The Tulsa Forum by TulsaNow

Does anyone use either Evernote, or Micro$oft's OneNote for their note taking and note keeping? And if so, what's your preference, and why?

Thanks in advance!

I use the heck out of Evernote.  Far better interface and available on any platform.

Evernote by far

Also Evernote.

I have Evernote and have used it extensively in the past.  I have a Nexus tablet (Android) and lately have been using Google Keep.  I like it's simplicity, and using Android, I like it's integration with Google.  I still use Evernote, but have slowly been transitioning to Keep in the last month or so.

May be available on IDevices, but haven't looked, since I rarely use one.

same here

Evernote is the winner by far. There are standalone apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. Keep has apps for Android only. Evernote does full-text searching of not only text you enter, but also text inside of images and handwriting. (So if you take a picture of a package of oreos, you can alter search "oreos" and it will find it) It also indexes text inside of non-editable PDF's.

Also if you load in a bunch of recipes in Evernote, you're not going to get a bunch of google ads for recipe sites.

I don't get ads in Keep on my Android.  And for the desktop version?  Three words.

Ad Block Plus.

Plus, Evernote kinda pissed me off when I had to redo my password last month.

I've used Notepad++ for years due to its simplicity, but I may have to try Evernote. I like a simple text editor that doesn't get in the way when I'm writing, one that doesn't offer to correct anything and does only what I tell it to do.  Later, I'll 'clean up' the copy in Open Office Writer.

They pissed you off by making you change your password once?

The one time password change took me 2 weeks to resolve..back and forth with their 'tech support'.  Ask the question again now.

Notepad++ is also a great HTML editor.

Or PHP editor.  Java editor.  CSS editor....

You get the picture.  It's the only text editor I use and have used for about four years now.

Took me about 30 seconds :)

I use it if I happen to be doing something complex from a windows machine, which isn't often. Mainly been using it on Visual Basic stuff.

All from this:

http://evernote.com/corp/news/password_reset.php

Took them one week to get back to me, then another week to correct it.  I understand it's a free service, but word of mouth kills.

Took me 30 seconds too

Why did you have to email them?

I used drafts as the primary thing I type in.
http://agiletortoise.com/drafts/

Often when I need to make a note, or save some piece of data I want to start writing as soon as possible. The app opens quickly, and you can tell it to start with a blank page every time. Then, after you're done typing you can send it to evernote, dropbox, facebook, email, or basically any other app or web service. For those who use a lot of text editors, you can tell it to append or prepend what you just typed to an existing file.

For instance, I remember a movie I want to see, I type in "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and then his "Add to watch list" and it adds the line "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" to the end of my watch list file, then clears the screen.

Because when I changed the password, it didn't work.

^^^Bunch of MS fanbois...

I love that Microsoft and New Microsoft (google) make an ever-evolving and changing suite of half-done products. Pays my bills.