Best learning app with integrated task management for Academics?

Posted by satis
May 17, 2025 at 06:19 PM

Lucine wrote:

> if you suggest Evernote, why not OneNote instead? It’s free,
>unlimited and has more features than Evernote right?

I personally don’t like or use either, and OneNote excels in some areas like free availability of advanced features (OCR, ink-to-text, audio/video recording, dictation), and tight integration with Microsoft Office and OneDrive. However, its search is less powerful, and its organizational structure can be more complex for quick acces.

Evernote I think has better search (including images and PDFs), strong task management with reminders, cross-device sync, and support for text/images/audio/scan/PDF notes. Evernote’s search allows searches across notes, notebooks, and even inside attached documents (Word, PDFs) on paid plans, and its tagging and notebook system is simpler and more intuitive than OneNote’s three-level hierarchy (notebooks, sections, pages), which some users find cumbersome. Evernote supports to-do lists both within notes and on its dashboard, blending note-taking with task management. OneNote has tags but less integrated task tracking.

As for Evernote’s significantly reducing its generous free plan, it found it was too generous and that a significant cost burden to its system was due to freeloaders who could not be induced to pay. Offering 100,000 free notes and 250 free notebooks was a dumb thing to do and it’s no wonder so many people took advantage of it, weighing down the company in the process.

Considering that Evernote has long lost money, and had massive staff reductions to right itself, and then sold itself to another company, its ations seem fairly reasonable. Companies ranging from Dropbox to Mailchimp to Trello scrubbed digital barnacles off their hulls and reduced or eliminated their free plans to keep cruising… or afloat.