Personally, I still use EN2 every day. However, I also consider other alternatives, like OneNote and Ultra Recall. I agree with you that nothing else comes close to EN2’s simple power, but I have to face the fact that EN2 is end-of-life. I like Ultra Recall (I’ve started considering it again based on your message, actually) and am encouraged to see some tagging features therein.

The search continues! Please keep us informed as you go through your own search.

I’ve been an EN2.2 user for a while, although I haven’t done anything as elaborate as what you’ve done. I suppose that alone speaks to the power of EN – I just used it as a long streaming list of notes, and just the list and search features in its simplest form was adequate for me. (I’m not saying that my needs aren’t complex, just the opposite, however EN did everything I wanted without having to get all wrapped up in tweaking the tool itself.)

Anyway, I left the company I was working for, and left EN at the same time. I never upgraded (downgraded?) to EN3, and from what I’ve seen/heard, wasn’t interested in switching. I looked for something new to start the next phase of my career with, and have been using Ultra Recall for the past 6 months. It is certainly a very capable tool, but it lacks the simplicity of the power available with EN2. UR has as dedicated a following as EN, but for me, I was complicated enough, and I don’t need my tools to be as complicated as I am.

So here’s my dilemma – Do I:

A) Continue with EN knowing that it has reached its End-of-Life (cynical jab @ EN3), and risk technical obsolescence when the next OS comes along where EN2 no longer works; or

B) Keep searching for the next best thing in note taking since EN2 (another cynical jab @ EN3)?

Life is full of agonizing reappraisals.

Anyway, thanks again for your article!

Mike

Thank you very much anyway, I think things has changed a lot since you has written your article, but it inspired me to re-think how and wether to make use of latest EN for organizing my life, too. I will explore it, maybe i’ll find a way in wich EN will be useful for me, too, even if I’m not a cook using it for organizing, my dinners or recipies.

With best regards, hidden

Yeah, I can see how the new Notebooks/Tags/Saved Searches paradigm in EN3 isn’t going to work for you either! Or the lack of templates. Or the missing auto-categories. Or….

Thanks for the post!