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  1. I've started the migration, to Obsidian. Yeah I might be able to get by with 50 notes -- I have way more than 50 -- but it's also possible that in a year or even sooner, they will reduce the number of free notes even further. Since I wasn't going to pay $130 or $180, might as well jump now. EN has been a great tool, made me aware of something that I didn't consider before I discovered EN, which was to have searchable, taggable notes which could have embedded graphics or photos and available on both your mobile devices as well as desktop. Hopefully Obsidian will be a useful alternative. Maybe it will also have restrictions on free accounts but for now it will have to do. Good luck to other EN users.
  2. Well I tried to export from the Mac version, couldn't log in. I screwed up removing and adding devices and I can't try again until next month since it's now limited to 2 changes per month. So I downloaded Obsidian for Mac and started converted several dozen of my most recent notes. Most of them just have text and links so just copy and paste. Obsidian doesn't have easy formatting options. For instance, no underlining of fonts or selected text. You can bold or italicize, can't change font sizes of just some text. For embedded PDFs and graphics or photos, I had to download to my Mac and then dragged and dropped them into Obsidian for that note. So pretty manual process but not too bad. I have hundreds or thousands of notes since I've been using EN for probably a decade or more. But I'm not going to bother with the 10 year old or even many of the notes older than a few years. I rarely look at them. I also had a bunch of notes generated by the old Evernote Dine app. I loved using that but they got rid of it and I don't see the point in migrating the dozens of Dine notes I generated. A lot of the restaurants no longer exist anyways. I set up iCloud sync, which I'm already paying for. If I used Obsidian Sync, it would cost me $8-10 a month so not much different than Evernote Personal account would cost. So I set it up in iCloud Drive. I pay 99 cents a month for 50 GB, which includes photos and backups of my iPhone and iPad. Next tier up is 200 GB for $3 a month. So like less than 1/3 of the Evernote Promotional prices of $130 for the first year, regularly $180 a year. Again, I could afford to pay $180 but my notes are not for professional use and most of the notes I will never read, let alone edit./ The ONE thing EN would be useful for is searching PDFs. But I think the Free EN accounts had that years ago, so I haven't been used to that capability for years. iCloud at even $36, I could use it for far more things than syncing notes so easier to justify. The Obsidian vaults are basically files and folders. So very easy to back up and export. Compare that to trying to export dozens or hundreds of notes out of Evernote, which is very difficult. So that made me cull a lot of notes or orphan the older ones I probably will never read again. Anyone looking to migrate, hope that this description of moving to Obsidian could be useful. I searched for Evernote options and One Note always comes up. But I don't want to have to deal with a Microsoft account, though I have one that I haven't used in awhile. But a lot of options were suggested so good luck to others looking to migrate.
  3. Sorry I only meant it in the sense that their main path to get subscribers is to convert the free account users. They've progressively taken away features for free accounts to make users have to upgrade to regain some of those features. So that indicates that they're not getting many paying users who are new to Evernote so much as trying to convert those who are familiar with EN and getting them to pay. That is the squeeze.
  4. All the old export options that were discussed in old threads no longer seem to exist. You have to export one note at a time it seems, print to PDF on Macs while using the web version. You can select up to 100 notes and the only options are move or merge, no export to PDF. Well you can't merge 100 notes, it becomes too big. So I merged 10 notes and the results weren't good because several notes had JPGs embedded. I don't even see an option to export in the ENEX format, if anything else would even use this format. So I'm probably going to save maybe a couple dozen of my most recent notes. My usage pattern is to use maybe 5-10% of my notes more than once and notes which are over 3-4 years old often have outdated info so not worth using or even reading again. Maybe I can just cull all the old notes and get it down to under 50 for awhile. But no doubt they will try to squeeze free account users more, because they're probably not getting more new users with the free account so limited.
  5. Just got an email about the new limitations on the free account. I never looked at the plan pricing. Wow $15 a month but it's on sale so you would save $50 the first year, $130 instead of $180. Evernote has been very useful for me over the years and I can afford $130 or even $180 a year. But there are a lot of other services I'd pay for before I'd pay for Evernote. Well I'm going to try living without EV. Anyways, I enjoyed the product but ciao! Yes I know they have to pay operating costs as well as the employees. Understand this move. Just don't want to get caught into this cycle of more and more recurring bills. GLA.
  6. I use Notes but I'm skeptical of the search in Apple products. I will check out DevonThink. Thanks, good resource.
  7. Thanks that's good to know. As for other notes apps or services, I did search in the forum for "alternative" or "backup" and didn't really find previous discussions. Over the years I have looked for other services, don't really appear to be any. For instance, MS One Note is really nothing like EN.
  8. I've accumulated a lot of notes over the years but I don't upload enough in a given month to justify $130 a year. Plus even as a subscriber, the possibility of the service going out of business would be approximately the same, so I'd still need a migration strategy to preserve the notes and find a way to keep using them as well as adding to them.
  9. Anyone else thinking about what to do if EV gets rid of the free tier or maybe go out of business? Download their notes? Attempt to migrate to some alternative service?
  10. I don't think it's connection related. Connection is cable Internet and if it's a problem, Evernote wouldn't be the only thing affected. In any event, the workaround of deleting the cookies is 100% so that wouldn't point to a connection. I don't use the web app much on my iPad but it's not a problem there either, though I am on iPad OS 16 in that case.
  11. In the past month or two, if I don't use the web app in Safari for a couple of hours, it just hangs, searches don't return anything and if I click Home, it starts drawing the note tiles but then stops. So I have to force a reload and you get the green circle rotation animation for a couple of minutes before it says it can't load try later. Repeated reloads return the same message. The ONLY way I've been able to get past it is to delete the Evernote cookie and then reload, which gets me to the login screen and I have to click "keep me logged in for days" again. Then I use it for awhile and if I return to it after a couple of hours, it gets in the same state, just hangs and force reloads go nowhere and I have to delete cookes again. Mac OS version is Big Sur 11.7.1 and Safari is the latest version for this OS version. This problem has been reported in past years, people unable to load the web app, not just in Safari but other browsers and I believe it's been a problem in Windows as well. But those were occasional and didn't require repeatedly deleting cookies to get the web app to load correctly. When I see other threads about people rolling back to older versions of the app, it makes it appear that the major code changes about a year ago is just much less performant on the same hardware/OS and browser configs.
  12. Well I've only ever had the free plan and it used to work for me.
  13. Hmm, never noticed search was no longer available. Oh well. I guess I will use more tags when I upload PDFs from now on.
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