James Evans

Downloaded it from the Apple App Store.

Devonthink looks like an exceptionally capable app, but I've grown used to Evernote's multi-device solution and zero-effort syncing. I'm sure I could make it work, but Evernote - for me - still offers a more compelling suite of features. Mostly this is laziness - I don't want to have to think about, or manage, my notes app. The very fact that I've been driven to post on this subject annoys me because I'm burning time I should be using for real work. That said, if discussions like this either a) help Evernote move things forward, or b) help us identify a range of viable alternatives, it'll have been worth the effort. Apple Notes certainly lacks features of Evernote, but for some of my use cases (mainly around text generation on the go with no-hassle multi-device syncing) it's a good solution. @EverNote Not sure if anyone reads/answers these posts, but the fact that your customers are actively discussing alternative services on your message boards is a sign that you've got something wrong. Maybe there's a group of users who love the new app and are thrilled by the Electron solution. Or maybe everyone's a bit upset that their OS-specific features have gone. Either way, prioritising development efficiency over user experience seems like a strange choice to me, especially when it hobbles your app's performance so dramatically.

I've just installed Evernote on a new MacBook Pro and was pretty disappointed to learn that it still needed to use Rosetta. Then I discovered the move to Electron, which also explains why my Applescripts stopped working. I'm behind the times, it seems. I haven't experienced any particular problems with speed with Evernote 10; maybe I'm just lucky. That said, the performance difference between Evernote 10 and Apple's own Notes is vast. I'm sure that's partly because I have 10k+ notes in Evernote and only a few hundred in Notes, but the difference is so stark that even when Evernote is 'fast' it feels extremely slow by comparison to Notes. Interestingly, I see similar differences on an iPad Pro. Doubtless the decision to move to Electron was taken long before Apple announced their silicon transition. I'm sure it looked like a logical choice - develop once, deploy everywhere. Great for developers, lousy for users. Maybe things will improve when Evernote migrates to Electron 11 with support for Apple M1. Do we know if that's happening? In the meantime, I have two workarounds for my AppleScript-related issues: Like everyone else has pointed out, Evernote Legacy still works. I've installed this specifically to run AppleScript, which I only use once or twice a week to create a few dozen templated notes. Then I switch back to Evernote 10, and Notes. I re-wrote my scripts to target Notes instead of Evernote. This might not work for everyone, and honestly I don't like having notes in two apps, but the speed of Notes has to be seen to be believed. My wishlist is short; I want AppleScript support restored to Evernote, and I want an M1-native app that prioritises user performance. Big asks, I know, and maybe the Mac user base is never going to be big enough to justify the effort, but I'll be keeping my eyes open for an Evernote replacement until this gets fixed.