I’d say this is more in the unusual side, and does not look very promising. If one buys a company and then replaces the executive team it means that you are considering they have done such bad work that you prefer the risk of onboarding a new exec team. There should be a transition period --helped by earnouts–.
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Very good point @pantulis.
Whenever I look at switching, Apple Notes comes up as the front runner. But then I remember it has no version control, suspect syncing (eh @Bmosbacker ?) and a poor web interface in the event I ever have to go back to my office.
I keep using Evernote for sharing stuff with my wife, but for personal and work use I switched to regular files on an iCloud Drive folder and run Obsidian or Notebooks.app on top of that structure. It’s not exactly beautiful but at least i’m future proofed.
I know exactly where you’re coming from, but I’ve found the markdown solutions don’t work great for me when storing a certain type of note. I use Obsidian for planning goals and writing down concepts and thoughts that I want to play with. However, I find markdown kind of falls flat when I want to store screen shots, receipts, pictures, recipes, quick scratches, packing lists etc.
I know Obsidian can handle a lot of that stuff, but in my opinion, not as well. I actually like super jazzed up interfaces and multimedia overload that apps like Evernote let me explore. I know, I’m sick. 
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Indeed, but Apple Notes is syncing perfectly and immediately at the moment. Apple fixed my problem but never contacted me to explain how. I’m using AN again but I’m watching everything very carefully. 
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I just looked Ian Small up on LinkedIn. His activity feed is just a scrolling list of him commenting on former employees posts that say “today is my last day at Evernote”.
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It has at least TimeMachine as a “Version control”.
I didn’t have good luck with this. Because it’s synced to iCloud, restoring the notes or a note worked for a minute and then the sync would take place and revert everything or screw everything up. I couldn’t get my note restored at all. It’s not as easy as just going into TM because the way the files are stored is so cryptic.
For the iCloud stored notes, you could go to iCloud.com and look into the “Recently Deleted” Folder.
If you want to restore from TM, you could go this way:
Steps to restore your lost text or note:
- Quit the Notes app, turn off your WiFi (disconnect from the Internet so your old notes don’t sync!)
- Copy ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes to another place (like your Desktop)
- Restore ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes from your TM backup
- Open Notes
- Copy any text you need to recover, and paste into another document, e.g., TextEdit.
- Quit Notes
- Delete ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes folder
- Move the group.com.apple.notes on your Desktop back to ~/Library/Group Containers/
- Open Notes
- Copy the text from TextEdit back into your new note
- Turn back on your WiFi / internet access
You could find the source for this description here: Restore notes via Time Machine - Apple Community
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I cannot even find his listing right now on LinkedIn.
I was looking for Evernote pricing on their website, but it appears it’s not there until you sign up, which is somewhat shady.
Anyway, (apologies if this is elsewhere on the forum) a number of posts suggest Evernote is nearly doubling its subscription price!
Can anyone confirm pricing?
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I haven’t received any special communication. If this is true --and I would trust Keep Productive–, Bending Spoons are taking all the right steps to derail Evernote once and for all!
My guess would be:
- Evernote’s new owners understand that Evernote will now never be the incredible growth story / beloved unicorn many people hoped for a decade ago
- There is still a worthwhile business to be run for cashflow.
- Incremental revenue from price increases will more than offset customers who churn as a consequence
- Increasing the price will give them more freedom to run paid user acquisition campaigns (at the cost of volume). I.e. a smaller number of new users paying more vs a much larger number of new users paying less or nothing.
It is no longer the kind of product or business many of us on this forum would like it to be, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be run profitably by its owners.
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That’s how I read this as well, it’s an attempt to consolidate the user base and ultimately tighten things up until it’s down to just subscribers.
I’m not sure if I’m willing to pay more for it (currently $8 a month through the App Store) for my use case now. It’s sort of a weird position to be in, I invested a lot of time using the app so it sort of feels like a natural extension of my Mac and iOS devices in a way. Moving completely over to Apple Notes or just using iCloud for all my files would be fine I guess, if it weren’t for that critical component of OCR that Evernote performs on literally everything I put in there.
If it is “just” the OCR thing, there are a couple of other ways to solve that…
I’m on an annual personal plan as well, and there is no evidence of a price increase that I can see (yet).
When I left Evernote I imported my files into EagleFiler but later uploaded everything to Google Drive. “Drive automatically indexes documents for search when it recognizes the file type, including text documents, PDFs, images with text, and other common types.”
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If Apple Notes had an easier way to export notes and note versioning, I’d be all over it. But whenever I use it it makes me feel uneasy. Like the more I save into it, the more locked in I become.
My Evernote is set to renew in June at $67.79 CAD as I was offered 40% off if I renewed at one point. For $70 a year I certainly get my money’s worth out of it, and my prices appear to be the same, but I continue to grow uneasy.
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