Evernote is a very handy program that allows you to store notes online and locally. It autosyncs when there is an internet connection. You can have Evernote on your computer, laptop, tablet, phone, etc. Each device can access all the same notes. If you want, you can also share your Evernote notes with others.

Notes are organized into folders so you can keep different kinds of items separate.

I like having it on my phone for grocery lists and for things like the size of wiper blades and oil and air filters for my car, or the size of the filter for my furnace.

It is also great for use as a genealogical research log to avoid searching the same material more than once, or to plan out a research trip.

The genealogy blog, Moultrie Creek Gazette, has a great article on using Evernote for research logs using the Web Clipper browser extension. I found it thanks to Dick Eastman’s blog EOGN, http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2014/03/has-evernote-made-genealogy-research-logs-obsolete.html.

The Moultrie Creek Gazette has several other articles on using Evernote. I will have to add this to my list of genealogy blogs to follow.