Nimbus Notes

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 23, 2014 at 11:08 PM

I primarily use EN on my laptops.

At times, eg at the library or St Arbucks, I like to use the app on my tursty Nexus.

So far so good.

But there are times when I may want to go onto a browser, especially if I am for whatever reason without my laptop or Nexus.

Having not used the browser version of EVERNOTE for some time went on-line to use it this week. It was atrocious, a bad example of bad design, or else an all-out sign from Evernote it’s not seriously interested in making it easy to manage information (seems to me more interested in profitable deals with Moleskine [overpriced at best compared to other notebooks of similar or better quality costing less - Leuctturm] and other merchandisers, playing with great technology but never getting truly serious about it).

The EN browser version is so off the wall, over the top in a bad way it leaves me with a feeling serious information users can’t trust EN. One reason EN has been as popular as it has been is a whole bunch of creative users who have developed a lot of work-arounds for what wasn’t in EN in the first place. Trying to use those work-arounds in the browser version now is a joke.

I will look at Notebooks again.

And as for OneNote I’m not clear on how I can set it up to work with 1,000s of documents.

So for now I am OK if I never want to use EN on the laptops or the Nexus. But my confidence in the whole EN enterprise has been shaken by a this incredibly bad design which a) either shows lack of common/aesthetic sense, (b) lack of understanding of what’s necessary for information management, or (c) both.

That’s why I want an alternative.

Thanks.

Daly

MadaboutDana wrote:
Sharing how exactly, Daly? Across which platforms?
> >My first impulse is to suggest Notebooks, but that doesn’t run on
>Android. It runs on Windows, Mac and iOS, and is a better repository
>than Evernote (IMHO).
> >My second impulse is to suggest OneNote, although it can be irritating.
>But it does run on every platform, more or less (oh, except Linux).