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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 deepspace »

pqs wrote: post #133
deepspace wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Simplenote to solve the problem of sharing quick notes between Apple Notes and Windows. My core data storage app is still OneNote, though. I moved there when Evernote started getting buggy, and it is a perfectly fine replacement. I don't understand the hate for it.

How did you move your notes from Evernote to OneNote?

It's been many years, so I forget the details, but I seem to recall the OneNote was able to import files that were exported in Evernote's standard export format.

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

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Post by limuc »

deepspace wrote: post #161
pqs wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you move your notes from Evernote to OneNote?

It's been many years, so I forget the details, but I seem to recall the OneNote was able to import files that were exported in Evernote's standard export format.

Microsoft offered a website/tool that allowed importing from Evernote but they shut it down a while ago.

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

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Post by zelphirkalt »

throwaway2203 wrote: post #117
mc32 wrote: post #100

When people start going from EverNote to OneNote, that's an indication you've one-upped Microsoft in terms of un-usablity. Not to say all MS products are bad (Office is good) but the well-berated Teams is an example of a monstrosity that should be more usable.

I actually just joined a company that uses Teams and I REALLY love it as a Zoom replacement. It's a less great IM replacement for Slack, but the outlook integration, videochat quality, recordings, transcripts, chat (within meetings) is top notch.

Experienced with MS Teams are varying a lot.

I have exactly one setup, that works and I do not dare to change it, for the pain I had when trying anything else. Teams would not recognize my headphones. Only USB headset with integrated soundcard would work. All other programs did not have a problem using simply my headphones. This meant, that I could not use my 40€ mic with one turn of a switch on my aufio hub and have to have 2 headphones/sets lying around on my desk, only because of teams.

I have barely a workday, on which none of my coworkers are experiencing Teams issues. Mic not working, no sound, suddenly muted, suddenly crashed the whole thing, shown status of people and even oneself is wildly wrong, not being able to set status properly either to fix it ... All these are still a thing. Welcome to 2022.

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

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Post by leobg »

jxdxbx wrote: post #121

I'm interested in an app that I can just throw a million disorganized documents (PDFs, word files, text files) at, and have it draw insights and help me write. There have allegedly been apps like this since forever but none of them ever really work. Devon Think is bad. Evernote is bad. OneNote is bad. Notion is bad. Men is bad. They all want data to be in tiny little chunks or formatted and tagged just so. Or they ig…

I may be able to help. Would you email me? Contact info in bio.

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

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Post by ajvs »

sj4nz wrote: post #52
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…

https://logseq.com/

+1 on this as long as you're not importing a decades worth of existing notes. It scales really poorly when your graph is huge.

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

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

Seems to me it has the same issues IoT does: too many walled gardens, not enough open interop and standards.

At some point we'll just start recording our entire lives. Security, storage, indexing, access-from-anywhere, and autotagging will be the keys. Anyone working on that?

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

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Post by kkruglov »

SUPERSLEDZ wrote: post #45
arcbyte wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of notes do you take? I've used OneNote for like 12 years now I think and I love it. It's where my school notes are and every note I've taken in my career since then. My personal diaries and life notes. Everything is in it. I've been looking at Obsidian as well because I like the idea of self hosting but aside from that I've never seen a reason to leave. So back to my question, what kind of notes do you tak…

It's general notes. Some of them are TODOs, sometimes screenshots with notes, few with basic tables. Nothing extraordinary. I absolutely hate Onenote due to how it looks and forcing you to place a note on your note page to make a note :D

To be honest, it's the best feature of Onenote is that you can arrange everything on the page (at least on desktop - win/mac) any way you want. Yes, note is kinda a note in a note, when the latter is a page.
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