In short, it is a program as well as an on-line service. You can use it as a free service (with limited capacity), or sign up and pay for a much higher storage.
To begin with, it was designed for notes taking, and one could record things as text, image, or voice record. Similar to OneNote, each notes is one page, and one could add tags and group several note pages into a notebook.
The very edge of this program - to me at least - is when you open a web page of journal article, be it a full one or just the abstract, you could click a single button on the browser and add it as a separate note, with the title of the article and the journal automatically detected and hyperlink saved. Furthermore, if you select a paragraph of that journal page (for example, the conclusion of the abstract) and then click that button, the selected part would become the text in that notes - still with the article title and everything in the right place.
But, things are never flawless: If you want to type your own notes, the list of font for your choice is horrible, and the bullet function does not work properly. I am also yet to see how efficient the search engine is when the collection of notes gets fat. Nonetheless, like every other problem on earth, we do not want a perfect solution in the unknown future - we need a reasonable remedy here and now.
PS. Although my usage is not that much, I sign up for the premier account and pay a small sum of money (around HK$360) each year - there is no free lunch in the world, and I prefer to know what I am giving away to get the service.
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