Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by slantaclaus on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:35AM (#20304684)

Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit. Evernote's core functionality is extremely reliable and valuable to a lot of people, including myself. Maybe Apple should buy Evernote.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by matwood on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:40AM (#20304741)

> Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit.

Since the big update a couple of versions ago Apple Notes is one of the better note apps. Syncing works great, and it has been far more reliable than any of my forays into Evernote.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by java-man on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:00AM (#20304950)

just curious, is it easy to export all the notes to a file, or migrate notes to a different machine without using iCloud?

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by lelf on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:22PM (#20308882)

In the “classic” (non-iCloud, add an account via System Preferences → Internet Accounts) mode Notes.app does store notes on your e-mail server via IMAP.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by saagarjha on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:09AM (#20305060)

I don't think there's a way to share Notes without iCloud, no.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by dangus on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:07AM (#20305041)

Not without third party software it seems.

Search for “Notes Exporter”

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by java-man on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:41AM (#20305461)

Thank you.

It appears to be a leitmotif with the apple ecosystem: they try to lure you in and then keep you in by limiting your choices of interoperability.

At some point, this should have a negative overall: the number of users gained vs. the number of users not joining due to fears of being locked in.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by Veen on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:08AM (#20305053)

Not really. You can export notes as a PDF.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by rolltiide on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:36AM (#20305408)

drawn notes are vectorized in the notes app, but low res rasters when exported

anyone know a way around this?

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by Veen on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:07AM (#20305038)

Perhaps you haven't tried it recently, but Apple's notes app is excellent. I've certainly had less problems with Apple Notes than with Evernote's constant bloody sync conflicts.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by ndiscussion on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:56PM (#20307040)

I've also found Evernote's core functionality to be an unreliable piece of shit. Almost any time I edit a note on two devices (even hours apart, always online devices) I get a big nasty merge conflict.

Actually, no I don't. I get two copies of the file, with no merge helper.

https://jasonkincaid.net/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by threeseed on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:43AM (#20305496)

Notes "just works" for me.

And I have hundreds of notes that I migrated from Evernote.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by billfruit on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:01PM (#20307095)

I think Microsoft's OneNote is the more feature comparable competitor to Evernote.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by who_what_why on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:17PM (#20307280)

Really? I think Notes is far superior to Evernote. Notes was shitty but the newer versions since the past 2 years allowed me to completely remove Evernote.

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Re:Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel by asdfman123 on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:07PM (#20306481)

Why would you want to pay billions for a note-taking app when you can have a programmer, a PM and a UX guy make one for less than a rounding error in your budget?

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