OneNote
Intended for academic, personal, and business users:
- Included with Microsoft Office package
- Desktop and web-based versions, as well as mobile app
- automatically synchronizes
- clean interface and easy to use
- notes as digital "sticky notes" or "index cards"
- notes as web page snapshots, PDFs, documents, photographs, or recordings
- Encrypted
Evernote
Increasingly business-focused; not primarily intended for academic use:
- freemium
- desktop and web-based version as well as mobile app
- easy to use
- notes as digital "sticky notes" or "index cards"
- web-based and mobile; automatically synchronizes
- notes as web page snapshots, PDFs, documents, photographs, or recordings
- subscription version searches the text of PDFs
- No automatic encyrption
Notion
- project management software able to manage individual research, information, and research projects.
- easy-to-use
- web-based
- freemium
- guiides & tutorials
Cornell Notes for iPad
Noodle Tools
- academic software developed to help students organize notes and research.
- easy to use
- web-based tool
- requires a paid personal subscription
