François de La BruèreJan 29, 2024

Today I cancelled my #evernote subscription after 15 years. Like Dropbox & others, it started out as a great set of native apps with good UI and functionality, but over the years fell victim to feature creep, pushy upsell, and pretty dramatic price increases.

I imported my 5000+ notes to Apple Notes, which today happens to be the closest thing I could find to the OG Evernote experience. I'm sure I’ll find a few formatting issues here and there, but everything I’ve looked at so far has translated flawlessly, metadata and all.

Also shoutout to #fujitsu for continuing to support my ScanSnap 1300i 12 years later, including letting me scan OCR’d PDFs directly to Notes.

#evernoteexodus #AppleNotes #scansnap

Show threadBenediktJan 29, 2024
@fdlbt did migration to Apple Notes work for files, scans PDF and so forth as well? Or notes only?
Show threadFrançois de La BruèreJan 29, 2024
@BenVogel Also fair warning that although iCloud syncing worked fine and fairly quickly from my Mac to my phone and iPad, adding 5000 notes apparently means each device will then spend hours, perhaps days (still ongoing for me) indexing everything. So plan ahead for efficiency cores pinned at 100% and extra battery drain on mobile devices until that's all sorted out.
Show threadBenedikt
@fdlbt thank you so much. This gave me trust. I just started my migration. Very easy. I am surprised how well the notes are formatted and how well all files are migrated from #evernote . The only thing I am not sure about is the export capabilities of Apple notes.
Jan 29, 2024 at 8:28pmWeb
Show threadFrançois de La BruèreJan 30, 2024
@BenVogel That’s definitely the elephant in the room. There’s no export capabilities that I know of (aside from exporting one note at a time to PDF, which I know I'm never doing…), and would not expect Apple to ever provide any, so this is almost definitely a one-way trip.
Show threadFrançois de La BruèreJan 30, 2024
@BenVogel I just played around with that export to PDF function and if you have multiple PDFs in the same note, the exported version only includes the first page of each. So... yeah.