Re: EverNote, same here, essentially. There’s a third party widget for Symbian out there, though it doesn’t seem all that appealing to me.

Dropbox is great. I use it for everything I normally would have stashed in /home/patrick, which isn’t much. But, it’s free backup that I trust, and since I have it on two computers, my worst case scenario would require the service to die along with two of my harddrives (all at the same time) before I had to pull out any DVDRs. It’s also supplemented my flash drive–I don’t have to worry about what files I may need, since they’re pretty much all on Dropbox. I can grab them at any time through their website, as long as I have net access.

Dropbox is one of those things where I didn’t understand how useful it would be until I had already been using it for a while. Recently I was in the living room and needed some data I had upstairs. Under my old system, I would have SSH’d into my box, opened the file in nano, and had the data in seconds. Instead, I just remembered “oh, duh, it’s in my Dropbox dir.” The dropbox client was already on both systems, and already running, which meant the file was already on my PC. Went from a 10 second process to a 0 second process.

Anyway, if you sign up, use this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIxNTI1NzI5

We each get an extra 250 megs. Not sure how the OSX client is, but they’ve got great Linux support (RPMS/DEBS for the big guys, source for the smaller distros like Arch.)

On my Nokia 5800, there’s a built-in Notes application. For a while now it’s been my fall back for whenever I’m not in front of a computer, and it works very well. It, too, can be synchronized with the web, via Nokia’s Ovi sync. I use the sync more as a backup than for any other purpose.

It does look like Google Notebook is still alive. I think they stopped development on it, though it continues to live on as a service. I used it mostly for vacation planning, though beyond that I didn’t find the interface all that crazy useful.

I’ve heard a lot about EverNote, though I haven’t used it or tried it. I don’t particularly care about indexing other kinds of data (video, audio, etc.), so it doesn’t seem to make much sense for me. Do you use it? Same with DropBox, really; I don’t move files around all that much. When I do, I have my machine at work which is always online, with a static hostname and IP, and, if it’s web oriented, my web host.

Have you tried EverNote?

Honestly if I had the need now I’d probably just use a good old OO.org spreadsheet thrown in my DropBox folder. (PS – sign up for DropBox if you haven’t.)