Evernote – The Extended Brain

5 projects

• Shopping list-applicationo Advantages: Ease of use, ubiquitous, list back-upo Disadvantages: Technical req's, products not in house,

parts of words, products without text (for example unions)

o Conclusion: no go• Barcode scanning @ parties

o Advantages: Ease of use, ubiquitous, ticket back-up, no need for postal services (and thus savings on paper etc.)

o Disadvantages: Evernote does not add value (no need to upload)

o Conclusion: no go• Book/cd/dvd inventory

o Advantages:  Ease of use, ubiquitous, save of efforto Disadvantages: Technical req’s, OCR qualityo Conclusion: maybe

5 projects (cont’d)

• Knowledge repositoryo Advantages: Ubiquitous, sharing of knowledge

(network), back-up knowledgeo Disadvantages: Much initial work, premium account

needed and bounded by 500mb per month limito Conclusion: maybe (look at feasibility)

• Translation serviceo Advantages: Ease of use, ubiquitous, support for over

30 languages, translation on the spoto Disadvantages: Technical req's, OCR quality, data

transportation costs, not direct supported by Tarpipe/Evernote

o Conclusion: go (look at feasibility)

Planning

• Develop applications:o Book/cd/dvd inventoryo Knowledge repositoryo Translation service

• Compare aspects:o Feasibilityo Added valueo Other applications

• Evernote o Business modelo Historyo Community