So here are the differences that make EverNote more cluttered/harder than One Note
1) You can not just type a * and have it start bullet list or 1. to start a list. Fine, I have to move my hand away from keyboard, possibly lose my train of thought, and click a button then scroll and search through the text to where I was typing.
2) Checkboxes act as just characters. I need them to be a list and not just appear inline.
4) I cannot see checkboxes in a global list. It's a todo list, why can't I see them across notes.
5) WTF is Announcements, Atlas, Market??, Premium? Why can't I hide those? They take up 40% of the space. Fine I can hide premium by paying, what about the others?
6) Always takes two clicks to get to any notebook
7) No such thing as notebook folders?? So I have to have hundreds of notebooks in one location. So basically, clutter. I have to scroll through a ton of notebooks to find the one I want. Or click in a searchbox, type text and then scroll through notebooks.
8) Can I add notes/comments to the side of text? Why do I have to use complex tables that have impossible formatting and when nothing in the cell, I have to click a 2-pixel section just to write something in that cell. Why can't I just click somewhere in the note and start typing? OneNote allows this
8) Why can't I archive notes? I want them to be searchable (so not deleted), but I don't want to see them in my list. Since there are no folders, I have over a hundred notebooks congesting my list. Again, clutter!
9) Can I kill formatting while I'm typing incase I did a cut & paste from a webpage and need it to keep formatting, by my comments not. Oh wait, I have to write the comment in whatever the font was last used, select it, and then do CMD+F or go through menus
10) Can I press one key and just draw all over the place with a highlighter so I can highlight important things in either an image or text. Can I look this up later without opening every notebook and searching for it?
11) Instead of changing text color, etc, can I just press a button and change color of checkbox or formatting without having to selecting text? OneNote these are custom "checkboxes" you can customize once and use it anywhere with a shortcut key, or just one click of a toolbar button.
Some of these are features, a lot of these are clutter, a lot of these are annoying menus you have to go through so you lose your train of thought while you are writing your note. There are a lot of half-a$ $ features like tagging. You can tag a notebook, but you can't tag a line or section of a notebook, leaving you to a search function that shows you ever single notebook that ever had the keyword that I need and I have to scan through the notebook to see what it found. No preview of context, which means I have to sequentially click through every notebook. It does highlight things for you, so that's helpful.
So yes, I have used both OneNote and EverNote for a very long time. EverNote is great, don't get me wrong. And no one can guarantee that onenote for OSX will not suck. If anything it probably will. I'm just saying as for ease of use, and clutter, can't say that EverNote takes first place. If you are writing simple notes with formatting, it's great. But if you are organizing a ton of notes, cut & pastes, simple tasks, etc EverNote is not good. But the reason why I'm even arguing this, is because onenote has these features, but they are not annoying. So if you don't use them, it's still a very clean interface.
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I guess I could have just said this instead of writing a bunch of examples.
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I'm with you. I am 100% apple (although my job is 90% microsoft, 10% apple developing), but I use virtual machines extensively for both. I prefer apple, but want MS to take the right steps and not go away as competition is always important.
