I found that Evernote felt more like a stack of post-it notes than a group of pages in a notebook. Text can be typed from the top of the note to the bottom, and even moving words around the page to reorganize them can be difficult. Each note page is also more stagnant than its OneNote counterpart, and cannot be manipulated at all. Evernote is also made up of notebooks, but these notebooks are comprised of individual notes that cannot (to my knowledge) be sorted into sections or groupings. Different notebooks can be seen on the left, with sections on the top and pages on the right.īy contrast, I found Evernote extremely difficult to organize. I find this extremely useful when I’m brainstorming for a paper or a project and I want to get all of my ideas down in one place.Ī OneNote notebook with two separate text boxes on one page. The text can be dragged across the page, or you can create multiple text boxes all over the page. On each page, you can manipulate the layout in whatever way you’d like: you can start typing in the middle of the page and a text box will automatically pop up around your text. You can then create multiple pages or subpages in each section, so you can keep your ideas or your lecture notes well organized. OneNote is comprised of notebooks which can then be divided into sections for different subjects or topics. The interface is designed to mirror the appearance of a physical notebook or binder, which is the traditional note-taking system that I have known all my life. My favorite feature about OneNote is its organizational system. For the sake of fairness, though, I will try to explain why I like OneNote so much and why, despite its benefits, Evernote does not measure up in my estimation. However, while I’d never used Evernote before, I have been using Microsoft OneNote for a few years already, and I must admit that my love for OneNote prejudiced me against Evernote from the start. This semester I used Evernote for the first time. Just as printed books seem to be giving way to e-books in many ways, the standard notebook and pen system for taking notes is facing competition from various computer-based note-taking programs.

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