Unfortunately, I use Alfred, and for whatever reason, Apple has chosen to store notes in a database that seems to be ever changing preventing any Alfred workflows from keeping up. Searching Notes – You’d think searching notes stored in the stock notes app would be easy for a Mac, and if you use Spotlight, it is.As a result, I was already using other apps, including Apple Notes to do any sort of Apple Pencil work. Apple Pencil Support – Evernote claims to have Apple Pencil support but it’s horribly laggy and a real pain to use.As long as you’re adding folders from a Mac, Apple doesn’t seem to care how many levels you want to have. Folder Hierarchy – I don’t need crazy folder structures for my notes, but Evernote’s insistence on a two-level hierarchy forced me to adopt some weird workarounds including prefixing my notebooks and using tags as a way to add additional levels.(Evernote, if you’re listening, please let users with only one account hide the account switcher in the sidebar.) Apple Notes brings me back to a much more minimal design. Simplicity of Design – I really started to notice the feature bloat of Evernote.Sharing Notes with Others – Sure Evernote allows you to share notes, but none of my friends or family use Evernote, so the feature was lost on me, and a big reason I was stuck using Apple Notes.Sharing Things to Notes – It’s no surprise that Apple has baked ways to add things to Notes into just about every part of MacOS and iOS, with one notable exception which I’ll discuss a bit later.In fact, in some cases, Apple Notes has actually turned out to be better. Making the switch was a bit time-consuming, but I really didn’t have to give up as much as I thought I would. Also, I’m already paying for the iCloud storage so why not use it.
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind paying for the service if it weren’t for their 2 device sync limit seeming like a total cash grab. The other issue nagging at me was having to pay for Evernote Premium. Having my shared notes in Apple Notes while everything else lived in Evernote really bugged me – probably more than it reasonably should have, but such is my life.
The other day I got a crazy idea to migrate everything in Evernote over to Apple Notes.
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