The vast trove of digital data we now seek to organize (yesterday’s article clippings and sticky notes) has slowly been tamed over the past several years. Many note-taking tools have been around for a long time – but those with a lot of versatility for collecting more than just text are now surging in popularity. Most prominent of those is Evernote. However, Microsoft’s OneNote has been slowly building a fan base, especially among PC-using Office adherents. In our opinion OneNote became functional and a viable alternative to Evernote in the Office 2013 release.
These two lead a category where one can save web articles, images, videos. PDF files and much more – organizing by notebooks and tags for later easy retrieval.
Until now its been bundled within Office, but Microsoft changed that and freed it across Mac, PC and mobile devices. Bill Winterberg gives the full story in his weekly FPPad Bits & Bytes below.
