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Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by canadiantim »

dmd wrote: post #69
canadiantim wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get your notes out of apple notes though? They're like some sort of covetous demon who won't let your notes go once it consumes them. I literally went to the apple notes discord once and asked them directly and their response was basically "Apple Notes isn't design to be used for more than 100 notes"... so be very very careful about choosing to use Apple Notes cause you may never get your notes out of ther…

I use this https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_pa... and it works extremely well.

you're a legend. Thank you!

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by BiggsHoson »

I've tried a number of alternatives and keep coming back to Evernote's legacy apps (Windows and Android). The features I use are just right, and syncing just works, always.

A key feature for me is being able to (with the legacy desktop app) open multiple notes at once, something that I've not seen anywhere else. (I assume this is because the legacy app is a native Windows executable, whereas multiple windows are not supported in the cross-platform frameworks everyone uses nowadays. I may be wrong.)

On a new tablet I was forced to install their new app, and I find it just OK. I don't like it as much as the older one, but it's usable.

Once Evernote shuts off the legacy apps, I will be searching for an alternative once again.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by longrod »

SUPERSLEDZ wrote: post #27

Still looking for viable replacement: * Joplin had some issues I've checked year ago. * Apple notes while I have iPhone there's no Windows app. * OneNote is just trully horrendous app. * Obsidian just can't convince myself. I'm forcing myself to use it work, while it works, it's not something I enjoy doing. * Notion is odd, everything is a block and sometimes formatting is just meh... * Google keep is just simple not…

Notesnook (https://notesnook.com/) - it's open source, has its own importer making it super easy to migrate, is fully cross platform, and doesn't force you to learn-and-relearn anything. It's note taking - just perfect-er.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by IceWreck »

SUPERSLEDZ wrote: post #27

Still looking for viable replacement: * Joplin had some issues I've checked year ago. * Apple notes while I have iPhone there's no Windows app. * OneNote is just trully horrendous app. * Obsidian just can't convince myself. I'm forcing myself to use it work, while it works, it's not something I enjoy doing. * Notion is odd, everything is a block and sometimes formatting is just meh... * Google keep is just simple not…

> Any worthy apps to look at besides those?

Bookstack if you dont mind the lack of clients

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by matthewmacleod »

seabriez wrote: post #57
baby wrote: post #20

Honestly Apple Notes works really well. It doesn't have much features, but its simplicity should be the baseline of any note taking app

Yeah, no, I am not giving my notes to lock-in devil.

Hardly that much of a lock-in issue with a SQLite DB with some gzipped protobufs in it.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by cpach »

Am I the only one who still pays for and like Evernote? (:

I don’t love it, it’s too bloated for that. But it still works (if not optimally).

I could switch, but doing research to find an alternative and then migrate would take quite a lot of time, and time is always a constrained resource.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

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Post by longrod »

BiggsHoson wrote: post #74

I've tried a number of alternatives and keep coming back to Evernote's legacy apps (Windows and Android). The features I use are just right, and syncing just works, always. A key feature for me is being able to (with the legacy desktop app) open multiple notes at once, something that I've not seen anywhere else. (I assume this is because the legacy app is a native Windows executable, whereas multiple windows are not…

Most features that appear to only be available in native apps can quite trivially be added using any cross-platform framework like Electron. Multiple windows is not something the is platform-restricted i.e. even web apps can do it if they try.

Have you given Notesnook a try? While it doesn't have multi window support they have it on their roadmap: https://notesnook.com/roadmap

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