Advertisement With so much content out there saying OneNote is better than Evernote, let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. In many areas, Evernote still beats OneNote. The question is whether Evernote’s benefits are enough to convince you to stay. For me, they were. That’s how many notes I have saved in my account. Over the past six years, I’ve collected notes covering almost every area of life. Highlights from articles I’ve read, to-do lists, Instagram photos, guitar tabs, ideas, and a bewildering range of reference stuff picked up along the way.

Get organized and productive with the leading note-taking app. Download Evernote for Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android and create your free account. Evernote uses cookies to enable the Evernote service and to improve your experience with us. I sometimes find the Java setup on my various Apple devices to be a mystery. Recently, I was trying to get a Java applet to run in the same way on 2 iMacs and my MacBook Air. The applet is a simple vpn client from Juniper that lets me access a Citrix Desktop from any Mac that I can install the Citrix receiver client on so I can work on 'Company stuff' from a large screen iMac when I'm sat at.

And then only last year, I tried Microsoft for the first time. An amazing app, whichever way you look at it. Being able to arrange notes like I naturally would in a ring-binder was tempting. And the features that allowed me to drag and drop elements of my notes to make them truly look like a physical notebook? Now that was impressive. After a while, I tried to go all in with OneNote, and the novelty of the app had me writing all sorts of odes to it.

I explained why The market is drenched in note-taking apps competing with Evernote. But there is only one serious Evernote alternative. Let us explain why that is OneNote. (I stand by that claim). I even told readers everything they needed to know before OneNote is one of the best alternatives to Evernote and it's free. We'll show you how OneNote is different and show you the tools to migrate smoothly. But my love affair with OneNote was short-lived.

I was probably just angry that Evernote had raised its prices without really improving its service (though its free option is still remarkable). Yet in the meantime, the web became awash with articles explaining.

Most of these articles, however, miss some important points that have seen a number of people (myself included) tiptoeing back to Evernote with their tail between their legs. Importing Notes Is Horrific After waiting over two hours for the to do its work, I stared at my screen in horror as I realized the task ahead of me. OneNote did some strange things with my meticulous tags, pretty much making them worthless. After importing, it seems that OneNote turns the first tag in your notes into a section. I have no idea why this happens, as tags are entirely different to sections. You can imagine what an organizational mess this can make.

In Evernote, I also had a lot of stacked notebooks. OneNote for Mac (which I’m using) can’t deal with the simple task of stacking (whether that’s notebooks or even notes). Instead, I’m faced with a long list of unorganized notebooks (and notes). Windows users, you’re lucky here. You have the feature available to create notebook groups. An option to keep parent notebooks as notebooks, and convert child notebooks to sections would have been intuitive (for Windows users, too), but that’s not possible.

To achieve this intuitive setup manually (turning some notebooks into sections) takes a lot of work. OneNote’s Lightweight Web Clipper Evernote’s web clipper truly is the best in the business. With it you can save entire articles, simplified articles, or selections of articles. You can take custom-sized screenshots, or simply save web pages as a bookmark. Yes, OneNote’s web clipper can do pretty much all of the above, but where Evernote’s clipper stands out is its annotation features. When you take a screenshot with Evernote’s clipper, you can then insert arrows, notes, pixilation, highlights, and more to the screenshot, before it’s saved to your notebook of choice. Iso burner to usb drive for mac mac.