I'm a very happy user of @notesnook the spiritual successor to Evernote.

https://notesnook.com/

One of my favorite features is the web clipper browser extension. Using the web clipper, I create my own archive, of sorts. I feel like everybody should be doing something to preserve journalistic articles, scientific papers, etc.

It's also just a kickass notes app! Handles tables, you can use markdown, it's self-hostable...it's...magical 🧙‍♂️

#Notesnook #NoteTakingApps #OpenSource

I'm looking for recommendations for good, reasonably priced note-taking apps. A must-have feature is web clipping, both as a browser plug in and on Android.

I've been using Evernote for years, but they are more than doubling their fees in January 2026. So I need to switch.

So. Suggestions, anyone?

Thanks.

(Please boost)

#Evernote #EvernoteReplacement #NoteTakingApps

How to Prepare for Finals Using eBooks and Note Apps (Smart Study Guide for 2025)

How to Prepare for Finals Using eBooks and Note Apps (Smart Study Guide for 2025)
Final exams can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re juggling multiple classes, deadlines, and personal commitments. But with the rise of digital learning too

https://cstbooks.com/tips/prepare-for-finals-using-ebooks-and-note-apps/

#Tips #CollegeStudying #ebooks #ExamPrep #FinalsWeekTips #NotetakingApps #StudyTools

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

ABC (update 2)

Scientific info management.

SilverBullet Community：https://community.silverbullet.md/t/abc-accurate-bi-directional-cursor-level-linking-system/3536/20?u=chenzhu-xie

#PKM #biDirectional #noteTakingApps #personalWebsite #selfHosting #silverBullet #Lua

ABC (update 1)

Aiming to reduce frictions in daily workflow.

SilverBullet Community：https://community.silverbullet.md/t/abc-accurate-bi-directional-cursor-level-linking-system/3536/18?u=chenzhu-xie

#PKM #biDirectional #noteTakingApps #personalWebsite #selfHosting #silverBullet #Lua

Simplified!
https://community.silverbullet.md/t/abc-accurate-bi-directional-cursor-level-linking-system/3536/14
Siblings added!

#bidirectional
#notetakingApps
#webdev

The singularity draws near.
https://community.silverbullet.md/t/abc-accurate-bi-directional-cursor-level-linking-system/3536/12
We are almost there!

#bidirectional #notetakingApps #webdev

ABC - Accurate 🖇️ Bi-directional 🖱️ Cursor-level linking system built in 🚅 SilverBullet

My sincere thanks to Dr. @zef for providing Lego-like modules to bring this vision to life in SilverBullet: https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet.

Here's Code: https://github.com/ChenZhu-Xie/xczphysics_SilverBullet/blob/main/CONFIG/Paste_as/Cursor_Anchor.md
A comparable implementation in LaTeX too: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/722065/309711

Have you encountered such an innovation in any other note-taking app?
Leave your Comments!

#biDirectional #noteTakingApps #personalWebsite #selfHosting #silverBullet #Lua

#Logseq 一直有同步會掉資料的問題，最近再試一下，發現啟動速度和同步都有進步，體驗蠻好的～自己是用全蘋果系統和 iCloud。

Outliner 的大綱階層和縮放自如的頁面，對各種摘要記錄和整理很方便。當然，不可能一個工具滿足所有需求，就選擇好搬家、移動的。

現在透過 Drafts 捕捉，整理到 Logseq（瀑布式日誌和連結） 和 Obsidian（擷取長篇文章、閱讀畫重點和寫文章），挺滑順的～所需要的核心功能能好好滿足，把軟體用熟用順，就夠啦   #NoteTakingApps #opensource