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Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by gentleman11 »

magic_hamster wrote: post #8

Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly? What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note taking app? A quick search turns up quite a few FOSS candidates for note apps that you can use or even self host. I guess I am missing something because I don't see why anyone would actually pay so much for this.

The existing user base will be reluctant to leave, because they’ll lose access to their massive collection of notes in the Evernote proprietary format. They’re locked in, to at least some extent.

I pay for a some writing subscriptions, but they all use markdown as the file format. I can switch apps pretty easily if I ever want to leave

Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by dctoedt »

Question: How many people actually refer to their past Evernote notes?

I ask because I hardly ever do, even though I've been an Evernote paid subscriber for many years.

I've used the Evernote Web clipper but then essentially never refer back to any of the clipped pages.

Ditto with scans-to-PDF for things such as receipts — for which the Apple Notes scan feature seems to do an adequate job. (We're an Apple household.)

I'm half tempted to just declare "scans- and Web-clipper bankruptcy" and abandon my Evernote subscription.

Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by throwaway675309 »

gentleman11 wrote: post #11
magic_hamster wrote: post #8

Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly? What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note taking app? A quick search turns up quite a few FOSS candidates for note apps that you can use or even self host. I guess I am missing something because I don't see why anyone would actually pay so much for this.

The existing user base will be reluctant to leave, because they’ll lose access to their massive collection of notes in the Evernote proprietary format. They’re locked in, to at least some extent. I pay for a some writing subscriptions, but they all use markdown as the file format. I can switch apps pretty easily if I ever want to leave

I used Evernote for years after switching over from Microsoft OneNote and every year the product got steadily worse. Fortunately the ENEX file format is nothing more than a giant concatenated file of all of your notes in a customized XML blend, and with a little bit of scripting work I converted all of my notes, attachments, and embedded images into markdown notes that I use with Obsidian.

Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by tapoxi »

CrimsonCape wrote: post #3

What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?

https://joplinapp.org/

Open source, uses Markdown, mobile apps, can sync with E2EE multiple ways. They also have a sync service you can pay for, but it's cheap and you can run it yourself if you want.

I'm paying $25/yr for syncing.

Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by sureglymop »

CrimsonCape wrote: post #3

What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?

The iCalendar-standard (RFC-5545). CalDav supports VEVENT, VTODO and VJOURNAL (journal and note entries). Personally I use the jtxboard Android app and use DavX5 to sync to my Nextcloud server. Why do I use this? It's reliable and syncs well. All my contacts, calendars etc have been synced with CalDav for years reliably and easily without needing a proprietary solution like ms outlook.

Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by christop »

I switched to Joplin a few years ago, and it was able to import my notes from Evernote.

My existing Fastmail account gives me WebDAV file storage, and Joplin can use that as a sync backend. End-to-end encrypted.

There are clients for macOS and Android. Neither of which are as relentlessly buggy as text editing with Evernote. Web Clipper browser extension. All open source.

I've had zero regrets about switching away from Evernote.

Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts

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Post by bro_thebro »

CrimsonCape wrote: post #3

What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?

Logseq.com may be worth considering. It's open source and free. No built in syncing on multiple devices, but, "syncing" via git to an online repo works sufficiently well.
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