For more than a year I have tried to replace Evernote. I have tried Notion, Obsidian, DEVONthink, Craft, Bear, KeepIt, and many others. (I may have an app switching problem, but that’s a different post.)
Ultimately, I’ve realized that Evernote is the one for me. I even wrote myself this note (in Evernote) as a reminder about why I’m no longer testing/looking for alternatives.
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Because getting things into Evernote is seamless, it doesn’t matter if it’s email, web pages, notes, PDFs, YouTube - anything goes.
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Because I will never have to ask, “Where is it?” It’s in Evernote. It’s always in Evernote.
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Because I strongly prefer having everything (notes, documents, and maybe even tasks) all in one place. Linking multiple apps requires too much maintenance.
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Because I want to be able to store different types of files in a single note (looking at you DEVONthink).
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Because “linking my thinking” is not important to me, but a workable folder structure is.
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Because everything is available everywhere: laptop, phone, iPad, web… EVERYWHERE.
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Because it needs to be easy for me to get email into my notes app (in other words, Notion won’t work).
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Because I can’t/won’t waste time tweaking it endlessly. It is what it is.
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Because Dataview (for Obsidian) is cool, but cool doesn’t get the work done. Simplicity does.
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Because I am a librarian at heart. I may have aspirations to be an architect, but that is a distracting path I’m not willing to travel anymore.