![]() OneNote is quite unreliable, not good at searching, and I lost some handwritten notes. ![]() Microsoft OneNote, Bear app, Ulysses, … but none of them stuck. Surely, I tried out all kinds of alternatives. Use Notion to build your systems, which help keep you productive and on track.Įvernote is my digital dumpster, Roam Research is the thinking tool, and Notion is the app-builder to support execution. Use R oam Research for taking notes and as a thinking tool - and export your writing to Evernote for safe-keeping and long-term archival. ![]() So these are my recommendations - use Evernote to store all your documents and digital data, including handwritten notes. Plus, the blocks in Notion limit the functionality of Grammarly. I’ll even draft most of the posts in it, although I don’t find it most suitable for that. Nowadays I’m keeping everything related to this blog in it - it’s my idea box, content planner, task list, connected to the OKRs, and my research lab. In it, I’ll play with copies of my databases and tools to figure out how to best build what serves me. I built myself a whole page that serves as my lab. Then you watch their intro videos, and you play with things. That can be intimidating at first, but they do offer plenty of nice templates to get you started. The beauty of Notion is that it’s like a box of Legos - it offers endless possibilities, but you need to build stuff yourself. I don’t have any plans to store all my digital data in it, just like I’m not trying to build a content planner in Evernote. It’s not a digital dumpster (or a library, if you prefer), it’s a tool to build other tools. Now I realize my mistake - Notion isn’t a replacement for Evernote. But I didn’t like the new tool, so I never made the switch. I came across Notion after trying to find an alternative for the Evernote. I open that on a full page, and I type away. I’d start a random topic that’s on my mind, and I’ll add a Word Counter to it, then start the built-in Pomodoro timer. I’ve been using Roam Research to plan my days ( kanban combined with To– Dos!), type meeting notes, organize my book notes, but mostly for my ] writing. And I love how I get greeted by an empty Daily Notes screen every day. The system builds itself as you write and add to the tool. The beauty of Roam is that you don’t need to organize anything. I jumped on the Roaman wagon back in the beta days, so I do have my forever-free account. You have to start using it to realize why it gained cult-like following. I tried pasting images and data and YouTube videos in it, but I find that insulting for the tool. With its bi-directional links and a simple interface, it’s just made for writing. If Evernote is for storing, Roam Research is for thinking. So while Anne-Laure refers to Evernote as a tool for librarians, I call it my digital dumpster and just keep throwing stuff in there. This is its killer feature than no other tool has mastered yet. On the other hand, Evernote will index everything you throw into it - including my terrible handwriting - and make it searchable. It’s stupid, and a big resentment towards Evernote. You have to make sure to click Done frequently, otherwise, you may lose whatever you’ve written from the last save, in case iPad’s screen locks. The interface is nice, but it has one major flaw: it doesn’t auto-save. ![]() Send by e-mail is another awesome feature of Evernote.Įvernote is also great for capturing handwritten notes with the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. And whatever digital document I receive in an email, I make sure to forward it to Evernote’s email address. Nowadays, whenever a paper document crosses my path, I scan it, including any forms I’d sign anywhere, receipts, stubs, whatever. It used to be a weekly errand, and after a couple of years, the iPhone replaced the scanner, which made the whole process even smoother. It became a habit that any document which entered my life went through that scanner. Everything went through the scanner and into a PDF, which Evernote’s dwarfs indexed and made it searchable. A premium Evernote subscription came with the scanner, and I’ve never looked back. I purchased a Fujitsu scanner and started scanning all my paperwork - contracts, legal documents, everything. Around 2010 I realized that I can digitize my life by storing all the data in it. Evernote was my first real tool for note-taking and storing information.
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