How to Jump Ship from Evernote and Take Your Data with You

Reminder: most cloud services can do this with your data. They just don't explicitly say so.

A big reason to move for some people (that is not mentioned in the article, but is detailed in another Lifehacker post), is that they have updated their EULA such that end-user data is now accessible to Evernote employees "for machine learning reasons", and it seems it's not possible to entirely opt out of it...

If you are looking for alternatives to Evernote, I&#x27;d also recommend Notion.so<p>I&#x27;m not affiliated with the company, just an avid user.

I wrote a windows store app that exported your data from evernote and imported it to onenote. Evernote complained on the grounds that it used their logo (which was fair enough) and then on the grounds that it used their name (I had called it EvernoteToOneNote). Eventually I gave up making changes and resubmitting the app.

At home, and for project management at work, I&#x27;m an org-mode user. Got in the habit around 2005, and it&#x27;s too useful to leave. But I&#x27;ve stopped using it for note-taking at work.<p>When my workplace switched from Google Apps to Office 365, I started experimenting with OneNote. And I have to say I&#x27;ve been extremely happy with it. The web app is quite good, and both the Windows and Android apps are excellent. I typically take meeting notes on an Android tablet, and they&#x27;re immediately available for me at my desk. There are plenty of formatting and attachment options.<p>I&#x27;d never use OneNote for my personal&#x2F;home use, because of cloud concerns and vendor lock-in. But if your workplace is in the MS ecosystem already? It&#x27;s brilliant.

Like many large tech companies whose business is 100% reliant on free software (eg GNU&#x2F;Linux) if you happen to prefer to run a free software desktop (say, GNU&#x2F;Linux) you&#x27;re pretty much stuffed in terms of native clients.<p>Nixnote is a great client, and I stuck with it for a few years, but seems to be maintained entirely independently of the mothership.<p>I realise there&#x27;s some economies of scale in there, but absent any great contribution code-wise back to the free software community that they rely on, perhaps providing and maintaining a native client would be a well-received token gesture.

Anyone know of self-hostable alternatives for this sort of service? I have never used Evernote or OneNote but always been intruguied.

I&#x27;m less addicted to evernote itself than to its web clipper. I have things clipped in evernote from years ago that no longer exist anywhere else and that includes the wayback machine. It could be stored in markdown files that I search using grep for all I care.

If you&#x27;re looking for a lightweight Evernote alternative with markdown, real-time collaboration, and wiki-style organisation: We&#x27;re building Nuclino (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nuclino.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nuclino.com</a>).

Useful article. I have been a paying customer for a long while even though I have stopped using Evernote. Exporting everything to markdown, and closing shop might be in my future.<p>For what it does Evernote is a great product. My issue with Evernote, OneNote, etc. is that I spend too much time saving things that I end up never referencing again.

Well, people are still using Google services. Why is this any different??

I recently signed up for Evernote Premium. The price is quite high, but so far I haven’t found any alternatives that are so convenient and can sync between multiple devices.

I&#x27;d love switch to OneNote but it keeps crashing when I try to login on Android on my Nexus 4. I&#x27;m honestly at a loss of what to do.

an alternative could be google keep, really great with multiple devices and you can pin important notes too

Export was easy - now the evernote staff, their neighbours and even their friends can read all our evernotes, just ask them for a copy on the way out!