[sidmitra]

I use Microsoft OneNote for jotting down my ideas. I found it pretty fuctional and free flowing for my use. I can also just output a project notebook as a PDF and send it over.

I am proud of whoever at MS made that piece of app.... for some reason it feels different than any of their other stuff.

[sidmitra]

Although Evernote is also pretty good i heard.

[thorax]

I like Evernote because it's free, and makes good use of tags and web publishing/sharing. Yet, it's got a long ways to go to catch up to OneNote in terms of the user interface behavior on Windows.

The interface for the EN native app on Windows feels a lot like (what I imagine the reality is) that they've got other priorities than to make it feel perfect. It's glitchy, the keyboard shortcuts aren't very good, it doesn't remember sorts, it doesn't sync with the share quite as cleanly as I'd like, etc.

Ctrl+Shift+B to start a bulleted list? Really? In a note taking app? What's wrong with detecting an asterisk?

They'll get there-- Evernote is great for adding neat features to it that OneNote will never have (e.g. "View in Google Earth"), but what I really want first is a smoother note-taking experience and I'd happily trade out some of the fun integration features.