Dependent on your task management requirements Evernote may be just what you need. Even to a granularity of searching for incomplete (unchecked) actions (try a search with todo:) across all your notes.įor many this is a viable option saving them some hard earned cash that otherwise needed to be invested into not necessarily inexpensive task management suites like OmniFocus and Things. Evernote’s flexible note formatting includes the ability to create task lists and it’s incredible powerful search allows you to find your task lists back. If you store every little snippet, note and document in Evernote, you’ll quickly start thinking “why not using it for your task management as well?”. With barely any feature releases over the years, the disappearance of MobileMe and iDisk, on which Yojimbo relied for Mac-to-Mac sync, and with a half-baked iPad version (Wifi sync, sensa iCloud), it is way behind, feeling abandoned by it’s once large user base and potentially also by it’s developers. Maybe Bare Bones Software, the developers of Yojimbo, also did not want to keep up and focussed their efforts on their other main product, BBEdit. While it still exists, it definitely did not keep up with Evernote. Once there was Yojimbo, the beloved ‘everything’-bucket of many nerds. Even without a strong rival Evernote evolved neatly in the last years, but some competition would certainly help this market as it helps every market. Beyond Dropbox, with can be greatly enhanced with various tools and applications on both Mac OS and iOS pushing it closer to Evernote’s feature set, there really is not a single viable alternative. While Dropbox can store your PDFs and sync them on your various devices, you’ll miss the tagging, OCR and many other functionalities that Evernote provides. And, to be brutally honest, also due to lack of alternatives. This has happened as a consequence of more stable releases of the application and improved – although still far from perfect – export options. I had an on/off relationship with Evernote for some years, mainly due to it’s instability and a feeling of me and my data being locked in, but in the last two years I have eventually embraced it as my default application for reference material including a premium subscription. Evernote is an extremely powerful tool and with it’s incredible feature set including omnipresence on all devices and platforms it is amongst the essential applications of many.
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