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Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
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Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for using git? Is it to get a history of notes or just for sync? If it's the latter, I believe obsidian has a paid offering for that, or one can MacGyver it with syncthing.
You don't even need to macguyver really. There may be some potential conflict issues, but you could probably put the obsidian vault directory inside of dropbox, apple cloud, etc (I'm doing this with apple cloud, but I really only use one device) Maybe a little bit of Macguyvering to add backups is a good idea
I'm doing this with Google drive over Autosync and mostly it is fine. Occasional merge conflicts where it generates an extra file that is the other version, but I just run winmerge. It helps if you are careful about syncing and don't use obsidian in both places simultaneously.
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#63The new features will be feeding everyone's notes into an LLM and then screaming "AI!" at the top of their lungs to investors.
You can already do this with Evernote in fact, it’s called “AI cleanup”. It’s not that good now but I like the idea of having an AI format everything cleanly
Do you like the idea of OpenAI logging all of your private notes for all time (and receiving a copyright sublicense for them from Evernote)?
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#64And to think that at one point Evernote was THE note taking app. So much wasted potential.
I think it was mostly THE note-taking app because it was effectively the first serious contender. In retrospect it was never a particularly inspired app.
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#65For the last 5 days I have been actively trying to cancel my Evernote personal plan. The site would break every time I navigated to manage my subscription or try and reach support. I guess that's one way to reduce customer churn.
I just canceled and it worked fine. Where are you getting stuck?
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#66Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.
I've been doing the same for the past few years, but have yet to figure out a good way to sync things between my devices. Not that it bothers me too much, but sometimes I'd like to have that convenience.
I use Dropbox and symlink my notes to ~/org
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#67Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.
That's why I use https://github.com/laurent22/joplin
It's markdown, open-source, free. With desktop and mobile support.
Syncs notes to any cloud of your choice for free. (I use One Drive)
Optionaly you can pay them to sync your data on their cloud. So they even have a compelling business model!
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#68Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.
I've been doing the same for the past few years, but have yet to figure out a good way to sync things between my devices. Not that it bothers me too much, but sometimes I'd like to have that convenience.
Try https://github.com/laurent22/joplin + cloud drive of your choice (I use One Drive).
See my reply to your parent commenter.
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#69For the last 5 days I have been actively trying to cancel my Evernote personal plan. The site would break every time I navigated to manage my subscription or try and reach support. I guess that's one way to reduce customer churn.
Can’t you just do a chargeback on the next subscription charge? If enough people do that, the card issuer will probably hit them with fines of some sort.
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#70We do have Notion (and alternatives), who needs Evernote now ? Evernote should have an exporting tool to import into Notion instead.
Notion is markdown formatted text only right? Big difference with a full wysiwyg notebook with attachments. Afaik notion only does images. Devs love markdown but regular users don't. But it's been years since I tried notion so perhaps this has changed.
> But it's been years since I tried notion so perhaps this has changed.
It has changed dramatically.