[rodgerd]

> I'd have moved by now if I could find something that was both highly cross-platform (Mac/Win/iOS) and lighter (Markdown pretty please).

I've compromised on OneNote, which isn't lightweight, but has become impressively cross-platform.

[veidr]

I might use OneNote if its search could find text in attachments. But it cannot; it only supports searching the actual text contained in the note itself.

Part of the Evernote value proposition is being able to find things again (although Evernote's search interface is abysmally bad, and offers no way to narrow your search so as not have a huge number of irrelevant matches).

[lukefreiler]

I tried to get back into OneNote last night (after the frustrations brought up by posting in this thread). I appreciate the cross-platform aspect, but I really don't like the interface - especially on desktop. The really weird text-box thing just blows my mind, I just want to write.

[donny2015]

You can turn that 'text box thing' off and make it behave like normal page.

[baldfat]

I personally have been using git more and more for my note taking. I use RStudio and RMarkdown for my notes and it has been great and easily spread to all my personal devices.

[chipperyman573]

Hmm, that's an interesting solution. You could always combine this with a private github repo and get easy-to-browse note-taking. It does seem like having to manually sync would be annoying though, is it really better than solutions like GDocs?

[zrail]

I use a combination of Sparkleshare, Emacs, Markdown, and an emacs mode named Deft to accomplish this. Deft autosaves my notes as I write them, and then Sparkleshare automatically syncs changes with the git server. It's pretty nifty.

https://www.petekeen.net/git-backed-personal-markdown-wiki (I added Deft later)

[4lun]

You could automate it using something like https://github.com/nevik/gitwatch

[baldfat]

I actually use a FREE Private repo on bitbucket.