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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by Arubis »

avinoth wrote: post #55
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…

I'm on the same boat, burnt by Evernote and trying to find the good alternative. Sticking with Obsidian for now with some apple notes in-between. But the former has too many features I don't need and later has this vendor lock-in. If I ever built a note taking app, I'll be using your tag line as a subtitle and a guiding principle :) "...just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities"

It sounds like you want [nvAlt](https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) pointed at a synced directory of text files.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by jl6 »

webwanderings wrote: post #117
lazzurs wrote: post #20

I’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?

Markdown format in a SQLite database, and there’s a command line client to script it if you like. Joplin is excellent.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by jl6 »

lazzurs wrote: post #20

I’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.

Seconding Joplin, but noting that there is currently a bug in the iOS client that has broken Dropbox syncing. Hopefully will be fixed soon, because apart from that I can’t recommend Joplin highly enough.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by tlb »

Evernote got slower and buggier every year, until I finally gave up.

I switched to Joplin and I like it a lot. It's very fast. It uses markdown syntax with all the features like LaTeX equations. It stores your notes as regular files in the file system so you can export or grep or whatever. Syncing to the mobile app works OK.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by antiframe »

sofixa wrote: post #113
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…

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.

I wouldn't mind using it but their license keeps me away.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by js2 »

makecheck wrote: post #127
troad wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, eh? Sure, Apple Notes may have native window resize, but can you tell if the app is syncing right now? When was the last sync? What happens in case of a versioning clash? Will it decide to work with patchy Internet on that upcoming train ride? Will it sync once you go back online? Will it decide to party with some random Exchange server you used for work once, and how will thi…

My main issue with Notes right now is that somewhere along the way we became OK with software having no Undo at all , combined with the power to instantly sync your typo everywhere so it is truly gone forever , combined with UI that basically encourages accidents. So if I am perfect when typing with a tiny virtual keyboard, nothing goes wrong; otherwise, I could lose things in ways that are interpreted by the softwar…

Apple Notes supports undo which reverts all changes you've made in the current editing session for a note. A note can also be undeleted for 30 days.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by _the_inflator »

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…

I think that Evernote went from an app to becoming a feature, a bit like Dropbox. This happened so some early startup apps 10-15 years ago.

What once warranted an app is simply a feature somewhere in another app. MacOS comes with "Notes", which is perfectly sufficient for me.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by tyrfing »

makecheck wrote: post #127
troad wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, eh? Sure, Apple Notes may have native window resize, but can you tell if the app is syncing right now? When was the last sync? What happens in case of a versioning clash? Will it decide to work with patchy Internet on that upcoming train ride? Will it sync once you go back online? Will it decide to party with some random Exchange server you used for work once, and how will thi…

My main issue with Notes right now is that somewhere along the way we became OK with software having no Undo at all , combined with the power to instantly sync your typo everywhere so it is truly gone forever , combined with UI that basically encourages accidents. So if I am perfect when typing with a tiny virtual keyboard, nothing goes wrong; otherwise, I could lose things in ways that are interpreted by the softwar…

It actually does have undo, something I know about from it frequently detecting waving my phone around as an attempt to undo.
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