In the future, I'll talk about an article I've been reading that's making me re-evaluate my tools. But I thought I'd jump ahead a bit and bring up my current note-taking preferences.
I'm currently using Evernote (
www.evernote.com) as a way of collecting notes on everything. EVERYTHING. Receipts, project notes, documentation, legal papers, whiteboard photos, you name it. It has awesome clients for Mac OSX and Windows, and our mobile devices. (iPhone right now, Android later?) And it seamlessly synchronizes all of my notes on all devices.
But because of the aforementioned article about re-evaluating tools, I've been looking for alternatives. One fascinating program that's picking up users is called Notational Velocity (
www.notational.net). It's being touted as a lightweight application that streamlines the note-taking process. Searching for existing notes and creating new notes is the same action. And to reiterate the "lightweight" description, it opens immediately, syncs quickly, and you don't worry about any other functionality other than typing plain text.
I like this instant-on approach to note taking; it would reduce the barrier to getting stuff out of my head and into digits. Evernote takes a full 30 seconds to open, so unless you leave it running all the time (taking up computer resources), it's starting to become self-defeating. But I would miss having things like document scans and whiteboard snapshots being OCR'd and searchable immediately upon saving them with Evernote.
Does anyone have experience with both, and can elaborate? Is there something I'm missing that would totally sway me towards NV?
Thank you for your time.
