I used to use Evernote when I was using a "digital ink" product (that also never caught on). I used it for several years and it worked well.
But then Micosoft's OneNote got very, very good. And I switched.
Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know the "until they pull the plug" is a popular meme but EOL expectations for GSuite products are completely different than other Google products.
I didn't know Keep fell under the Gsuite umbrella. My concerns are mildly alleviated.
According to posts I've read here on HN, Keep is a one-developer, 10%-time project. I've no doubt it will be killed whenever Google feels like it (or when its developer gets a new job). They'll probably dump its data into Docs, like they did with Notebook (remember that?).
I'm still using it, because it works quite well (better than Evernote!), but I don't expect anything I store in it to be very permanent.
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#164I find it weird that no one is mentioning that this article is written by an EN competitor. I've been an EN user since 2010. Yes they have had some problems and I have even tried to jump ship (as recently as last fall when I gave DEVONThink a go). I keep coming back though. I've yet to find anything that touches it in terms of features and functionality. Only ones that come close are OneNote and Notion. OneNote is fi…
Hi! I am the co-founder of FYI and author of the blog post. We are not an Evernote competitor. In fact we integrate with it and many other document apps.
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#165I paid for Evernote for in-pdf and -docx search. It was too slow, though. Too slow, too slow.
Nowadays my personal notes are all written in paper and filed in cardboard boxes. My work stuff is all in gmail somehow anyway.
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#166Due to some weird bug in Evernote, I lost about 10% of all my notes. Some of them critical. This happened about a year ago, and I never found out the actual cause. I think it was some kind of bug triggered by the combination of syncing from/to the mobile app and the desktop app. But I completely stopped trusting Evernote after this and stopped using it.
I've always thought the Evernote sync issues got much less attention than they deserved. Both myself and my co-founder were repeatedly burned by Evernote sync when working on notes between mobile and desktop. Sync was the foremost reason we began working on a replacement.
We picked "sync" and "security" as the two core values we wanted to put most focus on when building our note app (https://www.amplenote.com/).
It's curious to me that Notion has so little to say about the effort they put into sync and security -- these seem like such essential features to a great todo app, and I don't think either can be done right unless it is an active, top-tier priority.
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#167Evernote is still the only accessible note taking solution to offer OCR + related notes search. I've tried moving away from Evernote many times, but I always come back because of this. Example 1: 1. Snap photo of document on table 2. Seconds later: Open in Evernote and see related documents Example 2: 1. Take notes on laptop at lecture/meeting 2. Evernote presents photos of slides and handwritten notes about same top…
This essay convinced me to just find a way to organize handwritten notes:
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who is "we"?
Me and the other guy. I am Victor Grishchenko, PhD. At the time, we had a CRDT based sync engine which we white-labelled to Yandex. We had been eager to work with Evernote cause all their sync issues have been very clear to us. These days, even Apple Notes syncs with CRDTs... at the time, it was cutting-edge. P.S. Please never let me feel that my response is more polite than necessary.
I'm intrigued by your P.S. Mind expanding on why?
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#169I have over a thousand notes in Evernote. One day I noticed that one was missing shortly after I created it. Eventually I discovered that the convenient new-note shortcut was failing every time with a database corruption error - but the error only appeared in a system log I was unaware of. There was no indication to the user that the notes were failing. To this day I have no idea how many notes I lost due to this bug…
I've started using Standard Notes. https://standardnotes.org/
They have purpose built plugins (which also work seamlessly between desktop and mobile) to allow for tags & markdown.
Their 'longevity' statement was quite appealing to me also: https://standardnotes.org/longevity
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
#170I have over a thousand notes in Evernote. One day I noticed that one was missing shortly after I created it. Eventually I discovered that the convenient new-note shortcut was failing every time with a database corruption error - but the error only appeared in a system log I was unaware of. There was no indication to the user that the notes were failing. To this day I have no idea how many notes I lost due to this bug…
OneNote. It’s free on all platforms and handles your listed requirements.
There is no Mac version of OneNote. There is only a Mac version of a thin client for OneNote on OneDrive.