My top 5: Adobe Lightroom, AppZapper, Audio Hijac Pro, VMware Fusion, and VisualHub.

My top 5: Adobe Lightroom, AppZapper, Audio Hijac Pro, VMware Fusion, and VisualHub.

-The text recognition in photos is pretty poor. Evernote only recognized text in about 1 of every 10 of my photos. Not very reliable.

-Syncing with Evernote servers was constantly slow, and I began to feel uncomfortable thinking of my personal tidbits constantly streaming back and forth from a third-party server.

-’Paste to Evernote’ created notes from whatever happened to be in my clipboard, not what I had highlighted on a web page, while “Clip screenshot” sometimes created a note of the screenshot, sometimes just a note consisting of the URL.

-Evernote drove me to “remember everything”–which is not really what we need. I was cataloguing every flower, but missing the whole field.

-I realized I was creating MORE work for myself. With Evernote, I would spend an ever greater amount of time tagging and SEARCHING through my info. Right now, when I have info to file, I put it where it belongs. Then if I need a photo, it’s already there in iPhoto. I need an email address, it’s already there in Address Book as I write an email. I need a website, it’s already there in Bookmarks as I use Safari. Putting things where they belong in the first place guarantees they are exactly where you need them when you need them. When I need dinner, I usually find it in the fridge. When I need to grab shampoo, I don’t have to hunt, it’s always in the bathroom. Evernote is more like putting the entire contents of your home in one large plastic garbage bag–and when you need something, searching and fishing it out. I realized I would waste a lot of time SEARCHING through Evernote because I wouldn’t know what I had or where I had it. Imagine 500 notes of business cards snapped in a webcam. This huge plastic garbage bag of tidbits and clippings and screen caps in my computer started to look pretty ugly. I don’t need yet ANOTHER place to store and search for things. I’ll keep my stuff organized how I have it now: Everything in its place.

-The text recognition in photos is pretty poor. Evernote only recognized text in about 1 of every 10 of my photos. Not very reliable.

-Syncing with Evernote servers was constantly slow, and I began to feel uncomfortable thinking of my personal tidbits constantly streaming back and forth from a third-party server.

-'Paste to Evernote' created notes from whatever happened to be in my clipboard, not what I had highlighted on a web page, while “Clip screenshot” sometimes created a note of the screenshot, sometimes just a note consisting of the URL.

-Evernote drove me to “remember everything”–which is not really what we need. I was cataloguing every flower, but missing the whole field.

-I realized I was creating MORE work for myself. With Evernote, I would spend an ever greater amount of time tagging and SEARCHING through my info. Right now, when I have info to file, I put it where it belongs. Then if I need a photo, it's already there in iPhoto. I need an email address, it's already there in Address Book as I write an email. I need a website, it's already there in Bookmarks as I use Safari. Putting things where they belong in the first place guarantees they are exactly where you need them when you need them. When I need dinner, I usually find it in the fridge. When I need to grab shampoo, I don't have to hunt, it's always in the bathroom. Evernote is more like putting the entire contents of your home in one large plastic garbage bag–and when you need something, searching and fishing it out. I realized I would waste a lot of time SEARCHING through Evernote because I wouldn't know what I had or where I had it. Imagine 500 notes of business cards snapped in a webcam. This huge plastic garbage bag of tidbits and clippings and screen caps in my computer started to look pretty ugly. I don't need yet ANOTHER place to store and search for things. I'll keep my stuff organized how I have it now: Everything in its place.

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