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OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with li

OneNote. The hierarchical breakdown of Notebook, Section, and Pages is quite useful. I use one page as a linear, chronological "Plan for today" journal, with links to subject matter on other Pages that naturally get organized into Sections (ML learning, Coursera - Scala, Health, Attitude / Thinking, etc;). Evernote's Search is much better than OneNote's (Windows' Search), searching seamlessly even inside attachments, but I absolutely hate the look of Evernote pages; just a personal thing. Could be something as simple as Tahoma vs. Calibri, but I think it's more than that...OneNote really looks good to my subjective eye. Plus I like the keyboard shortcuts. For PDFs, get really good at whatever Reader you use w.r.t. annotation tools. I love PDF-Xchange Viewer for annotation (a Windows product).

shoover 9y ago
This topic comes up occasionally and we see lots of answers involving plain text and wikis. It seems like there is still room for some perfect solution to the OP's problem with just the right feature set. Something with the stellar web and mobile ease-of-use and performance of Trello but document-based and at the same time free-form. OneNote is probably the closest thing that exists.
maxxxxx 9y ago
OneNote seems to be the only tool that's actually being used in my team. It's not perfect but it works.
cube2222 9y ago
Using OneNote too and another advantage is, for people like me, who have a Surface, that I can jot down prototypes and sketch diagrams there. Other than that, I use Edge to write on pdf's. (Sometimes, if they're small, I just print them into OneNote and write there) A thing many problably don't know: OneNote supports LaTex (with some differences) in the equation editor
yodon 9y ago
The one thing I hate about OneNote is that the internal links are inexcusably weak in that if I change the name of a destination page all links to that page break. Seriously, wtf is with a boneheaded move like that? (Hopefully someone here can tell me they finally fixed that idiotic deal breaker, as OneNote is otherwise so close to perfect in my eyes)

shoover 9y ago

This topic comes up occasionally and we see lots of answers involving plain text and wikis. It seems like there is still room for some perfect solution to the OP's problem with just the right feature set. Something with the stellar web and mobile ease-of-use and performance of Trello but document-based and at the same time free-form. OneNote is probably the closest thing that exists.

maxxxxx 9y ago

OneNote seems to be the only tool that's actually being used in my team. It's not perfect but it works.

cube2222 9y ago

Using OneNote too and another advantage is, for people like me, who have a Surface, that I can jot down prototypes and sketch diagrams there. Other than that, I use Edge to write on pdf's. (Sometimes, if they're small, I just print them into OneNote and write there) A thing many problably don't know: OneNote supports LaTex (with some differences) in the equation editor

yodon 9y ago

The one thing I hate about OneNote is that the internal links are inexcusably weak in that if I change the name of a destination page all links to that page break. Seriously, wtf is with a boneheaded move like that? (Hopefully someone here can tell me they finally fixed that idiotic deal breaker, as OneNote is otherwise so close to perfect in my eyes)