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learn moreAs a privacy-concerned user it can sometimes be very tricky to find alternatives to the most-used applications. Looking for the best alternative to the widely established note-taking application Evernote was one of those hard evaluations and it took me a while, but here is the result: Joplin. Read why.
Chris / / last updated onI am using Evernote now since around 8 years for my personal and business-related notes. Everything that comes to my mind will be immediately captured in Evernote for further processing. Because in my opinion it is one of the best note-taking applications out there, in terms of usability, features and most important synchronization technology.
But in the last years the more notes you put into that great Evernote application the more confidential information also is saved in there. As there have already been some security issues I always had in mind to search for the best Evernote alternative. And not only since the great book “Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden everybody should be aware that everything that can be tracked and analysed, will finally be and most importantly saved forever. That’s why the only solution is end-to-end encryption.
As Evernote lately (after years of development) launched their new iOS app with lots of bugs, this was my final trigger to finally switch to an alternative.
First of all, let’s specify my requirements for a the best Evernote alternative that has a focus on privacy:
After researching and testing lots of tools, from Tumblr to Bear to Standard Notes, I finally found my best Evernote alternative: Joplin
Besides that Joplin has met all my requirements from above, there are also some additional benefits:
No single application is perfect of course, so here are some of the drawdowns in Joplin:
The more I work with Markdown formatting, the more I love it: simple text files that can be rendered into beautiful pages and at the same time easily be shared. Once you got the Markdown syntax into your head, you can write Markdown files very fast.
Joplin has even enhanced the default Markdown format with some really interesting features, e.g. to highlight text (==mark==
), to add internal note links or to insert math expressions.
All in all I am very excited with Joplin as my best Evernote alternative and I hope that the user interface will be refreshed soon. The daily usage will tell if the synchronization and editing experience in Joplin is as smooth as it was in Evernote. Let’s see! For now I have already put together some helpful Joplin tipps.
Which note-taking application do you use?
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