Evernote vs Onenote IPad pro 10.5

OneNote is fine but I'm uncomfortable about where the data resides on the Apple platform. It's held in Onedrive somewhere without any visibility or option to back up that data to say iCloud/Google drive. I had years worth of notes on there and after a bit of thought and spare time I became very concerned about the above.

After some Googling around I opted for Notability which stores data on iCloud and has the option to back up to your chosen cloud service in PDF format. The only downside is there is no Web based or windows option so yo are left with read only notes if you are accessing on a Windows machine.

If you would like anything more information feel free to ask - I spent quite a lot of time looking at various options,
 
OneNote enforces a very different model that I don't get along with. Evernote is just this long stream of notes, and has full support of tags, whereas OneNote wants everything to be a notebook, or a section within a notebook, or a page within a section. It also doesn't support tags very well. Basically with OneNote you have to decide where a new note is going to go before you even start, whereas Evernote doesn't have that concept, you just click New Note and away you go.

Having said all of that, I wish I could get off Evernote. They have done so much to try to ruin their amazing core product, and I think as a company they are doomed. But there's just nothing out there that does cross-platform or doesn't cost a fortune.
 
Jimbeam3678 said:
OneNote is fine but I'm uncomfortable about where the data resides on the Apple platform. It's held in Onedrive somewhere without any visibility or option to back up that data to say iCloud/Google drive. I had years worth of notes on there and after a bit of thought and spare time I became very concerned about the above.

After some Googling around I opted for Notability which stores data on iCloud and has the option to back up to your chosen cloud service in PDF format. The only downside is there is no Web based or windows option so yo are left with read only notes if you are accessing on a Windows machine.

If you would like anything more information feel free to ask - I spent quite a lot of time looking at various options,
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I'm a huge OneNote user, and this is one of the positives for me (shows how different people can be) I have sections / groups for each thing, notebooks for personal, work etc so it's very much like a folder structure.

OneNote on the iPad Pro for me is fantastic as well, I would like to see some potential Apple Pencil improvements, as from what people say Notability is ahead of the game there.
 
Throrik said:
I'm a huge OneNote user, and this is one of the positives for me (shows how different people can be) I have sections / groups for each thing, notebooks for personal, work etc so it's very much like a folder structure.

OneNote on the iPad Pro for me is fantastic as well, I would like to see some potential Apple Pencil improvements, as from what people say Notability is ahead of the game there.
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Positive is you can't see where your data is held or that you can't back it up to another cloud service?:confused:
 
I haven't no, but I also have a backup copy of my OneNote files from Windows as I am a Windows user at work from %AppData% so even if I do it won't actually affect me too much. But yeah fortunately no data corruption yet, I have read some bad stories. Again fortunately I link lot of documents in mine, so just links to Excel documents etc, or PDFs so I wouldn't be too deep in the woods should the worst come to the worst. But again, I have a specific use-case which someone using just iOS may not have for sure.
 
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