If you are looking for alternatives to Evernote, I'd also recommend Notion.so
I'm not affiliated with the company, just an avid user.
How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You
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#12Useful article. I have been a paying customer for a long while even though I have stopped using Evernote. Exporting everything to markdown, and closing shop might be in my future.
For what it does Evernote is a great product. My issue with Evernote, OneNote, etc. is that I spend too much time saving things that I end up never referencing again.
Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You
#13If you are looking for alternatives to Evernote, I'd also recommend Notion.so I'm not affiliated with the company, just an avid user.
+1. Notion is incredible.
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#14Anyone know of self-hostable alternatives for this sort of service? I have never used Evernote or OneNote but always been intruguied.
Maybe [Braindump][0]?
I'm too heavily invested in org-mode to switch to this, but it does seem like the best fit for this sort of service.
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#15I'd love switch to OneNote but it keeps crashing when I try to login on Android on my Nexus 4. I'm honestly at a loss of what to do.
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#16At home, and for project management at work, I'm an org-mode user. Got in the habit around 2005, and it's too useful to leave. But I've stopped using it for note-taking at work.
When my workplace switched from Google Apps to Office 365, I started experimenting with OneNote. And I have to say I've been extremely happy with it. The web app is quite good, and both the Windows and Android apps are excellent. I typically take meeting notes on an Android tablet, and they're immediately available for me at my desk. There are plenty of formatting and attachment options.
I'd never use OneNote for my personal/home use, because of cloud concerns and vendor lock-in. But if your workplace is in the MS ecosystem already? It's brilliant.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use org-mode with Syncthing. It's imperfect, but it's still pretty great — and I own all of my data, which is important.
Started to use org-mode recently after seeing its features. Do you have guides you'd recommend for someone learning emacs and org-mode?
The built-in emacs tutorial is good, as I recall, but I went through it 15 years or so ago.
For org-mode, the documentation on their site is good, but I also found myself referencing this [0] site a lot. The author happened to do a lot of things in ways I liked, or near enough that I could borrow their config and tune it to my own preferences. Borrowed piecemeal, not wholesale. I recommend starting with stock org-mode and emacs and only adding pieces as you understand them. Otherwise you end up with a non-stock configuration and other people may not be able to help you out as readily because you can't identify whether erroneous behavior is emacs or your specific configuration.
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#18I wrote a windows store app that exported your data from evernote and imported it to onenote. Evernote complained on the grounds that it used their logo (which was fair enough) and then on the grounds that it used their name (I had called it EvernoteToOneNote). Eventually I gave up making changes and resubmitting the app.
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#19Anyone know of self-hostable alternatives for this sort of service? I have never used Evernote or OneNote but always been intruguied.
I use Zim Wiki. It's not as feature complete (no web access, no mobile clients), but it's the best solution I could find (for Linux).
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#20I recently signed up for Evernote Premium. The price is quite high, but so far I haven’t found any alternatives that are so convenient and can sync between multiple devices.