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Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 25, 2017 at 10:49 AM
Had tried it out. If it has an Evernote importer, the feature must be well hidden. I don’t see it in the app. The blog mentions ‘Evernote-style rich text”.
Looks like it has promise. Outlines have folding (actually, it’s a breadcrumb trail in the menu). Doesn’t “collate” in the way I would have expected: cannot select multiple notes and see their collated content. The documents it saves all have a markdown extension (.md), but several of the formats are not really markdown. “Rich Text” is HTML (technically, HTML and RTF are two very different formats). “Outline” is an idiosyncratic JSON-like data structure. “Web Clipper” is actually just a kind of bookmark—it’s not a WebArchive, which is what web clipping on macOS is normally is, nor is it a .webloc, which is the macOS plist structure for bookmarks. So, yes, the data are portable and not locked-in—sort of.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
BTW, Collate wants to take advantage of dissatisfaction with Evernote.
>It has an Evernote importer and a built in tutorial about how to do it.
>I haven’t tried this, myself.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 25, 2017 at 03:59 PM
Click on the first menu item on the left, “Collate.” Under there is an option called “Import.” You have options to import from Evernote Archive, Text Files or Markdown Files. Developer calls it a tutorial, but it really is more of an import Wizard. I haven’t tried this.
Steve Z.
Paul Korm wrote:
Had tried it out. If it has an Evernote importer, the feature must be
>well hidden. I don’t see it in the app. The blog mentions
>‘Evernote-style rich text”.
Posted by exatty95
Apr 25, 2017 at 06:50 PM
I imported ~1500 Evernote notes. I ended up doing it Evernote Notebook by Evernote Notebook and sticking each Evernote Notebook’s attachments into folders prior to import, but it worked well.
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 25, 2017 at 10:16 PM
Tricky. Normal Apple UI guidelines would put the feature be in the File menu.
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Click on the first menu item on the left, “Collate.” Under there is an
>option called “Import.” You have options to import from Evernote
>Archive, Text Files or Markdown Files. Developer calls it a tutorial,
>but it really is more of an import Wizard. I haven’t tried this.
>
>Steve Z.
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>Had tried it out. If it has an Evernote importer, the feature must be
>>well hidden. I don’t see it in the app. The blog mentions
>>‘Evernote-style rich text”.
>
Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Apr 26, 2017 at 12:27 AM
exatty95 wrote:
I imported ~1500 Evernote notes. I ended up doing it Evernote Notebook
>by Evernote Notebook and sticking each Evernote Notebook’s attachments
>into folders prior to import, but it worked well.
How is it running with that many notes? What’s the search performance like?