OK, so the premise behind Evernote is a good one. It gives you a web-based notebook that syncs to various devices. It’s a great way to take notes that can be accessed from several places.
I find it extremely useful when passing information from my MacBook Pro to the Windows partition on my MacBook Pro.
As a notetaking platform, it has a tremendous amount of potential.
Except that it completely sucks.
The thing has massive bugs in it, particularly when trying to pass rich text (such as bold, italic or colored text) back and forth. For this reason, I find myself looking for reasons to us it, then dying a little on the inside when it inevitably fails miserably.
It’s free and all, but if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. And when it starts hindering you more than it helps you, you start looking for ways to replace it.
Am I confident that there’s a reasonable replacement that does what Evernote says it does without sucking? No. But I’m open to the idea.
My simple solution: don't paste formatted text. They aren't good at it. Try cmd+shift+v.
Alternatives: dropbox or sugarsync – I love sugarsync.
Another: simplenote plus clients, e.g. Notational Velocity and ResophNotes; see:
Taking note: ResophNotes
http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2010/06/resophnotes.html