

I’m just checking it works – and flagging to readers that it’s not an entirely free service. Given that I’ve been paying for Evernote Premium its not the money I’ve got an issue with. Update: a commenter on Hacker News asked why I wasn’t prepared to pay this. There’s a paid-for service called CloudHQ that’s allowed me to backup to both Google Drive and Dropbox, but is limited to 50 files 2GB of data transfer unless you pay $4.90/month or $49/year. While I’ve come across an app called Simple-for-Ever that syncs notes from Simplenote to Evernote, I haven’t found one that does the reverse. After reading it (and I suggest you do too), I’m ready to return to a Simplenote-based solution.

I just assumed that one or both of us weren’t ‘using it properly’.ĭisturbingly, on Hacker News this morning I came across an article by former TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid entitled Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant. On a couple of occasions, though, I found that we’d lost information. It’s our ‘external brain’ as it were, a place where we can dump information and sort it afterwards. We’re moving to another country next month and, as part of that, I’ve set up a stack of notebooks in Evernote that I’ve shared with my wife. However, I haven’t used it for a while as I’ve been trying to get to grips with using Evernote. Before Christmas I organised a productivity-focused call for some of us at the Mozilla Foundation.* One tool I recommended was Notational Velocity, a service that syncs with Simplenote.
