Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.
If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.
ColorNote is way better anyway.
no one uses Nextcloud notes?
And this is why for something simple like this, I say self hosting is the only option. I’m sure their software is great. But it’s the sort of thing where a subscription fee is not necessary. If it’s the sort of thing that conceptually can be run on a raspberry pi and use less than 1% of that little CPU, it’s not something I want to pay every month for.
I use Evernote for 3 general things:
- clip interesting articles I want to read later
- keep track of home inventory & pdf files - i.e. make a note for each big item in my home with picture, serial number, user manual, etc
- longer form notes
For notes I’m going to try Obsidian. I wasn’t too thrilled with how Evernote worked as a note taker, and I like markdown files.
I’m not sure what to do about the other two.I just logged onto my Evernote to back everything up due to this news, and this is what I found after I logged on and it pestering me to “unsync” my existing devices (not a bad idea honestly, it’s been literally 6 years since I’ve used Evernote):
That’s right, you can only unsync your devices TWICE A MONTH. If that’s not the absolute trashiest shit behavior, I don’t know what is. Deleting my account once I get my info.
Edit: I have one whole note and I don’t have the equipment it refers to anymore, so say goodbye to my Evernote account. Enshittification goes on.
Export (or at least backup) your notes now!
https://www.theverge.com/23462732/evernote-export-notebook-how-to
I moved away from evernote years ago when they limited the number of devices a free account could use.
Used OneNote for a while after that.
Now I selfhost a Trilium Notes instance.
It’s a great time to give Recollectr a try!
Recollectr was inspired by prior projects like Notational Velocity but aims to be a lot more - omnibox, markdown support, reminders - and for paid users revisions, note-linking, and sync.
(Disclaimer: See account name)
User name checked out, proceed.
Recommendations for alternatives? I’ve been meaning to switch to something else for a long time for my personal notes. Taking a look at obsidian now but interested in shopping around. Self hosted, cross platform and tools for sharing/collaboration desired.
It really depends on what you want: I really like obsidian which is cross-platform and uses basically vanilla markdown which makes it easy to switch should this project go down in flames (there are also plugins that add additional syntax which may not be portable, but that’s as expected).
There’s also logseq which has much more bespoke syntax (major extensions to markdown), but is also OSS meaning there’s no real danger of it suddenly vanishing from one day to the next.
Specifically Logseq is much heavier than obsidian both in the app itself and the features it adds to markdown, while obsidian is much more “markdown++” with a significant part of the “++” coming from plugins.In my experience logseq is really nice for short-term note taking (e.g. lists, reminders, etc) and obsidian is much nicer for long-term notes.
Some people also like notion, but i never got into that: it requires much more structure ahead of time and is very locked down (it also obviously isn’t self-hosted). I can see notion being really nice for people that want less general note-taking and more custom “forms” to fill out (e.g. traveling checklists, production planning, etc…).
Personally, I would always go with obsidian, just for the piece of mind that the markdown plays well with other markdown editors which is important for me if I want a long-running knowledge base.
Unfortunately I cannot tell you anything with regards to collaboration since I do not use that feature in any note-taking systemNotion is so good, but damn, it cannot be used offline I think, that’s a major dealbreaker to me
I only use it to share texts in team environment (college group projects, work, etc)
It sort of has an offline mode (if you already have the page loaded), but expansive offline support is solely needed.
Let me introduce you to my note-taking setup.
- Create a new folder, and add a note by creating a markdown file or .txt file
- Edit it using Notepad, or even better, Obsidian.md
- Synchronize it using Syncthing (on Windows, you can use SyncTrazor, which is basically a UI for Syncthing), add as many devices as possible
That’s it. You always own your own files, and there’s no more worry about cloud services going down
Thanks for this! Seems like a simple, solid solution.
Ok, I see a lot of people offering suggestions, but ones that seem to mostly apply to single-user situations. All I use Evernote for these days is shared work notes across my organization. I know about Notion, but it’s a bit more complex than I’d like for tracking notes over long periods of time (years of notes coming from a few users, but being visible to many other users who are not technically savvy).
Also, am I missing the link to an actual article, or is it only to the ycombinator post? (I admittedly don’t know much about ycombinator or how it works.)
I’m a pretty big fan of Craft - it has the slight problem a lot of similar types of editors do, where it handles a lot of different content types so the text handling can be weird at times, but overall it has a great interface, supports sharing with non-paid accounts, and generally felt worth paying for for me.
Well, Bending Spoons seem to be hiring a lot in Spain. Or so my Linkedin notifications would lead me to believe. This makes it even worse if that is the case.
How is that a bad thing? Genuine question.
Laying off tenured employees in high cost locations to get newer people in earning less, and possibly fewer benefits. Bad for morale, knowledge transfer, and it’s a way to erode pay and benefits for employees globally.
