To me the core functionality of Evernote has been perfectly replaced by Apple Notes.
Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
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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.
They should probably be transparent about it in latter case though (which they aren’t always)
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#113Maybe 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…
Obsidian. It's markdown based, so simple at the base, but you can go wild with plugins ( including latex, graph visualisations, dynamic queries across notes, etc.), and it supports metadata, tags, etc. if you want to. You can sync with anything supporting text files ( Git, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) or pay a bit for their ens to end encrypted service that works great.
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You might take a look at Obsidian. For me it’s the best of two (or how many you like) worlds. You can sync your files via git or a cloud service of your liking. What bugs me is that it’s not open source but what makes it great is a lot of open source developers contributing plugins and themes.
I know it's biased because it's an opinion from a competitor, but it's interesting nevertheless: https://blog.standardnotes.com/33536/how-not-to-build-a-secu...
I‘ll give it a read, thank you!
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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’ve used and liked Genius Scan for a long time. Roughly six or seven years.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#116On Windows, when creating a new note with the keyboard shortcut, Evernote started to silently fail to save the note. Once I noticed, I checked its log, and saw that every time there was a database-related error. I reinstalled and that fixed it, but I had to stop using Evernote. I back up my notes, but that doesn't help when the program is silently failing to save them in the first place. I used Evernote for everything, and I will never know how much information I lost due to this bug. It was a data nightmare scenario.
I also noticed one day that some of my notes that only had titles also had a body containing the same text. I backspaced through the superfluous body, and the note deleted itself. I reproduced this reliably. I think maybe those notes really only had bodies, but Evernote was duplicating the body text in the title textbox, or vice versa, tricking me into thinking it had both, so when I deleted the body, it considered the whole note empty. Luckily, I noticed what was happening before I could no longer remember which notes I had accidentally deleted.
Other than the big bugs:
Pasting without formatting never seems to work.
Assigning a note to a notebook and tagging it is not keyboard-friendly, reducing efficiency dramatically.
Filtering by notebook/tag takes way more clicks and screens than it needs to on mobile.
Launching the app is incredibly slow, which means you can't use it for a quick look-up.
The conflict rules seem overly simple, as I frequently get conflicts in a big note I have when I simply add a line anywhere in it on two devices.
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#117I’m a big fan of Joplin https://joplinapp.org/ The sync works with a bunch of different cloud services and I’ve yet to have a problem with it.
How about their export file? What happens if/when this software disappears?
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
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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.
No, I installed it and saw they offer a subscription. There is no one off payment, they offer a yearly VIP package for £35.99.
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#119I switched from Evernote to Joplin
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#120Maybe 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…
https://standardnotes.com syncs well. cant speak to importing. they have an interesting privacy/encryption approach and some (all?) open source https://github.com/standardnotes
I found it hard to tell if standard notes is fully open source, as well.
My bigger gripes are that it doesn't support (markdown) formatting without a subscription, and I can't figure out how to put notes into folders.