I'd like to leave Evernote (I moved to Linux, which they don't support, and their web app is insufficient). But for me the killer feature is doing OCR on PDFs and images you post and including it in search. I haven't found that elsewhere. Does anyone else do that?
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#42I remember when someone first showed me evernote with a bunch of hype. And I was like "This is pointless, I can't believe it's a company."
I think we can refer to that as the age of 'cloud madness' where anything and everything cloud-related was the new hotness. I think we've forgotten just how strong the buzz-wordiness was around cloud, it was prolific.
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#43A bit of a nuts idea for Evernote: you pay a (decent $$$) monthly fee and you get your own boss. They help you manage your life and make sure you are doing all the things you plan to and enable you to calibrate your time management / ability to do things when you say you will.
There's already another company offering this. https://bossasaservice.life/
Seen on HN last year:
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#44I'd like to leave Evernote (I moved to Linux, which they don't support, and their web app is insufficient). But for me the killer feature is doing OCR on PDFs and images you post and including it in search. I haven't found that elsewhere. Does anyone else do that?
OneNote has this:
"OneNote can search typed text, handwritten notes, and words that appear in inserted images."
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-for-Notes-in...
But it won't help your Linux support issue :(
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#45Article missed the MOST important part of Evernote's collapse, IMHO: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/16/13979778/evernote-privac... That's why I left Evernote. I can't imagine trying to tell their story without mentioning that.
Same reason I left after years of paying, they later backtracked but I’d moved on and don’t really trust they won’t do similar again.
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#46I'd like to leave Evernote (I moved to Linux, which they don't support, and their web app is insufficient). But for me the killer feature is doing OCR on PDFs and images you post and including it in search. I haven't found that elsewhere. Does anyone else do that?
Dropbox just added this at the end of last year. https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/09/dropbox-finally-adds-autom...
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#47Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit. Evernote's core functionality is extremely reliable and valuable to a lot of people, including myself. Maybe Apple should buy Evernote.
Perhaps you haven't tried it recently, but Apple's notes app is excellent. I've certainly had less problems with Apple Notes than with Evernote's constant bloody sync conflicts.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit. Since the big update a couple of versions ago Apple Notes is one of the better note apps. Syncing works great, and it has been far more reliable than any of my forays into Evernote.
just curious, is it easy to export all the notes to a file, or migrate notes to a different machine without using iCloud?
Not without third party software it seems.
Search for “Notes Exporter”
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#49What alternatives would you recommend?
Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
#50Article missed the MOST important part of Evernote's collapse, IMHO: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/16/13979778/evernote-privac... That's why I left Evernote. I can't imagine trying to tell their story without mentioning that.
for every failing company that does this there are tons of successful ones that don’t fail. uber, google, facebook, etc