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For sure. I had an Evernote subscription, but I used OneNote at work - and it's just better. Letting you place snippets and notes on the vertical AND horizontal

For sure. I had an Evernote subscription, but I used OneNote at work - and it's just better. Letting you place snippets and notes on the vertical AND horizontal plane makes sense for quick note taking. Anyway, I switched last year and the fact that OneNote had a convenient note importer for Evernote was icing on the cake. Evernote never seemed to evolve either. It was the same product 5 years ago, as it was last year and the company employed hundreds of developers - doing what?

acct1771 8y ago
Anyone know if they're involved in selling metadata/data?
- macspoofing 8y ago
  Microsoft or Evernote?
  - gcb0 8y ago
    today the answer is always Yes.
    - chid 8y ago
      I would struggle to believe Microsoft is selling data of its OneNote users.
underwater 8y ago
The OneNote canvas based model doesn't really work for note taking for me. Switching between mobile and desktop devices means the content doesn't fit on either because it the form factors are so different. I think they special case the mobile product to act like a traditional text editor when there is a single text field. But it is a kludge on top of a broken model.
- macspoofing 8y ago
  That's fair. I personally never found value in note taking on mobile. I present at conferences, and deal with partners and customers, and in those cases pen with a pocket-size notebook beats fiddling around with a phone. To compare, to take a note on a phone while talking to a partner, I have to 1) take my phone out, 2) unlock it, 3) launch the app and wait for it to load 4) wait until the software keyboard shows up, 5) start taking notes. At any point the phone could start acting up. Maybe it'll be extra slow this time. Maybe the app will crash. Maybe the fingerprint won't take on the first try. The opportunity for delays are always there. With a notebook, it's so much faster. You take it out, and you start writing. And at the end of the day, I manually add my notes to OneNote.

acct1771 8y ago

Anyone know if they're involved in selling metadata/data?

macspoofing 8y ago
Microsoft or Evernote?
- gcb0 8y ago
  today the answer is always Yes.
  - chid 8y ago
    I would struggle to believe Microsoft is selling data of its OneNote users.

underwater 8y ago

The OneNote canvas based model doesn't really work for note taking for me. Switching between mobile and desktop devices means the content doesn't fit on either because it the form factors are so different. I think they special case the mobile product to act like a traditional text editor when there is a single text field. But it is a kludge on top of a broken model.

macspoofing 8y ago
That's fair. I personally never found value in note taking on mobile. I present at conferences, and deal with partners and customers, and in those cases pen with a pocket-size notebook beats fiddling around with a phone. To compare, to take a note on a phone while talking to a partner, I have to 1) take my phone out, 2) unlock it, 3) launch the app and wait for it to load 4) wait until the software keyboard shows up, 5) start taking notes. At any point the phone could start acting up. Maybe it'll be extra slow this time. Maybe the app will crash. Maybe the fingerprint won't take on the first try. The opportunity for delays are always there. With a notebook, it's so much faster. You take it out, and you start writing. And at the end of the day, I manually add my notes to OneNote.