Not sure I agree with that. The three features listed exist in both apps. OneNote was my constant companion in college. Perhaps he was just using it wrong? - Jordan Hofker
I've tried both and ended up using OneNote more often. OneNote has synchronisation as well but I think it only works in corporate environments with Sharepoint. - Alan Le
I am the same was as the author-onenote was just too big of a gun for most of my tasks. Evernote is a godsend - Mitch Hislop
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I use Evernote more because my main work computer is a PC which I spend most of my day on, but whenever I travel I take a MacBook Pro with me. Evernote has all my notes no matter where I am. I can also send notes/pictures to Evernote with my blackberry. - Adam Teece
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Alan, OneNote syncing works great across your home network. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking it would work nicely with Mesh as well. - Jordan Hofker
I have setup WSS (the free SharePoint) on my home server and put my personal OneNote notebook there. Then I can easily access my notes from work and home. - Jemm
interesting, thanks for the info Jordan and Joni - Alan Le
Well I use both and I cannot decide; as I use windows mobile and web continuously I should prefer Evernote, but also OneNote has a WinMobile Client, and the Office integration is really impressive - and I need Office (Outlook in particular) in my daily job for sharing with the rest of my colleagues... - andrea
By "home network" I guess I meant standard file shares. :-) - Jordan Hofker
Been using OneNote for a while - I think it's a killer app. I like the interface, I can organize things the way I like. It's friendly and intuitive. BUT- although it is possible to synch it online with OfficeLive Small Business, it just doesn't work right. I wasted two days on this. So I switched to Evernote, which I installed 3 months ago and never used. I don't like the interface as much, but it was obviously designed for the user who doesn't have their own IT department. MS's real customer. - Walter Feigenson
I've tried both and also G Notebook but prefer Evernote overall, it's just a little more intuitive for me and I like the UI. - Sally Church
I've used both and was also quite addicted to TiddlyWiki for a while. I like the fact that Evernote can be used online and offline and that I can send stuff from my phone to it. My main complaint is that I can't format the notes very easily. If they would put in some kind of simple text editing (I would be super happy with Textile or MarkDown) then I'd be happy. Just to make tables and lists easily and format code snippets. It would be purely optional use for those who didn't need that functionality. - Lindsay Donaghe
Evernote is good tool - I use it for fast web clippings and snippits and so on. The time line vew is great for that stuff and it does a good job of preserving the formatting of a web page. For almost everything else I use OneNote. Not only does it sync really well with my phone and with multiple collaborators but the organizational abilities kick Evernote's butt. - Soulhuntre
As a side note: OneNote sync works really well with home server or the built in file sharing in Windows. It also does a great job syncing with offline laptops and so on when they hook back up. - Soulhuntre
Just trying Evernote now. It's pretty cool and I'm super-impressed it can search my hand written notes from the wacom tablet. - Andrew Smith
Really like OneNote, but Evernotes ability to sync across computers, platforms and be web accessible makes it a winner. If only the search function could be used in other programs (are you listening Thunderbird?) - Bob Stemen
3. Hide data types that you don't get value out of (for instance, if you hate watching videos, why are you letting them come into your view here?) - Robert Scoble
4. Learn to use the search feature here, especially "advanced search." - Robert Scoble
But seriously we need more features to see only items that have a like vote or a comment. That alone would get rid of a TON of noise. Then we need a Zeitgeist page where we can see hot items and such. - Robert Scoble
i'm figuring out how much i want to compartmentalize - twitter client, Reader, FF, etc... or simply bring it all in to FF and edit with "hide" - Todd Mundt
I'm beginning to think (fear) it's becoming a matter of chance to stumble across good content (signal). Remember we never said: good grief there's so much music on the radio, how can I listen to it all? Robert's filtering would be great if it worked as a summary. I think summarization will be part of the future of socnets. - Nils Geylen
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Robert, you know you can hide all the content from one source unless it has a comment or like, don't you? I hide all Twitters except those that have a like/comment, which means I don't see everything that I've already seen in Twitter anyway. Very useful feature! - Ian Betteridge
Ian I didn't know that. I just did that and, wow, a ton less noise. The thing is, how do I find stuff to comment on or "like." Hmmm, that's a problem. - Robert Scoble
Robert, I rely on you to do that for me - you're a pretty good filter :) - Ian Betteridge
OK, how do you undo that hide feature? I tried it out, don't like it, and now I want to go back and I can't figure out how. - Robert Scoble
Oh, and I just noticed: when you set it to filter like that, it doesn't affect the "Everyone" tab, only your friends. So if you want to get a massive, noisy stream and select goodies to like, you can still look at "everyone". That's the thing I like about FF - hidden depth. - Ian Betteridge
speaking of Scoble's feed - forgive my ff ignorance but is there a separate feed of your LIKES that's generated... like Shared Items in GReader? - Todd Mundt
OK, so what you need to do is hit "refresh", and down the bottom it will say "Show x hidden entries". You should be able to unhide from that. - Ian Betteridge
it's funny - i've been on ff for awhile and have been on the fence about it, mainly just feeding my stuff into it. this exchange with all of you just convinced me of the true value of friendfeed. - Todd Mundt
@scobleizer; thx for those links, had no idea you could do that - no obvious on FF. How do you get "Advanced Search"? All I can see is a "Search" button at the top. - Sally Church
Sally - i agree about the non obvious part of it. I've been reading all these cool posts about how people are "tuning" ff and hadn't been sure how to do it until now. - Todd Mundt
I agree with Todd. The comments have added a lot of value... they tend to validate the content of a post. - Jonathan Beckett
Thanks for sharing my story. (incidentally, by sharing this, you may have renewed my participation in FriendFeed because I had referrals and I was curious! thx!) - Melissa Chang
