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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by joshspankit »

nnoitra wrote: post #52
ungamedplayer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has this changed your mind about hosted third party services? I have seen a number of people bitten by this kind of vendor behaviour, but they swiftly go back to making the same mistake.

How safe is my data if I use Notes on Mac and then upload it to iCloud? The reasoning is that Apple is a trillion dollar company and they've no interest in screwing me over. I know it's naive but a consolation I guess. If not, what would be an alternative?

They do have an interest in making sure you can’t take your data with you if you leave which I would argue is a type of screwing you over.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by viraptor »

bsutt wrote: post #60

Being able to forward an email to create a new note has always been their killer feature for me. The majority of my tasks begin with an email. Does anybody know if any of the Evernote alternatives support this yet?

I've never used this, but Joplin seems to have a 3rd party solution for that: https://github.com/manolitto/joplin-mail-gateway

Some assembly required of course.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by cianmm »

thesimp wrote: post #26

As a long time Evernote user I can say that the move from Evernote 6.x to the 10.x version has been a bit of a rough ride. I still use Evernote everyday because I did not find any other note taking tools that fit my workflow. And changing workflows ingrained over many years takes a lot of effort. Then again there are some very irritating things in the new Evernote 10.x versions of which I am constantly thinking: "are…

The weird UI for moving notes to a new notebook gets me every single time.

I’ve been looking for a good Evernote replacement for YEARS, but rely heavily on their OCR stuff to file well over a decade of important documents that I need to be able to call up fast.

I’ve replaced text notes with Bear for years, but for scanning I’ve still got to use Evernote. And that god damned move note UI.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by viraptor »

oblio wrote: post #22
hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #8

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From the HN commenting guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html *

Yeah, that kind of died the day this was published: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/corporate-market... Gitlab said out loud what we were all thinking: companies have automation in place to follow big communities such as HN and notify their developer evangelists and marketing teams and have them reply and create "buzz". Aka, shills :-)

There's a difference between people paid to post positive things about a project whenever it's mentioned and people paid to communicate about a project. One is shilling, the other is... communicating about a project. There's a difference and saying they're the same thing is quite cynic.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by causality0 »

netsharc wrote: post #90
causality0 wrote: post #81

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Evernote has only gotten worse since I started using it over 10 years ago That is the modern business model. First you build something so good it becomes indespensible then you squeeze money out of it until your customers hate you just enough to not stop using you.

I had an idea for a website: crowd-maintained list of downgrades for products, e.g. "Product: Twitter, Feature: login nag-wall when you scroll down. First Noticed: $month 2021,; Feature: killed the open API, Date: ___", etc. I still have the idea, if anyone wants to implement it, feel free.

Hell, it's fractal, all the way from major services to operating systems to the most minor app store apps. Products get better until someone decides they aren't growing fast enough and then they get worse until they die or someone sane realizes that your video file player doesn't need its own social network.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by bellBivDinesh »

ibluehh wrote: post #39
DangerousPie wrote: post #30

Maybe this is just me getting old, but I feel like Evernote has only gotten worse since I started using it over 10 years ago. Back then it was just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities - perfect. These days they have added all these extra features which I don't need, and which have made the whole app slow and terribly clunky. When I use the iPad app it takes several seconds to load notes or sear…

Notion

I use notion and I have to say regardless of what you want to use it for it will probably do much more than that for your use case once you understand how it works.

My only quibble is the lack of offline functionality.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by viraptor »

WJW wrote: post #33
molszanski wrote: post #15

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There are a few cults :D - Notion Nation - Roam Legion - Zettelkasten Zealots - Bear Bros PS. Add more ;)

Also the: - Evernote Evangelists - Orgmode Promotion Society - Plaintext Patriots - Joplin Javelins - Obsidian Organisation etc etc etc

Orgmode reveling group, for some recursion...

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by lgbrandon »

not1ofU wrote: post #56
DangerousPie wrote: post #30

Maybe this is just me getting old, but I feel like Evernote has only gotten worse since I started using it over 10 years ago. Back then it was just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities - perfect. These days they have added all these extra features which I don't need, and which have made the whole app slow and terribly clunky. When I use the iPad app it takes several seconds to load notes or sear…

Joplin - https://joplinapp.org/

I use Joplin and a docker next cloud instance on my local home network and set Joplin to only sync on wifi. Works great to keep notes synced on phone and laptop!

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by mszcz »

sph wrote: post #78
mszcz wrote: post #53

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I've switched to SwiftScan with automatic upload to Dropbox. It does decent-ish OCR on documents so that you more or less can select text in scanned PDFs. I rarely search inside scanned docs, most of the search is by filename which I manually set a couple of times a week. For file search VoidTools Everything is great.

Any other recommendation for an iOS scanner app that doesn't want me to subscribe to a mailing list and doesn't ask for monthly payment? Free or one time payment only.

I'm on Android, sorry.

SwiftScan has a one time payment option AFAIK, that's the one I used.

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