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Posted by WSP
Feb 29, 2012 at 03:20 PM
I notice that Evernote and Curio can now function together, but Curio is Mac-only. Is there any similar Windows program that can link in with Evernote?
I admire Evernote and have quite a few notes in it, but my two main objections to it are that it is relatively weak in organizational features (yes, yes, I know all about tags, stacks, etc.) and that it has an exceptionally unattractive interface. I gather that Curio, to some degree, overcomes these problems. Any Evernote/Curio users here?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 29, 2012 at 04:26 PM
I have Curio on my MacBook and am starting to use Evernote more as a conduit of information between the MacBook, my office PC and my mobile device. In my experience, the interconnection between Curio and Evernote is a little over stated. Curio does have an Evernote interface (the Evernote Shelf), so you can view and search your notebooks right in Curio. You can drag notes from Evernote onto a Curio page. Any tags or URLs associated with that note are also brought into Curio. However, those notes do not stay live. That is, edits you make in the note within Curio are not synchronized back to Evernote. Since Evernote exports are notoriously limited, this is handy; it’s just not as handy as it could be.
Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
Feb 29, 2012 at 04:52 PM
I’ve occasionally used Evernote as a conduit into Curio, and I endorse what Steve says.
It sounds as if you’re only interested in a partner for Evernote on Windows, but just in case you or anybody else might think that Curio’s link with Evernote is a major part of its functionality, it’s not. It’s a relatively small part.
It remains a bit of mystery to me that the developers behind Evernote have not yet quite given the software the top-notch functionality and UI that the financial resources available to them might justify. It has also largely had the field to itself for quite a while, although Microsoft, Apple and the likes of Dropbox and others have gradually been encroaching upon its territory. Perhaps the effort to make the software cross-platform has been all-absorbing. Perhaps it has lacked competitors.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 29, 2012 at 06:22 PM
Hugh wrote:
>It remains a bit of mystery to me that the developers behind Evernote have not yet quite given the
>software the top-notch functionality and UI that the financial resources available
>to them might justify. It has also largely had the field to itself for quite a while,
>although Microsoft, Apple and the likes of Dropbox and others have gradually been
>encroaching upon its territory. Perhaps the effort to make the software
>cross-platform has been all-absorbing. Perhaps it has lacked competitors.
I couldn’t agree more with Hugh. Evernote’s synchronization of multiplatform versions is astoundingly well done. But the actual app is very primitive by the standards set by Zoot, DevonThink and many others. And the Trunk service that was announced with great fanfare has not produced a whole lot of useful partner applications—at least in my opinion.
Okay, Evernote is free and what it does do it does remarkably well, so I’m not complaining. But there seems to be a lot of un-met potential here. All of which is my long-winded way of saying I don’t think there is anything for Windows that works with Evernote even in the limited way in which Curio does.
Steve Z.
Posted by dan7000
Feb 29, 2012 at 09:22 PM
>> But the actual app is very primitive by the standards set by Zoot, DevonThink and many others.
Those of us who like to mess around with software appreciate the powerful features available in programs like Zoot, InfoQube, and Ultrarecall. But if the general public valued those features, then those programs would be commercial successes. It seems to me that Evernote has made a strategic decision—likely informed by market research and focus groups—to appeal to the most possible customers by keeping its feature set simple and focused.