<br>Evernote, even the freeware version, is a "web/email clipping database tool" that allows for very quick creation and tagging of "knowledge snippets" in a form that allows for very quick retrieval either by category navigation or keyword searching. It also preserves layout and links to the original page.
<br><br>In other words, an EXCELLENT tool for anyone looking to capture the wealth of information available here in a much more useful form than its current container. (If your knee just jerked defensively in response to the implied criticism, please see the end of this post).
<br><br>I've already clipped most of the Handbook and a lot of the rest of <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> and am in the process of tagging/categorising it.<br><br>As a demonstration, I have broken the (very valuable but overwhelmingly disorganised, just like
<a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> as a whole) "corporate brochure site recipe" mega-thread at <a href="http://drupal.org/node/31896">http://drupal.org/node/31896</a> up into logical pieces, categorised it (on vs off topic) and for the on-topic contributions, broken out summaries of the various pieces (Navigation, Front page, About, Contact, Products, News, Theme and of course Miscellaneous).
<br><br>The result of this work (a 75 kb zip containing an Evernote v2 .enb file), is attached.<br><br>And of course if anyone else is inspired by these ideas and would like to share Evernote clips by email, please do contact me.
<br><br>------------<br>To the founders and long-serving members of the drupal community PLEASE DON'T take this wrong (I'm just a well-intentioned noob here, and one that loves what you all have so selflessly created in drupal) - but:
<br><br>I honestly believe that Drupal (at least in the way it's implemented here), is not a great tool for storing such a large set of contributions from such a large set of different people over time without a dedicated central editorial team organising it for easy retrieval by learning noobs such as myself.
<br><br>If Drupal could (can) be set up to do even most of what Evernote does, well I don't know how to express the joy I'd feel without being obscene :)<br><br>In the case of the <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org
</a>, I can certainly understand the communities desire to eat its own dog food (it is a website after all) but the knowledge-hungry dog (ie people wanting to enter the community) would be much better served if the information were stored in a more accessible form. (See others' comments on search - hey why not just leverage off Google, put that as an option right in the core search features? And yes of course I've doing 99% of my searching there using "site:
<a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>")<br><br>In fact, I'd go so far as to say that <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a> actually does a disservice trying to be the premier demonstration site for people coming to learn about drupal. If people could quickly find what they needed during their climb up the learning curve, I reckon Drupal's use would skyrocket. {Hey wait a minute, maybe making Drupal so hard is being done intentionally to cut down on "noob overhead", the lazier/stupider potential users are eliminated in the first hundred hours of trying to figure Drupal out?}
<br><br>And yes, of course once I've gotten over the learning hump and actually start using Drupal in my work, I plan to contribute as much as I can afford to in whatever ways I can (not being a coder) - to the documentation team, testing etc.
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