

Then again, if you are using it for business, you could always fork over a few bucks for the paid version.īeing an impoverished (read: cheap) individual, I sought something similar, yet free. Having the sync die mid-month when you need it most would be problematic. Obviously, this could create a problem if you are relying on it for business purposes.

It was almost perfect.Īll of those notes you make and pictures you take are uploaded to the cloud and transferred to your devices automatically - but there is a cap on data transfer for free users. There were extensions or apps for everything - from saving web pages to drawing sketches on my tablet. It took notes, synced them between all devices, and did it all for free. Last month, we did a review of Evernote and fell truly, madly, deeply in love.

Then I left law school, and OneNote, behind. There were audio clips, sketch tools, old-fashioned typing, and best of all: brilliant OCR (the tech term for turning words from a picture or PDF into editable text.) Whereas Word was clunky for taking random notes and scribbles, OneNote was like taking notes on a digital paper. There was, however, OneNote, which comes with Microsoft Office. When I was a wee lad in law school, Evernote did not exist.
