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Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by gmu3 »

protomyth wrote: post #8
farnsworth wrote: post #3

I remember the day a year and a half ago when I went out apartment hunting in a new town, looking at my notes on apartments in Evernote's Android app. It was a complex note, with lots of text in deep hierarchies of bullet points. At one point I tried to edit it, and after a few visual glitches, the text of the note disappeared. Then it synced, and there was no undo or history option in the app as far as I could tell.…

I'm hoping someone does a cloud service for note syncing using a code control back-end. I would really love to be able to look at the changes and rollback a change or delete.

It isn't particularly robust but if you pay for prime, Evernote offers version control (on some platforms/clients).

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by onedev »

jonursenbach wrote: post #2

I've been meaning to move off of Evernote because their OSX client is just slow as all hell. Are there any alternatives, aside from something like Dropbox? Evernote's OCR implementation was/is really useful.

I get scared to open Evernote on OSX because of the boot-time and beach balls. Seriously, it induces anxiety on the user; it's that bad.

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by awa »

middleclick wrote: post #10

I don't mean to downplay this but seriously, make backups of all data that is important to you. Lots of things can go wrong everywhere and they do go wrong. Maybe it is a sucky app or maybe your own error -- if you have a backup, you don't need to worry. I know this is no excuse for Evernote's app being at fault, but if something matters this much to you, you should not be trusting anyone or anything and the only way…

Well if you're directly recording into Evernote for note taking, and the thing is broken, how do you take backups?

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by chromejs10 »

michaelsbradley wrote: post #12
protomyth wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm hoping someone does a cloud service for note syncing using a code control back-end. I would really love to be able to look at the changes and rollback a change or delete.

What I'm using: org-mode + MobileOrg[1] + Dropbox, and a few times a day checking my .org files into a Bitbucket private repo. And it's all free! Though obviously you could use paid Dropbox and Bitbucket/GitHub accounts as well. Until fairly recently I used OmniFocus and Evernote, in conjunction with their mobile offerings, but I don't think I'll be looking back anytime soon. [1] http://orgmode.org/ [&] http://mobile…

A bit disappointing that mobileorg hasn't been updated since June

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by snogglethorpe »

karanbhangui wrote: post #5
jonursenbach wrote: post #2

I've been meaning to move off of Evernote because their OSX client is just slow as all hell. Are there any alternatives, aside from something like Dropbox? Evernote's OCR implementation was/is really useful.

I've found Google Drive on Desktop/Android is pretty good. You get all the OT goodness with .gdoc and Quickoffice (from Google) is free for .docx editing.

... and it does OCR...

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by dmlorenzetti »

middleclick wrote: post #10

I don't mean to downplay this but seriously, make backups of all data that is important to you. Lots of things can go wrong everywhere and they do go wrong. Maybe it is a sucky app or maybe your own error -- if you have a backup, you don't need to worry. I know this is no excuse for Evernote's app being at fault, but if something matters this much to you, you should not be trusting anyone or anything and the only way…

Not being an Evernote user, I'm not sure about this, but-- it sounds like the author recorded the corrupted file using Evernote (...sometimes instinct steers me toward the green elephant’s "record" button and I play for a while.).

A backup of a corrupt file wouldn't solve the problem.

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by aroman »

I consider myself an informal evernote evangelist, but honestly, I kind of agree here. The new Safari web clipper is all sorts of buggy (and sometimes messes with websites and navigation).

And yes, the OS X client is quite slow and bulky. And I really don't appreciate not being able to resize the window to half of my screen (1440x900) size.

Hopefully there's an OS X client overhaul on its way?

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by derengel »

awa wrote: post #18
jonursenbach wrote: post #2

I've been meaning to move off of Evernote because their OSX client is just slow as all hell. Are there any alternatives, aside from something like Dropbox? Evernote's OCR implementation was/is really useful.

Onenote comes to mind, and it does OCR on client side so is quite fast. Also does audio transcription which can be enabled (Disabled by default). Also has version control built in, so you can you can look at older versions and do manual merges (if required) Disclaimer: Microsoft employee and Onenote user

Onenote is great but I think he wants something for OS X.
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