Evernote2 replacement

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 6, 2010 at 06:56 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>First, the little-known author of AM-Notebook (itself a
>very professional outliner supporting rich-text notes and simple
>spreadsheet-type entries, as well as mindmaps, contacts and calendar entries) has
>also produced an elegant offline web-page reader called Local Website Archive.

Thanks for the heads-up on Local Website Archive; a significant advantage over other products is its Opera support. If I knew about it a couple of years ago I would have bought it straight away. Now, however, I have moved to Firefox for most of my work after much frustration—not by Opera itself, but by the significant number of websites which will identify non-popular browsers and refuse to even make the effort to serve them. (The “Please update your browser” sort of message)

>I’ve moved over to this solution from Surfulater simply because the
>latter has a nasty tendency to crash

As mentioned earlier on in this thread, I trusted Surfulater with my MBA data over almost three years and, as far as I remember, it never crashed. In sharp contrast, Brainstorm, my other main tool repeatedly collapsed under the weight of my data. I would suggest that the tendency that you noted has some particular cause, and as such is worth further investigating. In my experience, whenever a program that is considered reliable has crashed on my PC, this is related to system issues, and these will tend to manifest themselves elsewhere too.

That said, I know that a couple of past Surfulater updates have addressed some very specific stability bugs, which I myself had never come across. However, the most important thing for me is that even when Surfulater was closed irregularly—e.g. by a hard reset following PC freeze by some other program- I never lost data.