![]() Best Evernote replacement I foundĪnd you know what? Such setup finally exists thanks to awesome Joplin app. I use it exclusively for work stuff, so lack of mobile app support was never a problem.įor personal notes though I need something with similar approach and mobile app. Stores my notes simply as named markdown files in my work Dropbox folder. I found it in a form of opensource QOwnNotes app, which works really well on desktop and This approach works brilliantly and helps me with all work stuff ever since.īut because Notational Velocity is MacOS-only, and I left this platform years ago, I had to find an multi-platform alternative. No save button, no nothing - you type stuff in, it’s immediately saved and instantly searchable. You only have an editor and a search field, where you can either find a note by it’s content or name, or create a new one. Synchronization via Dropbox, that is notes are just *.md files in a dedicated directory.Ī colleague of mine introduced me to an app called Notational Velocity, which implements really cool note-taking concept:.Desktop app with Markdown support and import/export options. ![]() In my head, I imagined perfect personal notes-taking setup as this: I always to it from my phone, because it’s always with me.Īll I ever needed is basic formatting support (I always wished Evernote just let me use Markdown instead of their ever-changing WYSIWYG editor), nothing else. I form an opinion about a book/album/game, or whenever I had an idea to write down. My personal notes usage pattern was pretty much the same since 2012, I update relevant entries once There still is an option to export notes using their API, but with the trajectory Evernote took I’m sure it will be deprecated/hindered somehow pretty soon, just to keep the users locked in.Īnyway, I exported all my notes and started to look for the replacement.īut before I share my findings, I need to explain how I use note-taking apps. Unfortunately over the years Evernote slowly turned into utter garbage,Īnd with latest obnoxious ‘redesign’ I was finally done with it.Īnd of course first thing I discovered is that they seem to have killed ’export’ in any shape or form!Īt least it’s not present in the mobile app or website. When I was done playing with VPS in 2015, I migrated back to Evernote, and used it till 2021. I exported all notes from Evernote to Tomboy without any issues, and kept using this setup for over 1.5 years. With personal VPS I switched to Tomboy and Tomdroid with Owncloud sync, which worked ok-ish. I used Evernote from 2012 to ~2014 when I started playing with personal VPS and the idea of fully self-hosted environment. It was actually pretty good back then, and one of the first things I tested was export functionality, which worked very well. I always used my phone (Android back then, iPhone now) to take those notes, and when I started doing it the only good software available was Evernote. Since 2012 I have notes with mini-reviews and ratings of:Īnd of course I kept notes with random thoughts, ideas and stuff. I kinda solved this for my needs few years ago by writing an simple app that allows me to quickly collect each day stats and activities in under 1 minute,īut that’s not the topic of this post, I’ll write about it someday later.Īnyway, instead of keeping a diary I started to write notes about stuff I’m interested in. Which rules out writing diary in an old-fashioned way.Īnd all diary-like mobile apps seem to add too much friction. My handwriting is absolutely terrible, to the point that I can’t decipher my own notes, I myself was always a fan of this idea, but could never actually get started with it. In the days of yore it was common for people to keep a diary.
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