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Posted by Jeffery Smith
Sep 7, 2018 at 12:48 PM
I had some confidence in Evernote and started to use it extensively for storing just about everything. What attracted me to it was that it was available from all of my devices (7), and DevonThink Office seemed so difficult to use reliably on more than one machine. I’m afraid that I’m going to have to search for a new way of doing things for all of the pdf and other files I could so easily clip from the ‘net to Evernote.
Posted by Hugh
Sep 7, 2018 at 03:29 PM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I had some confidence in Evernote and started to use it extensively for
>storing just about everything. What attracted me to it was that it was
>available from all of my devices (7), and DevonThink Office seemed so
>difficult to use reliably on more than one machine. I’m afraid that I’m
>going to have to search for a new way of doing things for all of the pdf
>and other files I could so easily clip from the ‘net to Evernote.
“DevonThink Office seemed so difficult to use reliably on more than one machine.” Jeffery, you don’t say when this was, what the machines were or what the problems were that you encountered. If you were referring to syncing DevonThink on a Mac with DevonThink To Go version 1 on an iOS device, just to say that in my view the current DTTG 2 represents a significant improvement over version 1. Of course syncing a bundle of files reliably is never going to be particularly easy with any “consumer” software, but in my opinion (and I think that of others, to judge from DT’s forums) DTTG 2 is much better at it than DTTG 1.
Posted by nathanb
Sep 7, 2018 at 04:36 PM
>Now I’m sitting over here praying that Notion.so offers some slick
>quick-capture ability so I can leave EN for forever…
>
Same. I echo all of your previous points, very well said. Though for me OneNote has been my ‘ubiquitous dump’ forever. Though I agree that EN is a better dump for random snippets loosely organized whereas OneNote wants to be a classic hierarchy. Both have great search.
I am excited about notion and am slowly trusting it more to be the place for structured info and projects. I’d love to see Android shortcuts to individual pages.
I think it was April when Microsoft finally announced the final changeover to ‘Universal’ OneNote and sending the desktop app go into maint mode (which it’s been in for years anyway). The awesome full desktop app is what got me into OneNote in 2008 and what has kept me there. If MS is abandoning it then I suppose I shouldn’t feel any hesitation to drop it too. Though they did tease in that same announcement that they were working hard on filling some more feature gaps which included a real tagging platform… But they also said that’d happen this summer. I refuse to get my hopes up about that being anything but a colossal let-down…the majority of their ‘improvements’ lately have been like pen colors and emojis and other useless crap.
Posted by Ruud Hein
Sep 8, 2018 at 01:04 AM
Yeah, without a proper desktop version of OneNote my information would be stuck in there. No power addons to export, no local storage.
Posted by NickG
Sep 8, 2018 at 08:15 AM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I had some confidence in Evernote and started to use it extensively for
>storing just about everything. What attracted me to it was that it was
>available from all of my devices (7), and DevonThink Office seemed so
>difficult to use reliably on more than one machine. I’m afraid that I’m
>going to have to search for a new way of doing things for all of the pdf
>and other files I could so easily clip from the ‘net to Evernote.
As @Hugh has said, DT sync is very good. I sync 2 Macs and iPhone and and iPad with no problems.
However - it does need more thought to set up than EN, because the database is on one of your devices, whereas in EN, the core data is on their server. In EN, you just log in from your device and let their system worry about sync. With DT, you *must* decide where the database will reside and set up access credentials and any encryption. It’s not especially challenging, but it *is* a necessary process.