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I’ve been seeking a drop-in replacement for EN. These days I use ‘Evernote Legacy’ because the new Evernote is horrible. I’ll use it until they kill it. I’ve

I’ve been seeking a drop-in replacement for EN. These days I use ‘Evernote Legacy’ because the new Evernote is horrible. I’ll use it until they kill it. I’ve seen a few good “almost there” replacements, but each have their own quirks.

kibbleble 5y ago
I've been using Simple Note: https://simplenote.com/ https://simplenote.com/ It's good enough for me. I don't think I've ever used Evernote's advanced features because I'm too lazy to organize things into books. It seems like they have an Evernote Import feature?
egypturnash 5y ago
Same. I just canceled my EN subscription; it refreshed right before New EN, and I gave them until renewal to get that working. It’s still garbage and I have completely lost the habit of using it because I can’t revert to the old iOS app and have to use the slow, awkward new one. I am currently evaluating Joplin as a maybe. It is webshit in an Electron wrapper but I think the only note app that isn’t webshit that I can use to collaborate with my Windows/Android using husband is Microsoft’s; it did a shit job of keeping my formatting last time I tried it, plus I hate the way it wants every note to be a text box floating in an infinite canvas. I still have to actually check out Joplin’s collaboration, that only seems to work if you’re paying for their sync service instead of using something else. Joplin also has a plug-in to do what EN couldn’t do in an entire decade: give you a nice diff UI for dealing with conflicting changes. (My requirements: cross platform collaboration, decent EN import, not be webshit, deal gracefully with notes with PDFs and images in them.)
pqs 5y ago
My experience is that the new Evernote Desktop is now working fine, and I really like and use a lot the Tasks feature. Evernote for Android has gone from useless to barely usable, on my Xiaomi A3 phone. I guess it will keep improving. The transition to the new Evernote has been a pain, but things are improving faster than I expected.

kibbleble 5y ago

I've been using Simple Note: https://simplenote.com/ https://simplenote.com/ It's good enough for me. I don't think I've ever used Evernote's advanced features because I'm too lazy to organize things into books. It seems like they have an Evernote Import feature?

egypturnash 5y ago

Same. I just canceled my EN subscription; it refreshed right before New EN, and I gave them until renewal to get that working. It’s still garbage and I have completely lost the habit of using it because I can’t revert to the old iOS app and have to use the slow, awkward new one. I am currently evaluating Joplin as a maybe. It is webshit in an Electron wrapper but I think the only note app that isn’t webshit that I can use to collaborate with my Windows/Android using husband is Microsoft’s; it did a shit job of keeping my formatting last time I tried it, plus I hate the way it wants every note to be a text box floating in an infinite canvas. I still have to actually check out Joplin’s collaboration, that only seems to work if you’re paying for their sync service instead of using something else. Joplin also has a plug-in to do what EN couldn’t do in an entire decade: give you a nice diff UI for dealing with conflicting changes. (My requirements: cross platform collaboration, decent EN import, not be webshit, deal gracefully with notes with PDFs and images in them.)

pqs 5y ago

My experience is that the new Evernote Desktop is now working fine, and I really like and use a lot the Tasks feature. Evernote for Android has gone from useless to barely usable, on my Xiaomi A3 phone. I guess it will keep improving. The transition to the new Evernote has been a pain, but things are improving faster than I expected.