Evernote Privacy Policy Changes

Posted by dan7000
Dec 18, 2016 at 10:32 PM

Larry Kollar wrote:
I’ve been gradually pulling out of Evernote for a while now. This will
>only accelerate my exit.

What software are people here adopting as an alternative to Evernote for cross-platform, muti-client/synced web clipping, PDF tagging, and notetaking?

I would love to ditch EN but I don’t know of a suitable alternative for what I use it for. Sure there’s OneNote but if there’s one company I trust less than EN…

Anything out there other than OneNote that does the following:
- Full-text search of notes, web clippings, and PDFs
- tagging
- iOS, Android and Windows clients
- decent web clipping (web pages don’t look mangled)
- Synced in some way - cloud or otherwise - so I can see my iOS notes in Windows and vice-versa.

It seems like there was a lot of competition in this space 10 years ago, but lately everyone just gave up because EN and ON had captured the market. Would be great to see a startup launch a secure alternative that included all of the above capabilities

[As an aside: I don’t see this privacy policy issue as a big deal. I suspect every cloud service we use, if it is not zero-knowledge, allows staff to look at our data when necessary for technical reasons. EN just made the mistake of making this explicit instead of implicit.]