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Evernote alternatives? (terefere.eu)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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With their recent update it seems they are on the last step to making their free version completely useless – are there any good alternatives out there? Preferably something that has a similar android app. I know I could use ssh+vi in a text file, but I'd prefer something a bit more streamlined

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use evernote mainly to store OCRed pdfs with some metadata. Moved my workflow over to a self hosted paperless-ngx instance. I'll never go back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd like to do this too! Any idea how best to migrate my stuff from Evernote?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can export notebooks directly from Evernote, and then some apps can import them from there. I know Joplin can but there are some others as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used yarle to convert evernote exports to obsidian. The pdfs will be accessible in the filesystem then.

https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not difficult to get the PDF's onto the file system, you can just export them there.

What's difficult is getting them imported with all the metadata they originally had into another system with the same preview and search capability as Evernote.

Obsidian doesn't look great for dealing with PDF's from what I can see. What's your feeling, would it work well? Or is paperless-ngx somehow accessing them from obsidian?

I don't understand why obsidian is involved if you access them with paperless-ngx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first idea was to use obsidian as note and pdf app. I did add some metadata to the notes, but I never used them - full text did it for me. Hence the obsidian path.

There are plugins for obsidian that allow ocr stuff, but I don't use them. I kind of split my workflow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounded like from your first post that you were using paperless-ngx for PDF's now. Do you use it that way or something else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Notes, todos, stuff -> obsidian

Pdfs -> paperless

😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So any advice on migrating PDF's from Evernote to paperless?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you configure paperless correctly, it will tag your documents based on their content. I told you how I batch exported my pdfs from EN - importing is a whole new story. Tons of docs and howtos around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if I'm being thick, but just to see if I can confirm what you're describing.

  1. Use Yarl to export export pdf notes from Evernote to obsidian
  2. Find some guide to importing pdf notes from obsidian to paperless-ngx

Is that correct?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yup. I had about 2k pdfs.