![]() in Devonthink you can split that up, which makes lots of sense as the built in AI (cool stuff! - more later) will give you better context if there is, well, actual context between the data. in evernote everything from my map of a 1980’s computer game to my workout routine or an article on quantum mechanics live in the same database - as there is only one. there are however a few conceptual differences to consider:ĭevonthink uses multiple databases, which took me a little while to digest as the concept does not exist in evernote. (on a sidenote: devonthink also found a number of duplicates across my 14k notes, which I thought was kind of cool).Īfter these migration / starting observations my impression is Devonthink does everything I am used to from Evernote, just better, with more features or from a wider angle. finding them was easy as well as devonthink gave me a detailed log file of everything going on with the migration - very re-assuring. once I corrected that, that issue was fine. There were a few documents that devonthink didn’t know what to do with, but mostly these were my fault as for some reason those files didn’t have a file extension. with evernote still being installed on my computer, I simply told devonthink to import my evernote data, the machine was busy for an hour or two and voila my data was migrated. So once my decision to migrate had been made the actual data migration was close to a walk in the park. what a difference and what a relief - you actually own and manage your data yourself. with devonthink you can not only encrypt your data with your own keys locally but also as you send it to a cloud of your choice for syncing. non-synced) notebooks as an option and requires everything to go to the cloud where it is stored in the clear or at least with keys they have. with their latest update evernote has removed local (i.e. however being a native app it is also making full use of the operating systems features as it is not held back by considerations of cross plaform compatibility.ĭata security: to me there is data that does not belong in the cloud unencrypted, regardless of wether this is for legal reasons or for privacy reasons (e.g. The performance and responsiveness of devonthink as native mac & ios apps is impressive, especially compared to the new evernote clients. The first items that really resonated with me in devonthink were twofold: if it is for you, you can skip the rest of this… so while this certainly works it is nowhere nearly as simple as in evernote.Īs my hardware over the years gravitated towards apple and I found out I am only sharing notebooks/notes with four other people, neither of these findings turned out to be a show stopper for me. you can share a database (more on databases later) across a number of cloud services of your liking (all of that happens e2e encrypted wih you having the keys, btw!). Sharing of data is more cumbersome, even among apple devices. there are some work arounds with the most expensive license as you can setup up a web server on your mac to share your data with windows machines, but that still requires at least one mac. if you are a windows/android person Devonthink is not for you. the / my list is short:ĭevonthink lives in the apple ecosystem. So let’s start with the stuff that will be more limited in devonthink than in evernote. this is due to Devonthink having similar capabilities to Evernote and then many many more and I will expand on on what I ran across here - in any case I am feeling a little like a kid in a candy store: I never even thought half that stuff I m coming across would even be possible before migrating. To cut a long story short: all these processes have migrated into and work seamlessly in Devonthink. archiving stuff I want to store and find again (but hardly ever need). ![]() what I would call my personal wiki: about 2.000 statistics of all kind that I have collected over the years, manuals, howtos, etc.a GTD implementation based on thesecretweapon dot org, which I have adapted to my needs over the years.also it is not so much for folks already using DevonThink, but for those thinking about moving over from evernote in the light of the recent massive feature & performance loss in the evernote clients as part of their move to the electron platform in version 10 of their software.Īlso as a disclaimer: while I have migrated my data and processes over I am still learning (a lot), so my information on devonthink is likely an underestimate as I have just started learning its ways.īut let’s start from the beginning: I have been an enthusiastic evernote premium user for about seven years and accumulated about 14.000 notes there. Alright, this is going to be somewhat longer.
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