has some kind of “collaboration” / “share link to note” feature.

is well designed, and has an objectively “good looking UI” (especially now) and….

has a “note sidebar,” that shows a thumbnail of all notes that are in the folder that you’re currently working in,.

has an actual rich text editor, that edits actual html and lets you change the size of text-variably.Evernote is still, to date, after all these years, the only “notes app” that: These 2 sentences perfectly describe my total frustration with 95% of the “notes apps” currently on the market. I’m certain of this.Īnyway, glad this thread exists, and hope existing solutions either continue to get closer or someone comes up with a new competitor that focuses on the user and their right to privacy and does it whilst matching or bettering the UX and feature set of Evernote. However, in this case the HTML based note category should exist too. I think it’s common in OSS world to want to use existing tools like MD based ones. (Make it free for users and micro biz (<5 employees), and charge SME and corporations license to keep enough revenue going to pay devs and grow). Would happily invest or fund a startup wanting to make a free opensource type of Evernote clone. There are many many good MD notes programs. I’ve it tried it many times over the years and it’s just clunky and annoying for me compared with Evernote. 99% of links on the web when you google this, all jabber on about how wonderful Markdown is. There is simply no privacy friendly Evernote 1-1 alternative out there. Had to finally signup because I wanted to say how grateful I am that this thread analysis is absolutely spot on.

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