Notion And Evernote: Is It Worth Switching

Notion And Evernote: Is It Worth Switching

Evernote was among the initial first-party applications to adopt the mobile approach on the App Store. However, in the past few years, the company has faced criticism due to its decisions. It increased its prices, restricted free accounts to only two devices, and then made a controversial move by accessing customer data. Fortunately, the company reversed this decision within a few days after facing backlash.

Notion And Evernote: Is It Worth Switching

Among those incidents, San Francisco-based startup, Notion emerged as a viable option. With its unique style of note-taking, templates, and clean design, it quickly became a choice for those looking for Evernote alternatives. The recently released ‘import from Evernote’ tool made the switch even easier.

In this post, we will compare Evernote to Notion to see if the new kid in town is as good as they say or if is it yet another ‘Grass is greener on the other side’ situation.

Cross-Platform Availability

Evernote is available on Android, iOS, Apple Watch, Mac, and Windows. Every app is a native one specifically designed for a particular platform.

Notion is also available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. Notion has carried over the UI elements from iOS to Android, so it doesn’t feel native at all. No need to worry about accessing your notes on any platform.

App Size

Evernote weighs around 126MB while Notion is surprisingly a tenth of size at 12.6MB.

Download Evernote for iOS

Download Notion for iOS

User Interface

The expertise and experience of Evernote is evident in its remarkable application design. The app’s interface is incredibly smooth, and its animations are delightfully easy to use, providing a seamless experience for the user. All the essential options are neatly organized and positioned at the bottom of the screen, making them easily accessible to the user. With a simple swiping gesture, the user can quickly navigate to the app’s all notes section. Evernote’s application is meticulously crafted, and it is challenging to find any significant flaw or reason to complain about its functionality.

Evernote Ui
Evernote Ui2

As you may know, the app follows the physical cabinet concept with the organization via Notebooks and Tags.

The notion, on the other hand, looks and feels outdated. It’s still using the hamburger menu and the options like undo and share options are uncomfortable at best. The app isn’t using the usual bottom bar menus for note-taking options, which is strange.

Notion Ui
Notion Ui 2

Taking Notes

Note-taking capabilities are the prime aspect of any Notes app. That’s where the differences between the two surface. Evernote has included every possible way to add new notes. You can write notes, add images, recordings, tag files, and even draw with the available options.

Add New Note
Note Taking Options

Evernote also lets you choose from the available templates. The selection is undoubtedly rich, and I’m sure you will find the relevant template to start the note.

Templets

Notion’s approach is different here. It treats every sentence as a block. The advantage here is, that the software can let you customize every block separately, and you can also move those blocks in notes with the drag-and-drop function.

Move Blocks
Raking Notes

The ability to add images, links, files, and templates has a unique take. You can add those from a little arrow from any block. You can integrate anything from there. And that’s why Notion was quite popular among power users and reviewers.

Desktop App and Extension

Both Notion and Evernote have a desktop app available for Windows and Mac. The functionalities match their mobile counterparts. I found the use of Notion’s templates a bit refined on desktop apps.

Evernote Desktop

Evernote extension is available on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and every other Chromium-based browser. Notion recently added extension support for Chrome browser.

Notion Desktop

Other Functions

Searching a note is as essential as creating notes for these apps. And Evernote shines at finding notes. Type a keyword and it will pull up all the relevant information from the piles of Notes. I found Notion’s search a bit janky sometimes.

Seach Evernote
Search Notion

Other functionalities include dark theme support and organization via Notebooks. The notion also lets you add a relevant cover photo on the best of every note, which is a nice touch.

Dark Theme Evernote

Widget Support

Evernote supports a widget function on iOS. You can add a widget and start writing notes from the My Feed menu. Unfortunately, Notion doesn’t offer any quick way to add new notes.

Widget Evernote

Sharing

Sharing is where Evernote shines. You can add the other person’s Evernote account to send the note quickly. Also, one can send a simple note using any of the social media. There is no lock-in here.

Share Evernote
Share Notion

Notion only lets you send the note to the other Notion member. For those out of Notion’s world, you need to generate a shareable link and then send a note using that.

Pricing

Evernote offers two types of premium offerings. The Basic one is limited to 60MB of data, and the functionalities are also bare-bones. The full-featured set comes in Premium offer which costs $70 per year.

Notion is free to use for the first 1000 blocks, which should be enough for a casual user. After that, the app costs $4 per month.

Worth the Switching Hustle?

After my two weeks of usage with both software, I have to say, Evernote still got it. For a first-time user, I would suggest going with Notion as its approach is modern and note styling looks better than Evernote. For those thinking of switching from Evernote, I would advise you to try out Notion for at least a week.

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