Evernote is a great new web app that has just gone to public beta. It pulls together a suite of online, desktop and mobile apps that allow users to collect and store index searchable content from the web, photos, whiteboard session, business cards etc.
Of the great features two stand out: first is the text identification feature - which can identify text in images, on a business card of flyer, so that these hard image based uploads become index searchable by the words they contain. Second is the web page clipping tool allowing you to just clip the parts of a webpage (windows only at time of posting) you are interested in to store in your notes.
Essentially with a web enabled computer and a mobile camera phone with web access we you can now save and manage notes from both the online and offline worlds with ease.
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Update: the web clipping tool is now universal to both PC and Mac, and is a great addition to the app. It’s very easy to set up.
In general the whole sign up use and update feel of this app is perfect, and exemplifies the way web apps should run.
A final thought on the logo, an elephant with it’s ear showing a turned page corner (the interface metaphor for a note or page) - certainly an intelligent addition to the world of web 2.0 logo designs.