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I still use Evernote for scanned documents (invoices, receipts, insurance papers etc etc), and have done so for ~10 years - because I can free-text search in sc
by klausjensen 5y ago
I still use Evernote for scanned documents (invoices, receipts, insurance papers etc etc), and have done so for ~10 years - because I can free-text search in scanned documents.
During those years, Evernote has kept getting worse and worse, becomeing slower and more unreliable at doing cores things, while they slap features on it, that I do not want (collaboration, chat and other garbage).
I want to migrate off at some point, but 10 years of scanned documents are tricky to migrate, and frankly I do not know of any good alternatives at this point.
- ungamedplayer 5y agoHas this changed your mind about hosted third party services? I have seen a number of people bitten by this kind of vendor behaviour, but they swiftly go back to making the same mistake.
- nnoitra 5y agoHow safe is my data if I use Notes on Mac and then upload it to iCloud? The reasoning is that Apple is a trillion dollar company and they've no interest in screwing me over. I know it's naive but a consolation I guess. If not, what would be an alternative?
- joshspankit 5y agoThey do have an interest in making sure you can’t take your data with you if you leave which I would argue is a type of screwing you over.
- wiredfool 5y agoFor a long while, notes backend used IMAP. I lost a bunch of notes that I didn't realize were stored on an email account that went away.
- joshspankit 5y agoIt’s certainly changed my mind. Now, part of my vetting process for new services is “can I not just get my data out, but also the metadata I care about?”. That’s done with the first few projects/documents/whatever, and then because of being bitten in the past, I know I must do the same export at least twice a year in order to know that the company has not silently restricted it.
- mszcz 5y agoI've switched to SwiftScan with automatic upload to Dropbox. It does decent-ish OCR on documents so that you more or less can select text in scanned PDFs. I rarely search inside scanned docs, most of the search is by filename which I manually set a couple of times a week. For file search VoidTools Everything is great.
- sph 5y agoAny other recommendation for an iOS scanner app that doesn't want me to subscribe to a mailing list and doesn't ask for monthly payment? Free or one time payment only.
- kejaed 5y agoApples built in Notes app does pretty well these days.
- mszcz 5y agoI'm on Android, sorry. SwiftScan has a one time payment option AFAIK, that's the one I used.
- sph 5y agoNo, I installed it and saw they offer a subscription. There is no one off payment, they offer a yearly VIP package for £35.99.
- mszcz 5y agoHuh. I've checked by purchase history on the Play Store and there's a 2016 May charge for SwiftScan Plus, no active subscriptions. I've got the iOS version on the iPad, fully unlocked, also no subscriptions. I guess they eliminated the one-time purchase option. Bastards. No way I'd pay £36 for this yearly. Netflix doesn't cost that much more!
- devaler 5y agoI’ve used and liked Genius Scan for a long time. Roughly six or seven years.
- greggsy 5y agoI just take photos of documents and tag them in the Photos app, which OCR’s documents out of the box now.
- emrah 5y ago> I still use Evernote for scanned documents In my opinion, that is Evernote's one and only killer feature.