Michal Marek While Apple significantly improved the Notes system app in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, the popular Evernote, on the other hand, angered its users this week by limiting the free version and increasing the price of the paid ones. That's why users are flocking from Evernote to Notes or OneNote from Microsoft. If you want to switch from Evernote to Notes, the good news is that it's very simple and all data can be transferred easily. We'll show you how.
To easily transfer all data from Evernote to Apple Notes, you will need a Mac with OS X 10.11.4 or later. On such a Mac, you will also need the Evernote application, which you can free download from the Mac App Store.
1 step
Open the Evernote app on your Mac and sign in to your account. Then sync all your notes so you have up-to-date data in the app. The progress of synchronization is indicated by a spinning wheel in the left part of the upper panel of the application window.
2 step
Regarding the export of notes itself, it is possible to get all notes from Evernote at once, but you can also select them one at a time, in the classic way - by clicking the mouse on individual notes while holding down the Command (⌘) key. It is also possible to select entire notebooks for export and thus keep your records sorted.
When you have your notes selected, just tap in Evernote Edit > Export Notes… You will then see a pop-up window with the option to set export options. Here you can name the resulting file and choose its location and format. It is necessary to select Evernote XML Format (.enex).
3 step
Once the export is complete, open the Notes app and select an option File > Import Notes… In the window that appears, now select the file exported from Evernote and confirm the choice. Your Evernote notes will now be uploaded to a new folder named Imported notes. From there you will be able to sort them into individual folders.
I tried it. After 2 days I switched to sleep on evernote
But the undead. Hopefully it wasn't that bad. :-)
Today I did a test import of everything from Evernote to Apple Notes. 650 notes and 203MB of data. Apple notes now "launch" for about 10 seconds (iphone 6S) before they can be quickly worked with, via the web interface they are loaded on the fast line for many minutes. Furthermore, 200MB of notes took up almost 1,2GB of data on my iPhone. I lost 1,2GB of space on iCloud due to the fact that the notes that are already on iCloud are duplicated in the iPhone backup, which has increased by 1GB (why if the notes are 200MB????). Unbelievable how badly it is all done. I'll probably just write off the whole thing and stick with Evernote until Apple fixes it. Now the notes will also be synchronized to the iPad, the backup of the iPad will also increase by 1GB and the iCloud will be full….
thanks, that saved me a lot of time :(
I've had a significantly better experience with OneNote, but still not good enough to stick with OneNote. So for now I'm staying with Evernote and I'll hope that some competition will catch up with my subscription :)
I first paid for the Plus option and now I'm testing it. Unfortunately, there really isn't any other reasonable replacement. I don't like OneNote, but I plan to test it today. It's a huge behemoth, I don't really want to get into it. Other alternatives are not cross-platform and I need a Windows version in addition to OSX and IOS.
I use the full version of Evernote a lot - document indexing is essential for me. And unfortunately I have it like that: mac at home, iphone, ipad mobile and win7 at work - And I insist on windows, so the choice is even more limited :(
Yes, indexing is excellent, but I use a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner to scan documents and it creates a searchable PDF by itself, so both Evernote and Apple search for notes in these documents directly without support from Evernote. So the Plus package is enough for me.
But Evernote has one nice feature, that when I search in a PDF document, it highlights the searched word directly in the PDF. No other note-taking app can do that.
OneNote just surprised me that it does this too :)
He highlighted the search word in the PDF document.
Add. They gave OneNote is certainly not a juggernaut compared to Evernote. Maybe Evernote caught up with it a long time ago (I don't know, I stopped using it a year ago). But yes, it's just different than Evernote. As for the text in OneNote - it can also convert text from an image without any problems, and it's really nice, including Czech. It comes in handy when you take a picture of a sign with your iPhone and need to quickly get information from it...
I took it according to the size of the installer :-) 500MB vs 80MB. I've currently been struggling for half an hour with Apple Notes to delete all the imported notes. In the end, the only way was to turn off icloud for notes on all devices. I then manually cleared all Notes data (one click) on the Mac in iCloud Storage Manager and then turned off Notes with iCloud on all devices. I ended up manually erasing some of the notes left on the ios devices. Probably some remnant of a broken sync. All in all, it was a shock and I certainly do not intend to make similar attempts to entrust a large amount of data to Apple in the foreseeable future.
Anyway, 200MB of notes from evernote was taking up 1,2GB on iCloud and devices. If I add the same space for iPhone and iPad backups, 200MB of notes took up 3,6GB of data on iCloud :-) Terrible....
Can OneNote for Mac flip the sidebar from right to left? I somehow didn't figure it out.
I'm solving it the other way around, I want to escape from notes to something more sophisticated... are there any other programs you use?
What bothers me is that the latest iOS does not synchronize notes with the previous OSx, only with the latest El Capitan. But I can't go into that, because some plotter drivers, etc., don't work correctly on it. Why this synchronization was cut off in the latest iOS is a mystery to me, and it's also not possible to go back to the previous version of the notes before the update.