After evaluating Evernote head to head with OneNote, I can say that both are excellent and that the two are roughly comparable.
Of course, OneNote isn't the only such solution: Evernote is one of the most popular online productivity services available today, and many-including some friends of mine-swear by it. But since this latest version has emerged, I've often wondered about the utility of syncing PC-based notes with the cloud and, increasingly, accessing them on mobile devices. Long story short, by the time OneNote 2010 had debuted, I had long since gone back to simple Word documents for notes. It also added excellent note sharing and collaboration features, features that in many ways inspired this week's mobile app pick.ĭespite its usefulness, however, my own once-regular OneNote usage dropped off over the years for reasons that are almost too complicated to explain. And in OneNote 2010, Microsoft finally made this application part of every mainstream version of the suite, pushing it out to more users. In the 2007 edition of the product, Microsoft enhanced note management, made Tablet PC usage more seamless, added note hyperlinking, made it possible to "print" PowerPoint presentations to the application so that you could put notes alongside the actual slide you were watching at the time, and more. Over the years, OneNote has matured and improved as you'd expect. It's the starting point for a finished product. Not just notes but images, audio and video, web pages, and more. What OneNote is really about is idea processing and information gathering of all kinds.
But "note-taking" is a fairly simplistic way of describing what's actually happening. Here was an app that seemed custom-tailored to my daily routine, much of which involves me taking notes which are later turned into the finished articles that are published on this site and elsewhere. Platform(s): Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android, Blackberry, webOS, Windows MobileĪs a Microsoft guy and a long-time user and advocate of Office in particular, I latched onto the company's note-taking solution, OneNote, as soon as I first heard about it in late 2002. Price (PC): $69.99 (Home and Student), $79, or with various Office suites Platform(s): Windows (PC), Windows Phone 7, iPhone
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