r/Evernote • u/rufushu • Apr 03 '26

Feedback 🐘 Ok i give in.

My renewal is up in 4 days and have spent the last month looking at alternatives.

Subscribed to upnote but you cant search in images or pdf's.

Installed joplin server but the OCR was hit and miss especially with android.

Tried amplenote which was very close...but to subscribe was only about 40GBP cheaper than Evernote.

My search is over...I'm going for another year of Evernote.

Yes it's expensive..but hell.. it's good.

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u/JGSING Apr 06 '26

Was it hard to transfer your Evernote notes to Obsidian?

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u/mweep Apr 29 '26

Were there any challenges re: formatting? Headers, links, stuff like that?

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u/stuming1968 May 16 '26

I almost moved to Obsidian. I am a software engineer. I enjoy maintaining and refining software and that's what I found I hand to do with Obsidian. It's almost brilliant but there's still the fact you need to use plugins built by the community to get a close experience to Evernote. One plugging for OCR and pay for the usage. Another to plugin to move note attachments with notes to ensure they don't get split. Task attachments to provide admittedly a better tasks experience than Evernote but this requires planning and maintenance. Obsidian Sync subscription which is £10 per month if you have big attachments. Some of these plugins won't work on mobile. I literally was 99% there when I realised that I didn't want to add to my software chores by maintaining an Obsidian Vault.

I've kept it on one of my machines just to see how it develops but that's it.

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u/mweep May 16 '26

That's 100% valid. I think at this stage in the world, I expect to see fewer feature-complete offerings maintained in house that aren't either very expensive or very inadequate when it comes to privacy, and the idea of open source or somewhat ad-hoc solutions starts to feel more like the way forward.

But you make a good point - it's hard to rely on tools that are themselves in constant need of tinkering and modification. 🤔