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Posted by apb123
Oct 26, 2020 at 09:07 PM
I may be wrong but the mac app appears to be an electron app.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 26, 2020 at 09:13 PM
apb123 wrote:
>I may be wrong but the mac app appears to be an electron app.
You’re not wrong, and that is why the macOS, Windows and web versions are so much alike !
Posted by Simon
Nov 10, 2020 at 10:14 AM
Well, having downloaded the new version today, my move away from Evernote is now set.
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.
Posted by Christoph
Nov 10, 2020 at 10:54 AM
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.
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.