Evernote Preferences Pane

I love this.

A lot of applications offer a menu bar setting (Growl, Twitterific and Skitch are some of the ones that live in my menubar). Turning these icons off and on is generally a Preferences setting within the application that says “show menubar icon” or something like that.

Evernote’s icon is an elephant head with a page curl at the corner. It looks like this:

I think it’s really cool that Evernote’s setting in Preferences is “Show Elephant in Menubar,” instead of the more standard “Show Icon…” It has more personality, for a start, but also “Elephant” is such a loaded symbolic form in most people’s brains that I would bet most people would skip the word “Icon” or “Logo” entirely and just refer to Evernote’s mark as “the Elephant.” Someone, somewhere put some thought into this, presumably to help make even the tiniest interactions in the application as user-friendly as possible. I’m impressed.

What is it?

From Evernote’s “What is Evernote” page:

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible andsearchable at any time, from anywhere. Did we mention that it’s free?

Evernote has been around for awhile, but I just started using it as a place to collect my meeting notes, sketchbook ideas, and project files last week. I’ve been very impressed. You should try it out.