I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

I use Dokuwiki, but any wiki would do. I love the fact it keeps static files on the server's drive which unison syncs both way to my hard drive -- I can edit on the web and see the changes in my vim, or edit in vim and see the formatted result on the web.

Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

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Post by Pxtl » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

Actually, all that stuff is why I don't like Evernote. It's so featureful, it means that its mobile clients are quite heavyweight and thus quite slow to boot.

When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere. I can wait for games and Netflix and whatnot to boot, but Notes need to be the snappiest freaking things on Earth. Evernote is not. I have to wait for it to open and then go find my notes.

I probably should be using a different notes system. I use Evernote as a replacement for paper sticky-notes, whereas Evernote seems to be a replacement for a locker full of course notebooks.

Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

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Post by mortov » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

Am I the only one that read the article article as having a distinct Astroturfing feel about it ?

Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

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Post by kuldar » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

I love the idea of Evernote but their implementation is absolutely horrible. The slow and cluttered UI has frustrated me to no end.

Please, someone, make a good alternative for Evernote.

Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

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Post by migrantgeek » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #3

Evernote would be maybe 500% more useful for me if it had code highlighting and markdown support.

Dash may be a better fit for this type of work.

http://kapeli.com/dash

Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

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Post by girvo » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

Good to see Evernote has caught up to the single application made by Microsoft that I completely adore: OneNote. It's in a similar boat: if you take advantage of all its features, you can basically live inside the application.

This was a few years ago now, and I've moved to Mac, Linux and iOS, so alas, I use iClouds Reminders and Notes app for everything now.

Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

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Post by hengheng » Wed, Dec 04, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

I think Evernote is most important as a showcase of how much we have transcended file systems. Mobile devices have abandoned them, and through cross-platform apps like Evernote, this notion finds its way back to the desktop.

Back in the day, we'd just make folders on hard disk for "thought projects", adding text files, bookmark files (!), photos, possibly word documents. For ordering, there are file name conventions, and the Mac OS finder still supports colored files.

I think Evernote shows what any modern File Manager should do for it to be useful. Instead they are being stripped down until everybody thinks they are useless. Their benefit is easily overlooked -- files are yours, easy to sync, easy to back up, restore, pass on and copy, with no walled garden anywhere.

There are so many different use cases for file managers, yet most modern ones don't go beyond basic folder maintenance and retreiving downloaded files from an unmaintained folder.