Does anyone use Evernote as an ELN (electronic laboratory notebook)?

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The Question posed on LinkedIn:

“Does anyone use Evernote as an ELN (electronic laboratory notebook)?

Evernote seems to be a powerful, extensible cloud based application. I am curious if anyone in the group uses it in their lab and how do they use it, for what purpose and how well does it work for your needs?/”

My reply to this was:

I’d not advise it. Besides a vendor audit to ensure availability of the system and backups you’d need to ensure Evernote data cannot be obscured or changed, make sure time, date and user stamps are in place and the data integrity is maintained for the duration of the retention period.

 The poster later mentioned me in a reply comment stating, ” Pierre Rodrigues, thanks for that reference. While I personally am intrigued by Evernote, Paul Yeatman does bring up points that should always be considered with any ELN selection. It would be great to hear first hand a use case for Evernote within the lab. I think I will do a quick google on that topic.”