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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App?
Earlier this week, popular note-taking app Evernote announced major changes to its service. The company announced that free users on the app will now only be able to sync across two devices. The company also raised the prices of its paid tiers by 40%. This move, as you can imagine, has resulted in Evernote facing a backlash from many of its users. To give some perspective, Evernote paid plans ($36/ $70 a year) now costs as much as Office 365's $70 Personal yearly plan. With Office 365, obviously, you get more stuff -- including access to Microsoft productivity suite, and 1TB OneDrive storage. Microsoft was quick to release a free tool for Evernote users should they want to move their data to its note-taking service OneNote. OneNote is free to use and offers 15GB free storage to all users. Google's Keep is another good option with 15GB of free storage. Which note-taking app do you use? Anyone who still prefers taking notes on a notebook with a pen?
Nothing works better than the old fashioned pen and paper. Simple and straight forward. The batteries don't die, sure my pen might run out of ink, but I can always keep a second one with me.
Sometimes simple tech works the best.
Org-mode in Emacs, with a private git server. I don't really try to do anything productive on a phone/tablet, but there is MobileOrg if you do, not sure how it works. Org-mode can do much, much more than take notes mind you.
Darren Bane
Google Keep - works everywhere, it's free, has decent search, does everything I need.
Users have been asking Evernote for one single feature since its inception: Client side encryption.
It's also the one feature Evernote seems to absolutely make sure will never happen. Probably for a very good, non user friendly, reason.
I've just made the switch to the open source Turtl. Self-hosting possibilities, client side encryption. All the features from Evernote that I ever used. (And none of the features the Evernote team felt were important to add _instead_ of privacy ... )
http://turtl.it/
it's in my head
My favorite is the iPhone Notes app, because it comes with my phone and it's always with me. If I'm sitting at my computer, I'm more likely to use Notepad. Ye olde paper & pen is by far the fastest, but I don't always have paper with me, and I tend to lose paper notes.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Being a science/engineering PhD student I still take a LOT of handwritten notes.
Last year, when it was released, I snatched up the 12.9" iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. It is truly AWESOME for taking notes!
I use a great app called "Notability" which syncs through iCloud (and backs up in PDF form to Dropbox) so my notes instantly show up on my phone and computers.
It's great in class... and maybe even better as a "lab notebook".
A long time ago when I was doing my masters I actually used one of the first Windows "convertible" tablets for all of my notes. It "worked" but wasn't nearly as nice of an experience as the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro. The Apple Pencil is incredibly accurate and the iPad Pro is essentially the same size as a regular sheet of paper. Really nice tools to work with!