Wunderlist to Evernote

I’ve been using Evernote as recommended by Boy in a Band. I actually signed up for it in 2008 then briefly played with it in 2010 and last year.

Disadvantages of Evernote

The disadvantages include lock-in and proprietary and non-open-source.

Advantages of Evernote

The multi-platform approach (runs everywhere) and the fact that it does a good job at several different personal information management tasks, and has a decent business model (freemium) at an attractive price.

What it would replace

Likely it would replace two things, my collection of about 10 text documents (and use of TextWrangler as the editor) and the Wunderlist. My use of Dropbox would subside a little regarding the text documents (though not by much). Could this replace delicious/pinboard? Likely not.

In any case, I would quickly replace Evernote if it there were other options. But at this point it looks to be extremely functional and will help with the stack of text files I edit and copy from, as well as the task lists (that are largely ignored) in Wunderlist.

What it would enable

Quick, on-the-go, archived and synched voice messages to myself is an instant good thing. It may be the thing to deal with collections of things that can be put together, but aren’t quite a document. In addition, the capturing of parts of web pages (rather than only a URL or creating/printing a PDF, and the ability to share that, could be very cool.

More Stuff

Note that Skitch looks like a very useful drawing/annotating tool that is integrated into Evernote. The ability to treat each graphic element (text, boxes, lines, arrows, pencil drawings) as individual moveable items makes this converge on the functionality I use in cmaplite.

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January 8, 2012 • Posted in: Applications, Mobile

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