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I looked at Evernote a couple of times and it just seemed like overkill for my needs. But a couple of months ago I got one of those tiny portable Fujitsu Scansn

I looked at Evernote a couple of times and it just seemed like overkill for my needs. But a couple of months ago I got one of those tiny portable Fujitsu Scansnap duplex scanners and started scanning and shredding every scrap of paper that passes my way. Now I get it.

freehunter 15y ago
I wish I could do that, but unfortunately I just can't bring myself to trust their security. I use Evernote for my classes because I use a Asus EeeNote tablet that syncs things to Evernote exclusively, but there are so many things I can't trust in the cloud. If Evernote offered a "host it yourself" option that worked with existing Evernote clients, I'd be all over it.
- veidr 15y ago
  Although I use Evernote every single day, and it has really improved my life overall, I agree--I can't trust it with the most important of data. I doubt they will ever offer a 'host it yourself' plan, but if only they would implement encrypted notes, it would solve this problem. Data blobs that are only decrypted on the client side, with searching possible only on the metadata (note title, tag, etc) and not the encrypted contents. They do allow this for text--you can select text and encrypt it--but not for documents. My workflow with Evernote is that every single piece of paper and mail (along with tons of web pages, etc) goes into it. ScanSnap is awesome, an administrative assistant feeding your paper mail through the ScanSnap even more awesome. It is unfortunate that there isn't a real facility to keep thos most sensitive of documents safe, though. IMO this is the most significant failure of the service.
damptrousers 15y ago
Yep, great concept. You can do this without evernote, and you can do this with apps that do a much better job of allowing you to get stuff out. Evernote did not create the ability to do this. You are very confused.
- GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
  Confused in what way? Evernote didn't create the ability to do this but they offer an excellent cloud service which is seamless across multiple platforms including Android and iPhone. Their applications are stable, thoughtfully designed and constantly improving. The paid service is very reasonably priced and opens great possibilities for collaboration. If there's something better out there, please tell me.
rumblestrut 15y ago
I have no idea what options there are for a non-iOS user, but ... There's an excellent iOS app called TurboScan. It's fantastic. Take a picture of your receipts and it'll convert the image to low file size, but high-quality, PDFs. You can then send those PDFs to your Evernote email and have them stored neatly in a notebook. It's a fantastic solution for portable document scanning. And with the iPhone 4s camera being so improved over its predecessors, it makes great PDFs of receipts.
- stinkytaco 15y ago
  Droid Scan and Cam Scanner are decent Android alternatives. For reciepts it's ok, but for OCR it doesn't work well, which I was kind of hoping for. I'll just have to wait for camera's to improve.

freehunter 15y ago

I wish I could do that, but unfortunately I just can't bring myself to trust their security. I use Evernote for my classes because I use a Asus EeeNote tablet that syncs things to Evernote exclusively, but there are so many things I can't trust in the cloud. If Evernote offered a "host it yourself" option that worked with existing Evernote clients, I'd be all over it.

veidr 15y ago
Although I use Evernote every single day, and it has really improved my life overall, I agree--I can't trust it with the most important of data. I doubt they will ever offer a 'host it yourself' plan, but if only they would implement encrypted notes, it would solve this problem. Data blobs that are only decrypted on the client side, with searching possible only on the metadata (note title, tag, etc) and not the encrypted contents. They do allow this for text--you can select text and encrypt it--but not for documents. My workflow with Evernote is that every single piece of paper and mail (along with tons of web pages, etc) goes into it. ScanSnap is awesome, an administrative assistant feeding your paper mail through the ScanSnap even more awesome. It is unfortunate that there isn't a real facility to keep thos most sensitive of documents safe, though. IMO this is the most significant failure of the service.

damptrousers 15y ago

Yep, great concept. You can do this without evernote, and you can do this with apps that do a much better job of allowing you to get stuff out. Evernote did not create the ability to do this. You are very confused.

GiraffeNecktie 15y ago
Confused in what way? Evernote didn't create the ability to do this but they offer an excellent cloud service which is seamless across multiple platforms including Android and iPhone. Their applications are stable, thoughtfully designed and constantly improving. The paid service is very reasonably priced and opens great possibilities for collaboration. If there's something better out there, please tell me.

rumblestrut 15y ago

I have no idea what options there are for a non-iOS user, but ... There's an excellent iOS app called TurboScan. It's fantastic. Take a picture of your receipts and it'll convert the image to low file size, but high-quality, PDFs. You can then send those PDFs to your Evernote email and have them stored neatly in a notebook. It's a fantastic solution for portable document scanning. And with the iPhone 4s camera being so improved over its predecessors, it makes great PDFs of receipts.

stinkytaco 15y ago
Droid Scan and Cam Scanner are decent Android alternatives. For reciepts it's ok, but for OCR it doesn't work well, which I was kind of hoping for. I'll just have to wait for camera's to improve.