Evernote reinventing itself

Posted by Simon
Nov 10, 2020 at 12:14 PM

Christoph wrote:
Simon wrote:
>>Firstly, I cannot stand electron apps. I’m a keyboard user and often
>>simple shortcuts just don’t work. Secondly, with only 500 notes every
>>time I click on a notebook it take a few seconds for the list to
>appear.
>>Thirdly, no settings whatsoever.
>>I’m not sure what happen with offline notebooks on the mac as there are
>>no preferences.
> >Simon, Electron itself is not necessarily the problem. Visual Studio
>Code shows that you can build a very fast, powerful and user friendly
>IDE on top of Electron.
> >But I agree with your other points. They plan to add some features (like
>settings) back later, and will probably improve the UI, but some
>important features like local notebooks are gone forever. Also, the
>device limit now includes web access.
> >Since I cannot have local notebooks any more, I switched to Obsidian,
>which is also based on Electron, but so much better in many regards,
>particularly if you appreciate local storage and Markdown. I am using
>https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle to convert my Evernote notebooks to
>Obsidian.

Thanks Christoph. I imported all my notes to Bear and then from Bear to Notebooks. I know Notebooks could import Evernote, but Bear was cleaner in the process. It has worked extremely seamlessly and I’ve moved from two subscriptions (Eveernote and Bear) to a proper licence per version app (Notebooks) so I’m not left in the ransomware situation.