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How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Post by NoGravitas »

blunte wrote: post #24
lj3 wrote: post #23

I'm less addicted to evernote itself than to its web clipper. I have things clipped in evernote from years ago that no longer exist anywhere else and that includes the wayback machine. It could be stored in markdown files that I search using grep for all I care.

Indeed. This is the killer feature for me. I learned my lesson in the past by just storing URLs which later point to nothing. The EN web clipper is impressively good, and until I find a replacement I'll have to stay with EN.

A paid Pinboard account will store backups of the pages you bookmark, so that might be a solution.

Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Post by hashnsalt »

dban wrote: post #13
hashnsalt wrote: post #11

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.

+1. Notion is incredible.

As is Authorea! I can't wait to try it out when I get home.

Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Post by lockyc »

roryisok wrote: post #18

I 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.

Cool, thanks for letting us know

Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Post by shostack »

roryisok wrote: post #33
shostack wrote: post #15

I'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.

tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app?

Oh yeah. No dice. I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot this and I'm guessing they don't have support for the free version.

I'm really bummed--I've heard nothing but good things, liked trying the desktop app and wanted to give mobile a spin. Unfortunately, I need a setup that is fully device agnostic, so not getting mobile to work would be a deal breaker for me.

Any suggestions for other things to try?

Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Post by roryisok »

shostack wrote: post #37
roryisok wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app?

Oh yeah. No dice. I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot this and I'm guessing they don't have support for the free version. I'm really bummed--I've heard nothing but good things, liked trying the desktop app and wanted to give mobile a spin. Unfortunately, I need a setup that is fully device agnostic, so not getting mobile to work would be a deal breaker for me. Any suggestions for other things to try?

Factory reset of the phone maybe? Sounds like an awful inconvenience. Although its good to backup and refresh every now and then. Clean out all the trash

Re: How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

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Post by roryisok »

lockyc wrote: post #36
roryisok wrote: post #18

I 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.

Cool, thanks for letting us know

Well, the end of that was supposed to be "it's open sourced on github if anyone wants the code" but then I wandered off to check the URL and discovered I never uploaded it. Oops. I will though.
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