[lynchdt]

We tried Evernote for business in our office for around 6 months. The sharing and communication feature-set was really bad. In a shared notebook we ended up with 'conflicted copies' of lots of important notes that really needed to be an authority on things. The 'Work Chat' feature is spectacularly bad and unusable - to the point of comedy. Most of us flipped way to using Google Apps and Keep Notes, which just really nails collaboration and keeps everything nice and simple.

In my opinion Google doesn't get enough credit for it's Apps offering. I see lots of articles on here and elsewhere that deride it as a 'search company' that 'can't build product' - but I really think they're quietly building an excellent product suite.

[kalleboo]

I'm amazed they still haven't fixed the syncing/conflicted copy issues. We switched to OneNote pretty much right after they Mac/iOS versions came out and the "just works" live collaboration was a breath of fresh air.

[PhasmaFelis]

Wait, Mac?

...Holy shit. OneNote has Mac and Android versions now? I only stuck with Evernote this long because it was the only thing that would sync across all my devices.

I don't need collaboration, just an external memory store. How is OneNote for taking structured/organized, rich-text notes for a single user? I'll check it out tomorrow, and I might switch immediately.

[keerthiko]

...I just use Dropbox and .txt or .rtf files for this? And Dropbox has had syncing across every platform ever, is good for collaboration as well but stellar for single-user usage. I manage all my personal drafts and notes and paperwork using my Dropbox personal folder, especially since it supports offline availability on my mobile devices too for files I use regularly.

[PhasmaFelis]

I basically want three things: (1) easily searchable/browsable organization, preferably in a tree format; (2) decent rich text features; (3) clean syncing between Windows, OSX, and Android.

rtf+Dropbox would fulfill 2 and 3 (with the right Android app choices, anyway), but 1 is somewhat dubious. Previously I've tried Treepad/Jreepad, which is absolutely perfect for 1 but fails the other two; TiddlyWiki, which mostly manages 1 and 2 but requires a lot of manual markup, and (since it's all in a single file) would have problems with 3 if one copy got out of sync; and Evernote, which mostly manages 2 with a few hiccups, does 3 in theory if you don't mind frequent inexplicable conflict warnings and occasional outright data loss, and seems to be trying to break 1 more with each new version.

I'm hoping to have time to look into OneNote today and see how it measures up.

[DevKoala]

It is great. I use it across my iOS devices. It also comes with free cloud storage.

[ddw]

Google's Keep was the Evernote killer for me. It loads faster and I can start a note or list quicker. Trello fills the other gaps to the point that Evernote is just an archive of notes that I rarely have to consult.