I had a lot of comments on my last Evernote post on the blog and emailed to me. Since then, I learned that Evernote will likely never be available on linux, (they had a thread about this but it has since been deleted) and they don’t seem to be making it work any better through Wine either. So I have pretty much stopped using it. It is nice software, and if I only needed to sync and capture on Mac and and PC, I would almost definitely use it.
I have continued using Evernote for two things- to capture screenshots at work (since I ONLY use Windows @ work) and to store recipes at home on my laptop. It works exceedingly well for both of these things.
As for universal capturing and saving, I still have no real solution. I’m back to using Google Notebook most of the time, but that, of course, is not offline accessible (unless they integrated Google Gears sometime and didn’t tell me.) I have tried and like Microsoft One Note, but can’t use it consistently because it is Windows only. Also, the data model is less than transparent- I prefer my notes to be stored in plain text XML (which Tomboy notes does beautifully.)
If anyone has any other suggestions for global note taking I’d love to hear them!
October 24, 2008
I have noticed that there is an API that could enable a third party to develop a client for Evernote. I would like to see this happen, but I have my doubts.
October 24, 2008
If I knew more about programming I would try! Do you know if the API is pretty feature rich?
I sort of like the idea of a open source application that can locally store data, with a commercial service powering the sync and backup functionality. Seems like the best of both worlds. Ideally this would be done with some kind of open standard and not just an API, though….
October 24, 2008
If I had enough time to do it right I would work on it, but currently I do not. I didn’t get a chance to look at the details with the API. Maybe if I find some time soon, I will look more into it and at least get something started for others to work from. I am a novice with desktop development myself, but I am also an autodidact, and am learning.
December 2, 2008
I agree that there is an API, but I do not recall any details
Thanks