Onenote - I use for all project materials, keeping notes on meetings and calls, and using the 'Send to Onenote' printer regularly. I've set myself up with both products - along the following lines. THE DAY WILL COME - free and open-source productivityĢ) Open-Source and Free iPhone-Like cellular deviceģ) Open-Source GTD and Evernote-Like Reference systems. It was just too proprietary in nature (IMHO), not allowing it to really grown and mature to the online community as Evernote has.

OneNote was very promising and I archived mounds of data there. This and the fact that Evernote is simply more portable make it my choice. This means I can have any number of intricately complicated files of any type on a single page. Evernote does a better job with file attachments than did OneNote thus eliminating the tagging need for me now that it is largely used for reference. I keep all my 'actionable' stuff in calendars and to-do list based on the GTD system by David Allen but for reference items, both OneNote and Evernote are terrific. The real problem with OneNote for me is that I needed better portability for some of my non-work 'personal productivity' items. Maybe some more experienced users will enlighten me?Ĭlick to expand.I love OneNote too. The problem I see is that I can't really have 1000 separate notes inside OneNote.

It'd be really cool if I could have all my reference notes inside OneNote so that everything is on one central system. The cool thing is if I decide to do something and then I can always check inside evernote if I haven't had any ideas/reference on this before and thus save time from brainstorming it all over again. In Evernote you have tags, so for example, I have about a 1000 different notes for my Business section (project ideas, marketing concepts, etc. But I don't think it's a good system for keeping reference material. Onenote seems like a pretty good solution (from first glance) for keeping track on what's going on, projects, etc. It's really more for keeping reference material as it's easy to archive it and then search it. I can't easily manage projects and keep track of things in it.

and I really like it for this purpose, but it's just not very suitable for GTD - eg. I've been using Evernote to capture my ideas, etc.

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