Evernote have had a little bit of a bumpy time recently although some positive news for many of
those who have been waiting for an update from Evernote it has come with new pricing changes
and the addition of new features but many people have been actually struggling with their Evernote
account with syncing and speed and reliability of opening notes today we're going to look at some
Evernote alternatives to help you find something different if you have lost faith in Evernote but
for those who are curious about what Evernote has recently added we actually did an interview with
the bending spoons team that dives into a few of those updates which will be linked in description
below now before we begin it's really important that you don't dive into these Alternatives
research is really fundamental to finding the best productivity tools but naturally we'll
divide you through all of that in today's video so welcome my name is Francesco I'm excited to dive
into evernote Alternatives I've done this video several times over the years probably about 3
times over 10 years despite naturally Evernote still being about and although they don't have
their 100th year year old mission that they wanted to aim for naturally they have been acquired by
an app development company based in Italy called bending spoons today we're going to look at three
categorizations of Alternatives and they are like-for-like alternatives ones that are close
and ones that are slightly different they might give you a different perspective on note-taking
that you might want to embrace before we begin you can check out all the Evernote Alternatives in our
list below which we'll dive into them in a bit more detail and you can go and explore each of
these making sure you do that fundamental research to finding the best note-taking application for
you okay we found a long enough intro let's dive into the Evernote Alternatives and I'm
going to start with like for like Alternatives so I've picked out three like for like Alternatives
and I wanted to start with one called Nimbus notes now Nimbus notes feel wheels and looks a lot like
Evernote it actually has a lot of features and experiences that are similar to Evernote including
a really quite Advanced Web Clipper that allows you to do video and audio capture and naturally
is limited by some of the free plans but offers quite an extensive ability once you get into it
now the look and feel of it as I said very similar to Evernote and presents a really clean way to
take notes in a very traditional fashion like you would with Evernote although this doesn't really
go into the advanced details that Evernote have recently added with Tarson calendar it does offer
a good similar experience to Evernote next up is ample note and this is one that is really not so
good on the design just to note it is very old school looking compared to some of the other tools
we'll talk about but it does offer probably a few more features than Evernote had for a note-taking
experience and it's been a rising start the Note 8 space for the last couple of years now ample
know itself presents a way to take notes but it also combines tasks and calendars in there too it
allows you to take tasks down and be able to add a lot of different context points to it allowing
you to whisk that up well the algorithm to whisk it up into something called a task score which
is a quite a neat feature if you're somebody that struggles with prioritization and managing
your tasks in based on urgency adding all those details to it will give it a score and then that
will rank based on your score which will help you to work your way through the most important tasks
on your list and it also has calendar functions as well which helps you take meeting notes alongside
calendar events and that's similar to what Evernote was really advancing in the last couple
of years with tasks and your calendar although this takes a little bit longer to learn to be
honest it's one of those application that has quite a few features when it comes to packing in
a really solid notes experience next up is no ocean now this again is not definitely like for
like but it does present a custom way to build your new note-taking application because it's so
flexible as a canvas for you to build whatever you like and it's got a ton of features more
recently with databases advancing you can do a lot more powerful things with artificial intelligence
with it database templates database building views and different options allow you to create a custom
way to manipulate all of your notes into the Right View that you want and notion has actually become
a note-taking application for many millions of people despite also having options for
tasks projects and wikis for your team as well so notion should definitely be if you've not moved
already over to an Evernote alternative that you should consider okay so some of these are close to
Evernote but not necessarily as close as the ones I previously mentioned and I wanted to start with
up note this is an application I reviewed here on keep productive probably a few months ago now and
I was fairly impressed with it the application was well built and it presented a really much lighter
weight version of Evernote that was stable easy to use and pretty reliable to be honest and this
is decent alternative if you're looking to slim down your note-taking abilities and maybe don't
want to necessarily import from Evernote again this is again much more suited for those who are
taking much lighter forms of notes maybe not so PDF or document or even image and video intents
like you would May in maybe in Evernote but definitely an option to consider because it's
a lot cheaper which is one of the reasons why people are moving from Evernote at the moment
next up is note Plan Three and again this one is a good alternative to Evernote because what it
presents is a way to manage your task calendar and notes in one location and it has a really slimmed
down feel but presents a great way to start taking notes and even you use daily notes to manage your
tasks and your calendar event in advance but this note plan 3 is very much apple Centric so those
who are with mac and iOS devices will love it but for those who don't probably won't get on because
it's not available on those devices next up is bear notes it's been expanding quite a lot and
very much like up note presents a lighter weight version of note-taking compared to Evernote but
it presents a good option and I believe in the near future in the near future being a couple
of months they're going to be releasing bear 2.0 which might introduce some improved features and
enhancements that many people waiting for for a long time and actually the final one mem now
before we begin I am actually a series a investor and mem just a disclaimer but it doesn't change my
opinion here on the channel to naturally give you the best opinion on a productivity tool now a few
years ago I did say that mem was the new Evernote and it does present a lot of similar features to
it but it's definitely gone down the AI route since naturally last time I checked it out and
it does present a more slim way to take notes in comparison with Evernote it won't naturally
be able to really be able to upload heavy notes but it naturally is something that is a blend
between something more advanced like obsidian and something naturally like Evernote it's a
slight upgrade when you come to think of it in terms of advanced functionality being able to
link notes together and utilize AI but naturally is something to consider because it is a slight
change from what you're using with Evernote it's very untraditional in its sense of organizing your
notes because there are no folders no necessary systems and there's a lot to learn with templates
so that's a consideration to have a look at in the near future so these are some of the other
applications that are on my mind when it comes to Alternatives that are slightly outside that might
take you to a different Foundation that you might think about note taking taking so these could be
PKM tools ones that are completely different to the original Evernote concept and the first of
those is obsidium Obsidian is a really beautiful note-taking application and it presents a markdown
like experience with some pretty Advanced capabilities with linking notes connecting
notes on a graph and the new canvas feature allows you to expressively bring notes together for
connecting ideas and be able to visualize things that might be on your mind now obsidian itself
presents itself as a really nice free note-taking application and a lot of people like it because
of the security aspect of it whilst it does have online syncing it actually has a default option
that is installed on your device so it won't leave your device unless you move it or naturally
um that's other stuff happens to it but a lot of people like that they're having their
vaults naturally locally stored so obsidian is a a big alternative for Evernote but it's one that
will take a bit of consideration especially if you're somebody that has come from a traditional
note-taking background and wants to move to a more PKM more personal Knowledge Management
approach which might take a little bit of time but here are a few other Alternatives that use
PKM next up is reflect notes this is similar to obsidian but presents a more relaxed natured look
and feel to it and it's much more approachable it's got daily notes connects to your calendar
and naturally allows you to add tasks within your items and the tags are a little bit more
approachable than what you see in in obsidian because it follows a more of a structure when
getting started but reflect notes is slightly pricier which actually is something that might
put a lot of people off when they've been looking at the Evernote pricing but one that is attractive
and an option when you're considering PKM as your next solution to note taking one that is
also similar to reflect notes in a way is compare capacities but capacities builds their notes from
something called objects this is a new type of note taking called object-based note-taking and
the concept is really interesting because what you do is essentially create an object and you can
create objects ongoing which means it's sort of like a studio allowing you to create objects for
the new things that come in say you've got a book or even an author or maybe even something that
you're referencing for later like a study or maybe even a person in your account these objects will
help you to organize your notes more effectively but it does take a little bit of work story up
front so it's one to consider and one to check out in a bit more detail finally my other Evernote
alternative is my mind if you're looking to change your approach to note taking in terms of making it
easier to capture notes that are more visual maybe like videos or links or maybe even images this is
actually a really good option imagine if Pinterest and Google keep had a baby and advanced it with AI
this is probably what that would look like this is one to consider is a bit of a contrarian compared
to the other ones I mentioned but again these sort of applications becoming much more popular for
being able to capture stuff on the go and be able to visualize that when you go into the account so
folks those are all of the Evernote Alternatives there are lots of them and of course I'm sure the
comments will be full of other people talking about their own experiences moving away from
Evernote or potentially thinking about that move so feel free to check out the comments we've got
tons of tools on tool finder which you can find linked below and naturally up in the cards here
but if you want to explore more productivity apps you can go there you'll find the Alternatives
listical that we actually created for this which will help you to go into much more detail and
naturally explore the best one for you but one thing before I go research is so fundamental when
finding a productivity tool because you actually have to take that time to really grow deeper and
really understand it in a much more depth and spending that time can feel a bit daunting and
initially because you're obviously investing a lot of time and not jumping into it all but it's
a little bit like that Abraham Lincoln quote you spend uh you know if you give me six hours to uh
chop down a tree I'll spend four hours sharpening the ax it's probably butchered it but it's similar
to that in the concept that refining what you do before you start hacking away might be good
um so hopefully that gave you a bit of a window into the Evernote alternative out there thank you
very much folks I look forward to seeing you in a future video so do make sure to subscribe and uh
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