in at the keyboard. Every word stored in Evernote is automatically indexed, so you don’t have to worry about how the information is structured. As long as you know a word or phrase contained in a note, you can find it in an instant.

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