But just as I start liking the EverNote interface, I download Google's desktop search engine, something Microsoft will soon be emulating with technology it purchased from Lookout and has been busily augmenting ever since Google announced its offering. The Google stuff, however, works amazingly well. Installation is simple and performance is fast even on the reams of miscellaneous data on my hard disk.
Microsoft, Info Select, and EverNote spokesfolks deny looking at either Google's or Redmond's forthcoming desktop search as a competition to their note-organizing applications, but I'll argue that point with them more later. To me, the competition is obvious. First, EverNote, Info Select, and OneNote all force me to organize my information within their applications; that's a noticeable productivity overhead. For example, take something like contacts: Info Select forces you to keep a contact list in Info Select as well as Outlook. Google simply searches Outlook. The desktop search approach allows me to use the entire computer as my “OneNote” repository with no additional thought to organization required unless I feel like focusing my neurons.
And from a systems administrators approach, it's just as obvious. I can purchase OneNote or a competitor and then devote staff-hours to training my most disorganized users on these applications, or I can simply download a free desktop search engine and let them do what they've been doing on Google for years. No muss, no fuss, and they'll still love me for it. That's not just competitive, that's a no-brainer.
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