Chriswaterguy

I've been using Obsidian for 18 months now. It's much better fit for me and I enjoy using it, rather than being frustrated all the time.

Obsidian's pace of development is impressive, bugs have been fixed quickly and the community is active and helpful. In contrast, Evernote would put me through a long bug-reporting or feature request process and then ignore it, basically forever.

It became obvious that Evernote 's development priorities were completely different to what I care about.

The big things for me are: 

* I want my task management and note management together. My tasks are directly connected to my projects notes. (And I don't just mean checkbox – I mean being able to manage and filter my tasks.)

* Speed.

* Easy linking between notes.

* Excellent conflict management. (Very rarely needs intervention from me, unlike Evernote which had me mucking around with diff checkers.)

* Markdown is comfortable for me, and lets me write (and search for) exactly what I mean.

* Having complete control over my notes. I can use a different editor for a note, and if I want to do a search-and-replace across my entire vault using VS Code, I can. If I choose to move away from Obsidian, my vault is just a folder full of easily readable files (and their attachments).

* (Geeking out slightly) regular expression option for search.

YMMV, obviously.

My own "thoughts about V10 (with a little more distance)":  😱😱😭😭🤢🤢🤬🤬

This is a disaster. My legacy version isn't syncing, even after reinstalling, and their support people (who generally make me do a lot of work for a little help) have a waiting list over 10 days. So I'm stuck with this laggy garbage. 

On 5/6/2020 at 7:23 PM, Oberdada said:

many Evernote users use special characters as prefixes, e.g. to identify different types of tags and to display them one after the other in a specific order. Or to display important notes in a certain order at the top when sorted alphabetically. But if, for example, the character "#" on Windows is sorted before the characters "." and "@", but on Android after these two, this destroys the users' order system. It is particularly bad with special characters, which are sorted on one platform before the numbers, on another between numbers and letters and on the third platform after the letters ...

I'm glad it's not just me using it this way! My way of using Evernote depends heavily on sort order of special characters.

I installed Evernote 10 today and it's now much worse - the sort order seems to vary depending on whether you're in Notebook view or search results (sorting by Title, ascending in both cases). I could try to work it out, but for other reasons (notably the new version being sooo slooow) I'm reinstalling the legacy version.

I hope this gets fixed.