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Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#1
Evernote used to be pretty good.

Now, their web clipper doesn't work very well, and spams my console when doing development work (I guess I could use a different browser profile just for Evernote)...

And their Android app has become useless. Sending me to a red screen every time.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a suitable alternative?

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#3

Anything that supports Markdown. I use just a repository hosted on GitHub that has a history and that I can access anywhere. If you need privacy, just use git-crypt.

Good advice. I thought about making a private repo for this. Nothing that I need to encrypt, really, just notes for things I find online.

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#4
People have mentioned Joplin, obsidian, logseq (a knowledge base) and even Apple Notes (there's a way to import enex, IIRC)

I am dumping the Evernote subscription in the fall, so this is a big deal, though I'm not in a rush because enex import is common.

I've been using Evernote as a "write only" database. The ability to email articles to it is the main feature I've used, though I actually did this with procmail many years ago. Never used the OCR.

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

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post #4

People have mentioned Joplin, obsidian, logseq (a knowledge base) and even Apple Notes (there's a way to import enex, IIRC) I am dumping the Evernote subscription in the fall, so this is a big deal, though I'm not in a rush because enex import is common. I've been using Evernote as a "write only" database. The ability to email articles to it is the main feature I've used, though I actually did this with procmail many…

Thanks for these suggestions.

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#6
Joplin woud be my suggestion but then again I'm biased because I'm involved with the team... Markdown, mobile apps, multiple sync platforms.

Trilium has some really interesting features - very much powered by a single tree but no direct markdown, its a WYSIWYG editor (which is a bonus if you like that kind of thing).

Logseq is good if you prefer the "block based" type of notes - more like Notion.

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#7
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Joplin woud be my suggestion but then again I'm biased because I'm involved with the team... Markdown, mobile apps, multiple sync platforms. Trilium has some really interesting features - very much powered by a single tree but no direct markdown, its a WYSIWYG editor (which is a bonus if you like that kind of thing). Logseq is good if you prefer the "block based" type of notes - more like Notion.

Appreciate the feedback here.

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#8
I keep a Google Doc where I copy the link of the article and any quotes underneath. I try to go through it regularly because I don't like accumulating a lot of stuff and nothing's more dreadful than the idea of scrolling through a long document. My goal right now is to reduce it to five pages (Arial, 12 pts, single-spaced) by summarising most of the stuff and using the quotable stuff in my blog posts (or writing them down in my commonplace notebook). It's too easy to accumulate things if I'm using a digital tool, so I try to take as much of it offline as possible.

Re: Ask HN: Fed up with Evernote; what are your recommendations?

#10

I stopped using out of the box solutions and made my own system, perhaps you would want something similar? Made a blog post about it: https://thesloth.me/posts/6/

I hack in an obsidian sync by putting the vault on google drive lol

The thought mapping is actually its greatest strength and main reason for existing but everyone uses it as an Evernote alternative.

To me, app access is #1 feature because that's where I use my notes. Only Evernote and Obsidian have done this fine on Android. Obsidian is still quite janky with the markdown. Bear is perfect, but they don't do Android.

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