Abstract
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Evernote has great opportunities to create and search notes, but slowly introducing corrections and a really limited free version made me fearing latest Evernote owners.
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Standard notes have functions comparable to Evernote, corresponding to Clippers Web and the lack of limits of the size of notes, but importing my notes from Evernote did not have a pleased ending.
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The concept offers rather more than easy notes, with various functions, corresponding to project management. It also offers painless migration with Evernote.
I was Evernote for many years, but I finally began on the lookout for a substitute. Standard notes looked like a great candidate, but I replaced them each with the concept. Here are my reasons.
How do I use notes application
Notes applications are popular because they permit you to quickly and simply capture thoughts and concepts, and in addition synchronize on various devices.
In the traditional sense I make only a few real notes. I don’t attend lectures or anything, but during business meetings I take notes in real time. Most of my notes are fast notes that capture an idea or a fleeting thought that I don’t need to forget. My longer notes are sketches of various things I am working on.
Most of my notes are information intercepted from other sources, corresponding to cropped web sites, downloaded files, scanned documents or photos captured by my phone product or product packaging. I have over 10,000 notes and so they are all necessary to me.
I was the early adoption of Evernote
For the first time I began using Evernote on July 12, 2009 and have become a subscriber paying on January 6, 2010.
Evernote called his product his great external brain. One that does not forget. For this to work, you will need to give you the chance to easily and easily capture the information and quickly and accurately get better it. Capturing all the pieces in a single place is great, so long as the process shouldn’t be awkward and the search is quick and accurate.
This was the case just about all the time when I used Evernote. But in the last 12 months all the pieces has modified.
Evernote supermokrens
Evernote remains to be the highest in creating notes. You can enter them, photograph, scan, cut web sites or send e -mail to Evernote. Evernote will watch the directory and sends files which can be uploaded or sent to it from the scanner. You may even record sound clips.
The search can also be firstclass. You can mark notes, seek for titles and content of notes, search in PDF attachments. You may seek for conditions that appear in photos or in handwritten notes, due to the built -in OCR Evernote functions.
My problems with Evernote
You can probably say that I am still a giant fan of Evernote. So why don’t I use it anymore?
There were several reasons. The Android Evernote application has stopped creating notes from photos. I was a subscriber, so I contacted Evernote. Nothing that they suggested did not fix the problem. Even a brand new installation on a very latest phone did not solve the problem. The amendment finally appeared in the form of an update, seven months later.
It is just too long to wait for the repair, for the product you rely on daily basis and that you just pay. Anyway, I was upset by Evernote, after they modified level prices and aggressively demolished the functions of a free plan, limiting free users to 50 notes and synchronizing just one device.
Changes in the free plan did not affect me directly, but they indicated a change in land in Evernote, which was purchased by latest owners. This and the slow pace of correction of my problem suggested changing the focus from the quality of services to profit.
Uploading standard notes into the mix
Long before these seven months I began on the lookout for a deputy.
I tried many notes applications and located standard notes for the closest to my requirements. There will not be all Evernote functions, however it has those I really needed and used most frequently. In addition, as the most important bonus, standard notes have a native Linux computer application, which is missing in the range of Evernote.
To give standard notes an intensive test, I pulled out the subscription. I needed this to access some functions, corresponding to notebooks and clipper.
Standard notes are a unbelievable application for a note, but because of my special circumstances I hit two showstoppers. Standard notes say that there isn’t any limit of notes, but the use of notes above 1 MB may affect performance. I have many greater notes. Sometimes it was very slow and I felt violent and delayed in use. However, the biggest problem was importing with Evernote.
As expected, you need to export Evernote after which import it to standard banknotes. It didn’t go well. This process ended as if it were accomplished, but not. About a 3rd of my notes were imported and had poorly threatened formatting. If I got here to standard notes as a fresh user, I would haven’t any problems. But because of my a long time of notes that I couldn’t abandon, it was not the solution I needed.
Concept: an affordable way forward
Calling the concept of a note that takes on the application is harmful. It is a cooperation -oriented tool that permits you to create wiki, manage projects, create and share documents and rather more. The document may contain text, paintings, links, movies and interactive elements, corresponding to lists of things to be done and Kanban. It also has tens of hundreds of free templates that you may use to create content, and many others that you may buy for those who want.
Of course, the note is simply a document, so concepts can be used as the application of notes on steroids.
In the case of a free level of concept, I carried out a trial import with Evernote. It was painless. You provide the concept of your Evernote and directly contacts Evernote servers. In just a few moments your notes begin to appear in the concept. My entire NOT database was imported as a background task, in about three hours. This was impressive in itself. All formatting was intact, there have been no shortages, and metadata corresponding to tags were also present and proper, which was much more impressive.
The concept does almost all the pieces I was counting on and allows me to proceed working as I want. Unfortunately, there isn’t any Linux client. Despite this, I am used to working in my browser, because that is what I had to do with Evernote. I will forgive it for perfect and painless migration.
Pay attention
It shouldn’t be by accident that basic subscriptions for Evernote, standard notes and concept are strictly valued. If you do not need advanced functions, you should utilize them without cost. I know individuals who swear on free levels Evernote or standard notes. All three are great products, but in the foreseeable future, the concept most accurately fits my specific use cases.