Well, that was exhausting. I looked at half a dozen replacement options for #evernote:
Simplenote
Notion
Joplin
Obsidian
Notesnook
Etc
Current status:
▪ use #Joplin, just to get off #evernote. Search is bad here but better than notesnook.
▪ Put new notes in a new Notebook to keep them separate.
▪ when #notesnook rolls out a better search (if it is good enough) export just my new notes from joplin, import to notesnook.
PS: exporting from evernote & converting to markdown with joplin seems ok
Oh @graphito thanks!
I will try these. Much appreciated.
Still bummed if I need to specify to include tags. In evernote "recipe" returns all of #recipe and "recipe" ... guess I'm spoiled, but I have thousands of notes made with the assumption of such a search ability 🙂
#notesnook's Search is very sub par, compared to evernote. (Separate search for tags and text, only single term search!!! No AND search). They say there's advanced search coming, but I need a note taking app now, so I can cancel Evernote before renewal.
@mlevison@AlliFlowers@TuxOnBike@SKRiley_Author ok, that's a Nope on Obsidian, though it looks ok so far. It seems too geeky. "Head over to github" is my cue to stop reading. And while I like markdown, converting 10,000 existing notes to markdown sounds risky: what will I lose? I have links, images, pdfs...
I'll leave this research til the end. #evernote#notesnook
@AlliFlowers@mlevison@TuxOnBike@SKRiley_Author I'll admit, I panicked a bit when a (deactivated) AI icon showed up on my updated evernote android app. Then their "yay, we're raising our prices and adding AI!!!" email arrived and I was done.
If you want a tour of Obsidian and an idea of what’s possible, yell. I’m happy to hang out for a while on zoom. Warning I’ve gone full bore into PKM and notemaking
Joplin notes has a user-friendly website, but for Export it says - see more on the main website. Then it directs me to this mess 😡. I see no way to Search. Finally decide on Readme and get lucky.
Well, "lucky" ... take a chance to click on Import (turns out it's also about Export). It says the same thing as the original web page. 😠
Now I'd have to interact with a dev to get an answer? ... yeah, no.
I'm curious where github came in. I go there only when I want to report a bug on a plugin I use.
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Markdown - I don't use Markdown or Obsidian for archival references. I save webpages etc to DevonThink - either as PDFs or Webarchive. Obsidian is mostly just notes i've written.
@mlevison info on the webpage about export was minimal, said "see our main site" with link to github. Rooted around there and found thebsame non-informative info on github 🤦♀️
So I experimented instead.
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