It's blazing fast, moving at the speed of thought. You can also set it up to sync notes as plain text on to Dropbox.
I still use Evernote for its great web clipper and for saving PDFs (though I suppose I could save them in Dropbox instead and search them using Spotlight).
Issue #129: Notes being deleted from Dropbox while using NVAlt: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/129
Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean? Evernote has a large binary? A cluttered UI?
For my use, I don't find it slow, FWIW.
>When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere.
So you don't want detailed notes spanning years -- you want to jot something quickly.
In that case, it's true, that's not what Evernote's for.
It means everything that came after that statement by way of explanation, come on.
> Heavyweight does not mean much in itself. What would that mean?
You're hearing zir as an engineer, rather than as a customer.
To zir, "heavyweight" means "slow to boot". Why is it slow to boot? "I don't know; just fix it."
When I open my notes, I want them 5 seconds ago, looking right at the last notes I entered anywhere. I can wait for games and Netflix and whatnot to boot, but Notes need to be the snappiest freaking things on Earth. Evernote is not. I have to wait for it to open and then go find my notes.
I probably should be using a different notes system. I use Evernote as a replacement for paper sticky-notes, whereas Evernote seems to be a replacement for a locker full of course notebooks.