Tusk: an unofficial, open-source Evernote app

I have been using it from version v0.5.0, and I can say it is well maintained and user requests are heavily considered when it comes to its development, something not true on how Evernote reacts, when we ask for something. Plus, it is from the dog* who made signale, so it is going to stay of good quality. * Apparently it's not actually that cute dog who made it.

> Why do I want to use this instead of Evernote's high-performance native desktop client?

I take on board your first sentence, but this second one is not my experience at all.

I actually use three Evernote native clients daily. The MacOS one is unpleasantly sluggish, the Android one is OK, and the iOS one is so horribly slow it's borderline unusable (for me).

We've taken the steroids out of the title above.

Alternote is a pretty good app. I tried it out before. It does use some decent CPU usage too though if I’m remembering right. Nothing close to what an Electron wrapper will give you, but also not what Devonthink will give you. I also have come around to using Devonthink (Mac only).

Great tool! However, there is a noticeable delay between keypresses and characters appearing on the edit area. Would be a killer app if they can improve the performance.

Thanks for the recommendation. Dynalist seems too impressive not to try.

Tusk is open source; Dynalist isn't. I just don't get it why anyone would want a subscription to host their private notes online in a proprietary application. Have people forgotten about Microsoft's Word vendor lock-in already?

What you want for your notes is:

0) You need to decide what kind of functionality you need in a note management app which cannot be fullfilled with other alternatives such as a simple text editor (I use Sublime mainly for note taking, plus Google Keep for groceries).

1) An open data format so you are not locked in a platform. This allows you far less time if you want to swap service which decreases monopolistic behavior (vendor lock-in) and increases competition (yay capitalism).

2) You deciding the storage location (this then allows you to use Dropbox or Syncthing or Rsync or whatever cloud, but also allows you to use public-key cryptography such as e.g. Cryptomator). It also allows you to opt-out of the/a cloud.

The logical solution is to use an open source application. Though I'm not sure I'd want it to be a browser (saw NPM in the source tree). I'd say the logical place for this kind of data is near your agenda, like Nextcloud.

Headline is super misleading--it's an electron app that wraps the web interface for Evernote. It's not its own application.