I used to be a OneNote fan. From a minor detailing on a simple rewrite rule to a lengthy note taking on a major front-end revamp was captured on OneNote. Well, those days are gone. Surfaced again is the product Microsoft (almost) killed with their vivid note taking tool OneNote; EverNote. This time however it has bubbled with all the right and timely features. You can write a note once and access it from anywhere in the world. But if you prefer not to put your sensitive data up on the cloud, the facility of simply syncing your notes with a portable USB drive is also part of the package. Long live the notes war!
I am an all-time portable app user. If there is a portable app version of a software package I like, I’d go for it rather than the installer package. Most of these applications are easy to use, free or open source and well written. What most users don’t realize about portable apps is that they do not require a portable USB drive or a portable hard disk to work with; they work like any other regular windows application. So this post is in a way, a testimonial on portable apps and how I use them to ease the burden in reinstalling applications on Windows machines.
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