It’s official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch::Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes, it has now made this change for all free users

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lol, tried them about 10 years ago, wasn’t impressed.

    They’re still around, and think this is a good move? So many other, WAY better notebook apps.

    MS OneNote works well on all platforms (except Linux!) for several years now, and blows Evernote away (it’s my Achilles heel).

    And now apps like Joplin, Obsidian, etc, are closing fast on OneNote (and even better in some ways), and can sync with tools like Syncthing.

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      Ugh, Syncthing. I bet it works well for syncing between Linux boxes or even MacOS, but when I tried using it to sync between Windows and a couple of Android devices, it was incredibly clunky. I found it confusing and obtuse even though I’ve been a software engineer for over 20 years.

      Rant over.

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        I keep hundreds of gigs in sync between 4 windows computers and about 5 phones, including iOS (on iOS it’s Möbius). SyncTrayzor for Windows is really helpful.

        It rarely has issues, when it does it notifies you of a sync conflict (it’s always a result of me doing something that’s bad practice, such as disabling sync for weeks on one device and making a bunch of changes).

        Give it a try again. I especially recommend Syncthing-Fork for Android, it moves sync conditions into the individual sync jobs/folders. This enables me to have my DCIM folder sync to home, regardless of network or power conditions, so I never lose pictures, while allowing me to set my media sync folder (music, videos, etc from my home desktop) to only sync while on wifi, and other jobs to only run while connected to power and wifi.

        Resilio is another great sync tool, works differently than Syncthing by using the bittorrent protocol. It has Sync-on-demand, which is great for grabbing media from my desktop from anywhere, Syncthing would only permit Syncthing the entire folder, with Resilio you can browse the share from your phone, pick files, and have it sync them right now.

        I’d use Resilio more, just for that feature, but it kills memory on a phone because it keeps the sync database in ram when running, while Syncthing relies on files for indexing. So ST is my daily driver, and load up Resilio when I need to grab specific files.

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      1 year ago

      re: OneNote

      Although not a replacement for OneNote on Windows 10/OneNote in Microsoft 365, you can get Waydroid and run OneNote’s Android app with it.

      I don’t have a stylus so I’m not able to check if everything works, but if it does, it’ll hopefully feel better than the web client, which wasn’t able to keep up with stylus strokes last time I checked. The number of pens is lacking though, even the iPadOS version is better…

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        I’ve always run the full desktop app on Windows (Office 2016 at this point). Pretty sure it supports writing/stylus.

        I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop, when MS borks something with Onedrive so I can’t sync with this old version any more. Fortunately that will only impact mobile devices, my laptop/pc’s will continue to sync with each other.

        They’re clearly pushing us away from full desktop apps, wanting us to use 365/SaaS instead. No thanks. Web apps/UWP suck.