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Notesnook looks promising! Does it support note history / versioning?
Yes! Every edit session is saved separately and can easily be restored.
Great, I'll give it a try :)
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
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Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#222Even though Evernote is a competitor, it's still sad to see such a giant in the note-taking space go down so badly. Of course, I am still skeptical about this news and whether its actually true since no source has been linked. Aside: I work (and lead the development) on Notesnook, an end-to-end encrypted, open source alternative to Evernote. Since we are based in Pakistan, our pricing has been really competitive at j…
Also, do you have a plugin so you can save an email directly as a note from desktop Outlook?
I got that one on JustDo.com ; it is more of a tasks/teams management tool. But might fit your usecase.
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#223I feel like Evernote is a prime example of the pains of trying to convert free users to paying users for the same features, something we see in many VC funded software from its era. Once you give something away, it's damn near impossible to take it back, even if you plead your case as honestly as Evernote did. Evernote was great. Honestly, it was worth paying for. But they gave away the farm too early, and folks feel…
I cannot stand how difficult it is to create, use, and copy/paste tables. It means I'm forced to stick with OneNote.
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#225Have been using notes on macOS, works great. I do worry that notes are stored in a proprietary format, would love to have a backup in markdown...
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Sounds like Dropbox has made the transition just fine. If you’re gonna ask me to pay a tenner a month you better give me what I think is the dollars worth of value. Dropbox did. Evernote did not. At least not for the vast majority of people who barely take some notes on some rare days.
I think you’re both right because the original poster left out competition. It’s one thing to take free back, it’s another thing to do it when people can easily replace your product without paying. Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use. At least as far as I know. You can get your disk space in a lot of ways, some bundled with other products you may use making it appear “free” but even if you host your…
> Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use
Google drive?
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#227I like to bring up my personal opinion and realization of owning an open format -- plain-text - content for your life-long textual contents. I was once an Evernote user since its early days and a premium subscriber for many years. I have used many notetaking apps and bought enough of them – iA Writer, ByWord, Bear, SimpleNote, nvAlt fork of Notational Velocity, etc. I have moved to a simpler notetaking and writing ha…
Write-up of a similar system. http://songseed.org/post/20120101.aa.saga.html
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#228I like to bring up my personal opinion and realization of owning an open format -- plain-text - content for your life-long textual contents. I was once an Evernote user since its early days and a premium subscriber for many years. I have used many notetaking apps and bought enough of them – iA Writer, ByWord, Bear, SimpleNote, nvAlt fork of Notational Velocity, etc. I have moved to a simpler notetaking and writing ha…
I am having a better experience using plain text over a mosh connection than using apps that sync files over the network.
The logic is that if I have internet connection available to sync, then I can also connect to my computer and use a tmux session with vim to edit my plain text notes. If I use the same tmux session in all devices, then the notes are always in sync.
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Have you tried Obsidian? 3 days ago one of the obsidian makers posted this: https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1675626836821409792 Key quote: "These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last." Seems to align with your philosophy
I tried obsidian but didn’t feel it was much better than opening a folder in VSCode, and as I am already used to VSCode, that is easier for me.
Same. Have you tried https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ ? It does some of the things Obsidian does, but is a VS Code Plugin. I really like that combination.
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#230I suppose I had better hurry up and finish building https://stickerdocs.com then. If you like the EN concept but want something privacy focussed and a honest company to support you on your journey, you might want to sign up.