Comments on: OneNote vs Evernote

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:16:46 +0000

One thing to point out in this great debate is that evernote has a really compelling ipad and iphone app where onenote only is for the iphone.

I am migrating away from onenote and back to evernote (used to be on evernote years ago). Main reasons are app support, migration of data, problems syncing with onenote (slow, conflicts), and I would like to see how far evernote has come.

I will miss having the click anywhere to type interaction but it was confusing to use on multiple devices where screen resolution is small/variable.

By: Dark Angel

Dark Angel — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:59:37 +0000

Works GREAT with me on my Daily Services High and Low from Top to Bottom and Up again…

Kinda like my life as my Profession tags along…

And carries me sometimes ALL the Way SKY-High!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:36:20 +0000

I can’t imagine that bootcamp and onenote are going to work well; I use a mac and follow these evernote/onenote debates and no one ever endorses that route. (I use onenote on my windows laptop and love it, and something called Eaglefiler on my Mac, which is wonderful. But I’m checking out Evernote b/c the cross-platform headaches are just too much.)

The Onenote Web app is horrendously slow and awkward, so that’s not the way forward for Mac users.

I wonder why MS doesn’t make Onenote for the Mac and thereby *really* take on Evernote, since they’ve already moved to the cloud (a previous Evernote advantage). MS seems never to have properly appreciated or leveraged Onenote.

By: said

said — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:19:52 +0000

mobilenoter for iphone works great. though im buying a mbp and will move to evernote I think… loving onenote but everything pulls me to migrate. still wondering though, bootcamp + onenote or just evernote… suggestions?

By: Paul G

Paul G — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:05:47 +0000

@ Dellu
There’s a version of onenote for the iphone, only available in the US stores at the moment though

By: CB

CB — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:34:23 +0000

I started using OneNote a little over a year ago. As Lis pointed out, it is very flexible for taking notes, adding drawings, etc. I like the different levels of organization, with section groups and sub-pages.
I have tried using whatever the latest version of Live Mesh is to sync my OneNote notebooks, and have access on computers w/o Office 2010, but it is clunky. The web app has limitations compared to the desktop app, and if you add a password to a section in the desktop app, you can’t view it on the web.
I am filling up my Evernote notebooks a lot faster now; one of the most convenient features is the screen clipping (ON has that, too, for the desktop app), and the toolbar button for various browsers that allow you to capture a URL or an entire page.
While I won’t move all my ON content to Evernote, I am using Evernote more and more.

By: Dellu

Dellu — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:05:06 +0000

OneNote is more advanced; if you are drafting a big project, it is really ahead of other note taking tools…I synchronize with dropbox…not available for Iphone, the biggest issue for me.

Evernote is fast, but ugly(to me)…and works well with iphone.

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:31:59 +0000

I use OneNote at work and at home and synchronize notes using LiveSync (I used Live Mesh before). It works great.

By: adnan

adnan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:45:27 +0000

One note has a very strange architecture in the way it is saved. Which is why you can’t really combine it with groove. But if you use onenote alone then you can save the individual sections of a notebook inside groove and work with those. Been doing that for the past year now.

By: Lis

Lis — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:54:47 +0000

OneNote works better for taking notes. I am using EverNote at the moment, but I miss being able to click anywhere and type, move boxes around as necessary, draw arrows and boxes to clarify points, and create instant tables by tabbing.