Still the best at what it does
January 16, 2018
Still the best at what it does
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Evernote
Every webpage that has some relevance, whether for a current representation or in my practice area, gets clipped into Evernote using its own webclipper. Every document, every receipt, and every scrap of paper, gets photographed and imported into Evernote using Evernote's camera app or scanned in using the Evernote extension on the ScanSnap management app.
I can read and highlight documents in Evernote, much like I can using Adobe Acrobat DC. At a fraction of the cost. Evernote has really robust text recognition, including handwriting, so I can search for words in documents (or, to be more precise, for documents by searching for keywords) in Evernote, much like I can search for words in documents using Word or in OCR optimized PDFs, without the extra steps of (1) trying to find the documents or (2) hoping that the OCR recognition did not mangle the words.
Evernote works great for making my notes searchable or for finding keywords in various documents. I can then "link" those documents together for future reference. You can actually use Evernote for presentations. I have tried OneNote. Evernote beats OneNote hands down.
I can read and highlight documents in Evernote, much like I can using Adobe Acrobat DC. At a fraction of the cost. Evernote has really robust text recognition, including handwriting, so I can search for words in documents (or, to be more precise, for documents by searching for keywords) in Evernote, much like I can search for words in documents using Word or in OCR optimized PDFs, without the extra steps of (1) trying to find the documents or (2) hoping that the OCR recognition did not mangle the words.
Evernote works great for making my notes searchable or for finding keywords in various documents. I can then "link" those documents together for future reference. You can actually use Evernote for presentations. I have tried OneNote. Evernote beats OneNote hands down.
- Text recognition
- Searching and recovery of relevant documents
- Organizing receipts for taxes and business expenses
- Ease of use
- Almost instantaneous synching and searchability
- The ability to use across multiple devices
- The user interface is less-than-elegant.
- Navigating the website can be frustrating.
- The highlighting/call out features in Evernote are not as smooth as in some other applications.
- BE CAREFUL BEFORE DELETING A NOTE!
- BIG POSITIVE -- Save it and forget it until I run a search for a keyword. For receipts, I use tags (e.g., 2017 Business Expense or 2017 Charitable Deduction).
- BIG POSITIVE -- Search for words in legal opinions. In many regards, the Evernote search function is better than the paid legal search services because I can search offline after I have a "stack" of opinions to review.
- BIG POSITIVE -- almost instantaneous sync'ing between the desktop, laptop, or mobile version of Evernote and the cloud, and searchability from another device. I can save a document on my desktop and access it within seconds on my iPad.
- BIG POSITIVE -- creating checklists. You can use Excel or Word (the check box is in the hidden "Developer" tab) for creating checklists, but they are poor alternatives to Evernote.
Comparing Evernote and OneNote is like comparing an orange with the proverbial apple. I use Apple products (iMac, MacBook, iPad Pro and iPhone). OneNote did not play friendly with the MacBook. Evernote, on the other hand, is agnostic. I used to use it on my iPad, iPhone and Windows-driven laptop.
Microsoft touts OneNote as an Evernote killer, but OneNote was buggy and did not play well on the MacBook. While OneNote has some neat features, Evernote's ease-of-use and text search features are far, far better than whatever OneNote has.
Microsoft touts OneNote as an Evernote killer, but OneNote was buggy and did not play well on the MacBook. While OneNote has some neat features, Evernote's ease-of-use and text search features are far, far better than whatever OneNote has.