Evernote restricts free users to 50 notes starting December 4, 2023. What are the open-source alternatives that keep you in control?
I use TiddlyWiki via TiddlyPWA I find it works way closer to the way my brain works
I host my own Joplin and wife and I sync our notes to it and we love it. She’s non-technical and has no issues figuring it out, but we use minimal features. It did just get the ability to draw pictures as well, but we use that mostly just for the kids to play with.
Yeah Joplin is nice. I sync it to a free 10GB Dropbox account and use it on Linux and iOS. I’ve also used it with Android and Windows in the past, it’s available everywhere and works great.
I’m old school. I use text files
I use Obsidian.
It’s text files but markdown.
I use paper
I still do that for meeting minutes, out of old habits, but other stuff like design notes/specs need to be e-mailed around, so it had to be something digital. Markup in text files was my solution.
I’ve never used Evernote, I thought it was something Mac specific?
which makes their name ironic. What happens to free users that already are above 50?
According to the article, the content stays, just cannot add more notes or notebooks. I followed the link to Evernote FAQ, and it says:
In keeping with Evernote’s 3 Laws of Data Protection, and to ensure that all users retain full ownership of their data, any Free user who currently has more than fifty notes and one notebook will still be able to view, edit, export, share, and delete existing notes and notebooks.
