Post AXQthhAMbEuN4uJa9Q by tek@freeradical.zone
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(DIR) Post #AXQq3Zccvh4sEbiBk0 by craig@risk.social
2023-07-06T22:31:22Z
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Can anyone recommend an alternative to Evernote for my use case?Longtime (paid) Evernote user here. I never used it for notes, just used it for storing scanned PDFs of mail and other important documents. Evernote OCRed the docs made everything easily full-text searchable.With the news of firing of Evernote’s staff and being sold off, I am concerned about the security of my data. So I think I want to move to something else.
(DIR) Post #AXQq3aH2VRP6FwcSjQ by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-07-06T22:47:52Z
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@craig What OS(es) do you use?
(DIR) Post #AXQqx4SJzYPrn6M2uO by craig@risk.social
2023-07-06T22:57:54Z
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@tek iOS, iPadOS, and macOS (Linux and Windows too, but not so much).
(DIR) Post #AXQrQJI3usSkCIUx7o by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-07-06T23:03:11Z
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@craig The “swatting flies with a shotgun” answer is DEVONthink Pro, *if* you can shrug off accessing it from Windows and Linux. I store dozens of GB of files in it, and its OCR and search functionality is legendary. It also has iPhone and iPad clients and they all sync up.Also, have you ruled out Apple’s own Notes app? It doesn’t have Windows or Linux apps, but you can use icloud.com from a browser.
(DIR) Post #AXQt5OOPwxxzqjclpA by craig@risk.social
2023-07-06T23:21:49Z
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@tek Thanks! DEVONthink looks like exactly what I’m looking for. $199 is a little steep but I’ve been paying for Evernote for almost 15 years and certainly spent more than that over time.I have about 3000 PDFs, so I’m worried that Apple’s Notes would choke on all those documents and I’m not sure how I would add them individually. I’ve thought about just putting all the PDFs on my iCloud Drive and using Spotlight, but tbh I have a hard time remembering that Spotlight exists.
(DIR) Post #AXQthhAMbEuN4uJa9Q by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-07-06T23:28:44Z
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@craig I have a few tens of thousands of docs in DT right now, and you’d never know. It’s instant.OK, on the filesystem + Spotlight is a very real option, especially with something like https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/ . There’s also https://www.noodlesoft.com for file automation. I use it for things like “if I download a .ics file to my ~/Downloads directory, open it in Calendar.app and then delete it.” A zillion little workflows like that for filing stuff away removes so much drudgery.
(DIR) Post #AXQtxIlL6E3m1c3GXQ by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-07-06T23:31:35Z
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@craig BUT. DT has all the same features, plus some. I have DT rules in place like “if something that looks like a Foo Bank statement PDF lands in my inbox, OCR it, find the close date from the file’s contents, rename it like “Foo Bank statement 2023-07-06.pdf”, and move it to the /Archives/Bank/Foo/ folder.” Its smart classification is also brilliant. A sidebar tells you where it thinks you might want to store a file based on its attributes and content. 99% of the time it’s right.
(DIR) Post #AXR1aznFkF8WSJozSa by craig@risk.social
2023-07-07T00:56:38Z
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@tek this is all so brilliant. I’m still in the dark ages when it comes to automating my personal stuff. Thank you for sharing!
(DIR) Post #AXR2IcbPKVvPGu5E2q by tek@freeradical.zone
2023-07-07T01:05:01Z
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@craig You’re welcome! Feel free to hit me up if you have further questions. I fell into being more informed about this stuff than I’d ever wanted to be. 😀