I'm working on an Evernote clone for markdown. I find that almost all my notes are text. I hate the buggy EN editor, it's where I constantly think the app could do better and wonder what the heck all those engineers are doing... Here's the gist of my idea: Similar UI like EN, but designed along UX experience of VSCode. It's an Electron app using Monaco as the editor. Also uses a similar concept like VSCode's workspac…
I like the concept - do you have any plans for a mobile client and how the UX would translate to smaller displays? In terms of essentials, version history would be on my list, perhaps using git as a backend so that you can access the notes with other tools as well.
In emacs (where I do 100% of my work), I press a single key combination, make the note, then go right back to work.
What do you do about ideas you think of when you're not at a computer? Or when you're at a computer that doesn't have access to the network you usually store notes on?
I pull out my phone and use Beorg, which syncs with my Dropbox.
The next time I'm at my computer, the notes are right there in Emacs.
I have over a thousand notes in Evernote. One day I noticed that one was missing shortly after I created it. Eventually I discovered that the convenient new-note shortcut was failing every time with a database corruption error - but the error only appeared in a system log I was unaware of. There was no indication to the user that the notes were failing. To this day I have no idea how many notes I lost due to this bug…
Turtl, it's free, open source, and IF you want, you can self host it.
I'm working on an Evernote clone for markdown. I find that almost all my notes are text. I hate the buggy EN editor, it's where I constantly think the app could do better and wonder what the heck all those engineers are doing... Here's the gist of my idea: Similar UI like EN, but designed along UX experience of VSCode. It's an Electron app using Monaco as the editor. Also uses a similar concept like VSCode's workspac…
I like the concept - do you have any plans for a mobile client and how the UX would translate to smaller displays? In terms of essentials, version history would be on my list, perhaps using git as a backend so that you can access the notes with other tools as well.
I do not have any plans for a mobile client yet. I have thought about it quite a bit, but I'm not sure what would work best there in relation to what I have proposed. What is clear to me, especially from my own experience, is that there are really two main note-taking "activities": the quick memento from mobile, often just a phrase, or picture, etc. And then the sustained effort to write notes that will remain a source of knowledge for me for years to come. Many of my notes are thousands of words long (book notes, research for academic papers, etc). I want to solve the latter use-case once and for all. When it comes to producing more sophisticated knowledge items, I'm usually on my laptop or desktop computer.
Also i know, at least for me, that when i find myself wanting to take notes most is whenever its a spur of the moment kind of idea that i dont want to lose. In that kind of scenario, i find that a small notebook and pencil is still superior to an app simply because i don't have to think too much about the process of getting myself into a position where i can actually record the idea. Its just too hard to get into the…
Another vote here for paper and pencil for notes on the go.
I'm a paid customer of Evernote, I must say that it works great and it has no reasonable replacement. I use it for all kinds of notes, like for example short tutorials on the command line, issuing commands that are hard to remember, TODO lists (both at work and for grocery shopping), meeting notes, listing pros and cons, everything. In meetings I like the ability to record audio, or to add pictures I take with my pho…
> I'm a paid customer of Evernote I think what you want to say is "paying customer"
Sorry, English is not my native language and it's too late to edit the message.
We contacted Evernote in 2012, 13, 14 begging them to try CRDT based synchronisation. First, it might have fixed their sync glitches. Second, that would make the client a full copy of the data, very much like a git repo. You can't lose data that way. Third, that would be a step towards collaborative features. We got brushed off. We used personal connections as well as official channels. In 2014 we annoyed them so muc…
So it has been 5 years since 2019 and they still haven't fixed the synch problem (in my experience). That doesn't bode well for the product as a whole I would think.
This is the problem with taking on lots of venture capital - the pressure to grow and meet impossible expectations. Evernote could have been a great small-medium sized software company, making it's owners and employees nice money and satisfaction. But instead they needed to make moonshots to make VCs happy. The shift to business and all the bloated features in the core app became a big turnoff to me. I switched to Be…
I never got into Evernote, the UI was just horrible. I started using Bear a couple years ago and immediately fell in love with it and started paying right away.
Are there any good, preferably open source, alternatives to Evernote/OneNote? I like Markdown but plaintext is not enough as I need support for pictures, tables, ...