I'm interested in an app that I can just throw a million disorganized documents (PDFs, word files, text files) at, and have it draw insights and help me write. There have allegedly been apps like this since forever but none of them ever really work. Devon Think is bad. Evernote is bad. OneNote is bad. Notion is bad. Men is bad. They all want data to be in tiny little chunks or formatted and tagged just so. Or they ignore it. All deal killers. I need to be able to just give the thing decades of emails and giant PDF folders and make sense of it.
Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
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#122OneDrive
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#124The main reason why I switched from Evernote to Notion like 5 years ago or so was because syncing 3 devices on Notion was free. I just checked the pricing page on Evernote and you still need to get the paid plan to sync more than 2 devices.
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#125Honestly, I don’t know what Evernote Corp. did during the last 10+ years of Evernote development. The feature set feels about the same.
Evernote had multiple chances to get back on track. Its decision to rewrite its multiple apps into a single web-based one was one of them. In theory having only one codebase to fix bugs and build new features in makes a ton of sense.
Unfortunately the hard product work of simplifying the feature set and prioritizing server-side tech debt was overlooked. Therefore the new app was weighed down from the beginning because it had to support all these legacy systems.
IMO the best move for Evernote is to rethink the UX and tech architecture from first principals and have existing users opt-in to migrate their data over. It's a tough decision to make but I don't see any meaningful progress being made otherwise.
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#126Still looking for viable replacement: * Joplin had some issues I've checked year ago. * Apple notes while I have iPhone there's no Windows app. * OneNote is just trully horrendous app. * Obsidian just can't convince myself. I'm forcing myself to use it work, while it works, it's not something I enjoy doing. * Notion is odd, everything is a block and sometimes formatting is just meh... * Google keep is just simple not…
DEVONthink is very fast and powerful, a native App for Mac and iOS, no subscription, but rather expensive. Syncing is not perfect, you can use Dropbox or iCloud, but search is very powerful. https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#127Over the years I've realized that I don't actually care for or need the "note taking" part of applications like these. What I need is a textual data store that can be efficiently and effectively indexed, searched and (automatically) tagged, and for the ability to quickly filter streams and feeds of targeted information from that data store (with the option to share them publicly via RSS - my public feeds are in my pr…
The funny thing is that writing notes (I.e., typing text ) is among the easiest things to achieve on a computer. Actually figuring out what to do with them is what requires some thought. I say that to say, I’m interested in your app. I was late to things like Pinboard and Delicious so I never got into the whole “public online bookmarks” thing.
It's a little bit different to Pinboard and Delicious; it's private by default and you can choose to share things in public feeds if you want, but instead of sharing bookmarks in the feeds, you share text highlights (ie. the things that you found interesting about the bookmarks - this is either a text highlight from an article or a comment from HN etc. on an article)
It has some surprising other uses, too. For example, after being frustrated at how difficult it is to find story and world-building refreshers (without spoilers) when going back to a multi-novel fiction series, I have started using feeds to keep spoiler-free Kindle highlights that focus on key elements of the world, story and characters to ease me back into a series (and to share with others who might be interested in the series).
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#128Still looking for viable replacement: * Joplin had some issues I've checked year ago. * Apple notes while I have iPhone there's no Windows app. * OneNote is just trully horrendous app. * Obsidian just can't convince myself. I'm forcing myself to use it work, while it works, it's not something I enjoy doing. * Notion is odd, everything is a block and sometimes formatting is just meh... * Google keep is just simple not…
I can highly recommend logseq [0]. It's become something like my external brain, writes markdown files I sync between devices (mac, ipad, phone, linux (although no linux arm last time I checked)) via git (auto commits to a repo). It's superb. 0: https://logseq.com/
I am a big fan, I also just discovered emacs Org mode, and was delighted to find out that logseq supports this format as well.
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#129Still looking for viable replacement: * Joplin had some issues I've checked year ago. * Apple notes while I have iPhone there's no Windows app. * OneNote is just trully horrendous app. * Obsidian just can't convince myself. I'm forcing myself to use it work, while it works, it's not something I enjoy doing. * Notion is odd, everything is a block and sometimes formatting is just meh... * Google keep is just simple not…
> * Notion is odd, everything is a block and sometimes formatting is just meh...
I really like Notion as a way to create little mini-databases of things. Businesses in my new city I just moved to that I want to visit later, what I thought about different teas, vendors for my hobbies, etc.
It makes me extremely nervous to keep all that info there. It feels like vendor lock in. My recent struggle to get everything out of Evernote in a semi-usable format, much less into another app was eye opening.
So I've been looking for some similar sort of Notebook + Freeform DB replacement.
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#130Shameless plug but for the past 2 years we have slowly been working to replace Evernote with Notesnook [1]. Sounds weird to say "replace Evernote" when Evernote is absolute shit (no offense) but one of the main reasons we went this route is because Evernote did one thing right: It made personal note taking approachable & actually fun. Nowadays, a lot of the modern note taking apps (Notion, Slite etc.) are focused on…
Is it Electron-based?