The organization-minded will appreciate OneNote's basic structure. In fact, its note-creation tools are more comprehensive than Evernote's. It bristles with note-creation tools for drawing, recording audio and video, scanning images, embedding spreadsheets and reviewing the edits of others (although the abilities of those tools differ somewhat depending on the platform). OneNote lets you create simple or complex notes from scratch, organize them into searchable, browsable notebooks, and sync them among a variety of platforms.

It lets you create simple or complex notes from scratch, organize them into searchable, browsable notebooks, and sync them among a variety of platforms, including Windows PCs, Macs, iPads and iPhones, Windows Phones, Android devices and the Web. OneNote has been around as part of Microsoft Office since 2003, and it's very much a full-blown application. I spend more time on the Windows version of each, but note similarities and differences in other versions as well. (There is also a version for Windows Phones which I haven't tried.) This isn't a deep-dive review, but rather a personal look on what I like and don't much like about each - and the main points of differences between the two. I'm a long-time user of both applications, so I've taken a look at the latest version of each for Windows, OS X, iPad, iPhone and Android.

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