ExNihilo

Contented Joplin user here... reading through the past few months of comments in this thread was amusing. Casting FUD over using Google Drive and Dropbox was interesting... in light of Evernote's reliance on their own servers. Besides, even of Dropbox fell off the face of the Earth, your Notes would be secure locally. In my case, my local server is used to sync my devices to Joplin's Android app.

I haven't touched Evernote for over 6 months. It's wonderful to control where your personal notes reside, and know that they are transportable to any markdown or hypertext software tool.

I'm sure there's a place somewhere for Evernote, but it offers no benefit to me.

Yes Joplin doesn't show inline PDFs, but that was little value to me as in Evernote their screen real estate was limited, and I had to launch the native PDF viewer to effectively read and search. Video clipping/embedding holds little value to me. A video link generally meets my needs, and where it doesn't, I download the video.

IMO Evernote has grown old and stale, complacent in its first to market position. Good luck all.

On 5/26/2020 at 9:36 AM, elevennails said:

 I'm struggling to stay, i've been so patient. you're so close to being the ideal solution for me, yet you're missing the mark. Evernote could be a killer app!

Joplin is starting to look like a good alternative. Convince me to stay i have nearly 1000 notes with detailed information, it would take me some time to make a switch.

1000 note import into Joplin is quite simple. Sometimes you just have to wade in. I made the switch 6 months ago, and have never looked back. Joplin just keeps getting better and its developer is quick to add capability.

Best of all, I control my data... and it's in a portable form... not some propriety mismash.

Just try it. You don't have to delete Evernote until you are comfortable with its replacement.

On 6/30/2020 at 6:21 PM, Harristribe said:

Ironically as the original poster of this solution I have since moved on from Evernote (and believe me I’ve tried them all – including Keep). I’ve finally settled on a good compromise in the form of Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/).

Count me as another Joplin user. The current form is very nice and the web clipper is superb. And versioning is quite nice. I'm not a heavy user of the "to do" list, but have occasionally needed that.

Yes, it does not clip videos, but I've never wanted that.

I sync everything between 2 PCs, an Android tablet and an Android phone. 

Before I settled on Joplin I tried Keep (far tooo basic) Zoho Notebook (awkward and very limited features, and too chatty calling home) and QOwnNotes (too many manual tweaks, slow loading, and no workable sync app).

I haven't touched Evernote in a year now, and have deleted 98% of my Evernote content. I'll probably kill the account soon. The device limit pushed me to the edge along with privacy limitations inherent within Evernote itself.

I still use OneNote as its organizing features are unparalleled... but not so much for web-clipping (which is horrid).

On 8/14/2019 at 11:56 AM, jmckimm said:

If you have 2FA enabled, and temporarily lost everything, do you have one point of access that would allow you to maintain online access as normal?

I have my account codes encrypted and backed up in "the cloud" should that happen. You could also use Bitwarden which stores your OTP account codes.

Google Authenticator is not the only app that manages the 2FA codes. There are other compatible OTP apps that permit you to backup your account codes. Don't think that because the QR scan says Google Authenticator that you must only use Google. Fortunately too, as my main phone went belly up last week. But no worries.

+1 for extending encryption to a Notebook basis.

As a minimum Notebook encryption...

But don't stop there... client-side Full account encryption through the app. No problem if web access is useless.

And speaking of client-side, enable the client to optionally search encrypted content using the local key (yes, I said "local"... I don't want to pass my key to your servers).

1 hour ago, gazumped said:

It's not a "2 devices limit" it's "more than 2 devices at the same time".  Adding in new devices and switching between existing and new seems pretty easy... 

Geeesh... is that all?

And I've wasted time migrating to a Synology NAS Evernote clone. Oh well... going forward my "personal" notes will remain on my private cloud... for all else it is Evernote as normal, as long as I can log off other devices remotely.

So I'll check that out... will logging onto my phone on the road give me the opportunity to log off my tablet at home? Yep. That seemed to have worked. 

So a bit of a nuisance, and I'll need to develop a mnemonic by which to better remember my convoluted password. And maybe I'll use the web interface more unless I'm into heavy editing. but not as bad as originally communicated.

After a recent android update, my Samsung Note 4 no longer can take pen input for notes.

When I create a new note, I'm able to activate the pen to enter the note subject, but after entering the subject by clicking on the checkmark, I cannot activate the pen in the note input field, leaving the keyboard as the only means of text entry,

Please advise/fix.