Remembering things…it’s a funny thing. I can remember what my wife was wearing the first time I noticed her almost 15 years ago, but I can’t find my keys on a daily basis. I can remember my best friend from 5th grade’s phone number, but ask me what I did yesterday… no clue. I know there are people who get paid ridiculous amounts of money to research the why’s of all this, but with the mini computers that we carry around with us everyday (we call them phones) we really don’t have much of an excuse for forgetting things anymore.

Case in point… Evernote (by Evernote Corp.). Evernote has been around a while on other platforms and has become quite popular. The purpose of it is very similar to the Memory Upgrade app I reviewed last week, but it does a lot more. It makes storing virtually any type of data quick and easy. If you are having a tough time wrapping your head around the concept (or why you should try it) check out this article and this one here (ooh here is another good one) from Lifehacker.

Now Evernote isn’t just a Palm app. Its a web app, a desktop app (Mac and PC), and is on just about every mobile device on the planet. It is free, but there is a cost that I will discuss a bit later. So what does it do? It lets you take notes! See something interesting, jot it down. See something you want to get someone for Christmas, take a pic. Want to capture a memory? Take a note and then remember it later based off of where you were standing (Geotagging at its finest right here).

But that is just the beginning…

• Text captured in a photo is converted to text automatically
• You can twitter a note to yourself (with a specialized twitter address)
• You can email a note (with a specialized email address)
• Clip goodies from the web with a Firefox extension
• Geotagging… it’s so cool, it’s worth mentioning twice
• Searching. You can search by location (there’s that geotagging thing again) or by tags and text.

As you can tell, this goes way beyond your phone. The app on the Pre/Pixi is pretty simple. You can create text notes or picture notes and have them synced with your online account. If you are offline, the app will let you take notes and will sync them later. During my review, I found this to be a bit wonky. When in offline mode things seemed to be a bit stuttery. My guess is the app was calling home regularly and slowed things down.

There are a few other things to note. First, if you send a photo note, it may take a bit to get back to your phone. It will be uploaded, processed, then sent back. For me this took a few minutes so don’t expect it to be lightning. However, if this is all it takes to do text recognition in a photo, then I don’t mind waiting.

Now for the cost I mentioned earlier… the app is free (and so are the online goodies), but the problem is, the app is huge. It weighs in at a whopping 10+ megs (most apps are around 2 megs). Now why is this a big deal? Well, right now webOS has a bug that limits the size of all your apps to 64 megs. Now this should be fixed in 1.3.5 so this won’t be a big deal in the near future, but for now, you may want to keep this in mind.