It has the fastest sync, best search and easiest to get notes into the app. If you have multiple OneDrive accounts, careful attention has to be paid to where OneNotes stores its notes.Īfter a couple of months of trying Notes and OneNote, I'm back using Evernote because it's simply superior. However, OneNote's searches are slow and the interface takes some getting used to. It's also usable on as many platforms as Evernote. OneNote's performance is superior to Notes and also includes web clippers and an ability to email notes to the app from any email client. Notes also does not have the ability to convert PDFs to readable (searchable) PDFs.

Sometimes it took more than a day for an note to show up on my IOS devices. I was met the with spinning ball for minutes on my Mac Mini and MacBook Pro almost every time I opened the Notes app. What I found after using Notes for about a couple of weeks is that Notes' syncing is so slow and unreliable it's simply not usable when you have a large number of notes. This tutorial will be for beginners who are brand new, advanced users who want to learn about additional features, or users who would like a refresher on features and functionality. I migrated nearly 3,000 notes to both apps.

Notes has a more similar interface to Evernote. I tried Apple Notes and Microsoft OneNote last fall as alternatives to Evernote.

Evernote app tutorial