I store nothing of importance, that I can control, on the cloud. Not a damned thing. Don’t trust the bastards.
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I too recently got a notice that they’re now going to require me to subscribe if I want to use Evernote on more than two devices. Thing is, I only ever need a third device once a year – the laptop that I’ll bring to the Conventiculum Lexintoniense, and that really just in case. So, I should subscribe for a whole year to get functionality I might need, but only a week out of every year?
This first year of the crackdown, they’re giving me 30 days. Enough time to get through this year’s Conventiculum, and then I guess I’ll have to decide what other options I have.
p.s. – “Evernote replacement” autofills on Google.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but what does Evernote do that PowerPoint or even Word does not?
Powerpoint and Word are completely different applications. Evernote (and OneNote) are as different from both PowerPoint and Word as those two completely different applications are from each other.
PowerPoint makes presentation slides.
Word is for writing books or publishing documents.
Evernote & OneNote are digital journals that make it easy to keep and organize notes and writings for yourself.
I’ve been using OneNote as a journal for over a decade now. It’s part diary, part “stuff I don’t want to forget”, partly “Stuff that I saw on the internet that caught my eye”. It does handwriting recognition (and did well before the other Microsoft programs.) It has a voice recorder for voice notes. It integrates with Outlook for schedule planning, meeting notes and emails. It has a screenshot function that I use constantly.
I haven’t used Evernote much but that’s the general idea.
Word & Powerpoint are for creating documents that you’re going to share with someone else.
OneNote (and Evernote) is a private journal of ideas and events that I keep for my own thought process.
You can make a journal in Word, you can make a journal in PowerPoint…
Both can have embedded pictures, links, documents…
Again, what does Evernote do that these can’t?
…Evernote have made a website: you can go and visit it and it will explain everything for you.
You can even try a demo!
You can make a list of customers in excel, but that doesn’t mean its the best tool for the job, which is why I use filemaker instead. And you can make a journal in powerpoint: but that would be a really stupid thing to do because powerpoint really isn’t designed and optimised to be a journal. Evernote is designed and optimised to be used as a journal, which is why many people (myself excluded, I don’t like Evernote and don’t use it) choose to use it as such.
I can’t speak to evernote, but OneNote is a digital notebook and a LOT more.
If you are a pencil and paper notebook kinda person, you should check it out.
OneNote is one place that you can put everything. Think of an old school notebook with tabs. Well you can have a digital stack of separate notebooks with as many tabs as you want. You can move all the pages, tabs, notebooks around and store either on your PC and/or cloud, and have it simultaneously synch across multiple devices. You can search the entire thing for typing and for handwriting.
You can use it like a simple word processor. If you want to add in a spreadsheet, you can actually store, save, update the spreadsheet within Onenote (or Word or Powerpoint).
Here’s an example. My team came to the US to showcase a new product roadmap and work out partnerships with MNC’s. I set up a tab for the “trip”. One page has a to do list, one page is where I store my powerpoint presentation and all my brainstorming/outline/jotted notes, I dragged and dropped over some key emails onto other pages, each pre meeting has it’s own page, each meeting has it’s own page, I record each meeting’s audio on one page and it tracks to my typed or handwritten meeting notes.
I can go back for 15 years worth of my professional life and find everything of importance, and all the back up, prep material, meeting notes, etc very easily without any additional organization or editing. For example, I had an Intel partner manager meeting about 5 years ago, and during a concall 2 weeks ago the person introduced themselves, I looked 'em up in OneNote, and then referenced that we had engaged on project x 5 years ago. They were amazed at my “memory”
Plus OneNote has an “learning tools” add on that is incredibly amazing at helping dyslexics or those with some kind of reading issues to read.
If you’re not a traditional paper notebook type person, I wouldn’t hard sell OneNote to you. If you are a traditional paper notebook type, then you should spend an hour checking it out and it just might be the best thing since sliced bread for you.
I use the Office 2013 version of OneNote at work. Shared notebooks on a local server make for a quick and dirty collaboration tool. I also have personal cloud notebooks for synching with my Android.
Every so often, I get a notification that I can upgrade OneNote. Don’t do it! It switches you to the Windows 10 app version, which doesn’t allow local notebooks. :mad:
There is a full version office version that is downloadable. Here is an explanationof the difference between the full desktop version and the app verions. All versions of OneNote are free no matter if it is the full office version, office 365, the Win10 modern app, iOS or Android versions. There may be more versions.
I mean, you could keep a journal in MS Paint, if you wanted to, but it’d be stupid to use that instead of an optimized journal tool like Evernote or OneNote.
Look - they’re free. Go check them out.