Another poll: One Note/Evernote/Pencil and paper
 

Another techno poll prompted by the stuff preloaded onto my new laptop.
Apparently these "apps" as they're now called are both free and frightfully useful for organising stuff.
Up to now I've used the old fashioned folder with different documents, spreadsheets, pics etc in, or stuck everything into a Word document.
Which of the above apps do you use - why is it superior to anything else, what else might you recommend?
Multiple responses are permitted in the poll.

Organizing my computer based ideas?

That would probably be a good idea.

My ideas are usually brain based, hormones might come into it too.

The few cases when I was collecting and ordering items for an article, I used pen and paper in the early 2000s, Word docs more recently: handy for reordering them, assembling them from words and phrases into full sentences and paragraphs.

When I have an idea for software I'm developing, it goes onto a slip of paper. There's a dedicated box into which those slips go.

When/if my computer has ideas, I don't know what he/she does with them.

I use Google Keep for simple notes and such. Nice because you can compose a shopping list at home, and bring it up on the phone while shopping. Or put a recipe in from the browser, and then bring it up on the tablet in the kitchen.

There are people using Evernote at work, though, and they really like it. I'ma check it out

Oh, I've been using Google Sheets to track the power of attorney stuff I do for my cousin, and I just started up another sheet to make note of stuff I've been doing in a new volunteer position I took on. Kind of like a "to do" list with dates of when I should be doing stuff so I can remember next year when I have to do it all over again.

I love Google Sheets. The mobile interface is great and so is the PC interface.

I'll have to check out Google Keep to see if that is even easier. I had been using a shopping list app on my phone, but it's clunky.

I rarely use the technical note takers, but when I do, I use Evernote. It's on my phone and home computer. I can't use it at work anymore. It's fine when I use it on the computer, but not as easy on the phone. I don't have a tablet, so I don't know about that. I assume I would feel the same way as I do about the phone. I mainly use it, now, for simple notes of things I want to remember. Not for grocery lists or anything.

I bought some journals/planners for daily use. I am using these for meal planning, grocery lists, to do items, etc. I think it's easier to use these for items that are updated constantly or I just have a thought I want to jot down. It takes less time to open them than it does an app.

For something like budget/bill pay tracking, I use Google spreadsheets.

For photos, I use Google picasa.

I think that's all I got :)

I use scratch pads, if I can still remember what I was going to jot down when I find one. :bonk:

pen and back of hand

I keep one of these and a pico pen in my pocket pretty much all the time.

I use one note-taking program: keepNote

Those are the right size to tear out a page and stuff it in a bottle if you get marooned. :thumb:

My laptop came with a metric assload of "apps". I don't react well to tech change so I had to disable all of them.

Microsoft turned them back on last week... and I turned them off again.

I do pledge to figure out and use New Cellar when it comes out though.

Yep Griff - I'm working out which ones to uninstall, but thought I'd check with you guyz first to see if these were worth keeping.
Seems not ...

I'm sure someone other than me would be a good guide. :)

I have always had 'colornote' on my phones. It's an app that mimics post its. you can swipe them off when you're done.... .but it keeps them if you swipe the opposite way, they remain.

It has a checklist or text option. you can also choose the note color, and organize that way... archives, lots of customization, transparency, search, etc. and it's free.

for things I want to have forever, and maybe share, I use google docs.

Must have.