

And it doesn’t work with the current preview of Office 2013 so I cant use it at all at the moment. There is an Outlook plugin for Evernote that made it easy to transfer information to Evernote but it was more for storing/archiving than for active work. You can even share notes as an event organizer. When I use Office I can directly create notes from appointments and have a very rich environment for note taking including links to attendees, agenda etc. OneNote’s integration into the rest of the Office environment is very good. Image above: Evernotes editor with plenty of potential for improvement.

very rich, even complains about me writing in English and not in Swedish

From an editing perspective its like night and day and its is the main reason I still use OneNote to capture notes in meetings. If I paste it in to OneNote I can format and move it around as much as I want. If I paste an image in an Evernote note I am unable to scale it to fit my screen or my note. Compared to OneNote, that has an extremely rich editing environment, Evernote feels 20 years to old. It is impossible to edit the formatting apart from the most basic of html formats. Sometimes when I paste some text with embedded formatting, I end up with such a poorly formatted note that I need to start over. Editing notesĮvernote has one of the poorest featured editing environments I have ever seen outside a text editor. The main reason I use both is that the note editor/note creation experience in OneNote is outstanding and that the automation features and unstructured information storage features/search features are very good in Evernote. Here are some of my thoughts about choosing between Evernote and OneNote. They are both very good at what they do but neither one fully supports my needs. I have been living with Evernote and OneNote for quite some time. This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Evernote Overview
