
Using the previously mentioned example of recording video at a trade show, you might add a to-do list to a note - reminders to, say, follow up with the person who demonstrated the product or to research competitive products. The tags make it easy to sort OneNote notes, but one specific tag is particularly useful: the “To Do” tag, which essentially lets you add checklists of to-do items to your notes.


OneNote 2013 for Windows has a cool feature you won’t find in Evernote or OneNote for Mac: It lets you add new video recordings to notes. A free plan lets you create up to 10 projects paid plans let you create additional projects and cost $9 (for unlimited projects) or $39 month (as many as five users can create unlimited projects). The cloud service LiveMinutes is designed to fill that gap. Evernote offers a “work chat” feature that lets you message collaborators but doesn’t support simultaneous note-editing collaboration. However, if your organization pays to use SharePoint for document sharing via OneNote, or if you use OneNote as part of a paid Office 365 subscription, sharing isn’t really “free.”Īs you type or add content to shared OneNote pages, your collaborators see edits in near real-time. OneNote for Mac and for Windows let you share notes and notebooks with other OneNote users for free. OneNote for Mac and Evernote both lack these features, but there are some workarounds, as detailed in this Evernote Excel user discussion. You can also share OneNote content with the rest of your organization using SharePoint, and right-click on Outlook email messages to send them to specific OneNote notebooks. For the flip side, read “6 things Evernote does that OneNote can’t.” Of course, this is only one side of the story. To help you decide between these two notebook tools, I’ve come up with seven things OneNote does that Evernote can’t. If you’re a Windows user, the choice is even more challenging, because the OneNote 2013 Windows desktop app has valuable features that aren’t available in Evernote or OneNote for Mac. However, Microsoft has continually upgraded OneNote for Mac and iOS, and today it’s a legitimate Evernote rival if I were facing the Mac Evernote versus Mac OneNote decision today, it would be a different situation. At the time, Evernote’s Mac software was far superior to OneNote’s Mac app.

Then they usually stick with that choice, because it’s not easy to toggle between them or switch.Ībout a year ago, I chose Evernote over OneNote, and I started amassing my own digital archive. Similarly, many people pick Evernote or Microsoft OneNote as their repository of choice for digital scraps, doodlings and scanned documents. Generally speaking, you choose the garden you like best - be it Apple, Google or Microsoft - and the more time and money you invest, the more painful it is to leave that ecosystem. We’re moving deeper into the modern “walled garden” of digital life.
