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I dropped Evernote when it was bought and the entire U.S. staff was fired.

Replacing it with another, preferably free and open source. (search going on at this time)

Evernote never worked reliably, well, or consistently. Apple Notes squished their business model and now Obsidian has somewhat juiced Apple's.

Evernote worked reliably and well for me across Windows, Linux, and macOS when I was at school in the early 2010s. It had a great web clipper and it was good at handling PDFs and images. Apple Notes could not replicate that. While I pay for Obsidian nowadays, I find it nowhere near as usable as my Evernote setup at that time.

I gave up on Evernote around 2009 when they lost notes, corrupted them, and formatting was highly-inconsistent. Neither the Blackberry nor the iOS apps were entirely usable at that time. Maybe it improved after that, but it was just too slow, limited, risky, and untrustworthy.

It's certainly possible that I got lucky to avoid the numerous data loss incidents and my use cases went along the happy path. I gave it up around 2013 due to privacy concerns.

It does now.

Try anytype.io it’s free and open source.

It totally fails on safari (I even disabled extensions) but looks OK on Opera (chrome engine). Thanks, will look into it. (but not with safari)

Its not open source, Its source available

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