If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice

Re:If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice by Elepsis on Sunday February 22, 2015 @04:17PM (#9091139)

OneNote is free, cross platform, syncs pretty well and keeps a local cache of all your notes in any of the desktop versions, which means you can independently back them up. And because of its history as a desktop app first, a backed up notebook can be opened in the app without caring about cloud state at all.

(disclaimer: I work at Microsoft but not on OneNote.)

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Re:If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice by pbhjpbhj on Sunday February 22, 2015 @04:41PM (#9091256)

>OneNote is free, cross platform ... //

Great, I thought and went right over to get it for my Kubuntu box. Oh right, not that sort of cross-platform.

But they offer a web version that tells me "Take your notes anywhere with OneNote" (except to a Linux desktop of course!). They're clearly big on this "anywhere" idea, something about accessing your notes from anywhere ... and then "The add-on works only in 32-bit Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, or Safari (Mac).".

It's no different to other companies but these things do start to grate after a while - "access from most browsers" or "access from most OS" obviously isn't as good a marketing tag as "anywhere".

/rant

It seems I can use it from my 64bit browser on Kubuntu but then it operates like Evernote's web app does.

[This is just how it is from my angle, really just feeding back in case others on Linux would have looked it up. Dare-say you can get it to work with WINE?]

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Re:If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice by hobarrera on Sunday February 22, 2015 @04:40PM (#9091252)

It's freeware, not free as in free, and it's crossplatformism is limited: It's not available for my desktop's os, my laptop's os, nor my smartpbone.

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