Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by Styrke » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:09 PM UTC

I use a folder in my Google Drive.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

#12

Post by daGrevis » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:14 PM UTC

grimlck wrote: post #10

Does anyone know of any note apps which support Linux, iOS, Windows, and OS X. Starts up fast. For example, vi starts up fast. Works offline and online. Always syncs without a manual step. I don't care about pictures, or audio, or OCR, etc. I just want the basics to work and work perfectly.

Use Vim and GitHub Gists.

https://github.com/mattn/gist-vim

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by davidjgraph » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

#14

Post by msluyter » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

I've been using nValt with synching via SimpleNote. nValt is pretty nice, actually - the UI is optimized for fast searching or adding notes.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by salient » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:16 PM UTC

Keep:

https://drive.google.com/keep/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by YousefED » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:17 PM UTC

I use onenote. Its simplicity and multiplatform support resulted in a lot of "is this really a Microsoft product?" reactions by people I showed it to. Definitely recommend to give it a try

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by jkupferman » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:19 PM UTC

After getting frustrated with Evernote being slow and buggy I switched to Simplenote (http://simplenote.com/).

It's simple, fast and seamless. You start typing and it automatically syncs your note for you. It does one thing that does it well. That being said it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Evernote does (audio notes, OCR, etc).

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:19 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by dorfsmay » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:20 PM UTC

dmn757 wrote: post #2

Probably not nearly as feature packed or maintained, but Google Keep ( https://drive.google.com/keep/ ) is an option.

I believe google kkep has no clent for linux.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Evernote?

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Post by gvb » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 3:20 PM UTC

grimlck wrote: post #10

Does anyone know of any note apps which support Linux, iOS, Windows, and OS X. Starts up fast. For example, vi starts up fast. Works offline and online. Always syncs without a manual step. I don't care about pictures, or audio, or OCR, etc. I just want the basics to work and work perfectly.

Dropbox with plain text notes.

On Android (and, I presume, iOS) it caches recently used files for offline access. If you don't access a file on your phone before going off-line it will show up in the directory listing but not actually be accessible.