Hi.

Dr. Andus wrote:

Yes. But I think there is another issue here. A distinction needs to be made between note-taking (as in “data capture”)
and taking note (as in “making a note of something”). Just because Evernote is good at the former, it does not make it
necessarily suitable for the latter.

In fact I would argue that it even makes sense to build a “firewall” with some filters to separate captured data from actual notes.
I don’t buy the “put all your notes in one system” mantra, unless this one system allows you to separate captured data from
your own notes (or “data” from “information”) and also provides tools for processing (analysis and synthesis).

Same with me. Though I use the term "note-taking" differently: Note-taking Franz-style is writing down notes or scribbling vs. collecting input from webpages or transcribing paragraphs from books/magazines (taking note is something completely different in German = noticing).

I use Evernote for collecting - to be more precise, for dumping info into a storage pile where I later (or while dumping) select the heap the info snippet is to go to.
But I feel terribly incomfortable taking my own notes in Evernote. I use various tools for that: Noteliner, LibreOffice Writer, Scrivener, XMind, OneNote - depending on the project and the kind of notes I am taking ("thinking on paper/screen" is done in Noteliner or XMind, elaborating on a subject is mostly done in LibreOffice or Scrivener, for one project in OneNote).
Evernote feels clumsy when actually writing and is of no use when brainstorming/thinking/reordering/filtering...

Franz