Stickies are OK, but when you’re looking for integrated notes management via your computer, handheld, or any browser anywhere; Evernote keeps them all together with an elegant interface and plenty of power under the hood.

I usually collect info in a number of ways:

• copy or paste from a document on a computer
• type something while I’m at my computer
• type something short in on my phone
• write things down on any available piece of paper
• leave a quick voice memo through Jott (more on this later)
• take a picture with my camera phone

What I like about Evernote is the ability to dump all of these collection actions into one place so I can easily find them later.  Evernote lets me type something in on my computer, paste something from the web, email a picture from my phone, translate my written notes into searchable text (I’d recommend it for that reason alone), and (with help from Jott) transcribe my voice memos so I can search for them later.  AND it keeps all of these things in a synced database between my computer and the web so I can access that content anywhere there’s an internet connection (including my mobile phone).