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I've been half-heartedly looking at moving my notes to a self-hosted solution for some time. I'd have a look, play with a few approaches, then give up because t
by TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago
I've been half-heartedly looking at moving my notes to a self-hosted solution for some time. I'd have a look, play with a few approaches, then give up because there doesn't seem to be anything quite as polished as Evernote out there. Even when I switched to Linux as my primary OS, it only compelled me to drop to the free tier, because my use case rarely involved the desktop client anyway.
Now, I think the time has come to finally make a move. It's not so much the half apology - "We really tactically communicated in about as poor a way as we could" doesn't sound like "This was a really bad idea and we're not going to do it anymore" to me. It's more about my belief that, when a company suggests something like this, there's already a cultural belief that this is OK, and once you've made that belief public, you can't really backtrack and still keep my trust.
- FreezerburnV 10y agoWhat are you planning on moving to? I'm not currently aware of anything (except maybe OneNote, which can't be self-hosted, isn't open source, and doesn't work on Linux) that has a similar feature set to Evernote. Particularly for what I tend to use it for: capturing web pages so I never lose certain content, "scanning" documents into it, searchable OCR, and available no matter what I'm using (iOS, website for Linux, and desktop client for Windows. my use case is probably a bit more ecletic than a lot of people though...) being the primary things. If you find anything that can fit what I use Evernote for, I would love to hear about it. At this point in time, I'm willing to trade the potential privacy issues for the convenience of what is offered. Especially since, right now, even if an employee of Evernot could potentially look at notes of mine, they've still said that my notes belong to me and they aren't selling off data mining rights to other companies.
- newsat13 10y agoI have been using https://meemo.minimal-space.de/ https://meemo.minimal-space.de/ . Obviously, no where close to evernote functionality but it covers the basic 'remember the milk' case.