All the nifty-gritty securing my stuff is now a persistent topic for me. My growing awareness about digital means and encryption for a better privacy as I continue to gain some experience on a now 3-years old activity: managing my own online Linux servers, configuring and maintaining the services hosting my personal data.Searching for alternativesĭuring the past 2 years, while keeping my decision to quit Evernote in my ToDo list, several factors evolved on my side:
That is… as soon as I could find a replacement fitting my expectations.
And… as I couldn’t find suitable solutions, I let it go… Until one year later, when subscription plan prices went up significantly, my intention to move away from Evernote was set for good. Looking back, my paranoid reaction was driven by the heavy dependency I have with the service. When CEO Phil Libin moved away in 2015 and alarming articles started to flourish, I started to look for an alternative. Evernote historyĪside the mentioned Privacy Policy fluctuations, Evernote history had some worrying events that damaged the confidence I had on the service.
#Evernote for mac 7.8 archive#
I use Evernote to archive publicly accessible and legit content or my own notes, yet the pattern of my interests induced by an analysis of my +7500 notes is private information and I’m not happy with the fact that a Machine Learning engine, an OCR process, and any Evernote team member might be able to snoop on my data. soil and only protected by public facing business commitments. I also keep in mind that from a legal point of view, I’m a foreigner storing stuff on U.S. Evernote team has been communicating on the matter not without some missteps, waving and changing their Privacy Policy as they optimize their business model. Privacyīy design, the service stores your data online unencrypted (please note transport is encrypted) as indexation, OCR and search analysis are done server-side. I see them as a container with eventually, my original files in them. I also have some concerns about the proprietary format used for the notes. Small detail may be, but a real drawback for me. I don’t need/want to archive such things.
#Evernote for mac 7.8 full#
Nowadays the Web is full of heavy pages, cluttered with frames, javascript, comment sections and so on. But I’m also a heavy iOS user and the web clipping feature on iOS is not as featured as on macOS, you will have only a Full page clipped. On my Mac, the browser plug-in does exactly that (via the “Simplified article” option). I want to have only the essential content of a web page, having only basic formatted text and eventually the embedded pictures. Overall, despite the tremendous value Evernote brings to me, I have never been completely satisfied with it. So far Evernote has been a quasi-perfect fit for me. More secondarily I store my own work and notes.
I primarily use Evernote to archive PDFs, Web pages (it has a very efficient web clipper) or anything else (podcast audio files for example) I find during my researches on the internet. I’ve been a customer since 2012, paying for the Premium features. And for good reasons, Evernote is an excellent Information Manager and it has been around on time for the Cloud frenzy and modern mobility expectations. Evernote everywhereĮvernote is quite a pervasive phenomenon and numerous apps have a dedicated pipe to the platform.
#Evernote for mac 7.8 how to#
Also, how to quickly setup your own remote WebDAV storage.
The story along the way of my personal process to change my Information management system.
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