Evernote vs. Notion - Which is the Better Note-Taking App in 2022

Evernote vs. Notion - Which is the Best Note-Taking App in 2022

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00:00 How to find the best note-taking app
02:27 Why Evernote is the best note-taking app
03:43 How to search for handwriting in Evernote
04:45 Why Notion is the best note-taking app
05:07 How to use Backlinks and Cross-Links in Notion
07:01 How to use Synced Blocks in Notion
07:54 What else you can do with your notes in Notion
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[MyDadsDementia]

I've been watching dozens of videos on all the usual suspects (Obsidian, Evernote, Todoist, Notion, etc) and this one helped me the most. I think I am discovering that there is no "one perfect tool", but there are a couple of tools (apps) that if used together, can make life extremely manageable and productive. Thank you for your very clear delivery and excellent content.

[robmayerMBA]

Recommendations without context— exactly! Finally an intelligent perspective and review.

[guillaumepelinski]

I am using my note taking app for 3 reasons :
- Personal (recipes, thoughts about my life, activity plans to do with kids, etc.)
- Professional : Day to day Work (meeting notes, etc.)
- Professional : Long term (references, book summary, key points of a methodology, etc.)

I used Evernote a lot but I realise I haven't been using it for 2 years now that I have my ipad pro & use Goodnotes.
But I am losing a lot from my "memory" on Evernote.

Why do none of Evernote & Co. handle Handwriting as good as Goodnotes or Notability?
Why are those very good handwriting note apps still so poor in knowledge management & organising?

Have you guys found a missing link between the 2?

[christiandevos]

I'm a long time user of Evernote. I tried a lot of other note taking apps but I always come back to Evernote, mainly because of their web clipper, OCR recognition, e-mail sending to the EN account (in premium version), ...
You don't change easily when you have more than 7.000 notes.
Since 2 months I use Notion; it looks prettier but I find it more difficult to use. I only use it for showing notes to friends (photos...)
The main problem with Notion (for me) is that you have to export a note into a PDF file before you can print it. And there is no possibility to change the layout they propose.
So, I will remain an Evernote user until...

[anthonyfoister]

Great video. My biggest hang up with using Notion is the terrible offline capabilities. Due to traveling overseas where sometimes there isn't an internet signal, I have to have an app that syncs and is dependable. Other than that, I like Notion...

[asmaaaitbenabderrahman]

At 3:16 "this is something that's not available in Notion.." thank you that's it that's all I needed to hear to stick to Evernote, It's the reason I bought a tablet for school, to have all my papers scanned and in one place and be able to find what I'm looking for by a quick word search instead of looking through the countless papers and handouts.

[cesarkero]

I'm an Evernote user still thinking about the inevitable migration. These are the things that make me want to leave Evernote: (1) url links ask for a double check and acceptance extra button (this is nonesense) (Notion hyperlink goes directly); (2) connection between notes...go to one, copy the internal link, go to the other one, copy the link...(Notion solved perfectly); (3) tables to schematize info...these are so tight in layouts that just a few things enter elegantly within each cell, making an schema look like a monster. This is also solved in Notion, allowing you to organize things also horizontally (with tabs, etc); (4) the workarounds you have to make to write in markdown. I have a jekyll blog and Notion would help me a lot as you can writte almost everything thingking in MD.
However, Notion still lacks better web clipper, better phone widgets to capture faster in phone (text, audio notes, images, etc).
Conclusion...I don't know...
By the way, good content and pardon my english.

[faraway]

Thx for the video!
Apple Notes: Already installed, free, works great on my Mac, iPhone and iPad. Will be around for a long time.

[dbrakowski]

Thanks for the explanation of backlinking---most helpful. FYI when I upgraded to the latest version of Evernote (10.33.5) under the "Coming Soon" section they list the following: "Need to link to one note from another? Drag it from the note list into the editor and Evernote will automatically create a link for you" I'm curious to see what this turns out to be, but think it's clear that Evernote is feeling the heat.

[dd.oliver]

The features that are lacking in notion for me are: Master tags over all my databases /notebooks and pages, Master to-do lists, a place where I can see all my to-do’s unified, and web-youtube clipping. I tried, but Notion is not up to evernote in these features.

[GaelyneGasson]

For my general every day note taking, I use Nimbus Notes as it has much the same search capabilities as Evernote and the team at Nimbus Notes really have been in overdrive the last couple years. I have two record keeping instances where Notion is much better suited. One is for my client billing (a simple due date database) and the other is for my fitness record keeping. I'm a firm believer in use the right tool for the job and don't try to make one tool do all the work. You can't always fit a square peg into a round hole.

[ajordangr]

IMO Tom, “what’s the best note taking app” is a valid question. It might be the case that the best note taking app will not fit the use case of the person raising the question, but that would be out of subject since the question wasn’t “what’s the best note taking app for my use case”.

The best note taking app would be the one that :
- Min bugs
- Max performance
- Max import/export compatibility
- Max features or max all around features
- Max integrating options
- Most beautiful / productive UI
- Max productivity apparel ( shortcuts, addons )

Those criterions should also be weighted appropriately; obviously an app the wins every other app but is having the most bugs could not be the best app.

So what’s that app ? Back in 2007 EN was the clear winner, but who is the winner now ?

IMO, if you did a table evaluating all note taking apps exclusively on the topics above, Craft would be the winner. For example, for my use case EN was and is a better fit. On top of that I had been using EN since 2008.

Abysmal performance and countless bugs since v10, made me switch to Craft, despite that I was already using the app that is the best fit for my use case.

[CovetedConsultant]

"Recommendations without context" - Indeed, this happens a lot. Thank you for providing some explanation as to WHY one tool may be better than another. It helps us make better decisions.

[Moonmatt]

It sounds like you prefer notion, but it sounds like there is no search option like there is in Evernote. Is that correct?

[andrewbuchan]

That's a great point, at the beginning of the video. There's always a tendency to want the best of something, which sometimes stops people from trying the products in the first place. I tried to use Notion, but I just found myself spending too much time figuring it out. However, although Evernote is great, I don't like it's interface.

[bradford-vts]

Thanks for this video, very informative. I have a problem with the crosslinking advantage of notion that you are highlighting so much. Yes, if i want to link Albert Einstein's note to a note on the Speed of Light, then I just need to use the @ sign. BUT once your system has 2000+ notes, you need to remember in your head that there is an "albert einstein" note that you can link to!!! Surely, in the perfect system you would simply write something like "much work has been done by Albert Einstein" and at that point it would recognised the words Albert Einstein and ask you if you want to cross link it rather than rely on your memory that a such a note exists in the first place. I hope I have explained it well enough. I don't see the point of cross linking if it relies on your brain to know a potential cross link exists. Instead, I want the app to highlight the potential and for me to confirm or refute it. Would anyone care to reply please (including the Paperless Movement)?

[kaizentruth]

Is there a tool that works like notion with Evernote’s OCR capabilities?

[Forky]

Man.... Incredible video! Thanks for your time and for sharing this knowledge with all of us! 10/10

[garyrooksby]

This is a very useful video. Thank you!

[edwardmcphail]

Great video Tom! I use Evernote+Noteshelf+Workflowy. I teach all of my College courses with Evernote+Noteshelf, use Evernote for project and task management, and because of backlinking and cloning (transcluded nodes) I use Workflowy for my research writing and idea library.