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September 10, 2008
considering evernote and google notebook
looking for a quick note application to keep track of diligence on web sites I review. Neither of these tools are any good for that. Google notebook is an overarchitected to do list only accessible in browser (no good) and evernote you have to pay for (and i don't understand how to use it). I don't see that much difference between firefox bookmarks and evernote. Why add another tool?
Posted by Martin at September 10, 2008 10:23 PM
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I've used both. Both are free. Evernote is more user-friendly, but GNotes allows offline use (still in the browser) via Gears. Old school is MS Access, which still works fine. I've also used Salesforce.com with success.
For your use case though, I've migrated to Google Docs (also available offline). You keep a master spreadsheet with typical fields: Org, Site URL(s), POC, Space, Stage, Next Step, Comments, etc. If you have copious notes from diligence, create a separate doc and hyperlink to it from your master. If you have modest amount of notes on a multitude of companies use one running doc and for all companies and link to a tag in the doc.
If you don't have the offline use requirement you could do Zoho or blist or a host of other new vendors.
R
Posted by: Ron Diver 
at September 11, 2008 9:47 AM
@R Are you sure Google Notebook currently allows offline use (using Gears or any other means)? I believe it's announced for future support, but not as of today.
Posted by: rjhintz at October 16, 2008 11:21 AM
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