I’ve been a fan of Evernote since I first learned about the note taking app back in the mid-2000’s.
In fact, I was a beta tester for Evernote and used it for free for years in exchange for my feedback.
I was excited to have one place to save my digital notes and tag them so I could easily search and find them.
It didn’t take long before I told colleagues, co-workers, and friends about Evernote and all the time saving features it offered.
Issues with Evernote
But over time, Evernote had a number of problems: data breaches, privacy, price increases, and buggy releases.
And a lot of competition from other apps like Notion, Microsoft OneNote, and Joplin.
Which prompted me to reconsider my note application. And delete a lot of my notes in Evernote.
It was time-consuming. At one point I had over 16,000 notes!
When I retired in December 2022, I deleted my client and web design/development notes.
But two things kept me from leaving Evernote:
- I couldn’t decide what app to move my notes to
- Exporting my content from dozens of notebooks wasn’t available
With Evernote’s sale to Bending Spoons in November 2022 and this month’s news Evernote was laying off US staff (in addition to laying off 129 employees in February 2023), I decided it’s time to bid farewell to Evernote.
What prompted me to take the final step?
Reading this week’s story by Barbara Krasnoff, How to move your notes out of Evernote from The Verge, explaining in plain language what you could do to export your content.
What to Know about Exporting Content from Evernote
From Krasnoff’s story, I found out exactly what I needed to do. Appreciate her explanations and recommendations.
Here are a few key things to know about exporting your Evernote content:
- Export is only available from a locally installed Evernote application on PC or Mac. You can’t export from the web or mobile apps.
- Exporting by notebook lets you export all the notes in each notebook
- Workaround to export notes in one group instead of a group of 100 notes at a time: install a legacy version of Evernote from the Internet Archive.
Read The Verge story to get the all the steps for exporting your Evernote content.
