If, like me, you only use Evernote for yourself, the Work Chat features are useless and best ignored. Work Chat is only useful for people who collaborate inside Evernote, since it lets you share messages about what you've saved in the service. Work Chat lets you communicate about notes without leaving Evernote. You can add photos and videos inline in text notes and attach other kinds of content too.

Within text notes, you can add bulleted and numbered lists, as well as checklists, tweak the font formatting to bold, italic or strikethrough and highlight sentences and passages. The Android app also lets you create handwritten notes, where you can drag your finger or a stylus across the screen to write or sketch out your note. Your notes can consist of text, images, Web clippings, audio recordings, reminders and even file attachments. With a tap of the plus sign, which appears throughout the app, you can start typing out a new note quickly, adding formatting as you go. There are many ways to create notes and collections of notes, called notebooks.

The Android and iOS apps are great for both reading notes you've already created on Evernote's desktop apps and website, and creating new content on the fly. The app isn't a pretty as the iOS version, but for actually getting around and browsing my notes, I actually prefer the Android app.

There's also a handy floating menu of shortcuts to create a new note that includes options to save attachments, photos, audio, reminders and more. The Android app is a bit more bare-bones, with a mostly white design, a simple slide-out navigation.

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