Comments on: My Plan to leave Evernote… [General]

By: Tom P

Tom P — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:58:28 +0000

I’m experiencing a very weird problem. I just started using Evernote in school to clip articles that I think are relevant for research. When I copy and paste the text into the body of a new note, all the double “f”‘s are missing! Example: effort becomes “eort”, effective becomes “eective”. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

By: mysocialbrain: 28-01-2010 : protagonist

mysocialbrain: 28-01-2010 : protagonist — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:14:34 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:28:37 +0000

In reply to alan. Alan, going on about a week of this premium service now and still loving it. btw, if you're a fan of Evernote, you might like the podcast a lot. I've listened to them all and found them geekily hilarious.

By: alan

alan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:51:43 +0000

Since I found Evernote, I could not imagine being without it. It has changed the way I use the multitude of computers I use during a normal business day. While Simplenote looks "simple" enough, it does not offer the wealth of features Evernote touts, nor do I have 100% confidence that Simplenote will be around for the long haul. Evernote not only seems to be in the business of getting folks organized, but they look to be setting themselves up for the future.

Good luck if you do jump ship, I'll be curious to hear what you've come up with. For me, I could not imagine flight at this time.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:59:29 +0000

In reply to Thorsten. thanks for the feedback on that Thorsten I've tried the awesome note lite version a few times, but I'm not hooked yet. I know it can do two-way syncs with Evernote, but it's exporting and importing, and not an auto-save feature. I like the idea of not having to remember to save my work.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:39:11 +0000

I had the same problems with formatting of my notes. So now I use Awesome Note on the iPhone, and it syncs to Evernote. And I use the Evernote client on my Mac. It seems to work fine in ghat combination.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:15:05 +0000

my sister reported similar problems with the Windows client, and I can only hope that'll improve. The service and apps have come a very long way, though. Everything about the iPhone app is better and more reliable than it was two years ago, and I can count on the app to work when I need it (not so during my university days where notes just loaded when they felt like it).

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:11:16 +0000

Fanaticism is definitely the right word for it, Jeremy – I do get stupidly excited about note-taking stuff now.

I also like to try and keep things as simple as possible, and that's actually a big part of why I like Evernote – it combines that small file drop service + note syncing … all over the air. That's one thing iTunes can't do for me yet, and I really don't like how inconsistent iTunes can be in detecting a connected iPhone.

As for Dropbox, I think it's definitely worth a look. It's great even if you just use it on your desktop. Free accounts come with 2GB of space.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:49:51 +0000

In reply to Damnskippy. Notemaster looks quite powerful - never tried, but I remember seeing it around on the App Store during note app searches. It still looks just a bit too crowded for my tastes, but maybe that's just the screenshots

By: jacoch

jacoch — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:48:57 +0000

I'm also quite upset by Evernot "update" process especially for the Windows version. Features of previous versions are removed (for example the ability to set background color), there is no clear heading where Evernote goes, copy-paste operations result in line feed all around the notes, creating links that use http pointing to another port than 80 doesn't work, etc. On each update, I'm afraid I will loose another working feature. Is it so difficult to have a decent html editor? Even web-based services are to provide one. I really hope they will fix all this in coming updates as I enjoy the way it works and it syncs on all my devices.

By: Damnskippy

Damnskippy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:28:43 +0000

I use NoteMaster and sync to Google Docs