Evernote vs Springpad

Here you have it folks, two great combatants firing out notes as if it was going out of style. Weighing in at 750,000 premium users, an organized killing machine that not only holds your notes, but takes pictures too. In the left corner you have the unbeatable, all sensational EVERNOTE! To the right we have a lean, mean, organization machine. The new rookie of the year, and direct competition to the champ, we bring to you SPRINGPAD. Lets fight!

What have we gotten into now....

Now with all introductions aside, lets begin our review with Evernote. This outstanding piece of software, that started out as a beta in 2008, has gained a massive amounts of popularity. Tending to well over twenty-million people worldwide; if not more now. Growth of success sprouted out nearly instantly, especially on the android. No longer did the user have to worry about their notes being lost. Because if you used evernote you'd have a offline copy, as well as a online one. Did success go to their heads? No, especially when you compare it to the McAfee guy.

So if they didn't go mad with power, then what did they do? If you're asking yourself this go pat yourself on the back because you earned it soldier. Not only did they focus on the stability of the evernote software, they branched off and made things like evernote clipper or Skitch.

Personally, I don't use a lot of skitch. But I use evernote clipper almost on a day-to-day basis. With it I can save enitre pages onto my evernote all my Warmachine needs. Thanks to it, I can now read about my favorite pieces and form strategies during my down time at work. I can also save some recipes, notes, and even past homework!  Or, I can keep a collection of pictures. Such as posters, wallpapers, backgrounds, funny comics, or just daily use photos.

Next up, we have the underdog. Ladies and gentlemen hold onto your hats for Springpad!.This handy tool has out of this world organization and categorization. Like evernote, they use "Notebooks" to help organize the users things. But what sets them apart is how it goes about it. Especially when it comes to sharing. While playing around with Springpad, I figured out that you can post lists to facebook. These lists do not require user acounts to view and are a dream come true when you're recommending games to friends. Instead of sending one link at a time, one can now send them a large list of links along with pictures.

Now what I don't like is the way they save web pages. Unlike Evernote, springpad likes to save the url and give a brief description of the website. While as evernote will save the ENTIRE webpage. So when it comes to reading at work, I'd give the point to evernote any day of the week. Also another cool thing about springpad, that and I forgot to mention, was that you can also attach videos.