In the interests of sharing, I have actually switched over to DayOne. Now I am as surprised as you might be to hear that, because "DayOne is a journalling app and not a general note taking app." But you know what, it works really, really well. The sync is awesome and fast. I was running Evernote Legacy for a while but it lost me when it kept duplicating notes and creating conflicts all over the place. That never happened in 10 years before the re-written “improvement”. I never ever had sync issues or conflicts until the new software.
DayOne actually has a lot of the features I really need. Evernote had some, but took some away, and others have never had yet.
DayOne feature overview:
Timeline view
Images view
Map view of where notes are created (remember Atlas?)
Calendar view (something Evernote sorely needs)
Multiple journals (journals are like notebooks)
Tags
Metadata
Integrated with calendar and photo library, so you can see a holistic view of a day
Integrations with IFTTT
So I have been using it solidly since December and have not missed Evernote once. DayOne’s sync is really fast, Evernote was slow and cludgy. I have barely opened Evernote in 6 months, and it would only be to retrieve something I needed.
Now the DayOne note editor is not as advanced as Evernote and it doesn’t really do tables, but it supports markdown if you use that. I can live with its deficiencies as everything else is just awesome.
Now migration will be a pain. I have 19,000 notes from over 10 years in Evernote. But there are a couple of clever scripts around and worst case it will just become a multi-year migration project.
Check it out. You might be surprised. I was as I didn’t originally see it as a replacement at all, but it is. And I use it everyday, which is the ultimate test of whether something is user friendly.