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It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch::Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes, it has now made this change for all free users

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're looking for a name drop, Joplin does nicely for my uses.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard Joplin is good. Also Obsidian is apparently amazing with plug-ins. I'm leaning towards Obsidian myself. But between Google and MS, I figured Keep and Evernote would've been impossible to challenge.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

+1 for Obsidian, I wrangled long with the fact it is not open source, but since it handles file with markdown formatting and saves them openly accessible, I gave it a try anyway. Really like it but will definitely never be open to pay a subscription for it. One time payment, absolutely!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another +1 for Obsidian. Will never go back. For anyone running into Notion, it doesn’t work offline (that I last checked.) bit me in the ass one time. Obsidian is all markdown locally available.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And Notion is so slow my god, Crazy how everything feels instant with Obsidian

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I self host a lot of shit, but after almost a year of using Obsidian I finally paid for their sync feature for one reason: iCloud sync to iOS is painfully slow.

I was sometimes waiting 30-45 seconds to jot down a note just waiting on the app to open with iCloud sync as my backend. Now, with Obsidian sync, the app is ready-to-go in seconds.

Now if you're only going to be using on desktop, I would definitely consider a git-repository based sync, but if you're gonna use mobile I'd recommend you at least consider Obsidian Sync

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I already have Syncthing up and running so its not an issue for me right now and I don't need to share notes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obsidian is not FOSS though, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, but it keeps your data in Markdown format so you wouldn't lose anything if it disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Open standard, even better if it's simple (like markdown) is a big plus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Does it support drawing on tablets? Also, if I wanted something to use to create handwritten digital notes, how would I go about that. Not that many good degoogled tablet options out there and linux tablets aren't there yet. I can only think of a wacon or huion connected to my linux laptop. However, this will result in very poor battery life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And Logseq, too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That is good to know. I will check it out. I was thinking of creating one that allows you to BYOC. I need something that is free, cross platform, auto saves, and can keep offline copies. All for just basic note taking.

No way in hell I am going to pay a ton of money to store a bunch of text. I don’t even need any of the advanced functionality, not even images, just a dumping ground for text notes I take on my phone.