Migrating from Evernote to Obsidian
Fourteen years ago I discovered Evernote, the note taking app. It was one of the first apps on my first iPad. Back then it was the very cool note taking app everyone was using.
In 2016 they started asking to pay a subscription. As someone who leaned more and more on this app that wasn’t unreasonable. I’m okay if that supports the development teams making the app better. In 2022 Evernote was bought by Bending Spoons, a company sometimes called the place where apps come to die. Development continued, but the keyword was “AI”. Sometimes useful, but I like to write my own notes, thank you.
Evernote became central for a lot of things in my life: all my notes for my astronomy and space podcast were stored in Evernote notebooks. My todo lists, links to interesting articles on data engineering and AI and upcoming purchases.
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