Evernote Privacy Policy Changes

Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 19, 2016 at 05:06 PM

As a Mac user, I currently use Bear and Outlinely for general notes of all kinds. I run both on macOS and iOS.

Bear is ideal for storing short extracts from web pages, and for making long lists of tasks. Outlinely is ideal for monitoring and checking off project-related tasks, because you can fold them and take detailed notes. So I tend to use them together - Bear for the broad overview, Outlinely for specific projects. In principle Todoist would also be ideal for this, but I find Todoist (very) frustrating from a note-taking point of view. If only they would adopt full GitHub-style Markdown!

For storing PDFs I usually use Curiota on macOS, saving the files into a dedicated Soonr folder so I can sync them with my iOS devices if I want to (Soonr uses a selective synchronisation approach on iOS).

But I also use Notebooks for stuff I know I want to transfer between platforms. Sometimes I also use Dropbox, because I have a couple of folders in there that sync automatically with the excellent Documents on my iOS devices (formerly ReaddleDocs).

As mentioned, I use Soonr on both platforms, usually for transferring Office documents. I’ve experimented with Together and Keep Everything, but have found that I don’t want to store entire databases of bulky PDFs on my iOS devices. I’ve just started to experiment with DEVONthink Pro on iOS, but haven’t got very far yet.

There’s a very nice summary of various iOS apps used in professional workflows on macstories.net, the website run by Federico Viticci, in his comprehensive summary of the iPad Pro used as a main workstation (he’s almost entirely abandoned his Macs). There are a couple of very interesting apps in there, as well as a lot of useful info on automation. He too is experimenting with DEVONthink Pro. But what he writes on various Markdown apps will probably interest forum members more.