Instead, I treat it as an outboard brain. At this point, I have over 14,000 notes that encompass just about all the things I’ve read over the past five years. - There are three main reasons that I love Evernote: PDF highlighting, easy article capture, and full text search. - the Evernote browser extension to read, highlight and save an article to my archive - Reader Mode in mobile Safari and then email it to Evernote through my personal Evernote email address. Reader Mode is the very best trick in the world for article clipping on mobile — because it just strips everything out except for the text and images and when you hit share out of that view it includes the full text in your email.