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It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives
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this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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I’ve switched to Joplin which I sync with my Nextcloud server.
OneNote is also good, if you’re already in the Microsoft ecosystem.
If you're in the MS ecosystem then OneDrive supports application syncing as a thing and so does Joplin including on its mobile clients. It's basically free seemless cloud syncing once you set it up.
You're also giving all of your data over to Microsoft, including to be scanned and fed into their AI models.
That's a trade-off that many won't mind making, but everyone should informed of before making their decision.
Well Joplin support encryption. I sync with Dropbox and have it all encrypted.
Bullshit. Citation needed.
At this point you have to assume they are until it's demonstrated otherwise, and that's difficult to demonstrate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement
I use OneNote a lot with hand-written notes (on a Surface Pro). And I think it is an excellent piece of software... but I'm highly uncomfortable about vendor lock-in, and about over-sharing data with Microsoft (or any mega-corp).
Over recent years, Microsoft have been pushing harder and harder into their data sharing stuff to the point where some features that have nothing whatsoever to do with online data are still disabled unless you enable 'online connected experiences'. So it's probably a good time to get out of that ecosystem rather than into it.
I like Joplin; but the main reason I use OneNote is to write and draw on it with a stylus. So until Joplin has full stylus support, it's hard for me to completely switch over to it without completely changing how I make notes.
I also take a lot of handwritten notes but disliked the hand writing UI on Onenote, I’m using Goodnotes for this.
It would be great to have all my notes in one system but I don’t mind that much. Goodnotes has good OCR so I can search my notes.