Evernote vs. OneNote

Gary North - March 03, 2018

Most people should use a program to store, categorize, and retrieve notes and Web pages. The two biggies are Evernote and OneNote.

There are lots of reviews that compare them. Click here: https://www.garynorth.com/snip/1315.htm

Evernote is free for most users. OneNote is free for everyone. OneNote comes with Windows 10.

I use Evernote exclusively for clipping Web pages. It is superior to OneNote for this operation. I use Web Clipper for Firefox.

Evernote is in the cloud. Your clippings will not disappear if your hard drive dies, and you don't have a backup (which you need). OneNote requires a complex approach to saving data, as you can see here: https://www.garynorth.com/snip/1316.htm

I cannot imagine not using a database program to save and retrieve Web pages.

I use search terms. Evernote lets me use as many as I want. It allows Boolean searches to narrow down the selection.

Use one program or the other.