Another major advantage of Simplenote over many other apps is the ability to export notes as simple text files, which will preserve tags, metadata, and even deleted items in the thrash can. To make it more than a plain text editor, Simplenote offers MarkDown support, convenient tagging, and a powerful search function, and a quite innovative “ history slider”, which lets you revert to previous versions easily. Simplenote is a perfect name for an app, in which simplicity is meant literally: There is no fluff, no extras, no bells and whistles, only a blank canvas, and your notes. (Click the app names for links.) Simplenote Not all of them will solve it completely, but each offers a viable alternative to the one note-taking app to rule them all, which suddenly does not let you access your notes like you used to, unless you buy it back from them. The following five applications have the potential to challenge and probably eventually break Evernote’s monopoly over your note taking habits, offering different answers to the same problem.

When a company can suddenly restrict access to your own files, it might occur to you that keeping your data on other people’s servers (or using the buzzword term, “The Cloud”), might not always be the idea, unless you have assurances that you may do with it as you please. As people have started to look for a better, or at least more affordable solution, the many shortcomings of the most popular note taking application had come to light, from privacy concerns, to the question of who really owns your data. Photo credit: Carine fel via / CC BY-NC-NDĪ s Evernote recently changed its pricing plans, restricting free access to only two devices, the interest in alternative note taking applications had seen a sudden surge.

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