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

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

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Post by nathos »

marccuban wrote: post #13
Pxtl wrote: post #5

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 ope…

Workflowy

I love Workflowy too, and I hope they are able to sustain the business. I live in fear of the day they quit or shut down :/

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

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Post by cpeterso »

drhayes9 wrote: post #23
Pxtl wrote: post #5

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 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).

WARNING! You should not store your nvAlt notes on Dropbox if you plan to access them from multiple computers. Dropbox's file versioning can confuse nvAlt, causing data loss. If you want to use nvAlt from multiple computers, I recommend nvAlt's SimpleNote sync.

Issue #129: Notes being deleted from Dropbox while using NVAlt: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/129

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

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Post by taopao »

girvo wrote: post #48
Patient0 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was my thinking too. Who sits down and writes a lengthy blog post about a piece of software that they like to use? How boring! It's like someone sitting down to write a blog post about why they like Pepsi instead of Coke.

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

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Post by cpleppert »

cpeterso wrote: post #73
drhayes9 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

WARNING! You should not store your nvAlt notes on Dropbox if you plan to access them from multiple computers. Dropbox's file versioning can confuse nvAlt, causing data loss. If you want to use nvAlt from multiple computers, I recommend nvAlt's SimpleNote sync. Issue #129: Notes being deleted from Dropbox while using NVAlt: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/129

except simplenote has related issues as well. I have had lots of issues with data loss and also tag loss as well even when I was careful to only have a single nvALT copy open. I would pay good money for an nvalt workflow with the evernote client.

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

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Post by drhayes9 »

cpeterso wrote: post #73
drhayes9 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

WARNING! You should not store your nvAlt notes on Dropbox if you plan to access them from multiple computers. Dropbox's file versioning can confuse nvAlt, causing data loss. If you want to use nvAlt from multiple computers, I recommend nvAlt's SimpleNote sync. Issue #129: Notes being deleted from Dropbox while using NVAlt: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/129

Wow, thanks for the warning! I'm pretty sure this happened to me once a long time ago, but I thought it was a bad interaction between FoldingText and nvAlt, not nvAlt*2+Dropbox.

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

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Post by bradbatt »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #42
anamexis wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except for every iOS app that integrates with Dropbox.

Very true, iOS doesn't give users control of their data. To me that's more of a reason to not use iOS rather than a reason not to use WebDAV.

"You shouldn't use Dropbox because WebDAV is better."

"Sure, but that doesn't work with my iPhone."

"You shouldn't use an iPhone either."

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

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Post by porker »

girvo wrote: post #9

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.

There's a OneNote format-compatible Mac clone out there - alas I didn't bookmark the recommendation, but I think it was http://outline.ws/mac

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

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Post by alanhenry »

taopao wrote: post #74
girvo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's Gawker's eHow, basically. http://lifehacker.com/wear-your-bathrobe-all-morning-long-to...

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

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Post by alanhenry »

Patient0 wrote: post #39
mortov wrote: post #6

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

That was my thinking too. Who sits down and writes a lengthy blog post about a piece of software that they like to use? How boring! It's like someone sitting down to write a blog post about why they like Pepsi instead of Coke.

Well, if there's something to be learned from discussing hat software's features, or something we can teach others to do to streamline their activities or be more productive, there's something to be gained from talking about it, isn't there? If something works well for one of us, we try to share it so others can take the example if it applies to them.
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