Evernote improvements

Posted by WSP
Oct 8, 2018 at 01:41 PM

You’re very generous in your appraisal. If I sounded slightly grumpy, it’s because they’re asking $19 for an app that’s extremely unpolished and in an essentially unfinished state.

You asked about similar apps. I’ve been a loyal user of MyInfo for many years. It does not support markdown, but the layout is very similar to OneNote’s: a column of hierarchical note titles on the left and (if you have more than one notebook open) a series of file-folder-type labels across the top. It’s possible to search across multiple notebooks, and notes can be easily exported to RTF or HTML. The tagging system is also excellent. But the two features of OneNote that are most conspicuously missing: the ability to create notes on a phone or tablet; and searching for words that occur in images of text (such as newspaper clippings).

Though the development of MyInfo moves slowly, I’ve always found it solid and reliable.