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I use DevonThink 3 [1]. It's got rich text and Markdown support. It also supports PDF documents as first-class objects. You can drag PDFs right into Devon and
by atombender 7y ago
I use DevonThink 3 [1].
It's got rich text and Markdown support.
It also supports PDF documents as first-class objects. You can drag PDFs right into Devon and they get as PDFs, meaning that when you click on a note, you view the PDF.
The PDF support is top notch. The viewer is built into the UI, and also lets you open in tabs and new windows. Lots of markup tools right in the viewer. PDFs are indexed, of course.
Its rich text supports attachments, just like Evernote, but they're much nicer. Drag a GIF and movie into a text note and it becomes a live player.
You can drag URLs right into a folder and they'll come up as web pages or PDFs, depending. Then if you want to actually store the page/PDF, you can tell it to.
Its folder structure is much nicer than Evernote's. You just create folders and nested folders. None of this notebook nonsense.
It's got built-in iCloud syncing as well as syncing via other options (Dropbox, WebDAV, more).
You can run it local mode. Devon divides its data into "databases" which you can open and close. Databases can be encrypted. So, for example, you could store important private information (things like tax forms, government forms, 2FA recovery codes, etc.) in an encrypted database on a USB drive somewhere.
It has some weird features I don't use, but which some people might like. For example, "RSS feed" is a note type. Adding the feeds automatically ingests the RSS feed's items as new notes.
One neat feature is the inbox system that tracks what's read and unread. So you can just dump new stuff into the inbox for later categorization/deletion.
The search is great.
I also like that it's not opinionated about layout. You can change the layout a lot — to show the note editor or just the list of notes, for example.
Has a nice iOS app, too.
[1] https://www.devontechnologies.com https://www.devontechnologies.com