I’m not ready to jettison Evernote Premium just yet I recently renewed for another year, so I have 11 months to decide. I’m impressed with several new (in Catalina) features in Notes, including the ability to share a note or notes as “read-only,” which means only I can make changes while others can review and comment.Īnother feature I find compelling is the ability to search for text in items I’ve scanned using Notes’ built-in document scanner (a.k.a. But the more I use Notes in Catalina, the less compelled I feel to continue paying $8 a month for those features, which I rarely use. Magazine, and other providers when you search. Since my main/only concern is getting the content out of Safari and into a repository stored locally and synced with my other devices, I think I can live without the bells (and probably without the whistles, too).Įvernote has other premium features, like the ability to turn a collection of notes into a presentation with one click and displaying related content from The Wall Street Journal, Inc. And I can’t help thinking about that $70/year… But I don’t think I’ll miss the ability to save a web page as an article, simplified article, full page, bookmark, or screenshot, or adding tags or remarks to the page before I save it. Sharing to Notes offers fewer bells and whistles but I think I can live with it.Įvernote’s Web Clipper (even on the free plan) has bells and whistles not available for Notes in the Share menu. Evernote’s Web Clipper offers bells and whistles not found in Notes’ Share sheet.īut Notes is available as a destination in the Share menu - the little rectangle with an arrow on top - so I can save (share) a page to Notes just as quickly. The Evernote feature I use most is a Safari extension called Web Clipper, which lets me capture the contents of any web page instantly. I’ve been playing with Apple Notes lately and think it’s finally matured enough to replace Evernote Premium in my workflow (and save me $70 a year). unlimited devices for Premium) and doesn’t allow you to search the content of PDFs or Word documents (a Premium-only feature). 10GB for Premium), limits syncing to 2 devices (vs. Why? Because the free plan only includes 60MB of cloud storage per month (vs. I used the basic free version for a few years until 5 or 6 years ago when I upgraded to Evernote Premium ($7.99/month or $69.99/year). First and most important is that you can’t search a paper document for a word or phrase second is my concern with wasting resources, including paper and ink.įor as long as I can remember, I’ve used Evernote as my repository for all electronic data I want to be able to search for and recall at will on my Mac or iDevices. I try to keep my workflow as free of paper as possible for two reasons.
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