Evernote Privacy Policy Changes

Posted by WSP
Dec 19, 2016 at 02:34 PM

dan7000 wrote:
> >What software are people here adopting as an alternative to Evernote for
>cross-platform, muti-client/synced web clipping, PDF tagging, and
>notetaking?
>

Good question—one I often ask myself. The solution for me is to turn to several apps.

I have gradually moved most of my data out of Evernote, but I am still using it for one big project: a literary website that my wife and I maintain (https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/).

For my archive of older research notes, I throw everything into OneNote; I also fall back on OneNote, incidentally, for family history material, because it is easy and fun to use, and it looks almost like an old-fashioned scrapbook on the screen.

For bibliographical references and links, I have adopted CintaNotes, which is probably too stripped-down to serve as a full-fledged database, but its tagging system works brilliantly for short citations.

Over a period of years I was immersed in MyInfo, for which I still feel a great deal of affection. It was always reliably stable and had probably the most attractive UI of any program I’ve ever encountered. But the pace of development has been sluggish (to put it mildly); I am now trying out a beta version of MyInfo 7, which looks promising, but there is still no indication of when that will be released. The new version will offer the *possibility* of cross-platform apps at some unspecified time in the future.

Lately I’ve also been playing around with RightNote. It’s very similar to MyInfo—probably more powerful but also less visually attractive. I’m afraid I find its menus cluttered and confusing. But it does the job efficiently, though it’s available only on Windows. (While it does offer some integration with EverNote, the syncing seems too slow to be useful.)

Like everyone else on this forum, I fantasize constantly about the perfect app that would combine the strengths of all of the above. I assume it will never materialize.