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Posted by sciagent
May 27, 2014 at 11:36 AM
In accordance to the following announcement:
https://springpad.com/blog/2014/05/announcement-springpad-shutting-down/
the Springpad is shutting down on June 25th.
I used Springpand on both, mobile (Adroid) and desktop systems. Free synchronization and ability to take almost any kind of notes (including drawing, and audio) was essential, when I migrated to Springpad from Catch (which has stopped about a year ago).
So far, the following alternatives are known to me:
Google Keep, https://keep.google.com/
Evernote, https://evernote.com/
OneNote, http://www.onenote.com/
Zimilate, https://www.zimilate.com/
Memit, http://memit.com/
I do not have yet any experience with the last two.
What does community think, what would be the best replacement for Springpad?
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 27, 2014 at 01:27 PM
If you use a Windows PC as your desktop, OneNote would be a great choice. OneNote still needs a lot of work for the Mac.
Evernote is probably the safest bet, as I doubt it is going to fold its tent any time soon. I don’t find it all that inspiring, but it works solidly.
Steve Z.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 27, 2014 at 04:17 PM
I second Evernote, as a user of many years.
I would stay away from anything that is completely free (gives you no information on how staff and servers are paid) or in beta. More on this here:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5164/0/the-cloud-shooting-itself-on-the-foot-dispatchiocc-and-docom
I would also stay away from Keep. If Google can shutdown Reader, it can surely shut down Keep without second thoughts.
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 27, 2014 at 10:54 PM
I’m experimenting with Hacknote, which is remarkably powerful, but a tiny bit slow. But it’s been taken over by Dropbox, so should be a keeper - certainly worth keeping an eye on.
I believe that was in response to Box’s new note-taking app, but I haven’t tried that and can’t remember what it’s called.
Of course Automattic (creators of WordPress) have taken over SimpleNote, so it might be worth taking another look at that as an alternative?
Increasingly I use OneNote, Notebooks and occasionally Evernote as my main notebooks. The advantage of Evernote is the open API - quite a few rather good notetakers now use Evernote as their backend database (e.g. Awesome Note, Metanota and plenty of others). OneNote is improving steadily (on the sync side), and Notebooks simply uses Dropbox, which is rock-solid.
Posted by MadaboutDana
May 27, 2014 at 10:54 PM
Hacknote - duh! Sorry, I meant to write Hackpad.