Ideas from Mark Stout

I'm in the process of moving to a new way to keep my notes. It would be best to make a separate post on my long time notetaking app, Evernote, and how it now disappoints me.  Bottom line, I no longer trust the company behind Evernote since it was acquired. My first inclination was to finally look at alternatives. like Notion, Joplin, Obsidian, etc. I was not enamored with any of them, so I gritted my teeth and stayed with Evernote. The situation made me think about how I use Evernote. To keep up additional posts on this topic, search on the tag Notes Folder Updates : January 24, 2024 and in updates noted here. Most of the things I store are quick notes, lists, online receipts for online bills, that sort of thing; kind of an online file cabinet if you will. If I were a doctoral student though I could see storing PDFs of papers and research materials.  If were working on a large project, then plans, communications etc. would all be there. Back when I began using Evernote way b...

This is just a placeholder.  I am working on a new way to keep notes that might provide a rich feature set, at a low cost.  For some, no cost perhaps. I am simply organizing some existing tools that work well together. I do not want to say what or how yet, until I can prepare a proper presentation in the coming weeks.  Frankly if I heard the one sentence description of what I am doing, I'd be dubious. Please check back here periodically for more information.  Please say in the comments if you are interested in this. For credentials, let me say I've been an Evernote user since the very beginning, July 2008.  I've created 42,000 notes. Like many I am growing to distrust the direction of Evernote. I looked at alternatives a few months back and did not find one I liked. I was paying the new high price of Evernote, when I started to think exactly how I was using Evernote.  That train of thought lead me to the methodology and tools I am starting to use. Please st...