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I suppose the set of features I need covered include: - Web clipping. Evernotes browser plugins are pretty darn good here. - Notes with attachments (images, P

I suppose the set of features I need covered include: - Web clipping. Evernotes browser plugins are pretty darn good here. - Notes with attachments (images, PDFs, etc.). Some of these are mixed-media notes, where text, images, and/or file attachments are mixed to create a comprehensive document about some topic. Others are "pure" attachments, e.g. "store this PDF where I can retrieve it by search". - Note taking. This, in isolation, is the easiest. - Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. - Search. Let's be clear, this was the first and biggest killer feature of Evernote. Notebook and tag organization are important, but rather than just providing direct hierarchical/taxonomic organization, they're largely there to support search with user-defined search facets. I'd also love good Markdown support – that's one of my most-wanted features from Evernote in the first place.

irrational 8y ago
So, you feel search in Evernote is good? Personally I've found it severely lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something that I know is there (and that I do find after manually looking for it), but search comes up empty.
- the6threplicant 8y ago
  I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).
- icc97 8y ago
  Yeah I prefer ripgrep with a bunch of markdown files.
- saidajigumi 8y ago
  That's interesting, and absolutely not my experience. Search has been robust, finds what I need, and absolutely worth having. Might be worth a support request -- maybe there's some undetected lossage in your account's search indices and they need a rebuild. (Or maybe you can kick that off self-service?)
icc97 8y ago
> Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. The dropbox text editor works 'ok'. It's not great, but it's clean enough that I can edit my markdown notes and they'll be synced with dropbox.

irrational 8y ago

So, you feel search in Evernote is good? Personally I've found it severely lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something that I know is there (and that I do find after manually looking for it), but search comes up empty.

the6threplicant 8y ago
I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).
icc97 8y ago
Yeah I prefer ripgrep with a bunch of markdown files.
saidajigumi 8y ago
That's interesting, and absolutely not my experience. Search has been robust, finds what I need, and absolutely worth having. Might be worth a support request -- maybe there's some undetected lossage in your account's search indices and they need a rebuild. (Or maybe you can kick that off self-service?)

icc97 8y ago

> Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder. The dropbox text editor works 'ok'. It's not great, but it's clean enough that I can edit my markdown notes and they'll be synced with dropbox.