[swayson]

Obsidian.md for the win. I used to use evernote way back when they started, was cool software, then they started scaling and added worst search UI I have ever come across. That day, I deleted my account and went markdown with my own storage. Don't see the benefit of why your notes should be controlled by others.

[BigBar]

I use Obsidian for quite a few things, but I view Obsidian and Evernote as different apps functionally.

I can't email notes into Obsidian. Obsidian doesn't have a web clipper, note reminders, markup tools. I mean sure, I could cover some of that with plug-ins, but at a certain point things become inconvenient.

For text-only notes Obsidian is great. For web clips, emailing notes in, multimedia, I just find EN much easier than trying to jam everything into a text editor.

[prepend]

> I can't email notes into Obsidian. Obsidian doesn't have a web clipper, note reminders, markup tools. I mean sure, I could cover some of that with plug-ins, but at a certain point things become inconvenient.

I don’t care about any of those features. I care about capturing and organizing ideas that are almost always text.

It’s cool you like EN but I think that market is much smaller and EN was just reaching for super edge cases to please a few users and trying to get “regular” users to pay as well.

[kepano]

Obsidian Web Clipper: https://stephanango.com/obsidian-web-clipper

[BigBar]

Tried it. Forcing multimedia into a text editor doesn't always work the best.

I do use Obsidian for text notes that are of my own making, but for pulling in media and other file types, I find a tool like EN so much easier to use.

[etrautmann]

+1 for Obsidian. So much faster that Notion and does what I need, with amazing plugin ecosystem if you want specific features.

[xvilka]

It's not open source. If migrate from Evernote, at least it's better to migrate to FOSS. Sadly, most FOSS solutions lack mobile app support.

[vladiliescu]

Open source is not a cure-all you know. I prefer to pay for quality software than spend countless hours trying to compile a thing someone abandoned years ago.

[1letterunixname]

It's essentially impossible to create a SaaS app that's fully FOSS. And what good would it do?

Furthermore, FOSS is orthogonal to support and usability. It's a meaningless property on its own.

[Krisjohn]

The data store is just a folder tree of .md text files. You don't even need Obsidian to view them, it just makes navigating the links a little easier.

[Groxx]

Yeah, ^ this is what convinced me to switch to it. It just produces reasonable, compliant markdown files, and displays them. Most markdown-folder apps handle its output just fine, it's just a better experience.

I like open source a lot, but for my data I much prefer interoperable. I've watched too many projects and companies die and take my stuff with them.

[perryizgr8]

The notes are all in markdown stored on your disk. IMO that is more important than the app source code being open. I can easily take my data and write another app.

[nilespotter]

logseq is open source, but you gotta pay for (e2ee) sync. Joplin is open source and you can do e2ee with a joplin server or s3 backed. I didn't care for Obsidian. logseq for me.

[xvilka]

Paying for sync is absolutely fine as long as the client is open source. Thanks for the logseq recommendation, it looks very good from the first sight! I only wish they had NeoVim plugin like Obsidian has.

[nilespotter]

Agreed, I pay for logseq sync. Down below someone mentioned doing it with sync thing, but paying is easier for me, and supports development to boot. There is a logseq plugin for vi-like keybindings, but predictably, it's just meh. Hope you enjoy logseq, it's amazing.

[Zambyte]

I have never used this, but for NeoVim it looks like you might be able to use this (or hack on it a bit to make it work with LogSeq a bit better) https://github.com/artempyanykh/marksman

[puszczyk]

I’ve only started playing with it recently, but they have CMD-d CMD-a shortcut to open a file in default editor.

[neop1x]

I am using LogSeq happily on Android and desktop, syncing with Syncthing. It works well enough.

[N19PEDL2]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611355

[emodendroket]

I mostly use Google Keep, which works pretty well. Though the "clippings" feature saving Web articles is pretty cool and doesn't have much of an analogue with that product.

[D13Fd]

Just wait until they shut it down.

[emodendroket]

I guess I'll just switch to a new notebook application again if that happens. Very few of these notes are useful for long.

[allarm]

I’m using my note taking system as a personal knowledge base. It’s the most valuable chunk of information I have.

[freedomben]

Google keep us awesome! Very underrated. I use logseq most of the time but keep when I'm on mobile and I'll sync them later. There are scripts to hello transfer but doing it manually is pretty easy.

But on it's own keep gives me everything I need, except for the local markdown file database.