Clair (KD3BCC)Exporting all my stuff out of Evernote. This is going to take me a while. It’s also a good time to review what to keep. There’s over a decade worth of stuff in here.
And on top of that, the metadata of all the notes. I need to keep that in whatever system migrate to.
Have semi-tried both Joplin and Obsidian. There are things I like about both, but obsidian is winning. It’s “cons” are still significant to me.
I really loved Evernote.
Converting these to Obsidian is tedious. I’m sure it’s tedious to convert it to anything, but damn.
Dr Dionysios Kyropoulos@kyropoulos I just dumped everything from over a decade of using Evernote and at first I wondered if I made the right choice. I’ve been putting it off for too long. Now, I can’t seem to stop thinking about the things #obsidian will let me do while/after I clean up all my notes—nearly 10k. #obsidiannotes
And Thanks! 😄
@chigh What I found most exciting is that, because the notes are not saved in a proprietary format but it’s just a system of normal folders containing markdown files, I can use automation to do all kinds of things that with Evernote or Scrivener would have been impossible
@kyropoulos what kinds of automation do you do?
I decided on trying Obsidian exactly because it’s text/MD. 👍🏻
@chigh Automatic creation of notes, grouping according to keywords, merging of notes, reformatting, extracting web links, creation of to do items according to specific keywords, setting notes to automatically delete after set expiration date (sometimes set automatically on creation), etc. Any tedious task I find that I have to do more than once and can be automated I try to find a way to do. #Obsidian makes #automation easy while being a great note-taking app at the same time