Just don't try and download the windows version with a Norton product. Flags it as a Trojan every time. - Randy Pollock

I keep meaning to try this. I am adding it on my "to do" list in OmniFocus :) - Scott Graham

Added their Blackberry app just last night...works great. - Randy Pollock

Evernote still has a ways to go in terms of content embedding. But that will come shortly. Jason is right, though. Evernote's strength is its "cloud" and cross-platform capabilities. Microsoft had the seeds to make OneNote integrate across a network; Groove replication would make OneNote absolutely killer. But Microsoft put the products under the Office umbrella - where both have languished for lack of focus. Evernote wins because it can bring features in a faster and more iterative manner. - Lorin Olsen

I gave Evernote a try for about one day and then got away from it, but now I can't remember why! Time to re-visit it! Robert Stanke (http://robertstanke.com) - Robert Stanke

I use OneNote for college classes and will stick with it Leo - Chris

I use both OneNote and EverNote, each use for its own area. OneNote is great for offline work, and EverNote for online work. I even share across them. - Michael

What do you like about OneNote better than Evernote, Chris? - Fa La La La Lindsay

I personally prefer the way OneNote organizes my notes -- pages within notebooks, easily accessible via a proper tab interface. - Angelo Stavrow

The superiority of Evernote is its simplicity. OneNote is great (I use both), but to fully leverage the capabilities of OneNote requires a small investment in time. With Evernote you can just dive in. - jcunwired

Evernote for ever. - Wo

I started using it after Net@Night and I am loving it. Evernote plus reQall are two of the best productivity apps I have on the iPhone. - David Z

@Michael - I use Evernote for offline work... it has good clients. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Evernote's OCR make it a fantastic tool for saving Whiteboard brainstorming sessions. - Jim Erickson

@Jason - I keep my OneNote notebooks in a Mesh folder and it's all instantly synchronized. - Angelo Stavrow

Mesh is great - Randy Pollock

@Angelo - when I used to use OneNote the tab thing drove me nuts because I would make too many of them and it seemed like I had to wait until I had something "big enough" or "worthy enough" to make another tab. In Evernote a note is a note and with tagging I can organize them any way I want (kind of like the folder hierarchy vs tagging). - Fa La La La Lindsay

Well said Leo - Zee.

I'm a student on a Tablet PC, and so OneNote is a must for me. It's really nice and easy to draw your own hand written notes, and all my days notes are saved in separate sections, yet accessible through a global search. Evernote's "Spool of Paper" metaphore just isn't as good a method of taking notes for me. I've got a big shiny iMac at home, and would love to switch Evernote and OS X for my note taking on the go, but OneNote is the one program I just have to keep. Oh, and I sync it with DropBox ^^ - Stuart Jones

@Stuart - Evernote doesn't need to sync with a 3rd party file storage like DropBox since you can put anything in it. It also lets you do handwritten notes and e-ink, so OneNote isn't a monopoly on that. There is a list view you can use instead of the "ribbon" and you can organize everything in notebooks and tags so to only see the notes you need at a particular time. It's a different metaphor than OneNote for organization but after using it for a while I much prefer it to tabs. Saved Searches are great too. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Evernote is really platform agnostic, so you can access your data really from anywhere. It still has a bunch of features/functionality to add, but there's a lot it can do already. - Levi Wallach

@Jason, I may be wrong, but Leo's statement seems to be saying the opposite - that OneNote is superior. - Levi Wallach

@Lindsay - Hey, whatever works for you. Personally I haven't warmed up to the idea of tagging yet, although I use OneNote more for larger, ongoing projects so the tab system works better for me. Evernote is definitely more convenient to use for quick, disjointed notes that don't really fit into any particular project. - Angelo Stavrow

@Levi - I think Leo is a FriendFeed fan not a Twiiter, so based on that I would say he is an Evernote fan not a OneNote. - Jim Erickson

LOVE it... just found it after the net@night, planning on promoting on geekdads.tv shortly. BB version just came out, too! - GeekDads.TV

@Jason - Agreed, the iPhone app is what makes Evernote especially useful for me, if only because it ties all the note-taking things I'd use the device for (notes, camera, &cet.) in one easy-to-use app. OneNote Mobile wasn't nearly as slick on my old WinMo phone. - Angelo Stavrow

@Jim, I didn't know that, thanks. - Levi Wallach

@Angelo - I use Evernote at work and couldn't live without it at this point (http://www.evernote.com/pub...) and it is invaluable to me for project organization (http://www.evernote.com/pub...). Like you said, to each his own... but one reason I like Evernote is that it doesn't force you to use it in ONE way. Depending on how you use notebooks, tags and saved searches it can be modeled after several different organization schemes (even tab like if you prefer). - Fa La La La Lindsay

Actually, this is the first time I've used Friendfeed in this way, and it seems a whole lot nicer than Twitter for impromptu chats about a subject with people you aren't already following... - Levi Wallach

agree it flows nicely for chats - Randy Pollock

Twitter is a product? http://instantrimshot.com - Bwana ☠

@Lindsay - Thanks for the link! I'm still trying to find my workflow with Evernote and I think this will help. - Angelo Stavrow

@Levi - that would be making the assumption that Twitter is superior to FriendFeed. Personally I don't think that's the case. But Leo didn't clarify, so it is a bit ambiguous which one he prefers. - Fa La La La Lindsay

FF more robust that twitter. Can you do what we are doing in twitter right now? - Randy Pollock

Shovebox and Evernote: Any cool ways to use both? - Wo

Thanks Leo, thats exactly what I was looking for! Something to tie everything together in one place, excellent! - cowboybill

I can't get my head around ff, seems impossible to get an overview of whats going on. - Ru Viljoen

....and here we go again. Didn't we just debate this? Stop comparing the two services. Friendfeed is not Twitter, and Twitter is not Friendfeed. They are different services IMO. But, I'm sure I'll get the exact same arguments that popped up in the last discussion. - Fleagle

I've started to use both ff and twitter, but am finding I use them for very different reasons, and don't think they're really competing products. One doesn't need onenote if they have evernote though. - Barry

I like a free service called WebNotes. It really saved my butt when I was working on a research paper. - Ramona

I prefer One Note. Better organization and document embedding. But then again I use a winmo phone as well. May feel different if I had an iPhone. I work in IT and for projects, nothing beats one note and I am using it to organize my life as well. - Jared

While I believe this is certainly true, I sense a vague sense of bitterness. - Camden

I just love Evernote! They are a very good program! - Lawrence Cabal

Both applications have their niche. - johnny

That's hilarious! Let me guess...just because you get to use it on a Mac? Get over that MS complex. - Adi

I love Evernote. I used it to plan my acoustic music show on WNUR (Evanston, IL) and then when I'm on-air I access my note for that day's program with all the links that I am going to talk about all in one place - artists coming to town etc. Now that they've added the BlackBerry app it's even more useful. The cross platform thing works well too. I use a Mac for my radio show at at home, but Windows at work. - Ron Lewis

I'll disagree with you on this one Leo. OneNote is a great tool and beats EN. However, the dev team on ON seems very slow lately. They need to step it up. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I use OneNote and Evernote. My OneNote is synchronised via SharePoint, so for me it is available across multiple machines. The sync is seamless too, I dont have to click anything to make it happen, it just works. - Pete Gilbert

Cross platform support wins every time, and continues to be Microsoft's biggest weakness. Plus Evernote is exactly the kind of desktop/cloud hybrid software that Microsoft should be developing but isn't. - Eric P

@LPH - What makes OneNote beat Evernote in your opinion? @Pete Evernote's sync is seemless too... It happens automatically from cloud to client and vice versa and you can have clients on as many computers/phones as you need. - Fa La La La Lindsay

I just started using Evernote, I've used OneNote for about a year. I have to say that right now OneNote is the better product. I can see that Evernote will surpass OneNote in the future. One feature I wish Evernote had is tooltips, they make learning a new UI much easier. - Kolomona

@Kolomona - Maybe you'll answer since no one else has yet... what makes OneNote a better product than Evernote in your opinion? - Fa La La La Lindsay

I aggree, EverNote is up right now, but I will be intrested to see what happens when Office 14 is released and OneNote has a web version. - Sean Cantellay

Even if Evernote were the inferior of the two products, it's free and that means a *lot* to us mere mortals. - Brett Kelly

I use both, but OneNote is so far superior, at least for me. I love all the tabs as that is how my mind works for organization. I access it many times a day and it is portable as the files are stored on a USB drive. I have never been as organized as I am now. Actually I miss some of the features that were in Evernote 2. - Jim Corkrum

gotta disagree with you here Leo. OneNote is a far far better tool than Evernote. It isn't even a contest. Where Evernote wins is in a client on every platform that allows for syncing. But that's it. As far as i'm concerned the Evernote client itself is weak, regardless of platform. - Jamie

I can now throw away all those bits of paper after I've taken a snapshot into Evernote (using iClarify for iPhone) - Daniel Carroll

Evernote is like taking notes in Notepad/Wordpad/Word. Yes it does work...just feels like the rest. But as far as "Stream of Consciousness" type note taking. You want the environment to have very few hard rules. I need to be able to put side notes and draw lines that link one thought with another, WITHOUT having to stop and wonder, well how can I do that. One Note is paper on my screen. Evernote is text in a box. They both work, different styles. - David Messner

@David Messner if you think Evernote is just text in a box, you've never actually used Evernote. Text in a box is the one thing I have almost never done with Evernote. I email web pages to it, pictures of documents, receipts, pdf's, restaurant menus, tax forms; etc. Anything that I could want to have access to from anywhere. One Note is great and I use it regularly at work. But I can't access those notes on any other computer, my phone, my iPod or my flash drive. It exists in that plastic box and nowhere else. The worst part is, I have a Windows Mobile phone and I'm supposed to be able to put the notes on my phone but it doesn't even work. ActiveSync won't sync the notes. And if I wanted to try, I'd have to connect with a USB cable to my work computer, which we're not allowed to do anyway. The only reason OneNote is useful to me at all is because I don't need to access that info outside work. Anything important I send to Evernote. - Nathan Mylott

Evernote rocks!, That's about it :) - Rocio Flores

I agree.. been using it for almost a year, paying subscriber.. It's saved my butt on many occasions. - Randall Hand

I still prefer OneNote. It's easier to organize. Inking feels much better. The thing that really sets it apart is that you can record audio and ink notes at the same time. So when looking back at your notes, you can play the back the audio at the exact moment in time you inked a line. That's very nice to remember why you inked that particular line since you can reference the recorded audio. Plus, I love that you can Print to a Onenote document. I use that all the time. - Rodfather

You can print to PDF which can go straight into Evernote as well. I don't use voice notes much so that functionality hasn't really been useful to me. As far as being easier to organize info, I disagree because I always felt very stifled by OneNote's tab system (I don't like hierarchical organization systems because my thought process to find a bit of info may not be the same from day to day). I have yet to have hardware that lets me use inking so I can't really compare on that front. But I use Evernote for so much more than just keeping notes. I think that OneNote is fine for taking notes but Evernote is more useful for organizing your life and being an extension of your brain. - Fa La La La Lindsay

I was a diehard OneNote user until I went to Mac OS X and it's the one application I really miss. I liked OneNote better (note how I said that) because it fit better with how I would want to organize written notes. OneNote also scales up better as your notes get longer, more hierarchical, and more detailed. It also has the options to get stuff into the program that Evernote has, but then you can do more with that stuff. Evernote is great for stuff that has no home, but there's certainly a place on any platform between Evernote and a word processor for something like OneNote or Circus Ponies' Notebook. - John Infante