Moving away from Evernote to DEVONthink
Are these two apps not orthogonal to each other?
I left BBEdit for PhpStorm, which is IMHO a much better and smarter editor for my Web development needs.
BBEdit - All my web sites are Wordpress now and I donāt use it anymore.
Photoshop - I can do everything I need to my photos in LightRoom
Photoshop Elements - Used to use to make smaller files for web sites. Not needed now.
Evernote - Never really got into it at all so no loss there
MailSteward - never got it to work properly so went with a manual DEVONThink system for e-mail archiving
OmniOutliner - Thought it could be used for repeating lists but it hasnāt worked out well so still stuck with SplashShopper
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Iām always thinking of moving away from Devonthink. I donāt really need it but I still think I might someday. It makes some stuff more complicated (saving a new file e.g.) but others easier (web clipping). Didnāt decide yet.
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Agenda would be awful for being the āeverythingā organizational note app, but Iām loving it for transient notes. I have a project for each client, and I type my meeting notes in a new note in that project automatically added to the calendar. The result are effortlessly transient notes I never have to file or delete or clear out when closing a program, and the 10% of the time I actually need to refer back to one, itās there.
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I finished my migration from SimpleNote this year. I used it heavily between 2010 and 2016, but since Apple Notes got its upgrade I decided to move everything to Apple Notes. Iām really thankful to Automattic for buying the project and keeping it going, and I didnāt doubt it would continue, but I feel more comfortable keeping sensitive information between iCloudās 2FA and on secure devices.
Yes, but prefer DEVONthink, because it is not web base product & it is a one time charge. Also talked to many people, stating DEVONthink is a more powerful tool.
Iām moving to DEVONthink & away from Evernote. I have heard many good things about DEVONthink, eg. one time charge, not a web base program, more tools, but does have a mild learning curve. So I purchased, Take Control of GETTING STARTED with DEVONthink 2, to help me with the program. Rosemary Orchard suggested purchasing the book.
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Evernote> DevonThink> KeepIt
KeepIt may hang around and become entrenched.
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Interesting. I went Devonthink>EagleFiler on macOS a couple of years ago but keep side-eyeing KeepIt as a potential cross-platform solution. (I am up-to-date on Devonthink, but I just donāt like the UI or the implacable devs.)
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I think that for my needs the Finder could maybe be enough, but then Iād some tool to capture webpages easily (maybe a plug-in?).
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This makes so much sense. Iām tired of burning mental cycles about apps. Any advice?
I like Keep It. But man. It seems like itās one guy. That freaks me out a little.
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Not sure that I āneedā either Devon or KeepIt. But I wanted to pull some files out of Evernote so I invested time in learning DT. Just didnāt like it. This was an iOS experience.
KeepIt did what I wanted without clunk or clunky feelings. Notice lots of feeling words ā¦ nothing to do with good or evil.
Now, I keep stashing PDF manuals in KeepIt. Expect it to be around for some time tocome.
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Apps that Iāve stopped using: Ulysses, Airmail, Spark, OmniOutliner, Dropbox
Apps that Iāve started using again: OneNote
My OneNote usage has increased dramatically over the last month or so as my current project at work is collaborating heavily using Teams/SharePoint and the Office 365 apps. Thereās about a 50/50 split between Windows and Mac users and the Microsoft suite works seemlessly across both platforms.
Now that DEVONthink syncs to iCloud I have no real need for Dropbox anymore. A few iOS apps that use it for syncing/backup at thatās about it. For cloud storage, I have OneDrive Personal and OneDrive for Business accounts, each with 1TB of storage.
Iām trying to reduce app usage generally where I can, in order to remove the dilema of where to write and/or store something. Immediate stuff goes into OneDrive and reference and archive material goes into DEVONthink.
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This.
I have too many options: Agenda, Bear, Ulysses, Drafts, Notes, etc.
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Iām still trying to figure this out. Iāve been using Notability on the iPad to handwrite notes. I find myself having to export each note individually to a PDF. As I type this, Iām starting to think, I should just switch to Microsoft Word to take notesā¦
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I think the pocket casts update was just brilliant.
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When Newton closed I moved to Airmail. Now Iām thinking of moving back to Mail. Its not playing nice with Spamsieve and I am losing mail between different devices.
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