Re:Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has bee...
by ghaff on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:09AM
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No. But I’ve pretty much always come back to storing text files, photos, and PDFs. It may not be as elegant a solution but it’s completely portable. Never got into OneNote when I used to use Windows for the same reason.
Re:Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has bee...
by archsurface on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:37AM
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I've been burned by 3rd party formats - never again - plain text for me.
Re:Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has bee...
by prepend on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:53AM
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Part of their problem is that they aren’t.
But they should be just text files with pointers to non-text things.
Creating a proprietary format just because is an unnecessary complexity and cost.
I used Evernote for 5-10 years and had thousands of notes. I had maybe 10-20 photographs or diagrams mixed in, but mostly it was text.
Not sure how common my use is, but they kept adding stuff I didn’t want. And it’s now a “free” feature in Apple notes, onenote and countless others.
I think the difference is that Microsoft and Apple are just trying to find efficient ways to store data in their cloud storage. Evernote was trying to find ways to make customers pay for note taking.
Are Evernote files just plain "text files"?