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Re:Notion for everyone by awill on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:44PM (#23237788)
After Evernote started going downhill, I moved to plain markdown inside a Google Drive folder. I use the best, native app for each platform and have zero risk of being affected by a single company cancelling, closing,, increasing the price etc..

Notion does seem pretty interesting, but if they ever shut, stop innovating, or are outshined by a competitor, I don't fancy the idea of moving everything

Re:Notion for everyone by unfunco on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:10PM (#23238093)
Just you wait until Google sunsets Drive...
Re:Notion for everyone by taude on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:40PM (#23240620)
easy to move your files to another cloud storage drive. OP was talking not being tied in at the software level.
Re:Notion for everyone by criddell on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:14PM (#23240294)
How is Evernote going downhill?

I'm not in love with it, but it works and I have a client everywhere I need one. It's text recognition in images is one of the killer features (I save snapshots of whiteboards), the other is searching metadata.

Re:Notion for everyone by andreilys on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:49PM (#23237867)
Agreed. I've been burned way too many times by companies being acquired (few months later product is sunset), shut down, or are forced to aggressively monetize.
Re:Notion for everyone by skipnup on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:52PM (#23237923)
Can you recommend a markdown native app for Windows? Currently switching to simple markdown notes myself but a bit annoyed always opening VS Code for a tiny note.
Re:Notion for everyone by awill on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:09PM (#23238080)
On Mac I use Ulysses. I hate that they switched to a subscription, but it's still the best Markdown app on the platform.

On Linux I use typora (previously caret when it basically shut down). typora and caret are built on web technologies and cross platform.

Oh Android I used to use and recommend JotterPad, but they've disgraced themselves and moved previously paid features (which I bought!) to a subscription, so I don't have an Android app anymore :(.

Re:Notion for everyone by natemwilson on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:08PM (#23238073)
Notable is great and open source.

https://notable.md/

Re:Notion for everyone by robotblake on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:36PM (#23239157)
According to https://github.com/notable/notable/blob/master/SOURCE_CODE.m... the current version is no longer open-source.
Re:Notion for everyone by xet7 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @07:58PM (#23241777)
There is also NixNote GPLv2 desktop Evernote client:

http://nixnote.org/NixNote-Home/

https://github.com/baumgarr/nixnote2

Re:Notion for everyone by jamesgeck0 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:31PM (#23238338)
I've been happy with Markdown Edit. As a native app with an embedded webview, it's just a bit snappier than most of the Electron-based Markdown editors I've tried.

https://mike-ward.net/Markdown-Edit/

Re:Notion for everyone by davebrny on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:39PM (#23260736)
i like using marktext. its a single document editor instead of a note manager like notable or evernote, but it also has a sidebar where you can add a folder.

https://marktext.app

im not sure if its actually native though or whether its using electron... but i think ghostwriter is. tried that for a while. pretty much the same as marktext just without a sidebar

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter

Re:Notion for everyone by Veen on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @02:44PM (#23238509)
IA Writer has a Windows version.
Re:Notion for everyone by altano on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:50AM (#23247503)
Mark Text
Re:Notion for everyone by arkitaip on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:47PM (#23237832)
You aren't really missing much with Notion. It's over engineered and to easy to mess around with hours when you should be getting things done.