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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by greggsy »

klausjensen wrote: post #12

I still use Evernote for scanned documents (invoices, receipts, insurance papers etc etc), and have done so for ~10 years - because I can free-text search in scanned documents. During those years, Evernote has kept getting worse and worse, becomeing slower and more unreliable at doing cores things, while they slap features on it, that I do not want (collaboration, chat and other garbage). I want to migrate off at som…

I just take photos of documents and tag them in the Photos app, which OCR’s documents out of the box now.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by grandchild »

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 find it telling that notion managed to break the core web concept of the hyperlink by implementing their own version of the tag.

If I middle-click on a link to open it in a new tab, I paste-insert my clipboard content _into the link text_ instead (I'm on Linux). That's just horrible.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by robviren »

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…

Syncthing and your favorite text editor has been great for me. Setup is fairly easy and you depend on no offical service other than people hosting a relay server which you could also host. A little more setup and DIY, but at least the experience will remain the same for a long time.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by Angostura »

langsoul-com wrote: post #36
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notion has a strangely huge and fanatic fan base so it's not surprising It's like a cult

Eh, it's just a good product. As soon as it becomes shit, expect everyone to jump on the next product. Just like people who used to like evernote, but not any more.

Because the implication is that people as saying it is a good product, not because it’s a good product, but because they are part of a cult

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by neonnoodle »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Promotion Society

Special OPS reporting for duty :-)

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by DangerousPie »

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/

Thank you for the suggestion, I am giving that a try right now. A little rough around the edges but seems to work quite well so far!

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by sph »

mszcz wrote: post #53
klausjensen wrote: post #12

I still use Evernote for scanned documents (invoices, receipts, insurance papers etc etc), and have done so for ~10 years - because I can free-text search in scanned documents. During those years, Evernote has kept getting worse and worse, becomeing slower and more unreliable at doing cores things, while they slap features on it, that I do not want (collaboration, chat and other garbage). I want to migrate off at som…

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.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by smileybarry »

molszanski wrote: post #15
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notion has a strangely huge and fanatic fan base so it's not surprising It's like a cult

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

- Markdown Militants

- OneNote Outlanders

- MSBuild Masochists

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by stedguv »

robviren wrote: post #73
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…

Syncthing and your favorite text editor has been great for me. Setup is fairly easy and you depend on no offical service other than people hosting a relay server which you could also host. A little more setup and DIY, but at least the experience will remain the same for a long time.

Agree! Syncthing is fabulous and this is a good use for it. Though hese days, I use Nextcloud Files and Deck more often (I can run my own Nextcloud instance).
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