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I use Obsidian for note-taking, but Evernote for my "digital shoebox" of receipts, PDFs, photos of wine labels, insurance statements, etc. They are all quickly

by SamBam 3y ago

I use Obsidian for note-taking, but Evernote for my "digital shoebox" of receipts, PDFs, photos of wine labels, insurance statements, etc. They are all quickly findable through a combination of OCR and tags. Does anyone have a good alternative for this use-case?

cweagans 3y ago
Apple notes. The ocr is pretty good.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  Apple stores these unencrypted with government access by default, FYI. Opt into e2ee to disable that.
- allarm 3y ago
  For single use Notes is ok. I’ve been struggling sharing notes with my wife. Some of the notes would never appear on the other device, and it’s been like this for many years, regardless of the devices model and the OS version.
chazeon 3y ago
I think now Apple’s Notes app does this right now.
evolve2k 3y ago
Evernote alternatives for your 'digital shoebox'/'paperless office'. JOPLIN: Browsing through alternativeto [1], seems that the obvious replacement for a hosted 'non-tech' offering is Joplin [2] - a free, open source direct evernote competitor which includes Evernote import feature and cloud syncing. PAPERLESS-NGX: For the whole paperless office, scan/store receipts and PDF paperwork, I've been seriously looking at Paperless-NGX [3]. Downside is that you need to sort out self-hosting. Upside it's free and looks amazing for achieving a 'paperless office'. Found this on exporting from Evernote to Paperless-NGX [4], but its not definitive. Has anyone done this already? Would love your advice. Demand is out there for someone to write up a good guide on this. REFERENCES: [1] Alternatives to Evernote - https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote [2] Joplin Open Source Evernote Alternative - https://joplinapp.org https://joplinapp.org [3] Paperless-NGX (Selfhosted paperless office) - https://docs.paperless-ngx.com https://docs.paperless-ngx.com [4] Discussion Evernote to Paperless-ngx - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/120mmo1/evernote_to_paperlessngx https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/120mmo1/evernot...
- staticman2 3y ago
  Joplin doesn't have OCR built in. There's third party Joplin plugins for OCR but I don't know how well they work.
staticman2 3y ago
On phones Microsoft lens has free pdf OCR scanning. That and Onedrive would probably work. Instead of tags you just put keywords in the file names. I'm not sure how well it would handle photos of wine labels.
BaseballPhysics 3y ago
If you're willing to self-host, I've found Paperless to be quite good: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Rebelgecko 3y ago
I've been using Stack for a few years and like it a lot. Downside is that it might go to the Google Graveyard someday. Partially mitigated because the app mirrors PDFs of all my uploads to Google Drive, but not sure how much metadata that includes.
Zetobal 3y ago
If you are on Mac/iOS devonthink is good alternative for it.

by SamBam 3y ago

cweagans 3y ago

Apple notes. The ocr is pretty good.

wahnfrieden 3y ago
Apple stores these unencrypted with government access by default, FYI. Opt into e2ee to disable that.
allarm 3y ago
For single use Notes is ok. I’ve been struggling sharing notes with my wife. Some of the notes would never appear on the other device, and it’s been like this for many years, regardless of the devices model and the OS version.

chazeon 3y ago

I think now Apple’s Notes app does this right now.

evolve2k 3y ago

Evernote alternatives for your 'digital shoebox'/'paperless office'. JOPLIN: Browsing through alternativeto [1], seems that the obvious replacement for a hosted 'non-tech' offering is Joplin [2] - a free, open source direct evernote competitor which includes Evernote import feature and cloud syncing. PAPERLESS-NGX: For the whole paperless office, scan/store receipts and PDF paperwork, I've been seriously looking at Paperless-NGX [3]. Downside is that you need to sort out self-hosting. Upside it's free and looks amazing for achieving a 'paperless office'. Found this on exporting from Evernote to Paperless-NGX [4], but its not definitive. Has anyone done this already? Would love your advice. Demand is out there for someone to write up a good guide on this. REFERENCES: [1] Alternatives to Evernote - https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote [2] Joplin Open Source Evernote Alternative - https://joplinapp.org https://joplinapp.org [3] Paperless-NGX (Selfhosted paperless office) - https://docs.paperless-ngx.com https://docs.paperless-ngx.com [4] Discussion Evernote to Paperless-ngx - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/120mmo1/evernote_to_paperlessngx https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/120mmo1/evernot...

staticman2 3y ago
Joplin doesn't have OCR built in. There's third party Joplin plugins for OCR but I don't know how well they work.

staticman2 3y ago

On phones Microsoft lens has free pdf OCR scanning. That and Onedrive would probably work. Instead of tags you just put keywords in the file names. I'm not sure how well it would handle photos of wine labels.

BaseballPhysics 3y ago

If you're willing to self-host, I've found Paperless to be quite good: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

Rebelgecko 3y ago

I've been using Stack for a few years and like it a lot. Downside is that it might go to the Google Graveyard someday. Partially mitigated because the app mirrors PDFs of all my uploads to Google Drive, but not sure how much metadata that includes.

Zetobal 3y ago

If you are on Mac/iOS devonthink is good alternative for it.