So my journey started at the usual place, google. I came across tens of applications for note taking, note management, outliners, but not so many came even close to OneNote's most delightful features.
After a couple of links I came across EverNote3 a free, light but yet very powerful note manager. With a very intuitive and friendly interface, feature rich and best of all FREE, this one quickly became the top of my list as a OneNote alternative. And now totally cross-platform as it runs on Windows, Mac, PocketPC, iPhone, and Web. Unfortunately Linux is not supported as a desktop application, but the web interface is rather nice. Besides being amost cross-platform, evernote has a superb OCR engine that allows you to ink your notes or to paste some images, synchronize your notes and voila you can search text inside your images, perfect for taking notes with your cellphone cam, sending them directly to your evernote email account and having them available as a fully text recognized image.
Talking about linux, I also found a superb alternative that although open source is a linux only application, BasKet is a KDE based note manager with lot's of features and a very nice interface. It's the perfect alternative for the linux user.
And for the Mac users, there is also an alternative, Journler lot's of cool features, like video recording, tabbed editing, iPod exporting, iLife integration, great importing and exporting capabilities, truly a must have application in every Mac.
And for the cross platform flavor alternative I present you Memoranda a Java based diary manager, that besides being a pretty decent note manager, it has a nice task managing tool, an agenda, and a resource tool, were you can keep a link or import resources like files and hyper links. I just hope they can improve on the notes import features that unfortunately doesn't support web clipping. Nevertheless it's a very promising application.
Besides this desktop applications there are also some good web based solutions like Google Notebook and Zoho Notebook.
Right now my note taking solution sticks with a EverNote and The Guide mix.
7 comentários:
as you know I'm a huge fan of journler. for mac you have a truck load of options, and all of them are very very interesting: devonthink, voodoo pad, yojimbo, and xpad only to name a few (voodoo pad is actually a personal wiki-in-a-box)
for win32 you have other options besides evernote (though I do use evernote extensively especially because you can create custom templates for notes using XML, and that saves you a lot of grief), but you might want to take a peek at Notelens, zulupad, WhizFolders or jarnal.
linkage:
devothink: www.devon-technologies.com
voodoo pad: www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad
youjimbo: www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo
xpad: getxpad.com/
notelens: www.windsorinterfaces.com/notelens.shtml
zulupad: zulupad.gersic.com/
whizfolders: www.whizfolders.com
jarnal: www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm
Thanks for the post. I recently moved my laptop to linux after a hard drive death; I'm looking for a OneNote alternative. I'll try BasKet.
Thanks.
www.jbenhurst.com
I´m currently on Windows and looking for an OneNote alternative for Mac. From what I see the only real alternative is Basket for Linux. All other programs dont offer so much freedom with note-taking (only in OneNote and Basket you can write anywhere on the page - and I really like this feature).
Ill have a look at Memoranda for now.
And MS just had to do this program right ... :)
Regards "EverNote [...] Unfortunately it's a Microsoft Windows only application", there are now Mac and web versions.
Thanks for this useful post. I have been a onenote user for a long time, and was searching for other alternatives in win32/linux. I still haven't found a way of exporting what I already have on onenote to other apps though.
Mac users check out Notebook from http://www.circusponies.com/
Windows users should check out KeyNote. This application is pretty good and is FREE.
Link: http://keynote.prv.pl/
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