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Evernote alternatives? (terefere.eu)
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With their recent update it seems they are on the last step to making their free version completely useless – are there any good alternatives out there? Preferably something that has a similar android app. I know I could use ssh+vi in a text file, but I'd prefer something a bit more streamlined

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not difficult to get the PDF's onto the file system, you can just export them there.

What's difficult is getting them imported with all the metadata they originally had into another system with the same preview and search capability as Evernote.

Obsidian doesn't look great for dealing with PDF's from what I can see. What's your feeling, would it work well? Or is paperless-ngx somehow accessing them from obsidian?

I don't understand why obsidian is involved if you access them with paperless-ngx.

[–] rclkrtrzckr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first idea was to use obsidian as note and pdf app. I did add some metadata to the notes, but I never used them - full text did it for me. Hence the obsidian path.

There are plugins for obsidian that allow ocr stuff, but I don't use them. I kind of split my workflow.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounded like from your first post that you were using paperless-ngx for PDF's now. Do you use it that way or something else?

[–] rclkrtrzckr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notes, todos, stuff -> obsidian Pdfs -> paperless

😊

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So any advice on migrating PDF's from Evernote to paperless?

[–] rclkrtrzckr@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you configure paperless correctly, it will tag your documents based on their content. I told you how I batch exported my pdfs from EN - importing is a whole new story. Tons of docs and howtos around.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if I'm being thick, but just to see if I can confirm what you're describing.

  1. Use Yarl to export export pdf notes from Evernote to obsidian
  2. Find some guide to importing pdf notes from obsidian to paperless-ngx

Is that correct?

[–] rclkrtrzckr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yup. I had about 2k pdfs.