NielE

I have been doing some research on alternatives, but I haven't made a decision yet about what I'm going to do. The one thing that I'm struggling with is migration and data portability. I have 10+ years of data (my life) in Evernote, and I need to make sure that my data is secure and doesn't stay forever locked into a service that I start to use. Evernote has a data export function, which other services are leveraging to enable porting Evernote data into their service. I realize I'm probably an advanced evernote user, and data portability may not be a major concern to many others. I just can't put myself in the situation where my data will be forever stuck in a platform without any practical way of moving my data to another platform. There's also a difference between data portability and data archiving. I don't just want to be able to extract my data (data archive), where it's in a format that can be independently read. What I want is to be able to migrate my data (data portability) so that's organized and editable in a target platform, the same way it was on the originating platform. Unfortunately there aren't any data portability standards for this. Perhaps Evernote's enex format becomes the industry standard. Since many platforms already support enex from an data import standpoint, maybe they can also support enex for data export . This would enable portability across platforms. Just my two cents. -Niel