OneNote should learn from EverNote

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www.evernote.com

I downloaded this promising app and have learned alot from it. It is
in Beta and is currently a free download.

The key feature is the TIMELINE feature where every note you ever write
is placed on a timeline and you can view your entire collection of
notes as if it was an endless piece of paper.

The other well done feature is the categorization of notes - you can
easily stamp

Whereas, it seems Microsoft is stuck on the Hierarchy approach to
organization - Evernote realizes that many notes need to be categorized
under many different categories. How revolutionary ! These categories
are easily stamped onto new notes in very little time.

The major shortcoming of EverNote is that you cannot have both Text and
Digital Ink on the same note. I really like that feature of OneNote.
EverNote is however, much better at capturing webpages than OneNote - I
think EverNote has XML as its native file format.

Anyway. Just hoping Chris Prately and the OneNote team have seen this
program.

 

[Chris_Pratley \(MS\)]

Of course, mention my name and I feel compelled to comment.

I've seen EverNote. They have some nice features. We have some nice
features. Different people like different things. We'll see.

Chris (MS)

 

[PJ]

I've been using EverNote and OneNote for a couple of weeks now to
determine which is best for me. The conclusion so far is that it
depends on what you want to use it for. I use ON is a very heirarchical
way with Projects/Sub Topics/Sub Tasks etc which lends itself nicely to
how ON works. The "continous paper" method used by EN is great for
jotting notes but I find the categorisation, sorting and searching
tricky. That's probably beacuse I'm not used to it and no doubt EN can
do what I want, I just don't have the time to "play".

So far, I'll stick with ON although I'll watch to see how EN develops.

 

[Chris H.]

Are you on a laptop or desktop, and not a Tablet PC, PJ? If you were on the
latter, I think you would find Windows Journal (a Tablet-only application)
might meet your needs for "continuous paper."
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In memory of a true friend, Windows MVP Alex Nichol

Chris H.
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[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I'm confused; How is "continuous paper" missing from OneNote?

 

[PJ]

Two answers:
- I use a desktop PC. The continuos paper analogy isn't something I
find a need for, so I've never really looked at Windows Journal. May
well do.

- Continuous paper is the analogy EverNote uses. You don't create pages
like in ON, you just add any notes to the end of a virtual sheet of
paper which just gets longer. You can categorise each entry etc etc.
It's just a different way of working.

Depends on how you want to work. The guys at EN say that often people
use both products.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

OK. Thanks for the clarification.

Forgetting the other differences for a second, would you consider the
continuous page on a OneNote page to be analogous?

 

[mary branscombe]

I wouldn't myself, because EN is a 'continous page' of all your notes
together, internally sub-divided and each note in ON is pretty discreet - I
can't see all the pages of all the notes in a section one after another, for
example. It's different ways of slicing and dicing information.

I do very much like the timeline view - I'd love a picker window that showed
me all the notes I wrote last week, or three months ago, across all sections.
I also like the category tagging at a note level in EN - something like that
would be a nice supplement to the ON note flags, which are much more granular
but also less extensible and don't work at the page level (I might want to
categorise pages across different sections as being interviews, or meeting
notes, or outline plans as well as marking an action item inside a note or
filing a note as part of a project).

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

I do very much like the timeline view - I'd love a picker window that
showed
me all the notes I wrote last week, or three months ago, across all
sections.

You can. View | Page List. Then sort by Date.

 

[EMRhelp.org]

Erik Sojka (MVP) and Chris H,

You are making a mistake by not downloading EverNote and seeing it's
approach to Note Taking.

Journal is not at all related to EverNote's Powerful continuous paper
analogy.