So how much did Evernote pay for this ad?
Can HN auto-filter links with "Here's Why" and "21 reasons why..." headlines?
I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing
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#22I 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.
I agree, I don't even load the app on my Macbook. Spotlight will automatically and instantly search Evernote, so that's my interface (Cmd+Space).
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#23Actually, 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 ope…
Those are exactly my complaints about Evernote. I'm on OSX most of the time, and I use nvAlt: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
It's blazing fast, moving at the speed of thought. You can also set it up to sync notes as plain text on to Dropbox.
I still use Evernote for its great web clipper and for saving PDFs (though I suppose I could save them in Dropbox instead and search them using Spotlight).
Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing
#24Actually, 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 ope…
>It's so featureful, it means that its mobile clients are quite heavyweight and thus quite slow to boot.
Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean? Evernote has a large binary? A cluttered UI?
For my use, I don't find it slow, FWIW.
>When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere.
So you don't want detailed notes spanning years -- you want to jot something quickly.
In that case, it's true, that's not what Evernote's for.
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#25Good 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.
Isn't the web interface any good? I use OneNote desktop ( not metro App ) and not sure why I should switch to Evernote ( everybody recommends ).
Re: I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing
#26Good 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.
OneNote was my savior during my year of law school. I'm painfully disorganized while taking notes, OneNote saved me huge amounts of time by keeping everything all together. It basically won't let you be too disorganized without actively trying.
It basically won't let you be too disorganized without actively trying.
Hahaha. True. It has (almost) replaced all the random .txt all over my drive.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm working on integrating Evernote into my everyday life, and finally just purchased the level of Dropbox I need for backup. I have 5 devices that I use semi-regularly to all the time and it is fantastic to be able to shift between all 5 devices seamlessly.
You could just use regular WebDAV[1] (boring I know) and not have to worry about syncing gigabytes of redundant data onto every device you own.
Yes -- he would only have to worry about setting up and maintaining a WebDAV server. Plus, he would have to do without integration with tons of his favorites apps in desktop and mobile (like Dropbox has).
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#28A bit OT, but the article talks about organizing your bookmarks as Webclips, so I thought I'll ask the HN crowd: I have close to 1,000 bookmarks and I'm really too lazy to sort them, but there might be some useful stuff in it. Thing is, I don't know without clicking on them. Does anyone know of a program that crawls all the bookmarks and tries to automatically tag them? I could simply wget everything, but I'm more in…
You can feed the wget output to https://previous.delicious.com/url/ which returns details about users bookmarking their url including tags.
You'll have to scrape the details though. Their public API https://github.com/avos/delicious-api doesn't include this feature.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm working on integrating Evernote into my everyday life, and finally just purchased the level of Dropbox I need for backup. I have 5 devices that I use semi-regularly to all the time and it is fantastic to be able to shift between all 5 devices seamlessly.
You could just use regular WebDAV[1] (boring I know) and not have to worry about syncing gigabytes of redundant data onto every device you own.
But then it won't work offline
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#30Actually, 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 ope…
> It's so featureful, it means that its mobile clients are quite heavyweight and thus quite slow to boot. Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean? Evernote has a large binary? A cluttered UI? For my use, I don't find it slow, FWIW. > When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere. So you don't want detailed notes spanning years -- you want to…
> > It's so featureful, it means that its mobile clients are quite heavyweight and thus quite slow to boot.
> Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean?
You're hearing zir as an engineer, rather than as a customer.
To zir, "heavyweight" means "slow to boot". Why is it slow to boot? "I don't know; just fix it."