Immersion Worship

Ever since I discovered EverNote a few months ago, it’s been one of my daily go-to applications that I use constantly. Synchronizing content of any description across multiple platforms is important for me, and EverNote’s simplicity (and at a cost of zero dollars) is just unbeatable. Notes made on my work PC appear almost instantly on my MacBook and on their web interface.

But there has been been an Achilles heel in this chain: no EverNote client for the BlackBerry. As my wife will attest, sometimes to her chagrin and concern, my BlackBerry and I are inseperable. There’s a reason they are nicknamed CrackBerry. I’m addicted. And it’s not even an addiction to being constantly ‘connected’. It’s an addiction to convenience and organization, and a big part of that convenience and organization is the ability to make a quick note, send a quick email, add a calendar event, and tie them all together, on the fly and on one device. The lack of EverNote client, however, was the weak link. If I needed to make a note while on the road, it had to be in the form of an email sent to my EverNote account, and any changes to that note couldn’t be made until I was sat in front of a keyboard.

Until yesterday.

I was having a chat with someone in my office about potentially publishing a couple of the notebooks we have for wider use around the office (using the ‘Make Public’ feature of EverNote), and I was lamenting the lack of BlackBerry client (since ideas and thoughts tend to arrive in my memory for just an instant before going in to hiding again), when she nonchalantly said “Have you tried using the Mobile EverNote site using Opera Mini?”

Say again? There’s a Mobile EverNote site?

Apparently there is. I checked it out using BlackBerry’s regular browser, and it’s slow and difficult to navigate. Then I opened up Opera Mini and checked it out. And I’m impressed. My EverNote experience is now complete.

Since Opera Mini is java based, it’s fast. And by making the Mobile EverNote site the homepage and using the ‘Remember Me’ feature on login, Opera Mini effectively becomes the BlackBerry EverNote client I’ve been looking for. Open Opera Mini, and within seconds I have all my EverNote notes accessible.

Admittedly, EverNote isn’t for everyone, but it’s changed the way I work and the way I create and the way I remember the things that I always used to forget. Now, frankly, I have no excuse.