Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

Re:Why Evernote failed to realize its potential by _bxg1 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:47PM (#19557883)

I really liked Google Keep before I started concerning myself with privacy and boycotted all Google products. It struck the perfect balance between organization and the ability to easily jot things down; one thing I never liked about EN was that every note had to go in a notebook and had to have a title. That would always give me a mental block when I just wanted to write disorganized thoughts and then organize them later. I'm also a huge advocate of tags-over-categories.

That's super sketchy about the author.

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Re:Why Evernote failed to realize its potential by prolepunk on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:59PM (#19557993)

I'm still using google keep and I am concerned about privacy, looking for a an alternative that's neither of those programs.

So far I've been trying to use Gitlab with a bunch of text files. That works, sort of, for more long form notes, but not quite captures the UI.

I'm looking harder and harder on TODO.txt (I didn't know it was open-source). http://todotxt.org/

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Re:Why Evernote failed to realize its potential by _bxg1 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:09PM (#19558071)

Currently I'm on Apple's notes app. There are lots of things I don't like about it - rich text formatting needs to die - but it gets the job done and has "jot-ability". I've thought about writing my own dead-simple notes app but just never had the time. Plaintext, dropbox backup, simple substring search, maybe tags, maybe markdown.

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