Looking for PIM / Thesis Writing Software for the PC

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 8, 2009 at 08:40 PM

Wes Perdue wrote:
>Btw, I believe you can create local
>notebooks that are never sync’d.

Yes you can. I have a ‘temporary’ notebook that I have selected not to sync. However, once you choose what type of notebook you want (local or synced) you can’t change your mind. This is not as bad as it sounds, because it’s very easy to create another notebook of the type you want, select and drag’n'drop all your notes there.

I very often work offline with no problem; all info, including attachments, is available locally. When I’m online again my changes will be synces. I have found no other that does this as seamlessly as Evernote though, as I’ve written elsewhere (in the post that Peter found me screaming :-), I expect many more information managers to become web-aware eventually.

However, there’s one very important reason that Evernote is, for me, completely unsuitable as a writing environment. You’ll have a hard time believing it, until you’ve tried it yourselves: there is no way to create a copy of a note within Evernote—other than create an empty note and copy/paste the content and title- which I find an unacceptable limitation (I have told the developers so, stressing that I am a Premium user, but so far nothing has changed).

So, to put it simply, if you want to use some collected material while preserving the original source, you have to start copying and pasting as if you were in Word.