Since my primary use of Evernote is to jot down music ideas while I wait for something else to process, I’ve decided that it’s too many steps needed to use Evernote effectively. Until a direct audio recording and playback plugin is developed, it’s pretty clunky to record in Adobe Audition, save the file, open the folder then drag+drop to Evernote. I’d rather just press a button to record, then move on… especially since I’m usually doing something else when music ideas come to me.
It was a natural progression to go to Microsoft OneNote as audio recording is one of its main features. I can put as many ideas on one ‘page’ as I like, which is especially useful to me as I might come up with several variations on the same theme in one setting. I do this quite often.
OneNote also has text-within-image recognition and indexing, though I’m wondering how Evernote and OneNote stack up against each other on that front. Evernote was able to recognize handwriting fairly easily, and while I haven’t done any comparison, the demo of text recognition in OneNote only shows computer fonts being recognized, which doesn’t impress me.
I’m not sure whether I will switch over entirely or keep using Evernote for textual notes and to-dos etc. I’d much rather keep all my notes in one place, but seriously… Evernote rocks the kazbah as far as search and tags.
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