Extent of use: Occasional, Light, Medium, Heavy, ObsessiveĪs for my own use case, I am a “combined” user, as I use my note-taking tool for everything: professional, personal, and educational.Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Combined.User type: Professional, Student, Personal, Combined.Use cases can best be approached by looking at the user type, platform, and extent of use: These are all excellent tools, but an annoyance that is inconsequential to one person may be a show-stopper to somebody else. Individual users have unique workflows and needs, so any discussion of note-taking tools needs to be in the context of the use cases. Over the course of about eighteen months, I downloaded multiple tools, fully imported my entire notes collection into most of them, and attempted to integrate them into my workflow. These were tiny hiccups that I tried to just live with, but they created big enough interruptions to my workflow that I eventually decided I had to find a different tool.

I spent many wonderful years as an enthusiastic Evernote user and evangelist, but I started running into issues.

I detailed this journey along with some Evernote pointers in my blog post, Evernote is Awesome. A few years later I moved all my notes into OneNote, and in 2012 I moved everything into Evernote. In the mid 1990s, after years of carrying around a Daytimer, I entered all my notes into my Palm Pilot.

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