I spent my last two years of residency taking my notes in Evernote, but they really fall short in the transition between hand-written notes and that shift to research where you need to make high-quality handwritten notes over a PDF, like Notability, and then move those PDFs to the bibliography phase of databasing. Now that I'm out of training and doing my own work, that like of integration with my future self really killed EverNote for me. Now I need to figure out how to ensure all my notes are saved somewhere.
These knowledge management systems really need to think about a human through their education-training-research-job lifecycle. I think DogPile + Notability + Evernote would be a great integration.
You gotta roll your own out of app organization/tagging scheme, which isn't a big deal in keyboard mode, but when my machine is in stylus mode, totally sucks. (I used folders to organize Xournal files. Hard to navigate via stylus. Compare to say onenote with good stylus/touch us)
Also, the UI is just funky. Switching colors of the pen requires carefully tapping an extraordinarily tiny colored box. No way to paste images, you gotta clipart them in (so no roll-your-own stylus screenselect +paste functionality like onenote + windows 10). Scrolling only works sometimes, and leaves little penmark dots usually as it takes a second to understand that that wasn't my stylus.
It only recognizes one of the buttons on my thinkpad stylus.
If you're in putting text and want one word to be a different color, that single word needs to be an entirely different textbox, which is nearly impossible to do so close to other text. Also, no bold, italic, underline.
Gotta roll your own sync, which doesn't bother me because onenote sync is so terrible it actually makes the software worse.
Xournal is an incredible software but it's just soooo cloooose. I keep meaning to hunt around to see if it's open source and see if I can start contributing to get it how I want it.
These knowledge management systems really need to think about a human through their education-training-research-job lifecycle. I think DogPile + Notability + Evernote would be a great integration.