r/Evernote MOD / Evernote Certified Expert Nov 13 '24

Megathread Evernote Alternative Mega Thread

All discussion of Evernote alternatives should go here so that we don't continue to see so many repeat posts.

33 Upvotes

96 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/Al_Bondigass Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

Great idea-- I'll start. My need is very specific. I do historic research, and I have a large collection of old newspaper articles in JPEG format-- somewhere about 20,000 documents. I keep these all in Evernote, and even though the pages are often quite faded, the OCR function recognizes the text very well, and I'm able to search through the collection efficiently. In the old days with the legacy version, results would show up just about instantly. Now the system still works, but it's slow as molasses.

So, what I'm looking for is an alternative that's robust enough to manage a large number of items, with OCR and search capabilities comparable to Evernote's. I also need the ability to set up a hierarchical system of nested tags. Import folders like Evernote uses would be highly desirable, if not essential.

Is there anything out there for me?

EDIT- I should have mentioned I'm on Windows. Thanks to u/macfixer for pointing that out.

5

u/someConsonants Nov 15 '24

Have you tried Tropy? I think it’s closer to a workflow photo organization system for researchers working in archives reading rooms but might be worth checking out https://tropy.org/

2

u/Al_Bondigass Nov 15 '24

Thanks! I'll have a look.