Pushnote and Evernote

I share the reservations others have expressed about Pushnote. If people have something to say about a webpage or site there are already plenty of ways to express it without scrawling it all over the site itself in a way that cannot be removed, especially if it is only a fatuous comment like "This is rubbish" or "This is so cool". If they have a serious point to make about a company's business practices or the quality of a product then they can contact consumer rights services like Consumer Direct or organisations like Which? Making a complaint inside an application like Pushnote, which can only be viewed by others signed up to the service seems a bit pointless to me. How do those reading the comments know whether they have any truth to them anyway? They could easily be malicious. I don't think this is something I will be following in the future.

Evernote is much more benign, and although I haven't explored it very far yet, I think it could turn out to be quite handy. I've downloaded the Web clipper version and clipped a few things from various websites to store on my notes page. The process is straightfoward, and the advantage over simply bookmarking a particular page or website is that you can preserve the content exactly as it is at a certain point in time, whereas the live page could disappear or totally change its content. This could be particularly useful to researchers wishing to archive the content of a page for future reference and citation. It is also handy that notes can be emailed into the notebook. I may well use Evernote for saving and organising copies of things like order confirmations, travel tickets and online forms. I will also probably use it to save quirky images I come across online like this:

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