If they go out due to bankruptcy/liquidation, the b'y trustee can "avoid" what(ever few) privacy and IP ownership protections that my exist in the Evernote EULA and sell all of your data AND identity to data brokers... after all what's more important than making the creditors whole?!?
Is anyone aware of any good open alternatives to Evernote? I've been reluctant to try Evernote for that particular reason (and lock-in factors). Ideally something like: 1) open source format; 2) you host the files e.g. on Dropbox; 3) markdown; 4) searchable (and entries can be tagged). Happy to pay for the app but the files need to be self-hosted in an open format.
I guess before that happens, we should have all migrated to another tool - Microsoft OneNote being the closest competitor, having this tool at hand may make sense:
<a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/227719/how-to-convert-from-evernote-to-onenote/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/227719/how-to-convert-from-evernote...</a>
I found this while I was looking for info on Evernote just now; they were Inc magazine's company of the year in 2011.<p><a href="http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/evernote-2011-company-of-the-year.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/evernote-2011-company-of-...</a>
Similar to NvAtl and Devonthink for the Mac is Eaglefiler
<a href="http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/" rel="nofollow">http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/</a>
I'm working on a real-time collaborative note taking app with math typesetting. (www.escherpad.com)<p>Do you think porting data over is something that people might be interested in paying for on a subscription plan?
I <i>loved</i> Evernote. With Libin leaving, it seemed like writing on the wall. I migrated everything to Google Drive while I plan my migration to DEVONthink.
if you're seriously concerned about this, then the answer is to backup your notes periodically. There are a number of ways to do this - the one I use involves installing Evernote locally and then periodically exporting the database into Dropbox. Of course, this doesn't guarantee that your notes won't fall into the wrong hands. To avoid that you'd need to either encrypt your notes or run something yourself.
What usually happens in cases like these is that you get to download all of your notes in some format. This is what happened when google wave was taken down.
The Evernote desktop app got some quite nice export functions.<p>It can, among others make a quite nice linked HTML tree.<p>I guess, google keep and onenote is the closest competitors.