On: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

[slantaclaus]

Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit. Evernote's core functionality is extremely reliable and valuable to a lot of people, including myself. Maybe Apple should buy Evernote.

[matwood → slantaclaus]

> Apple's "Notes" application is a well known unreliable piece of shit.

Since the big update a couple of versions ago Apple Notes is one of the better note apps. Syncing works great, and it has been far more reliable than any of my forays into Evernote.

[java-man → matwood]

just curious, is it easy to export all the notes to a file, or migrate notes to a different machine without using iCloud?

[lelf → java-man]

In the “classic” (non-iCloud, add an account via System Preferences → Internet Accounts) mode Notes.app does store notes on your e-mail server via IMAP.

[saagarjha → java-man]

I don't think there's a way to share Notes without iCloud, no.

[dangus → java-man]

Not without third party software it seems.

Search for “Notes Exporter”

[java-man → dangus]

Thank you.

It appears to be a leitmotif with the apple ecosystem: they try to lure you in and then keep you in by limiting your choices of interoperability.

At some point, this should have a negative overall: the number of users gained vs. the number of users not joining due to fears of being locked in.

[Veen → java-man]

Not really. You can export notes as a PDF.

[rolltiide → Veen]

drawn notes are vectorized in the notes app, but low res rasters when exported

anyone know a way around this?

[Veen → slantaclaus]

Perhaps you haven't tried it recently, but Apple's notes app is excellent. I've certainly had less problems with Apple Notes than with Evernote's constant bloody sync conflicts.

[ndiscussion → slantaclaus]

I've also found Evernote's core functionality to be an unreliable piece of shit. Almost any time I edit a note on two devices (even hours apart, always online devices) I get a big nasty merge conflict.

Actually, no I don't. I get two copies of the file, with no merge helper.

https://jasonkincaid.net/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/

[threeseed → slantaclaus]

Notes "just works" for me.

And I have hundreds of notes that I migrated from Evernote.

[billfruit → slantaclaus]

I think Microsoft's OneNote is the more feature comparable competitor to Evernote.

[who_what_why → slantaclaus]

Really? I think Notes is far superior to Evernote. Notes was shitty but the newer versions since the past 2 years allowed me to completely remove Evernote.

[asdfman123 → slantaclaus]

Why would you want to pay billions for a note-taking app when you can have a programmer, a PM and a UX guy make one for less than a rounding error in your budget?