Evernote and "The Wall Street Journal"

Posted by Paul Korm
Dec 2, 2014 at 05:06 PM

I have a lot of apps for content creation on my iPad—apps that sync via a cloud service (the Dropboxes of this world) or proprietary (the Evernotes)—but I can’t think of anything that syncs in the background, which I what I believe would have to be happening in order to fulfill the requirements “whenever I need it, even if there is termporarily no Internet”. I believe iCloud Drive is supposed to do this, but it doesn’t seem to work out that way in practice. If iCloud were working then the Pages/Keynote/Numbers suite would do what you want.

A feasible replacement for Evernote is Alfons Schmidt’s “Notebooks” app—available on iPad, Windows and OS X. It syncs via Dropbox, or directly thru wifi, or through WebDAV. The iPad app will only sync when you tell it, and when it fails to sync it creates a simple-format failure report explaining just what went wrong. Notebooks are folders accessible thru the desktop file system and documents are non-proprietary formats (PDF, Markdown, “formatted text”, HTML, images).

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>I want to write a note on my laptop, iPad, desktop and know that I’ll be
>able to access it from any of those devices whenever I need it, even if
>there is temporarily no Internet. I don’t want to think about syncing
>the data. Does anyone feel they have this kind of experience now? If so,
>what app(s) are you using?