For the last few days, I’ve been trying to make the new Evernote Beta work for me. I absolutely love the idea of using the internet to keep my laptop and UMPC notes in sync. Plus, the concept of having them web accessible through any web browser is absolutely brilliant! I’ve just run into a few too many problems.
The formatting options are terribly limited in Evernote. First, the fact that I can’t mix ink and text is not a deal breaker, but I do this regularly enough that it’s a feature I would miss. Second, there is no support for dragging and dropping text within a note (I use this function all of the time in OneNote for indenting, organizing my thoughts, etc). And third, Evernote appears to use HTML formatting and so it does things I think are really ugly – as one example, it places unnaturally large breaks between body text and bullets. I’ve included a small portion of a screen shot (to avoid sensitive data) that illustrates the bullet issue.
This last complaint may seem like nitpicking, but I use spacing and formatting in my notes to provide structure, context, and meaning. Believe me, I’ve tried to be forgiving and make it work because I really like a lot of the other features of the software. OneNote is a very feature-rich application though and it looks like I will be sticking with it for now. Maybe some developer could write an interface for OneNote that emulates the tape and allows for the web functionality of the new version of Evernote.
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