[Maro]

There's also Simplenote. I can recommend it. It's pretty cool, it's just plaintext, and it just works. I migrated to it after I got sick of the formatting in Evernote getting screwed up and sync issues causing data loss.

[sleepyhead]

* You can't really compare a simple plaintext note taker to Evernote. * The Simplenote sync is very unreliable. I lost content numerous times. For plaintext notes I now use nvALT on OSX and Writeily Pro on Android with files being synced via Bittorrent Sync.

[TuringTest]

Simplenote is not open source.

[donatj]

But the API is entirely open, so you can use an open source client.

[adrusi]

But for any meaningful kind of data freedom you have to own the server, not just the client.

[donatj]

The server is so simple it would be remarkably easy to reproduce based simply on the API spec.