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Evernote have been walking a slow death march for 5+ years.


It is quite unfortunate. Around 2013-2014, I started systematically saving everything to Evernote and even got a paid plan. There were two issues:

1. Their app was getting buggy to handle on mac/win. The migration was terrible and they had a custom container format for export which was pretty useless. It became like the Hotel California of software. You could bring your stuff in, but never leave due to the lock-in.

I eventually migrated everything out of Evernote by saving printing emailing and started using plain Git on a local server for document save / version control.

2. There was no app for Linux. They made a lot of efforts on windows mac, and then ios/android but left native Linux support completely out of the picture. Evernote in 2015 had a hard time with Wine for emulation.


Latest version has a closed beta Linux version.




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