Both the Evernote and Onenote are compatible with a number of web applications which gives them more flexibility. Evernote is compatible with so If you hang out all the day with Microsoft Office, then you should opt for Onenote, otherwise, you can choose Evernote which supports a good number of.

‘He wants to be able to easily save the emails and files in folders in date order in a single place.’ Photograph: Hero Images/Getty Images/Hero Images My dad runs a small business and has problems organising his files – Word documents, PDFs, photos – alongside his emails. He wants to be able to easily save the emails and files in folders in date order in a single place. He also wants the folders to be accessible from anywhere on his phone/iPad.

I’ve tried simply saving the emails and documents into a single folder on his Mac, but this is a huge pain for the amount of emails he receives. Matt One of the advantages of the digitisation of information is that we can now store many different kinds of data together.

Videos and sound recordings now sit happily alongside letters, photos, paper receipts and invoices instead of in separate ledgers or folders, or on different physical media such as cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs etc. Whether it’s worth adding emails is another matter, and I don’t think many people bother. You can, of course, save emails as text files or PDFs and add them to project folders. This works for a small number of emails, but – as you have found – it’s too much work to handle all emails that way. In any case, you can usually find the same emails by looking in a mail folder, or by searching for an email address or a job number.

(Always include a job number in emails if a project involves working with different people in different companies.) OneNote and Evernote If your dad wants to access his files from anywhere with a smartphone or a tablet, then he will probably need to put copies online. The simplest way to do this is to upload project folders to an online storage service such as Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive or whatever.

However, he’d still have to use different programs to access some different types of data. An interesting alternative is to store everything in a sort of portmanteau program that will also help organise it. The leading examples are Evernote and Microsoft’s OneNote. These are about as close as you can get to a “paperless office”, at least for a sufficiently small office.

Outlook.com even had a “” feature that made it easier to file emails with other data, but it has – temporarily, I hope – from the latest version. Otherwise, both programs allow you add emails to your notebooks by almost identical means.

First, you can forward them to an email address, so you could set up mail rules to forward selected emails to OneNote or Evernote. Second, you can “print” them to a OneNote or Evernote notebook instead of to a physical printer. It’s very tedious to do more than a few. Still, you can also add things like receipts and business cards by, in effect, using your smartphone as a scanner.

Example apps include Microsoft’s Office Lens with OneNote and or with Evernote. Which is best? OneNote might be the better choice for your dad, because its hierarchical structure is logical and almost infinitely expandable.

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