It’s Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives::undefined

  • Boozilla@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    I really love Obsidian. It is a perfect fit for my needs. I just hope they don’t do the creeping subscription bullshit like Evernote did. The $96 a year is reasonable for those who need it (I don’t need it).

    Crossing my fingers that the usual greed doesn’t give them brain rot. I probably should have gone with Joplin, but I’m too invested in Obsidian at this point (and very happy with it). I guess if they do go over to the Dark Side, I could freeze it at the last good release for a while then switch.

    • naught@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago

      I just save my notes to a network location (could be icloud, dropbox, gdrive etc.) which is a much cheaper (free) way to sync notes – love Obsidian

    • Butterpaderp@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      You’re probably fine for a while. My bet is that obsidian’s really happy with all the free advertising evernote’s been giving it

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      11 months ago

      Can’t Obsidian export to a folder, and is anything missing when it does so? If not, at least they’ve got an escape hatch built in.

      • wols@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        Even better, Obsidian notes are stored directly in folders on your device as plain text (markdown) files.
        It’s all there, nothing missing, and no annoying proprietary format.

        Not only can you keep using them without the Obsidian application, you can even do so using a “dumb” text editor - though something that can handle markdown will give you a better experience.

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          That’s good to know, I thought as much, but I think I was confusing Obsidian for Joplin.