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I am considering using Evernote for more organization. I have had a free account for years, but really only use it to "bookmark" web articles I don't want to lose. I now see that Evernote owns Penultimate (which I also have). How do you use Evernote - that is, for what? What is the best way to make use of it?
 
I don't use it much, but my pastor uses it all the time. Scans documents, sermon notes, etc and files them on Evernote.
 
I've tried Evernote on and off for years. I keep it because it has notes from way back.

But ever since I got OneNote 2010 with an actual tablet computer (not tablet, but tablet computer--as in running full-powered windows and all my applications), I've pretty much quit using Evernote.

I like OneNote because it indexes my handwritten notes as searchable items. No more legal pads for me. Plus, I can organize things as if in a notebook. I have, literally, more than 400 case notebooks with all notes, exhibits, correspondence, pictures, whatever, linked to it and available instantly.

I suppose Evernote could be used the same way, but I never could get the handwriting recognition to work well. It did back in the early days, then it seemed to not work anymore.
 
I use evernote everyday for almost everything...
  • saving web articles
  • blog posts
  • pictures
  • daily log
  • exercise log
  • family documents
  • kids artwork
  • notes taken in meetings

I have definately found that the more you put into it, the more helpful it is is.
 
VictorBravo said:
I've tried Evernote on and off for years. I keep it because it has notes from way back.

But ever since I got OneNote 2010 with an actual tablet computer (not tablet, but tablet computer--as in running full-powered windows and all my applications), I've pretty much quit using Evernote.

I like OneNote because it indexes my handwritten notes as searchable items. No more legal pads for me. Plus, I can organize things as if in a notebook. I have, literally, more than 400 case notebooks with all notes, exhibits, correspondence, pictures, whatever, linked to it and available instantly.

I suppose Evernote could be used the same way, but I never could get the handwriting recognition to work well. It did back in the early days, then it seemed to not work anymore.
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I wonder if One Note for iPad would work that way?
 
Not sure I could guess at my success rate as far as recognition goes. But since that thread, there is now handwriting within evernote itself.
 
I use it daily for study or sermon notes. Recipes devotional noted for daughter etc etc.

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I used to be a heavy Evernote user, but switched to OneNote as well, since I got my Surface Pro 2. OneNote is one of those hidden gems that Microsoft doesn't seem that great at advertising. Wonderful piece of software. Evernote on the other hand was always buggy (especially the desktop client), could never format stuff well, and is just a pain to use in comparison. It did however, work fairly well on my iPhone and iPad.
 
kodos said:
I used to be a heavy Evernote user, but switched to OneNote as well, since I got my Surface Pro 2. OneNote is one of those hidden gems that Microsoft doesn't seem that great at advertising. Wonderful piece of software. Evernote on the other hand was always buggy (especially the desktop client), could never format stuff well, and is just a pain to use in comparison. It did however, work fairly well on my iPhone and iPad.
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Rom,

Have you used (or seen used) the iPad version? I am trying to see if OneNote can take handwritten notes on a tablet?
 
fredtgreco said:
kodos said:
I used to be a heavy Evernote user, but switched to OneNote as well, since I got my Surface Pro 2. OneNote is one of those hidden gems that Microsoft doesn't seem that great at advertising. Wonderful piece of software. Evernote on the other hand was always buggy (especially the desktop client), could never format stuff well, and is just a pain to use in comparison. It did however, work fairly well on my iPhone and iPad.
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Rom,

Have you used (or seen used) the iPad version? I am trying to see if OneNote can take handwritten notes on a tablet?
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I don't use my iPads much anymore (the kids use them for homeschooling while I take my Surface Pro out). Last I heard it didn't have handwriting ability (but that was a year ago), but I have an Office 365 subscription, so I'll give it a shot tonight when I get home and see if that is still the case.
 
fredtgreco said:
Have you used (or seen used) the iPad version? I am trying to see if OneNote can take handwritten notes on a tablet?
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As of six months ago, it still seemed OneNote would not do handwriting on the iPad.

I ran across a review of other apps that do have some handwriting function on an iPad: Hand writing on the iPad: Note taking with Notability | Macademise

It looks like Notability does not do handwriting recognition, but 7Notes does: 7notes - Smart Writing Tool

And, finally, back to Evernote--it looks like it does handwriting.

One last note: in all my experiments with handwriting recognition, ranging from early and failed adoptions of tech from the 90s, I've found the stylus-based input used on Windows tablets to be the most reliable. iPads use capacitive touch, I think, whereas my Samsung uses capacitive for finger gestures, but also uses Wacom-based "active input" with a stylus. OneNote handwriting recognition was designed for the active input approach. I suspect that is why it is not working for iPads.
 
I downloaded OneNote for the iPad, and I can indeed verify that handwriting is unavailable.

And I second Victor's observation - that the Windows tablets (particularly the Surface Pro line) with active digitizers have the best handwriting support. Due to the active digitizer palm reject is superb as well, so you can lay your palm on the screen naturally when writing.
 
fredtgreco said:
I am considering using Evernote for more organization. I have had a free account for years, but really only use it to "bookmark" web articles I don't want to lose. I now see that Evernote owns Penultimate (which I also have). How do you use Evernote - that is, for what? What is the best way to make use of it?
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I feel better...I think. I use Evernote as a place to pile articles I don't want to lose but I know I should learn how to use it correctly. It seems like it is the answer to a ton of my problems but I just can't get it to feel intuitive. I need it but it doesn't come natural to me. If any one knows the definitive starter guide I will start all over.
Thanks.
 
I tried using Evernote for all of my school notes for a while. I found I really liked the web version and the desktop version, but the tablet versions for both iOS and Android were not as feature-filled. Sometimes they would choke on formatting from the desktop version and not be able to edit a document. Sometimes even a note started on Android would have it's formatting ruined. On several occasions, I would be taking a long stream of notes with bullet points at different levels (tabbed over) and Evernote would choke and put all the bullet points flush at the left.

If you are using Evernote on the desktop, I would not hesitate to use it. And perhaps these bugs have been fixed, but I know even so the tablet version is less featured.

I've ended up just using Dropbox + Word documents. I miss some features of Evernote, but I have much more flexibility with formatting. A mix of Textmaker and OpenOffice on Android work on those platforms, and search is so good in Windows 8/8.1 that I don't miss that part of it.
 
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