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Posted by WSP
Dec 23, 2021 at 03:28 PM
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m a citizen of the Windows world, incidentally.
Let me explain my problem in slightly more detail. I am thinking of using UpNote for a fairly large project—a catalogue of William Morris’s personal library. You can see the Web version at
https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/
At the moment I have all the raw data in Evernote, a program that lately seems to be imploding in some respects. I just don’t feel safe any longer in keeping this information in Evernote, and I am also now reaching the age where I will have to hand my notes over to another scholar or institution in the foreseeable future. I’ve experimented with shifting the data into Onenote, which isn’t ideal but is presumably not going to disappear in the future. Yet OneNote will not import Evernote files reliably nowadays, and copying and pasting is enormously time-consuming for a project of this size.
Hence my recent experiments with UpNote. It’s a brilliant little program (am I perhaps pushing it too far?) that imports Evernote files quite smoothly (though unfortunately not the tags in Evernote). I like it very much. But UpNote seems to be a one-man operation, and if it were to fold within a few years, then I would have to transfer all this data again. (Ugh.) Hence my search for a presumably more stable program like OneNote that might carry this project into the future if necessary. If I were convinced that UpNote could export data in an easily usable format, I would be tempted to choose it.
The Other Bill
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 23, 2021 at 04:36 PM
Bill, would an academic reference program such as Citavi or Zotero be useful for you? I am in early stages of learning Citavi.
Daly
WSP wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m a citizen of the Windows world,
>incidentally.
>
>Let me explain my problem in slightly more detail. I am thinking of
>using UpNote for a fairly large project—a catalogue of William
>Morris’s personal library. You can see the Web version at
>
>https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/
>
>At the moment I have all the raw data in Evernote, a program that lately
>seems to be imploding in some respects. I just don’t feel safe any
>longer in keeping this information in Evernote, and I am also now
>reaching the age where I will have to hand my notes over to another
>scholar or institution in the foreseeable future. I’ve experimented with
>shifting the data into Onenote, which isn’t ideal but is presumably not
>going to disappear in the future. Yet OneNote will not import Evernote
>files reliably nowadays, and copying and pasting is enormously
>time-consuming for a project of this size.
>
>Hence my recent experiments with UpNote. It’s a brilliant little program
>(am I perhaps pushing it too far?) that imports Evernote files quite
>smoothly (though unfortunately not the tags in Evernote). I like it very
>much. But UpNote seems to be a one-man operation, and if it were to fold
>within a few years, then I would have to transfer all this data again.
>(Ugh.) Hence my search for a presumably more stable program like OneNote
>that might carry this project into the future if necessary. If I were
>convinced that UpNote could export data in an easily usable format, I
>would be tempted to choose it.
>
>The Other Bill
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Dec 23, 2021 at 05:20 PM
You may want to try Nimbus Note:
https://nimbusweb.me/blog/how-do-i-import-notes-from-evernote-to-nimbus-note/
WSP wrote:
>At the moment I have all the raw data in Evernote, a program that lately
>seems to be imploding in some respects. I just don’t feel safe any
>longer in keeping this information in Evernote, and I am also now
>reaching the age where I will have to hand my notes over to another
>scholar or institution in the foreseeable future.
Posted by WSP
Dec 23, 2021 at 05:26 PM
I’m more or less familiar with those academic reference programs, but unfortunately for my list of Morris’s library I have had to adopt a nonstandard style. I’ve also made heavy use of images. Both of those things cause problems in reference programs.
I still look back with nostalgia at MyInfo, incidentally, but for some reason the more recent versions cannot easily communicate with each other (through Dropbox) between my two computers. I’m tempted at times to try again to resolve that problem.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Dec 24, 2021 at 10:57 PM
I bought the latest MyInfo version, and am disappointed. I couldn’t find out how to have multiple note windows open at the same time. I wrote to Petko, and he said there still workng on it and we would see it soon. Multi open note windows was one of the main reasons I liked MI, along with its use of columns.
However, a major dislike is the design changes. It’s a fad in a number of programs, not just MI, to have thin black lines, and too much glaring white. I don’t like to have lots of thin black lines
and scads of white space. I miss the colours, thicker borders, and the pleasing results. Strangely, though, in the new MI you can have a coloured background on a note, except for where the type is, and the background remains white. IOW, the colour part of the note is a border of yellow, or green, etc around the edges. Incidentally, that became a problem in the later upgrades of the older MI version.
Daly
WSP wrote:
I’m more or less familiar with those academic reference programs, but
>unfortunately for my list of Morris’s library I have had to adopt a
>nonstandard style. I’ve also made heavy use of images. Both of those
>things cause problems in reference programs.
>
>I still look back with nostalgia at MyInfo, incidentally, but for some
>reason the more recent versions cannot easily communicate with each
>other (through Dropbox) between my two computers. I’m tempted at times
>to try again to resolve that problem.
>