@liaizon Suddenly glad they didn’t hire me a few years ago.

@liaizon My lab just moved over to Notion this week. For people who need permanent data archiving it was getting more and more risky (and according to my supervisor their tech support has been distinctly less responsive in the past 6 months).

@liaizon nevernote

@liaizon @memory nevernote?

@liaizon Thankfully I saw the writing on the wall a while ago and exported my stuff. I'm really glad I did though. Now it's all @obsidian all the way.

@liaizon This is sad. I was an early adopter using Evernote for many years. Yet their continued "improvements" that moved the service farther from its core usage eventually drove me away. I use Obsidian now.

@liaizon I wouldn't worry. If we learned anything from Twitter, it's that tech companies don't need employees.

@liaizon I’ve been using EN for something like 11-12 years for writing and project notes, even though they kept ‘updating’ it away from where I actually liked it. Thanks for the heads-up!

@liaizon @joplinapp is a good alternative. 🙂

@liaizon Thanks!

@liaizon It’s so sad to see Evernote slowly dying like this. I used to love it and use it every day.

@liaizon I converted all my evernote to obsidian not too long ago. Doesn't work quite as well since search of PDFs isn't possible.

@liaizon @PhilGastwirth the one app I pay for 🙈

@liaizon @howtoadhd do you use Evernote? I can't remember who I heard using it...

@liaizon Yikes.

Thanks for the heads up.

@liaizon Reason 35288 why I stuck with ASCII text files and the Unix filesystem of directories and subdirectories to store and organize 300GB of documents, transcripts, web captures, images, and audio files. I started my book project in WordPerfect in the 80s and when WP died went to ASCII and never looked back. Everybody said ooh use Scrivener, use Evernote, and I was like, nah, they won’t last. Book finally published in 2017. Glad the research isn’t lost inside some dying company’s app/cloud.

@liaizon @griff Oh no. I’ve used them for yonks, from back when you could fill up a database file!

Never wanted to sync, just keep things local. Well, crap. I’ve spent days trying to find alternatives. Double damn.

Thanks very much for the post.

@liaizon Thanks for the warning!

@liaizon Oh shit.

@liaizon eeep!

@liaizon

Balls, it's one of my favourite integrations as it's so gnarly.

@liaizon stopped using it after I got a notification that someone else accessed my account, thankfully it only contained shopping lists.

@liaizon Hace años lo abandoné. Ahora todo en #nextcloud

@liaizon SMH

@liaizon Yikes what happened?

@liaizon Great. Just great. Haven't been in Evernote in a while, had to go through forced password reset, and now this.

@liaizon holy shit

@mph I got out just in time (shut down last month)

I imported evernotes to #Joplin years ago. Worked fine. joplinapp.org/

@liaizon @lisamelton Free tool to import exported Evernote Notebooks to OneNote - you have to do one at a time. https://tools.stefankueng.com/Evernote2Onenote.html

If you used Evernote just for web clipping, check out Zotero - open source and free. Ignore the citation stuff and look at what a great job it does saving off-line versions of websites + allowing you to tag / organize them. https://www.zotero.org/

@liaizon Joplin is a good alternative.

@liaizon @MikeTRose Ouch - glad I exported that data into DEVONthink a long time ago on the Mac using the export tool they built

@liaizon I had to look up how to do an export of my stuff. I have 12893 notes in 44 notebooks. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005557 #evernote

@liaizon I guarantee they're going to outsource to code farms. Guarantee it.

@liaizon WOW.

@liaizon ow shite. Thanks for the heads up, any tips on where to move everything to?

@liaizon grabbing market share and then trying to figure out how to monetize it is a lousy business model

@liaizon

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nooooooooooooo

My whole life is on Evernote and has been for over 10 years uggggggg

Like I don’t have a plan B until right now $&@?!

@liaizon Some really good free/libre alternatives over there:
https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/?license=opensource
Being my favorite (for various reasons):
Markor
https://github.com/gsantner/markor
Available on F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/

@liaizon I am one of the Evernote experts. They didn’t fire all of their employees. They are relocating their base of operations to Europe. An Italian tech company bought out Evernote at the beginning of the year. They are moving their operations over there.

@liaizon ugh I have 10 years of content in there and evernote has no export function. This will be fun.

@liaizon Yikes, good thing I canceled Evernote a few days ago. Had been a Premium customer for over a decade.

@liaizon sad

@liaizon

Obsidian

Store things offline and sync what you want to.

@liaizon ooo it’s time for an obligatory #TiddlyWiki plug … I like knowing that the data is mine, the data is local, and the data is endlessly configurable

@liaizon @anguinea I got out of EverNote last year after using it for years. It took a while to get things out properly; I used Notion, Obsidian and Joplin to get it done.

@liaizon glad to have migrated all of my notes to my #synology #nas. Note Station is pretty capable, and has apps for every platform and OS.

@liaizon
Joplin can import Evernote dump files.
https://joplinapp.org/

@liaizon Surprised this took so long. I moved my notes from there to another service long time ago, when they changed the UI on their Android app. From there on, their app wasn't usable any longer for me. And I was a paying member at that time.

@liaizon That is very worrying. Do you have tips on making a usable backup?

@liaizon Whoa! Glad I jumped ship when I did!

@liaizon oh dear!!

@liaizon @Peternimmo this is a disaster for me and I didn't even know about it....ayayay. things I did not anticipate doing today: researching alternatives!

@liaizon When Evernote raised their price to $70, I thought it was too much but I stayed. When they raised it to $125 effective with my next renewal, my response was a resounding "Not today, Satan." Not quite sure yet how I feel about Notion, but at least everything is backed up there while I decide whether to stay there or try something else.

@liaizon 😢

@liaizon

I am a long-term Evernote paying user, so I have a ton of notes. This thread has me a little panicked!

So between UpNote, Obsidian, and Joplin, which of these sync across iOS, iPadOs, MacOS and Windows? I also need reliability and full-text searching.

I appreciate the help from the fediverse. 😟
@ewen @hollerpots
@scrivenersmith
@mforester

@liaizon i have been trying to find a solution / local-file notes apps for legitimately so long that im appreciating the the replies. one of my biggest issues is how on computer the only way i can save a note is for it to be a .txt document, but then if i store that on my phone, there's no way to open it, and vice versa (all the note formats i could make on my phone aren't open-able on my laptop/computer) i've been trying to find a way to store notes where i could ideally have them on both

@liaizon
I moved to Obsidian a while ago, is great!

@liaizon I ditched EN when they started to become more of a service than an application. #DevonThink was my saviour

@liaizon
Oof. I have been a long time user and have paid for a subscription for more than half of that time. Maybe I'll download the latest (not a store version) and just take my data offline. I can also export all my notebooks.

I have looked into a few alternatives, but nothing complete enough for me yet. Obsidian and Jopin just don't fit right for me yet.
@run_atalanta

@liaizon Thanks for the heads up. This is very bad news: I’ve used Evernote since its inception.