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Re:Tools for Thinking by candyman on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:25AM (#28302084)
I love tools and have tried so many over the past year including these new "hot" ones like Roam and Notion. After all that I have come full circle and reinvested in making Evernote work better for me. It has limitations but has always had a big edge in the capture and storage part of the process. I'm still working on how best to author/render content from my work to the outside world but at least with Evernote I can get things in one place and then add notes, content, analysis where I can find it. I agree with some here that it's still hard to beat pen and paper for really creative stuff - it's so free.
Re:Tools for Thinking by dxgarnish on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:18PM (#28303520)
What I've discovered is that the real breakthroughs needed in these tools aren't in the "taking" of notes but in the "retrieval" of notes/ideas.
Re:Tools for Thinking by 4b11b4 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:51PM (#28317400)
Yes. This is how the reMarkable has changed my life. The way I am now able to access my own writings, reflections, etc is a completely different paradigm.
Re:Tools for Thinking by cyberge99 on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:38PM (#28303731)
I’ve been seeking a drop-in replacement for EN. These days I use ‘Evernote Legacy’ because the new Evernote is horrible.

I’ll use it until they kill it. I’ve seen a few good “almost there” replacements, but each have their own quirks.

Re:Tools for Thinking by egypturnash on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @06:54PM (#28308241)
Same. I just canceled my EN subscription; it refreshed right before New EN, and I gave them until renewal to get that working. It’s still garbage and I have completely lost the habit of using it because I can’t revert to the old iOS app and have to use the slow, awkward new one.

I am currently evaluating Joplin as a maybe. It is webshit in an Electron wrapper but I think the only note app that isn’t webshit that I can use to collaborate with my Windows/Android using husband is Microsoft’s; it did a shit job of keeping my formatting last time I tried it, plus I hate the way it wants every note to be a text box floating in an infinite canvas.

I still have to actually check out Joplin’s collaboration, that only seems to work if you’re paying for their sync service instead of using something else.

Joplin also has a plug-in to do what EN couldn’t do in an entire decade: give you a nice diff UI for dealing with conflicting changes.

(My requirements: cross platform collaboration, decent EN import, not be webshit, deal gracefully with notes with PDFs and images in them.)

Re:Tools for Thinking by pqs on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:56AM (#28377996)
My experience is that the new Evernote Desktop is now working fine, and I really like and use a lot the Tasks feature.

Evernote for Android has gone from useless to barely usable, on my Xiaomi A3 phone. I guess it will keep improving.

The transition to the new Evernote has been a pain, but things are improving faster than I expected.

Re:Tools for Thinking by kibbleble on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:28PM (#28305819)
I've been using Simple Note: https://simplenote.com/

It's good enough for me. I don't think I've ever used Evernote's advanced features because I'm too lazy to organize things into books. It seems like they have an Evernote Import feature?