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After Evernote started going downhill, I moved to plain markdown inside a Google Drive folder. I use the best, native app for each platform and have zero risk of being affected by a single company cancelling, closing,, increasing the price etc..

Notion does seem pretty interesting, but if they ever shut, stop innovating, or are outshined by a competitor, I don't fancy the idea of moving everything

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Just you wait until Google sunsets Drive...

easy to move your files to another cloud storage drive. OP was talking not being tied in at the software level.

How is Evernote going downhill?

I'm not in love with it, but it works and I have a client everywhere I need one. It's text recognition in images is one of the killer features (I save snapshots of whiteboards), the other is searching metadata.

Agreed. I've been burned way too many times by companies being acquired (few months later product is sunset), shut down, or are forced to aggressively monetize.

Can you recommend a markdown native app for Windows? Currently switching to simple markdown notes myself but a bit annoyed always opening VS Code for a tiny note.

On Mac I use Ulysses. I hate that they switched to a subscription, but it's still the best Markdown app on the platform.

On Linux I use typora (previously caret when it basically shut down). typora and caret are built on web technologies and cross platform.

Oh Android I used to use and recommend JotterPad, but they've disgraced themselves and moved previously paid features (which I bought!) to a subscription, so I don't have an Android app anymore :(.

Notable is great and open source.

https://notable.md/

According to https://github.com/notable/notable/blob/master/SOURCE_CODE.m... the current version is no longer open-source.

There is also NixNote GPLv2 desktop Evernote client:

http://nixnote.org/NixNote-Home/

https://github.com/baumgarr/nixnote2

I've been happy with Markdown Edit. As a native app with an embedded webview, it's just a bit snappier than most of the Electron-based Markdown editors I've tried.

https://mike-ward.net/Markdown-Edit/

i like using marktext. its a single document editor instead of a note manager like notable or evernote, but it also has a sidebar where you can add a folder.

https://marktext.app

im not sure if its actually native though or whether its using electron... but i think ghostwriter is. tried that for a while. pretty much the same as marktext just without a sidebar

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter

IA Writer has a Windows version.

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You aren't really missing much with Notion. It's over engineered and to easy to mess around with hours when you should be getting things done.

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