

I must admit, I resisted the notion.as I said, I've been enthusiastic about Evernote.īut now I've been working with OneNote (2010) for the past couple of months and there certainly is a lot to like about it as well. I've been an enthusiastic Evernote user for about 2 years now, but am working in an office where the Operations Mgr has wanted the ability to have more integrated processes and collaboration including Outlook's scheduling capabilities, document sharing, etc. Since everyone is different, and has a different set of needs, this could easily be a “Ford versus Chevy” debate that never has a winner, because there is no right answer Great article for things to think about, but it also leaves out a lot of features that EN is capable of.

I use it to store information, and use other programs to create presentations, flowcharts, etc, instead of trying to do everything in one program. However, in the long run, that is not how I used a notetaking program. I kind of missed that when I first moved from OneNote to EN. Like you could almost “present” from a note. OneNote seems like you can do a lot more stuff with placing graphics, layouts, and different looks. EN seems like more of a straight line of text, with some formatting. For one, it does seem to be a more “graphical” program, if that makes any sense. With that, there are some things I do like about OneNote. 2) It was available, but it isn’t in Windows 8? Well then, how is that feature? 1) I can’t get Windows search to find a file on my desktop!!! It is horrible, I can’t believe windows can not implement a good search function. I think it is funny that he mentioned Windows search, for two reasons. No problems with hand written text as mentioned there.

Point 7: Better searching? Really? I find exactly the opposite and like EN better for searching. I used EN for a LONG time before I came across other organizational structures that were not immediately obvious to me (ie. I can go on and on, but the point is you are forced to organize the way it is set up. Anyway, OneNotes structure seems to make sense at first, until you start getting either a lot of notebooks, or a lot of notes in one notebook. Where as EN will almost let you do whatever you want, with the exception of doing dead tree type stacks, if that is your thing, which can still be done in tags. The thing I don’t like about OneNote is that it forces you to use its organizational structure. I have a note with a JPG, audio file, text and a web clipping in it. I could easily write an article with the top 10 points on why EN works better for me.

I use a note taking program very, very differently, so many of his points are meaningless to me. For that specific article, he wrote about HE uses a note taking program, and why OneNote works better for him. They both do great things, and do things differently. Any opinion he has is immediately suspect Just kidding……but not really
