Note-Keeping Application

[Lragak]

Hi everyone. I'm a long-time reader of this forum but also a first time poster here.
Everything I learn, I keep it stored as notes so that i may review them when need it. Reading books, navigating the web everything is saved in these notes.

I've been using Microsoft OneNote for the past 2 years and it works OK but I'm mostly woried that it might be shutdown or payware or something.


What do you guys use for your notes?

[BetterRed]

@Lragak - I'm using Evernote - ~$1/week for Premium. Main advantage of EN is that you can have offline notebooks on mobile devices, afaik ON requires persistent Internet connect on mobile devices. My impression is that a future version of ON will be tied to Office 365, I guess that's where you're coming from.

EN has become Apple centric, I'm wondering if it has a future on Windows. Maybe they're angling for an Apple takeover.

Here's something on how I get to Author and Book notes in Evernote from the calibre ebook library manager ==>> Calibre and Evernote. There's no code involved, I use out-of-the-box features of EN and calibre.

I've also devised a way to go back the other way for Authors, i.e. show books I have in a library for an Author; this uses the calibre web server feature, but I'm undecided if I want to pursue this aspect any further.

BR

[WillAdams]

Opensource options:

Stylus/pen
- http://xournal.sourceforge.net/
- http://www.styluslabs.com/ Write

Keyboard
- http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-...-0-beta-1.html
- http://strlen.com/treesheets/
- http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/
- https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy
- http://zim-wiki.org/index.html

Lots of other options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...aking_software

[meeera]

I use Notability over Evernote, because you can colour-code a notebook/set of notes. However Evernote does have a great feature set. If anyone knows of a colour-coding kludge for Evernote, I'd love to hear it.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by meeera

I use Notability over Evernote, because you can colour-code a notebook/set of notes. However Evernote does have a great feature set.

@meera - Apart from syncing across multi-platform and easy clipping - what are the other 'great' features Given its 'maturity' EN is pretty buggy, and lacks some pretty simple stuff - eg having notebook specific sort orders, a decent tagging system.

Originally Posted by meeera

If anyone knows of a colour-coding kludge for Evernote, I'd love to hear it.

This is not very good but fwiw - create a page in Word/Writer (Pages?) with the colours required, cut & paste paste coloured page into a new EN note. Keep different coloured empty notes in a 'boilerplate' notepad. Create new notes by copying appropriate 'boilerplate'. I don't use colours but I do have some very simple 'forms' in my 'boilerplate' notebook.

Maybe the EN for Mac client has note page colour options. I'm pretty sure I saw a recent blog post that said table cells can be assigned different colours on Mac. So if a table cell, surely the whole note.

BR

[meeera]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

This is not very good but fwiw - create a page in Word/Writer (Pages?) with the colours required, cut & paste paste coloured page into a new EN note. Keep different coloured empty notes in a 'boilerplate' notepad. Create new notes by copying appropriate 'boilerplate'. I don't use colours but I do have some very simple 'forms' in my 'boilerplate' notebook.

Maybe the EN for Mac client has note page colour options. I'm pretty sure I saw a recent blog post that said table cells can be assigned different colours on Mac. So if a table cell, surely the whole note.

Thanks. It's not so much colour-tagging a single note, as a note collection ("Notebook", in Evernote) - eg for a single school subject.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by meeera

Thanks. It's not so much colour-tagging a single note, as a note collection ("Notebook", in Evernote) - eg for a single school subject.

As I said before - fwiw (For What It's Worth) - which is not much.

If you go to the EN forums, you'll see frequent instances of 'do what you want in Word and cut and paste into your EN Note'. Or 'google for a blah blah tool, and see if you can cut paste from it into your EN Note'. Rarely a satisfactory solution.

BR

[mirodin]

In this context I want to mention TiddlyWiki which I use quiet a while for note taking.

[Graham]

If you're a Chrome user and you're looking for speed and simplicity, take a look at Google Keep.

Graham