[1]The Trouble With OneNote and Evernote
My solution for replacing these proprietary and, in the end,
dangerous-to-use services is the same as Voit's: switch to Org mode.
Unlike OneNote and Evernote, Org runs on your own machine, is open
source so it will always be there for you, and, most importantly,
stores its data as plain text [In this context, "we" means the
community of Emacs users, of course., ed]. The data is readable by
any application that knows about text.
[2]Voit makes the case for Org mode in his post but by now we [In
this context, "we" means the community of Emacs users, of course.,
ed] should all be familiar with it. For most of us, what's required
is to import any data we care about into Org so we no longer have to
worry about what third parties are planning to do with their
products.
(Via Irreal.org)
Karl Voit has a great site for Emacs and Org-mode users, but also
things generally open-source. I came to the same conclusion he did,
just sooner.
I was an Evernote user and subscriber back in the day, but their
increased fees with lesser functionality and the difficulty getting
data out of their semi-walled garden was too much. Evernote also had
platform inconsistencies I can't recall specifically but I think there
were some features only available on Mac.
I moved to OneNote, which clearly reached its pinnacle w/ 2016. The
Metro/UWP/Win10 version paled in comparison as did the Mac version.
When it became clear the Mac version would remain feature incomplete,
especially the inability to have a local OneNote notebook I moved off.
Org is my primary exocortex now. The only major things I can't do right
now are:
* Capture hand-written text or drawings
* iOS version
I'm overcoming the latter using [3]Drafts 5: Capture ‣‣ Act on iOS with
some scripting and maybe some [4]Pythonista 3 & [5]Workflow stuff. Some
[6]Drafts 4 (Legacy Version) may still be needed. It relies right now
on [7]Dropbox as the sync engine but I hope to move to
git/GitHub/[8]Working Copy soon. I hope to publish my work and
workflows this week (Golden Week 2018).
[9]丸曽ビル, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Also on:
[10]Twitter
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My original entry is here: [11]Open Source Exocortex for your Fun &
Profit. It posted Tue, 01 May 2018 11:00:39 +0000.
Filed under: emacs, personal, tech,
References
1.
http://irreal.org/blog/?p=7140
2.
http://karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of-OneNote/
3.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1236254471?at=1000IJNU
4.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1085978097?at=1000IJNU
5.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id915249334?at=1000IJNU
6.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id905337691?at=1000IJNU
7.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id327630330?at=1000IJNU
8.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id896694807?at=1000IJNU
9.
https://maps.wikimedia.org/#/14/35.714269692804/139.70338414496
10.
https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/991272001896697856
11.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1058
