Sunday July 30, 2023; 4:58 PM EDT
- You may have read about the ongoing changes occurring with Evernote. It seems as though every year a change occurs with the company behind Evernote that results in speculation that its demise is imminent. I've been using Evernote nearly since it first became a product and while I don't use it for writing notes it evolved into my document repository. The fact that Evernote runs on every computer platform I use and the web means I can access anything I store in it from any device I use in any place I may be. Evernote has what may be the best web clipper that I have used over the years to capture clips of receipts and any other information on the web that I may want to store. The clipper is available as an extension/plugin for all the major browsers and also exists in the Share functionality of both Android and iPadOS. #
- Moving away from Evernote to another product, or products, is a two step process. One step is importing all of the current notes with the fidelity needed for them to be useful, by which I mean embedded images and PDFs need to import into the same documents so that I can find and read them in the same was as I do today with Evernote. The second step is picking and using a replacement web clipping and mobile sharing application. Ideally, both of these steps involve the same application and work in the same way as Evernote.#
- I think the biggest challenge will be with finding another app that runs on all of the platforms I use: MacOS, iPadOS, Windows, Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome, and it is accessible from anywhere via the public Internet. I could live with only using an web application if I have to, but prefer native applications for at least MacOS, iPadOS, and Android. I don't have a problem moving the current archive of notes from Evernote to a separate application from what I will use going forward, so the replacement app can start with a clean slate. #
- Over the past years I have done research and testing for possible replacements. Two years ago or so I imported my Evernote notes in to OneNote and found that it worked pretty well except for one quirk in that it imported ever 100 notes in two separate sections, for example I end up with a section named "Pages 1-100" and another section named "Pages 101-200" and so on. It's not a show stopper because I use search more than navigation, but an oddity none the less. OneNote is accessible on nearly every platform I use but the OneNote Clipper is no longer supported as an extension in Firefox, which has become my main browser. I could move back to Chrome but I find it frustrating it is not on Firefox. #