Originally published July 30 2005
Data keeper launched by EverNote
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
EverNote has made a catch-all database for users who don’t want to lose anything.
Users can insert PowerPoint slides, handwritten notes from a tablet PC, photos, passwords, e-mails or fragments of Web pages into the EverNote database.
The system then synchronizes so that the data is automatically replicated on all the cell phones, PCs or other devices in your personal network.
Later, if you search for a term, the database will pull up all of the documents, regardless of file format, containing that term.
"This is a database for everything you would like to remember," Pachikov said during an interview at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford University.
These companies are effectively trying to sell technology that will allow consumers to access their personal files through any device.
Orb Networks, for example, sells an application that lets an individual with a cell phone tap into pictures, videos or music stored on a remote home computer.
Some venture capitalists express doubts about whether these companies--most of which have to give at least a basic version of their software to attract customers--will be able to thrive.
Nonetheless, the idea is attracting attention, and many of the companies are landing funding.
EverNote differs from others in the category in that the data isn't accessed remotely.
The information inside the database is replicated on each device during the automatic synchronization process.
The data is altered to suit the device: hefty 5MB photos, for instance, are stored as a 53K file on a phone.
The EverNote database, however, is only designed to hold a person's most valuable documents.
Pachikov, who once worked as a supercomputing scientist in the Soviet Union and sold a company to Silicon Graphics in 1997, had 1,061 items in his database.
Cell phone carriers are now trying to find applications for the technological capabilities on today's phones.
"I would like to use it as a universal recorder."
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