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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't understand how they made it this long.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Venture capital spurred by effectively negative interest rates.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Free money.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I switched to Joplin a few years ago from Evernote and haven't looked back. Take control of your own notes - Joplin is open source and has clients for every platform, and imports notebooks from Evernote.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or Obsidian? Take actual control over them including rendering if you want to customize that.

Maybe it's a different use case 🤔

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Obsidian is closed source, so once the company dies, no one can modify the app. Joplin on the other hand is open source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I really like about Obsidian is that it stores your notes as plain text/markdown files on your computer. So you always have access to them, even without Obsidian itself. Markdown is also a fairly common format, so it shouldn't be too hard to move them somewhere else later.

But your concerns are still valid and I generally also prefer free open source software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The app may be closed-source, but the data is all markdown, which should be easy to move to other apps.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haven't tried Obsidian, but have heard good things about it. I have about 12,000 notes and continue to be impressed with Joplin's ability to handle that with no issues.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Different use cases, indeed. All I need is plaintext, images, and in-line pdf rendering. No audio, no video, no LaTeX, not even italics or bold.

Now, to be completely fair, while Joplin is great for simple notes, it’s data entry modes are weird AF. I assume, in a programmers mind, the operation is normal for an IDE as it can’t/won’t render links/objects in line with editing. You either get a markup-only window that’s editable, a rendered window that is read only, or lose half your screen to a split-view version. These options are selected via two, separate, unlabeled, non-status-indicating toggle buttons which cycle through 2 and 3 versions if the view.

Aside from that, it seems nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It also has a web clipper, which imo is a very handy feature.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I forgot Evernote was still a thing. Used it for a short while back in 2012 when there were not many decent note taking apps.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Ever since I discovered LogSeq and Obsidian, I stopped checking out other note-taking software

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

God I love Obsidian. Especially the community around it.

Obsidian honestly spoiled me with the fact that my vault is literally just a folder of markdown files.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’ve been using Logseq at work and I LOOOOVE it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LogSeq

I never heard of it until now. I'm a veteran of trying out and dumping so many note taking solutions. I'm certain to try this one, too! Maybe I'll finally find The One.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same! I've become like a walking advertisement for LogSeq at work. Its great

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Years ago I was a paid Evernote user. The app kept displaying ads on startup trying to get me to pay even more for the “higher tier”. Right then and there I knew the company was dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not only that, but they kept adding features and telling me about it. I was paying for their existing features, and yet half the time I would go to add a note and by the time I clicked through their "we did something you probably don't care about" popups, I'd forget what I wanted to note.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

There is a recent thread discussing Evernote alternatives at https://beehaw.org/post/986939

Personally I exported my notes from Evernote, imported them to Joplin, and setup Syncthing to handle synchronization of note content between my devices. Not exactly a trivial setup but not difficult either. Also fully open source and much more secure.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean… haven’t they been surviving purely on inertia for a while already?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had my inertia. I moved from free to $25/yr. Then watched as it crept up to $60/yr with basically zero improvements. I bailed at $120/yr for a terrible transition to a new db style that could only be updated in real time as you opened each note (taking 3-45 seconds per note to update) and a promised AI component for which I have no use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Inertia was carrying me as well. First it was $35 for premium, then $70 for several years, and then last month they announced it was going up to $130 and that's when I bailed.

At $70 it wasn't too bad and I stayed the last year or so also because they actually published a native Linux app that worked on par with the Windows and macOS app. I won't say it worked great because since they moved it all to Electron or whatever it's been slow/clunky all around. But at least it was available and consistent.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And that is why I self-host as much as I can

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's a good self hosted thinking like Evernote?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For note taking, you might even get by without self-hosting, looking at software like Obsidian which works perfectly fine with just SyncThing to sync between devices, or just literally any other file syncing solution, self-hosted or otherwise.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not quite as full featured as Evernote, but I like Joplin. It can sync using Nextcloud, OneDrive, WebDAV, and other services. It's end to end encrypted and works well on Android!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Once Apple overhauled Notes a few years ago AND offered a way to import from Evernote, I never looked back. For anyone in Apple’s ecosystem Notes is one of the best (and completely free or cheap on any iCloud+ plan).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

One thing that Evernote got right is that it made it easy to export your content. I really appreciate that about the service. Leaving Apple Notes is not as easy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I gave my resume to Bending Spoons and they didn’t hire me, so fuck them And fuck them for the layoffs, they have people working from home so relocating seems like an excuse

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They made it 1/10th of a century. So far, so good, right?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I didn't even know Evernote was still a think. I thought it had died years ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Surprised they still had all that programmers for something that's still stuck in the year 2014

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Holy shit someone tell danny brown to save his raps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone here are so cool with fancy open source alterantives. I've been basic and been using Notion for all my med school notes and beyond and while it's been mostly great the few episodes of outages have been so frustrating. Wish there were some easy to use solutions with all the text formatting options Notion has.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hadn't heard about Evernote in years. Honestly thought they'd gone under years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, I saw something about the other day and it doesn’t make me feel good about still having some work notes in Evernote. I’m going to have to find an alternative, but I need collaboration and low cost (cuz my company is cheap AF). And I know those two things don’t usually go together.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I finally bailed on it this year.

I have this suspicion that it might survive even this though, it's been through so much over the years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone know a good alternative for storing PDFs with preview and search?

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