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That was my thinking too. Who sits down and writes a lengthy blog post about a piece of software that they like to use? How boring! It's like someone sitting down to write a blog post about why they like Pepsi instead of Coke.
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Evernote + Dropbox means that I am basically device/OS/location agnostic for all my information needs, which given that I switch between 3-4 machines (all with different OSs) regularly is absolutely crucial. That said, some PAINFULLY obvious things which would be hugely benficial for adoption; - LaTex support built in - Markdown (either in every note, or allowing you to add 'markdown' boxes, if just for writing code)…
It's tuned more specifically towards academic work than Evernote, but the Drive sync is quite simple and robust.
(Disclaimer: I co-develop Paperpile, a web-based reference manager)
On the other hand, I use the heck out of Apple's Notes.app with iCloud syncing. However, I'd never pay (directly) for that.
Actually, all that stuff is why I don't like Evernote. It's so featureful, it means that its mobile clients are quite heavyweight and thus quite slow to boot. When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere. I can wait for games and Netflix and whatnot to boot, but Notes need to be the snappiest freaking things on Earth. Evernote is not. I have to wait for it to ope…
I'm a big fan of Tap Log. Semi-structured notes and logging, lightning fast. Not free. Only tried on Android.
Am I the only one that read the article article as having a distinct Astroturfing feel about it ?
Over time, I got frustrated with how slow, bloated, and un-native-feeling their client apps were on every single platform I used. I switched to storing everything as Markdown documents in Dropbox (with a few other web services for some of the more niche uses I had for Evernote), and I've been much much happier ever since.
In a perfect world you should remember what was changed, but isn't offloading information from your brain what Evernote is for? They need to sort syncing out or at least give the option to show only what information was changed. I'm about to go back to Simplenote's seamless syncing and save the money I'm giving Evernote for something that's becoming increasingly kludgy.
Accessing a note in IOS is also super slow then trying to append to a note can turn into a moment of wanting to chuck the phone out the window.
Some examples of items I would not put in Evernote, from the article:
- Some sections of my server's log, containing all the information I need to troubleshoot my most recent problem
You copied some sections of your server's log and put them in Evernote, so that you can troubleshoot a problem? How is this useful? Why not troubleshoot it by looking at the logs directly? Why do you want to store stale logs? Or, are you saying your server automatically refreshes the Evernote note? That would be more interesting and worthy of an article.
- A web clipping from an article on the best VPN providers, since I'm installing a VPN on my home server
Aren't you interested in whether the list of best VPN providers changed since the last time you searched? And why store something that's a google search away? How often will you need to review this stale list of VPN providers?
- A web clipping on how to install OpenVPN on my home server, since I don't remember how to do it by heart
Same thing. https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+install+openvpn How often do you install OpenVPN?
- A web clipping on setting file permissions, since I need to give my girlfriend access to my server's files
What about just learning how to set file permissions, if it's something you do very often? Or, "man chmod".
No offense intended, I know people think and work differently. I just still don't get it.
I used to use Evernote obsessively. In college, all of my hand-written notes would get scanned in right after class using a document-feeder scanner. It's hard to put into words how mind-blowingly cool it was to scan a piece of handwritten paper and be able to pull it up by searching for its OCR'd text contents a minute later from my iPad. Over time, I got frustrated with how slow, bloated, and un-native-feeling their…
It's also led to a system where I take better notes on the things that I need to remember.