...did I read that price correctly? ...woah. And people say The Brain and Notemap are pricey...

Peter wrote:

Thanks for posting and no worries about coming late to the party.

Point taking about
aesthetics and research. I'm no fan of Vista (an example of aesthetic design gone
bad). I've stuck with XP. Nevertheless, I suppose I've become accustomed to an
increasing degree of let's say 'aesthetic sensibility' in interface design, even
for the Windows platform, over that last decade. Something like Evernote may not be
your cup of tea, or even mine for that matter (I've decided it's a little too gimmicky
for my purposes). Still, if I have the choice, I'll choose a piece of software over
another if I think the interface aesthetics is better (cleaner, more intuitive, easy
to look at, attractive) provided that the functionality is equal.

Meanwhile, I
think I've found my PIM answer for pdf markup and note management: Atlas.ti
(http://www.atlasti.com/ It's not cheep but it was sitting under my nose all the
time. I already had a copy sitting on my machine for coding and sorting interview
transcriptions. The latest version can even import PDFs as well as a range of other
media. It might be overkill for some though. Other competitors in the CAQDAS
(Computer Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software) family are Nudist and
NVivo.

Still, the actual paper writing process is not facilitated very well
(although you can export memo notes into one doc). Hence the search for a
Scrivener-like app continues....