Should I leave Evernote?
Ok, right away I need to be completely transparent and come clean. I am an Evernote Certified Consultant so I do love using Evernote and do not intend to leave. But the relationship becomes strained at times and the bright lights of new innovations and products catch my eye frequently and I stray.
The problem is, Evernote is not perfect.
It is this lack of perfection in any one area that can make Evernote difficult to live with,
Here are some examples
As a Notetaker:
Evernote is unparalleled when it comes to storing, sorting, searching and sharing notes. However, Google Keep is faster for quick, random notes and Onenote has way better formatting options for your notes.
As a Task manager:
Evernote allows you to add checklists and checkboxes and with a clever use of search, tags and a solid notebook structure Evernote can be a powerful tool for tracking and sharing tasks. I can even use reminders. It is not however by any means a dedicated task management app like Todoist, Any.do, Asana etc.
As a Project Management tool:
Build a notebook, add all documents and information about a project to that notebook, share with the project team, collaborate on those notes and documents and set reminders. I can use Evernote to provide updates to stakeholders through sharing notes and notebooks and using the Present function as a quick and easy way to provide face to face presentations.
It is not Microsoft Project, Wrike, Projectmanager or are ZOHO Projects. Evernote is also not a dedicated team app for live collaboration although using Evernote Spaces and Chat in Evernote Business allows the project team to stay up to date with who is working on what and communicate directly with the team without leaving Evernote.
As an Email client or store:
I keep all my important or project related emails in Evernote. It has fantastic integration with Microsoft Outlook on both desktop and mobile, the ability to email directly into my Evernote account is extremely useful and I can even share notes I create as emails directly from Evernote without needing any other packages. But Evernote is not an email client. I can't put an email in Evernote and then simply hit reply. There is no real "Address Book" in Evernote. Composing and sending bulk emails is not what Evernote is designed for.
Evernote is also not a good calendar application, it is not where I would want to store all my files and photos. It's not a great word processor or spreadsheet and it's not a seamless team messaging or chat app.
So why do I keep going back to Evernote as my go-to platform?
The answer is staring me in the face.
- Evernote is unparalleled when it comes to storing, sorting, searching and sharing notes.
- I can use Evernote to build a notebook, add all documents and information about a project to that notebook and share it with the project team and then collaborate on those notes and documents.
- Evernote allows me to add notes with check-boxes and with a clever use of search, tags and a solid notebook structure Evernote can be a powerful tool for tracking and sharing tasks. I can even use reminders.
- Using Evernote Spaces and Chat in Evernote Business, allows the project team to stay up to date with who is working on what and communicate directly with the team without leaving Evernote.
- I can use Evernote to provide updates to stakeholders through sharing notes and notebooks and using the Present function as a quick and easy way to provide face to face presentations.
- I keep all my important or project related emails in Evernote. It has fantastic integration with Microsoft Outlook on both desktop and mobile and the ability to email directly into my Evernote account is extremely useful and I can even share notes I create as emails directly from Evernote without needing any other packages.
Sure, Evernote and NO OTHER PLATFORM is perfect and it can't do everything.
For dedicated tasks such as email, calendar, storage, chat etc. I happily use dedicated products.
But I will use Evernote as the place where it all comes together and when I look at a list of some of what Evernote CAN DO.
It's no wonder that I keep coming back.
Stay Productive
Neil
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