Oh yeah, Evernote used to exist, forgot about that.
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So basically, they are following enshitification same as many companies have been doing.
Soon to be purchased by:
A) Meta
B) Microsoft
C) Alphabet
D) Some venture capital firm nobody who uses a computer daily has ever heard of
Place your bets now people!
How many people had heard of Bending Spoons before they bought Evernote? They're a software company but I'd never heard of any of their apps before, either.
I heard of Bending Spoons because I read an article about an unknown company buying mobile apps, raising prices to insane values, and milking existing customers. Then using that profit to buy another app and repeat.
Than I forgot about them until they bought Evernote.
I only heard of them because I wanted to move to Italy and they were hiring and relocating DevOps engineers.
I didn't apply but that was first time I heard of them like 2 years ago.
IIRC they wrote the italian COVID app, "Immuni"
That sounds familiar. I remember being impressed by then because Italy is not known for its tech sector (my brother in law here just learned about docker etc for example even though he's a system admin) and they seemed pretty current on tech.
I had never heard of them before this post.
Why would MS be intereted in Evernote? I guess they could incorporate something into OneNote, but what would that be? Are there any technologies worth buying in Evernote?
They bought Wunderlist and Sunrise Calendar. Why wouldn't they buy Evernote?
All that lovely text based data on there, I'm sure some companies are salivating at the idea.
Jokes on them, even when I had an account I encrypted all my notes before putting them there. I do the same on Google Keep.
I feel like they were some of the leaders - they’ve been making their product worse while charging more to use it for years
More enshitification
I forgot Evernote existed. Time to back up my notes from 2014.
Whew. I used Evernote heavily for about two years back at the beginning of the app craze, but I quickly switched over to just the Apple Notes app as Apple made it more usable. Thank god I didn’t stick with that app
I'll leave these here for those fleeing Evernote:
https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/migrate-from-evernote-to-apple-notes/
I haven't used either, I never really used Evernote, but a couple people have been posting them as a good way to get your notes migrated out of the app.
Better alternative: Joplin
Works much the same way as Evernote with a similar layout including a wysiwyg editor and a web clipper. However, you can host your own server or sync it to a cloud platform of your choice (or both). Doesn't cost you a thing and is open source. Has an Evernote importer too.
Apple notes can lock you in. Bear or Obsidian maybe a viable alternative but I’m not sure with migration if a seamless import is available.
Those looking for an alternative, I suggest Joplin. I exported/imported from Evernote a few years back and am really happy with it.
- supports markdown
- can store data on multiple services
- Open source
- can fully encrypt your notes
Fuck I’m a relatively heavy user of Evernote
My yearly subscription renewed in January
Consider Standard Notes, it's a similar product that can import from Evernote, and it also protects your note contents with end to end encryption.
https://standardnotes.com/help/10/how-can-i-import-my-notes-from-evernote
Oh bruh, I have 209 notes in their cloud, I fuckin used their app daily for school what the fuc, why they gotta be bad now
Obsidian is love. Obsidian is life
A former employer bought a lifetime subscription to Evernote for me, I forget why they did that some perky new manager wanting us all to collaborate or something. I used it for notes when learning Spanish if I recall. A few years after that they canceled it and said I had to pay so I deleted my account. I entirely forgot it existed until reading this post. That's the end of my Evernote story.
In case anyone is looking for a recommendation, I started using Obsidian for taking notes recently. It creates markdown files which keeps things nice and clean and then I use Syncthing to sync my files rather than their paid sync option. If Obsidian ever enshitifies I can either use an old version of the application or switch to any other markdown editor.
I'm considering having some sort of nightly sync to a git repo as well for version control but that might be more complexity than I need.
I use Obsidian in the work laptop because they don't allow any cloud tool for confidentiality and I like it a lot.
For personal stuff I've been using OneNote just because its free and has clients for almost every system I use.
I will need to find a new personal document manager, I’ve experimented with self hosted paperless ngx but I don’t recant to spend time setting up my containers, I’m happy to pay for something that works
Check out obsidian, it's pretty great.
Woah, this obsidian looks deep. Do you have a recommendation on how to search PDFs using it?
Hmm nope, I don't use pdfs in it.
Damn it. I've got a lot of stuff on there, organised and tagged.
I've thought about migrating for the last couple of years, but just left it as I couldn't be bothered.
If it's getting more expensive though, this might be the time to move.
What would be the service with the easiest migration path? Ideally one that:
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has good automatic OCR of all documents uploaded to make them searchable
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has good apps on Android, Windows and IOS
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has a good import function that can retain tags from Evernote
That may be asking too much?
Sounds like Obsidian is a great alternative
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