I really like how one note lays out its search process. You can restrict your searches down to notebooks, section groups, sections or pages. I find this feature to be very helpful as I lay out my notebooks and sections in a very organized manner and generally know roughly where the content is that I am looking for. This does reduce extraneous results that tend to cloud my searches. OneNote has some drawbacks where Evernote has a very clear advantage. First off, Evernote’s mobile applications are vastly superior to Microsoft’s.
You can encrypt sections in OneNote, and all notes in that section will be encrypted on the desktop application. No encrypted notes, sections, are accessible via the mobile apps made by Microsoft. Evernote support’s encryption inside of a note on their mobile platforms. This is a key feature that I miss greatly. I do not understand how Microsoft can make such a major mistake in missing the encryption components of their mobile application. This will hurt their user adoption as people become more security conscious.Īnother area that needs substantial improvement in one note is its synchronization process. Whenever I make a change in any of my Evernote enabled devices, it seems that all my other devices have that update within moments. My desktop automatically syncs every 30 minutes in Evernote but OneNote only seems to sync when you open the application. So you are left with the choice of leaving it open all the time or waiting for to catch up when you first open the app. I have also had one experience where a note did not make it to the cloud when I closed OneNote down a little too quickly. I never experienced this problem with Evernote. The entire synchronization process with OneNote needs to be rethought a little.
It uses Microsoft’s Sky Drive to hold notebooks, which is a good process, but the applications do not really seem to be that synchronization aware as-in they do not synchronize aggressively when changes occur. I was able to create, intentionally, note conflicts in OneNote. I think Evernote’s conflict reconciliation process is superior to Microsoft’s.Įvernote has a superior tagging process as compared to OneNote.
Not only is their general tagging process better but the way that you can search and organize by tag is superior in both the desktop and mobile applications.
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