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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by canadiantim on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:30PM (#33626949)
How do you get your notes out of apple notes though? They're like some sort of covetous demon who won't let your notes go once it consumes them.

I literally went to the apple notes discord once and asked them directly and their response was basically "Apple Notes isn't design to be used for more than 100 notes"... so be very very careful about choosing to use Apple Notes cause you may never get your notes out of there

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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by abhiyerra on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:36PM (#33627067)
You can use AppleScript to copy them into other apps. Though a lack of an API is annoying.
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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by halpmeh on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:32PM (#33626985)
Where exactly are my notes supposed to be going?
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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by foobarian on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:46PM (#33627277)
A local filesystem directory with text files would be a good start.
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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by FearlessNebula on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:00PM (#33627572)
Many options, should you decide to leave the Apple ecosystem
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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by FearlessNebula on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:00PM (#33627560)
Wait… Apple is providing support via Discord now?

Anyways, if you have access to a Mac you can sync your notes via iCloud and then on Mac you can easily access the SQLite DB containing the notes. If you can figure out the schema it would be easy to write a tool to export this automatically. I’d guess someone has already built such a tool.

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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by dmd on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:08PM (#33627703)
I use this https://github.com/threeplanetssoftware/apple_cloud_notes_pa... and it works extremely well.
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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by canadiantim on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:10PM (#33627733)
you're a legend. Thank you!
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Re:Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential by tomjen3 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:26PM (#33627999)
Applescript can control Notes.
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