NO, NOT EVERNOTE
🤯 argh!!

I have my *whole* ethnographic material, from all things I've done, since 2012 in there. Was never really certain about it, but it was a visually pleasant environment to work in, it was very well integrated with the phone, the web clipper has been very nice to use, and it has indeed helped me out organise my thoughts…

Has anyone here tried out Joplin or Obsidian and might recommend? Have you imported from Evernote and has all worked well? Any other tips?

@tscriado

I tried Joplin for a while but had trouble syncing between phone and pc. I use #obsidian for my non-ethnographic data (because I'd want to encrypt it for ethnographic data and haven't looked into that yet). Phone synching is possible I believe either through their subscription or with your own cloudservice. I really love obsidian for its combination of a) a simplistic, non-vendor lock-in system with b) quite a lot of customisation options and a very active online community sharing ideas and creating plugins.
For ethnographic data I use @notesnook. It's a small company similar to standardnotes. All the good privacy stuff you want for ethnography; open source and zero knowledge encryption. They support Evernote import and have accessible plans for education.

@sjanep @notesnook super-useful info! Thanks very much!!

@tscriado @sjanep @notesnook Horrible Evernote story. I actually had the same journey moving from Joplin to Obsidian. Joplin always felt slightly too clunky. Obsidian feels more natural and powerful, especially with the new Canvas feature. We use Obsidian for our projects for documentation, excerpts, text drafts, and coding of interviews. We sync via the Cloud or SyncThing.

There are also a thousand community plugins, but I try to use as few as possible. Beware of productivity YouTube.

@tscriado @sjanep @notesnook Oh, and encryption: our interview Obsidian vault is encrypted via Cryptomator (perfect for the cloud). Works like a charm and is free software.
@stefanlaser @sjanep @notesnook Thanks, Stefan! I've seen it also has some community-developed web clippers (it's one of the features I use the most, together with the regular notes/interviews/audio files, so this matters a great deal to me): are they working well? Anyone in particular you might recommend?
@tscriado @stefanlaser @sjanep @notesnook cryptomator works well for me, too

@i_ngli @tscriado @stefanlaser

Thank you for the cryptomator tip, will try!