12/30/2023 0 Comments Evernote blog![]() While searching around for a way to fix this, or an Evernote alternative, I found a great piece by Alex Payne making the case against apps like Evernote and why they encourage us to be more disorganized:Ĭomputers work best with structured data. Rather than forcing the user to figure out the rhyme and reason of their data (for example, by putting receipts in a financial management application and addresses in an address book), Everything Buckets cry: “throw it all in here! Search it!” - The Case Against Everything Buckets, Alex Payne #EVERNOTE BLOG PDF#Įverything Buckets discourage the use of structured data by providing a convenient place to commingle “structureless” data like RTF and PDF documents. Yes, Evernote is a fantastic tool because of it’s features, but it does nothing to encourage you to get into good habits. Armed with the screenshot hotkey, you’ll quickly run up piles of unindexed data and bury any meaningful notes you were planning on referring back to.įor all it’s good points (getting to that in a moment), Evernote has a lot of flaws. The first of which is that for an organizational tool, it’s not particularly easy to organize. I use Evernote precisely because I don’t want to go through the process of saving the image file somewhere, then opening it and uploading it to its destination.Įverything Buckets are selling you a filesystem, and removing the step of creating and saving a new file within that filesystem It gets rammed full of crapĪround 90% of my notes are screenclips. ![]()
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