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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

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Post by Zetobal »

hu3 wrote: post #67
vzaliva wrote: post #34

Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.

That's why I use https://github.com/laurent22/joplin It's markdown, open-source, free. With desktop and mobile support. Syncs notes to any cloud of your choice for free. (I use One Drive) Optionaly you can pay them to sync your data on their cloud. So they even have a compelling business model!

Joplin will be unusable until they give up on obfuscating the md files.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by Zetobal »

SamBam wrote: post #38

I use Obsidian for note-taking, but Evernote for my "digital shoebox" of receipts, PDFs, photos of wine labels, insurance statements, etc. They are all quickly findable through a combination of OCR and tags. Does anyone have a good alternative for this use-case?

If you are on Mac/iOS devonthink is good alternative for it.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by thih9 »

xeromal wrote: post #131
slg wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Evernote CEO Phil Libin announced at the recent Le Web London conference that the company will soon set up a protected fund and include a legally binding guaratee that users’ data will be maintained for 100 years That almost sounds like a threat to commit a crime in certain jurisdictions. A lot has changed regarding how we talk about data in the last decade.

Is it a threat to commit a crime if it was posted before the law existed?

No, it’s not a threat to commit a crime (grandparent wrote “almost”).

Still, the problem remains; i.e. a new law is likely to require you to remove some content that you’ve been serving or to change the way you’re handling the content.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by pjmlp »

Foobar8568 wrote: post #218
pjmlp wrote: post #186

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I was on your shoes around 2014 to 2018. The client I was assigned to, used for everything on project management related documentation. I couldn't understand how to approach it. Then around 2019, in another project it suddenly made sense, after several approaches trying to make sense out of it.

I still can't figure out how to use note,I have tried different approach but having to jump different application and rewrite everything 2 or 3 times, just don't compute in my brain.

Basically how I came around using it, was instead of having txt files, office files and a bunch of screenshots scattered around on the filesystem under the respective project directory, I started organizing such content inside Notes itself.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by littlestymaar »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #213
eru wrote: post #210

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Public laws and private contracts are two different things. For one, you can typically opt out of the latter, but not the former.

Copying my comment from a couple of days ago as that is simply not practically true: >All my university systems run on Microsoft. All my future employers' systems will probably run on Microsoft. All public transport in my country effectively requires an app which is tied to either Google or Apple operating systems to buy tickets. Schools require students as young as 6 years old to have an iPad or chromebook tied to G…

Yeah, it's typically easier to emigrate out of the reach of your law's country than to avoid the reach of these trillion-dollar-worth corporations.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by theshrike79 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #215
kpw94 wrote: post #173

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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.

The tagging features and the ability to just paste a picture in a markdown file are the things that bring me back to Obsidian instead of VSCode

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by alias301 »

albert_e wrote: post #172
goldpizza44 wrote: post #71

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This is what virtual Credit Cards are for... Each site gets a separate number and I can expire them as needed. Unfortunately, if they get popular vendors will figure out a way to detect and refuse.

BofA had a online tool (Flash based I think) to generate and manage virtual CC numbers linked to your real card. When Flash was sunset -- they gave a BS reasoning and shutdown this tool as well whithout making an effort to rebuild / replace. I am surprised there was no big backlash from customers given the increasing online fraud and privacy/security consciousness of banking users. Which (US) banks currently offer th…

Citi

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by littlestymaar »

barsonme wrote: post #142
greggsy wrote: post #134

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Exactly. Retrospective laws like that would face stiff opposition.

Ex post facto laws should be prohibited in any civilized country.

Crime against humanity didn't even exist as a concept (let alone a law) before Nuremberg, do you think the condamnation of the nazis there as “uncivilized”?

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by allarm »

emodendroket wrote: post #137
D13Fd wrote: post #111

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Just wait until they shut it down.

I guess I'll just switch to a new notebook application again if that happens. Very few of these notes are useful for long.

I’m using my note taking system as a personal knowledge base. It’s the most valuable chunk of information I have.
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