Evernote

Do you have a ScanSnap scanner on your Mac and scan things to Evernote? You notice that if you have Evernote running, ScanSnap can't launch Evernote properly? You might get an error message like the following: Failed to start up Evernote for Mac.Make sure that the selected application is installed correctly.Turns out Evernote is broken. EvernoteHelper.app is an embedded application that runs while Evernote is running (or while it's in the background) and if you're set to English, its name is the same as the main Evernote application. Technically, the CFBundleName is being overridden in the InfoPlist.strings file. You can verify this by running /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app and seeing: ...

If you don't know what Evernote is, I'll quickly summarize it for you. Evernote is a cloud-based service that is accessible through the means of a web site, mobile and computer application and various other APIs. The point of Evernote is that if you ever find something you want to remember - a piece of text, web page, a PDF, an image, recipe, sound bite, anything, you put it into Evernote. Their service indexes it to make it searchable and then you forget about it until you want to find it later in life. It's more than that but you have to discover how it's useful to you. ...