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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App?

Posted by msmash on from the where-to-jot-down-your-ideas dept.

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?

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  1. pen and paper by AndroSyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:pen and paper by AndroSyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

      A filing cabinet? A simple small spiral bound notepad fits in my pocket. There is also the aspect of when you are in meetings that people realize you are actually taking notes and not just looking at your phone and possibly not paying a damn bit of attention to the meeting.

      I can take notes on a notepad without looking at the paper, it's a bit harder to do that on a phone. Afterwards it's not too terribly difficult to transcribe my notes to electronic format if I need to.

      *Shrug* Maybe I'm just old.

  2. Sharpie and conference room table by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best part of this plan is that it usually keeps my invites to future meetings under control.

  3. Your e-notes are for everyone, eventually. by geekmux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If security is something you're never concerned about with electronic solutions, then by all means, use the tool of your preference. Just understand that your notes are everyone's notes when the next hack is announced.

    This is why I prefer good paper and pen. Not old-fashioned, just wise to what will happen eventually. It's become inevitable these days.

  4. Killer feature by Troed · · Score: 5, Informative

    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
  5. Re:Google Keep by Nunya666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google Keep - works everywhere, it's free, has decent search, does everything I need.

    Until it stops working because Google kills the project.