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I noticed the article was from 2013 when it started raving about Evernote. Which is not a bad thing per se because Evernote is still great for a lot of things

I noticed the article was from 2013 when it started raving about Evernote. Which is not a bad thing per se because Evernote is still great for a lot of things it did ten years ago, but I'd be curious to know whether the author is still using Evernote.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Evernote was really great for a little while. In 2015, when I purchased my first mobile device, I realized I needed to get up into the cloud, and one of my local-only apps was note taking in Ubuntu Linux. So I auditioned a few apps and decided that Evernote was really nice, and cross-platform, and had plenty of offline functionality. It was good, it had good features that I appreciated, and in fact I used it so heavily for notetaking that it became my de facto password manager. I found that I was recording lots of notes about every account I had (many real-world-related accounts, such as utilities and benefits) and so it was totally logical to just put credentials in there too. Yep, unencrypted! Evernote really helped during an intensive job search. I could clip the entire job listing to an article on Evernote, and I could refer to the full text later on. I could also add notes to it in any form! Nice! At the time, I was also using Dropbox for cloud storage. I exited both Dropbox and Evernote eventually. Now I just use Google Workspaces for everything; no complaints.
dredmorbius 3y ago
I'd noticed mention of the Readability extension, which no longer exists.
- hobo_mark 3y ago
  I'm reminded of that every other year or so, nobody made an alternative since then?
  - gnicholas 3y ago
    Most browsers have a version of this built in, and there are extensions (mine is BeeLine Reader) that have a Readability function included as well.
  - JamesLeonis 3y ago
    There is something like that in Firefox. In the URL bar, to the right, a "paper hamburger" shows up that presents a Readability-like experience. The Mode is preserved during refresh, so you can often refresh a Javascript popup out of existence. It is occasionally intermittent, however.
    - dredmorbius 3y ago
      Firefox's Reader View uses the Readability JS library AFAIU.
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    Pocket, built in to Firefox, provides (and generally exceeds) Readability's capabilities: - It renders a "clean" view of most Web articles, using the Readability JS library itself. - It provides tags (and far more than Readability did, accounts topped out at 500). - It has an Android app. That said, Pocket still has a whole mess of failings, lacking features, and sheer bone-headedness. Of the list I'd written of in 2017, most remain: <https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddi...> Pocket now has in-page search (within the Pocket Android app). It does not have full-text search of your articles. The rest of the issues remain, and a few others have cropped up. Pocket remains very much an Article Roach Motel: articles check in, they don't check out.

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

Evernote was really great for a little while. In 2015, when I purchased my first mobile device, I realized I needed to get up into the cloud, and one of my local-only apps was note taking in Ubuntu Linux. So I auditioned a few apps and decided that Evernote was really nice, and cross-platform, and had plenty of offline functionality. It was good, it had good features that I appreciated, and in fact I used it so heavily for notetaking that it became my de facto password manager. I found that I was recording lots of notes about every account I had (many real-world-related accounts, such as utilities and benefits) and so it was totally logical to just put credentials in there too. Yep, unencrypted! Evernote really helped during an intensive job search. I could clip the entire job listing to an article on Evernote, and I could refer to the full text later on. I could also add notes to it in any form! Nice! At the time, I was also using Dropbox for cloud storage. I exited both Dropbox and Evernote eventually. Now I just use Google Workspaces for everything; no complaints.

dredmorbius 3y ago

I'd noticed mention of the Readability extension, which no longer exists.

hobo_mark 3y ago
I'm reminded of that every other year or so, nobody made an alternative since then?
- gnicholas 3y ago
  Most browsers have a version of this built in, and there are extensions (mine is BeeLine Reader) that have a Readability function included as well.
- JamesLeonis 3y ago
  There is something like that in Firefox. In the URL bar, to the right, a "paper hamburger" shows up that presents a Readability-like experience. The Mode is preserved during refresh, so you can often refresh a Javascript popup out of existence. It is occasionally intermittent, however.
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    Firefox's Reader View uses the Readability JS library AFAIU.
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  Pocket, built in to Firefox, provides (and generally exceeds) Readability's capabilities: - It renders a "clean" view of most Web articles, using the Readability JS library itself. - It provides tags (and far more than Readability did, accounts topped out at 500). - It has an Android app. That said, Pocket still has a whole mess of failings, lacking features, and sheer bone-headedness. Of the list I'd written of in 2017, most remain: <https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190512092903/https://old.reddi...> Pocket now has in-page search (within the Pocket Android app). It does not have full-text search of your articles. The rest of the issues remain, and a few others have cropped up. Pocket remains very much an Article Roach Motel: articles check in, they don't check out.