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I've used onenote for a while and tried to move over to evernote - it's horrible on windows. Simple things just as being able to highlight multiple words to ch

I've used onenote for a while and tried to move over to evernote - it's horrible on windows. Simple things just as being able to highlight multiple words to change fonts or even have auto capitalization not have a toggle. The only thing I did like was the ability to repeat the last command you took but that shouldn't have to exist for stuff like changing fonts of certain words one at a time.

dublin 8y ago
If you use a Surface, or other modern, non-caveman computer with excellent pen support, then there is nothing better than OneNote for note-taking. Interestingly, MS has been slowly deprecating the legacy desktop version of OneNote in Office and replacing it with the free Windows 10 app, which is now far more capable than the old version was. Of course, there still things that should be added - especially in the drawing, touch/pen UI (bring back radial menus!), and data management/tagging searching departments, but if you haven't tried it lately, OneNote has gotten staggeringly better over the past couple of years, and IMO, easily outstrips its current competition...
- dublin 8y ago
  Oh, and FWIW, MS has put a LOT of effort into improving the OneNote apps for iOS and Android, too - they are approaching full first-class citizen status, which makes them really handy. (Funny, I used to bash MS, but they're really doing a great job with OneNote, VSCode, and WSL, all of which I use and rely on regularly. Now if they (or anyone else for that matter) could only build modern email/calendar/contacts app that works as well as what we had in the 90's (Palm, cough, Palm...)
  - vtail 8y ago
    Interestingly, I just checked their update history for iOS, and it seems the last real update was almost a year ago, and it was mostly bug fixes or other non-descriptive updates since then.
- fraudsyndrome 8y ago
  I think my comment was around the wrong way, I meant that evernote was horrible on windows - so much so that I just switched back to onenote out of frustration. I do miss the desktop version of onenote as that had a lot more features that I was hoping to find on the windows 10 app version.

dublin 8y ago

If you use a Surface, or other modern, non-caveman computer with excellent pen support, then there is nothing better than OneNote for note-taking. Interestingly, MS has been slowly deprecating the legacy desktop version of OneNote in Office and replacing it with the free Windows 10 app, which is now far more capable than the old version was. Of course, there still things that should be added - especially in the drawing, touch/pen UI (bring back radial menus!), and data management/tagging searching departments, but if you haven't tried it lately, OneNote has gotten staggeringly better over the past couple of years, and IMO, easily outstrips its current competition...

dublin 8y ago
Oh, and FWIW, MS has put a LOT of effort into improving the OneNote apps for iOS and Android, too - they are approaching full first-class citizen status, which makes them really handy. (Funny, I used to bash MS, but they're really doing a great job with OneNote, VSCode, and WSL, all of which I use and rely on regularly. Now if they (or anyone else for that matter) could only build modern email/calendar/contacts app that works as well as what we had in the 90's (Palm, cough, Palm...)
- vtail 8y ago
  Interestingly, I just checked their update history for iOS, and it seems the last real update was almost a year ago, and it was mostly bug fixes or other non-descriptive updates since then.
fraudsyndrome 8y ago
I think my comment was around the wrong way, I meant that evernote was horrible on windows - so much so that I just switched back to onenote out of frustration. I do miss the desktop version of onenote as that had a lot more features that I was hoping to find on the windows 10 app version.