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I am an avid user of Evernote on Windows and Android.

It is a great piece of application, however, its editing abilities (in Windows and in general) don't even come near the capabilities of Evernote. In fact, everytime I paste to it something from a web document, I cringe to the result of broken tables, bullets and fonts.

I love the editing options in OneNote, the tables, the SMOOTH copy-pasting from web, the wiki-like linking, the always-in-sync, the multi-user editing abilities. Its great, really.

However, even though I tried again to move from Evernote to OneNote just last weekend, I encountered quite unacceptable lack of features in todays modern world:

• Very very slow sync speed on Android. Every time I did any kind of change, the Android client would takes minutes upon minutes to sync. I admit that my notebook is rather large (500mb or so) but such long sync times on every single, small, edit, are just unacceptable if I am to use my mobile client seriously.
• Search is very limited. No operators of any kind. Can't search by text and by tag (e.g tagged "Todo" and contains text "move"). Also can't search by multiple tags.
• No "Search notebook" in OneNote web - I find it really weird that OneNote site allows you to view your OneNote, search it, and yet, it limits you to a single SECTION of the book. The whole point of a search, I'd believe, is to be able to search all the stuff you got. If I knew in what section everything is, I wouldn't need search in the first place.
• Search in general just doesn't work well. Even when I tried searching for a text in a section that I know that had it (and that OneNote for Windows found), OneNote web still failed to find it.
• Confusing sync on Android - When I do a search on OneNote on Android, it doesn't actually sync everything. Multiple times I had to do a manual sync just to get the latest data. It seems obvious to me that if I search on the whole notebook, I'd expect it to sync the whole notebook first.
• Android OneNote in general, while it is miles ahead of the original release, is still severaly lacking. For example, while Android is unique in its features of "Sharing" that allow you to send almost every bit of information to any application, OneNote refuses to accept those. You can't share, for example, a web page you're browser to OneNote. In another example, you can't make a shortcut to a note and put it on your desktop (yes, you can do that in Evernote on Android).

I love OneNote, I think its editing capabilities are amazing and inspiring. When it comes to mobile however (mobile Android that is), web and syncing in general it shows how new it is in the field.

This isn't really a question, but I wanted to use this platform to come with you with a complaint of an actual current Evernote users that really wishes to migrate, but unfortunately can't.

P.S I know that the focus of Microsoft at the whole is on Windows Phone, however, to get there, you have to start by capturing the existing markets and that won't happen by captivating the existing users of iPhone and Android.

Every 2nd AMA has an agenda - A new book, movie, game, attention, etc.

As long as the guy is answering questions honestly, it is a fair game.

I agree. I love the game but I could really skip the "story".

Sorry 😕

I just imagine you writing that last haha while contorting in agonizing pain 😟