Most of the advanced stuff I was doing with Evernote was already taken away, so it mostly boiled down to needing a simple, responsive system that allowed for tagging and could be automated in some way. So I tested that on some of my notebooks, and it worked pretty well, even if it was a bit of a kludge.īut in the course of making the Evernote→Bear→Craft trips, I realized that Bear might actually work better for me. To shorten this long story, the best way I found to manage the export/import process was to first import my Evernote notes to Bear, then go from Bear to Craft. This is, of course, the biggest hurdle in moving from Evernote to x. Once I set up something that might approximate some of what I do in Evernote, I set out to import my stuff.

I had my eye on Craft, so I started tinkering with it and its workarounds for tags, which are an important part of my existing system. Bummer, but as mystifying and disappointing as that new release was, it finally gave me the push to get out. Then, when they released released version 10 and stripped away many of the features I relied on, I moved some of my automations to the Legacy version that still supported AppleScript other features. I would look at alternatives, then settle for sticking with it and dealing with the slow overhead and weird UI changes. I managed to accumulate 13,685 notes, going back to 2006, while building workflows and automatons to make Evernote sing as it helped me manage my professional and personal life.Įvernote was so central to my productivity, that I suffered through all of the many stages of bloat in the name of… I’m not sure what, but I know most of the featured I loved in Evernote existed over a decade ago. TL DR: I moved 15 years of notes from Evernote to Bear and replicated all of my automations/workflows using Shortcuts, Keyboard Maestro, and a couple of x-callback-urls

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