The main difference is that interface, and that it acts on a folder of simple text files rather than its own database format. I personally choose to use it beca

The main difference is that interface, and that it acts on a folder of simple text files rather than its own database format. I personally choose to use it because I prefer my notes to be text files so I can easily edit them with Notational Velocity on my mac, and emacs on any machine I have Dropbox connected to. It may be that the many features of Evernote are better for you - I personally used a variety of note-taking apps and just kept coming back to NV, so I wrote a companion for my phone.