Profound Disappointment

Posted by Wes Perdue
Aug 10, 2010 at 01:06 AM

> Daly de Gagne wrote:
> Andreas, please do not apologize for raising your voice. I was hoping
> for that, because for me this is a critical situation.
>
> I appreciate what you say about DevonThink, and it is the one program I
> can see myself using. But when push comes to shove, it is not all that
> different from EverNote. And it is easier to use EverNote with every
> program on the PC than it is on the Mac - though there may be something
> I am not doing right. EverNote is an automatic backup as well, because
> it syncs with the cloud.

I’ve a couple thoughts on DevonThink and Evernote. I agree that they are rather similar. I use each for different things, as they have different strengths. DT for me is a rather nice writing environment, with its good rich text editor; I keep my personal journal in DT. I use Evernote for the myriad notes I take; its cloud syncing and accessibility from anywhere is invaluable, but it’s rather terrible at handling rich text. I also don’t want to overwhelm it with niche research data.

> I have not checked Curio, and I will do that.

I tried to use Curio for project management, but it didn’t work for me. It’s a beautiful app, but I think it tries too hard to do too many things, so it doesn’t do many things well. It’s better for me to just keep my project tasks in OmniFocus and let the other project data sleep where it lies - most likely in Evernote or NovaMind.

Regards,
Wes

> Thanks.
>
> Daly