Evernote: Photo-Text App Makes Human Memory Even More Superfluous

A picture is worth 1,000 words, unless of course, all you want is the words. Enter Evernote, the handy little app that already lets you mumble deep thoughts into your iPhone, recording your musings while tracking and managing any other text you type while out and about. It's one of the better apps for travel because it also tracks text in any photo. This means that you can now search for text within your photos, which comes in handy if you're trying to remember which hotel you stayed at where -- just make sure to take a picture of the hotel's marquee, and you can text-search through your photos to find it.

This is also a handy little trick if you want to remember anything on a menu that you ate, or a particular bottle of wine you enjoyed somewhere. Just snap a photo of the text, and voila, you can save it for a later when you’re standing in the wine shop racking your brains for the name of that rose you had in Sonoma four months ago. The app is of course backed with a website, so you can see and sync all your photos with or without text on your home machine. Added bonus: the app is free.