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How to Transition from Evernote to… Nothing
You Don’t Have to Replace a Thing with Another Thing
I have been with Evernote for 14 years and a paid subscriber for most of that time. I am currently subscribed to their Professional plan. I have no current plans to leave Evernote, but I always like to have an exit strategy and a plan B. For that reason, I am always evaluating and testing the competition.
Lately, there has been much talk on various forums about leaving Evernote and what to move to. This has been driven by the acquisition of Evernote by Italian software company, Bending Spoons, and heightened by two recent decisions by the company. The first was to increase the cost of subscriptions and the second was to cripple the free plan, making it more of a trial membership than the loss-leader it once was. I’m not going to go into my reasons why I think all of this will be good for Evernote in the long run, but this will be the first of several articles on transitioning away from Evernote for those that desire to.
I am working on at least two other articles. The first, which will be of interest to most, is specifically moving from Evernote to most of its competitors. Note that I am in the Windows/Android world, so my article will pertain solely to that environment. The next one will be a deeper dive into three more immersive ecosystems, Zoho, Google, and Microsoft.
But first, I wanted to toss around an idea I have played with a few times in the past. And that is moving from Evernote to…. nothing. What does that even mean? Bear with me.
One of the ways in which this strategy makes sense is because of the way in which I back up all of my Evernote data. First, I should say that reading many posts on various forums informs me that a lot of people have no backup…
