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Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Oct 7, 2016 at 11:21 PM
WSP wrote:
>In recent months Microsoft has introduced software (for both Windows and
>MacOS) that makes it comparatively easy to export Evernote data to
>OneNote. MS now seems to be aggressively recruiting Evernote users.
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Is it really a good replacement, though? OneNote is by far the best notetaking app I’ve ever used for organizing material related to a specific project, but I’ve never felt good using it as kind of a central repository or for just grabbing random quotes I come across that I want to save. Not that Evernote was *great* for that purpose, but it got the job done.
Posted by Gorski
Oct 8, 2016 at 02:52 PM
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>Is it really a good replacement, though? OneNote is by far the best
>notetaking app I’ve ever used for organizing material related to a
>specific project, but I’ve never felt good using it as kind of a central
>repository or for just grabbing random quotes I come across that I want
>to save. Not that Evernote was *great* for that purpose, but it got the
>job done.
For what it’s worth, Microsoft has been talking about simplifying OneNote’s storage model to make it work better for the Web and about incorporating machine learning, etc., to make finding relevant notes easier.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-next-for-microsofts-onenote/
A recent in-depth comparison of Evernote and OneNote:
http://lifehacker.com/note-taking-showdown-evernote-vs-onenote-2016-editio-1765707423
Follow one user’s switch:
http://www.pcmag.com/commentary/345839/evernotes-loss-is-onenotes-gain
Recent and future changes for OneNote, other Office apps:
https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/roadmap
Posted by Slartibartfarst
Oct 9, 2016 at 07:10 AM
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>Is it really a good replacement, though? OneNote is by far the best
>notetaking app I’ve ever used for organizing material related to a
>specific project, but I’ve never felt good using it as kind of a central
>repository or for just grabbing random quotes I come across that I want
>to save. Not that Evernote was *great* for that purpose, but it got the
>job done.
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As a past Evernote user, I have had an approx. 8-year experiment with OneNote, and this post summarises it:
Microsoft OneNote - how to make it your 21st century Zettelkasten PIM.
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31755.msg393032#msg393032
It can be a difficult change to make, and it’s not necessarily easy to learn to use all of its features - rather like MS Word - but the investment of time and effort in making the change has paid off, in my case at least, though YMMV.
In terms of cost, I have been using a $10 MS Office Pro Corporate Home Use licence on Office 2007 through 2016 (i.e., $10 each version). I skipped one of the versions - 2010. This would be good value for OneNote alone, but since I use most of the other MS Office software and OneNote now integrates very well with OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) of MS Office objects, and has wiki-like linking, and can pretty much take all the data types one throws at it (referred to at the link), it has become an indispensable tool for me.
It’s rather like a combination of Evernote + Adobe/Ashton-Tate(?) Framework V - on steroids, but (sadly) without the structure of the latter - and of course it can be client-based, or web-based, or both.
I’m still learning about it and discovering its potential limitations/constraints.