While other apps can do some of what Evernote does, in my experience of using Evernote, no one does it better. Evernote is the place where I put the PDF documents that I want to be able to quickly reference and find the key piece of information that I need. Specifically, it is the king of PDF search. The best feature that Evernote has and, in my opinion, does better than any other note-taking service in the market today is how well it handles PDFs. It is cross-platform and has a rich feature set. Some will argue that Evernote has slipped in recent years but I believe there are still things that Evernote does better than any other note-taking service. It has been around forever and, despite some bumps, remains one of the best note-taking services on the market.
Evernote is the grand-daddy of all note-taking services.
