Philip Houska Evernote, one of the most popular applications for writing and organizing notes, has announced some rather unpleasant news. In addition to raising the prices of its established plans, it also places significant restrictions on the free version, which is used the most.
The biggest change is the free Evernote Basic plan, which is used by most users. Now it will no longer be possible to sync notes with an unlimited number of devices, but only with two within one account. In addition, users will have to get used to the new upload limit - from now on it is only 60 MB per month.
In addition to the basic free plan, the more advanced Plus and Premium paid packages have also received changes. Users will be forced to pay extra for synchronization with an unlimited number of devices and 1GB (Plus version) or 10GB (Premium version) of upload space. The monthly rate for the Plus package rose to $3,99 ($34,99 per year), and the Premium plan stopped at $7,99 per month ($69,99 per year).
According to Chris O'Neil, executive director of Evernote, these changes are necessary in order for the application to continue to function fully and bring users not only new features, but also improvements to existing ones.
With this fact, however, the demand for alternatives is rising, which above all are not so financially demanding and, moreover, can offer the same or even more functions. There are several such apps on the market, and users of Macs, iPhones, and iPads have started switching to systems like Notes in recent days.
In OS X El Capitan and iOS 9, the possibilities of the previously very simple Notes have increased significantly, and in addition, in OS X 10.11.4 discovered the ability to easily import data from Evernote into Notes. In no time, you can migrate all your data and start using Notes, which is completely free with synchronization between all your devices - then it's up to everyone whether the simpler Notes experience suits them.
Other alternatives include, for example, OneNote from Microsoft, which has been offering applications for Mac and iOS for some time, and in terms of the menu palette and user settings, it can compete with Evernote even more than Notes. Users of Google services can also be contacted by note-taking the Keep app, which came yesterday with an update and smart sorting of notes.
Notes wouldn't be enough for me, but I already switched to Onenote some time ago and I won't let it go. It is close to perfection on windows, the iOS versions are also very good and improve with each subsequent update, and the application for MacOS is also fully usable (even if the window version still does not have some of the goodies). However, the entire ecosystem works completely cross-platform (my daughter has an Android and we share some notebooks together) and with full satisfaction. Free, no restrictions, no ads.
I agree, Onenote maximum satisfaction.
How can I import notes from Evernote to OneNote? I didn't find any import in the Menu, and OneNote tells me on the website that it will do it for me when I install Windows 7 or more...
https://www.onenote.com/import-evernote-to-onenote
windows only :(
writing a program into which you can't import a note, even in basic xml form, is beyond my understanding... Microsoft obviously doesn't want new customers. ok i accept it.
It's sad, but I don't see a full-fledged alternative. OneNote has problems reading attached files on mobile devices, native Notes drag every note to every device... Well, you have to pay extra.
I tried OneNote. I migrated my 2,5k notes for about an hour.
The result is quite usable, except for:
– impossibility to change create_date on Mac (only the woken version can do it)
- I haven't figured out how to find out when all the data on the Mac is finally online - they just synchronize and I didn't find the indicator - it took several hours after the migration was finished (and I have a 200Mb line)
– renaming/deleting a notebook is a matter of the file system on OneDrive
and there will probably be more.
On the other hand, searching in embedded PDFs also surprisingly worked for me (I don't know if it works on newly added ones).
It's usable, but I'm staying with Evernote (I still have about half a year of prepaid premium) and then we'll see. I don't want it from Evernote, I don't want it, but the price increase will probably force me :(
So migrating to a new system is always a bit painful, it's never the same. As for the indicators, I see them with every notebook (small circle) - but I'm not at the mek right now, so I can't say exactly. The renaming – in woknes, the workbook is renamed. The file will remain with the original name and then everything will sync with the new name. But you are right that the woken version is still quite ahead. But as I said. Updates are frequent, it can be seen that Microsoft is serious about cross-platform, so even the MacOS version keeps getting better.
The wheel is there, sometimes. But that does not correspond in any way to whether the import program has already pushed all the data into the laptop.
I assume it will behave similarly when syncing between devices. If another device is just uploading, there is no indication at the laptop level, but you will already find "untitled" and unsynchronized content in it, but with the fact that it is not available.
Otherwise, yes, I also see a huge shift (especially in the Apple area) from Microsoft. I just have the impression that Evernote is still way ahead. But we'll see in half a year.
So there will be some issues regarding the migration. Normally it works so that the content is available, but it just has a wheel that syncs…
How can I import notes from Evernote to OneNote? I didn't find any import there and OneNote tells me on the website that it did it for me when I install Windows 7 or more...
Dude, the thing that bothers me about Evernote is that the program can't find duplicates. How many times do I save the same page again with the web clipper - I would expect that for 70 dollars a year a bubble will pop up like in Photos, look, this note already exists, ignore, replace, save anyway. Does anyone know how to deal with these double notes, please?
Since the new iPhone notes don't sync with the penultimate OSX Yosemite, I was forced to look for an alternative. And OneNote suits me perfectly. Satisfaction. I completely bypassed Evernote, I don't need an unnecessarily complex and complicated tool.
And how did you import the notes from Yosemite or the iPhone, please?
I don't have many of them, about 150, so I transferred them by classic Copy-Paste. I created the same structure of notes on the computer in One Note as I have in Apple notes, copied them and after logging into OneNote on the iPhone they were synchronized to my iPhone. The only thing I had to do before that was to create an MS account, One Note syncs through its cloud. They are as simple as Apple notes.
I don't know who would pay to use Evernote when you can have classic notes or One Note for free and without restrictions.