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How to Migrate Your Notes From Evernote to Apple Notes

Evernote offered to bump my sub from $49 USD to $99 at my next renewal, so after 15 years I guess I am done.

The export->import process worked perfectly for me, including all pictures and such. Was a little bit of a PITA to select 100 notes at a time, but doable.
 
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LlamaLarry said:
Evernote offered to bump my sub from $49 USD to $99 at my next renewal, so after 15 years I guess I am done.

The export->import process worked perfectly for me, including all pictures and such. Was a little bit of a PITA to select 100 notes at a time, but doable.
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Wait, wait, wait and they offer you 60% discount.
 
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For context: I started with Evernote in November 3rd, 2008.

But I'm done. They just emailed me to say my old grandfathered $64/year premium rate is going up to $114. I have no complaints about the app. (It's maybe a bit bloaty for my needs. I'm an academic researcher, not a businessman). But I am not interested in paying double the price if the features I need are cheaper elsewhere.

In actuality, the only thing that was holding me back from moving to apple notes was:

1. lack of highlighters
2. lack of collapsable headers
3. lack of article clipping widget in safari

I can live without 3. But the other 2 are coming in Sequoia.

Just migrated a whole folder with 200+ notes out of my Evernote and it imported in my Apple Notes relatively well. Only 50 more folders to go. But will be worth it.

I noticed Sonoma's Notes app formats the migrated notes all that nicely. So I might wait until Sequoia is actually out before migrating the rest as ... maybe would retain some of the formatting better. But it's fine!
 
LlamaLarry said:
Evernote offered to bump my sub from $49 USD to $99 at my next renewal, so after 15 years I guess I am done.

The export->import process worked perfectly for me, including all pictures and such. Was a little bit of a PITA to select 100 notes at a time, but doable.
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Don't select notes. Select individual notebooks. If you do that, the note limit doesn't apply (or didn't for me at least)
 
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NervousFish2 said:
For context: I started with Evernote in November 3rd, 2008.

But I'm done. They just emailed me to say my old grandfathered $64/year premium rate is going up to $114. I have no complaints about the app. (It's maybe a bit bloaty for my needs. I'm an academic researcher, not a businessman). But I am not interested in paying double the price if the features I need are cheaper elsewhere.

In actuality, the only thing that was holding me back from moving to apple notes was:

1. lack of highlighters
2. lack of collapsable headers
3. lack of article clipping widget in safari

I can live without 3. But the other 2 are coming in Sequoia.

Just migrated a whole folder with 200+ notes out of my Evernote and it imported in my Apple Notes relatively well. Only 50 more folders to go. But will be worth it.

I noticed Sonoma's Notes app formats the migrated notes all that nicely. So I might wait until Sequoia is actually out before migrating the rest as ... maybe would retain some of the formatting better. But it's fine!
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Did you by any chance find an article clipping widget for Safari? Thanks.
 
Are all these posts from 2018? Let me add a post from Sept. 2024. Evernote wants $97 to “connect all my devices”. Apparently I have a couple old iPhones still synched. To continue on my MacBook I had to disconnect two of my iPhones, keeping my current one. Lesson learned: verify all the devices you want connected to Evernote.
 
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Just a couple of very quick notes, in case anyone was interested. I have tried to make Apple Notes work instead of Evernote. This involved a lengthy process of exporting 5,000 notes or so, from Evernote, and importing them into Apple Notes. I did this by exporting folders at a time, as there was no real way to export notebooks.
  1. First thing to say is that Apple Notes choked hard. I have an iPad Pro M1, M3 MacBook Pro (32GB), and iPhone 16 Pro Max. All three devices slowed down dramatically. I even played around with it on a new M4 iPad Pro. It also struggled. My theory is that there was legacy stuff in the Evernote notes that Apple Notes simply isn't designed to be able to index.
  2. Second thing to say is that cleaning the Evernote notes out of Apple Notes has been a real chore. There was about 15 years of notes in Evernote. I dealt wish I had thought to tag them all before I exported, so it would have been easy to identify them and clean them out. I've been working on this on and off for a few days now and still not sure I have them all. Thankfully Apple Notes has speeded up again so it's not impossible to use anymore. But I have a feeling I'll be trying to find and delete them for some time to come.
  3. A real limitation of Apple Notes, I have learned, is that you can't search within a folder. Or maybe there is some way to do it, but I can't fathom how? But if I am right, it honestly seems like a crazy limitation! All these articles and YouTubes online saying how great Apple Notes is but, without a feature this simple, Apple Notes just isn't viable for the kind of projects I want to work on.
  4. I was able to pick up a cheap Evernote sub at Thanksgiving. My main reason for wanting to leave it was the big price hikes. I've been with Evernote since 2008. I felt my loyalty was being scoffed at by the new owners. it also seemed like they wee putting in a lot of "fancy" features nobody was asking for, and ignoring some things that needed to be fixed.
Overall, I think Apple Notes has come far, for what is a "free app." I like the new highlighting, the tagging, and the heading implementation. It's also great for handwritten notes. But it is by no means a Pro app. It still feels a lot like the early days of Pages.

If they can stabilize it, I'll be happy to give it another go. But given how long the app has been around now, I suspect they aren't even thinking of users like me in the design. So I suspect I will be relying on Evernote for the foreseeable future.
 
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NervousFish2 said:
Just a couple of very quick notes, in case anyone was interested. I have tried to make Apple Notes work instead of Evernote. This involved a lengthy process of exporting 5,000 notes or so, from Evernote, and importing them into Apple Notes. I did this by exporting folders at a time, as there was no real way to export notebooks.
  1. First thing to say is that Apple Notes choked hard. I have an iPad Pro M1, M3 MacBook Pro (32GB), and iPhone 16 Pro Max. All three devices slowed down dramatically. I even played around with it on a new M4 iPad Pro. It also struggled. My theory is that there was legacy stuff in the Evernote notes that Apple Notes simply isn't designed to be able to index.
  2. Second thing to say is that cleaning the Evernote notes out of Apple Notes has been a real chore. There was about 15 years of notes in Evernote. I dealt wish I had thought to tag them all before I exported, so it would have been easy to identify them and clean them out. I've been working on this on and off for a few days now and still not sure I have them all. Thankfully Apple Notes has speeded up again so it's not impossible to use anymore. But I have a feeling I'll be trying to find and delete them for some time to come.
  3. A real limitation of Apple Notes, I have learned, is that you can't search within a folder. Or maybe there is some way to do it, but I can't fathom how? But if I am right, it honestly seems like a crazy limitation! All these articles and YouTubes online saying how great Apple Notes is but, without a feature this simple, Apple Notes just isn't viable for the kind of projects I want to work on.
  4. I was able to pick up a cheap Evernote sub at Thanksgiving. My main reason for wanting to leave it was the big price hikes. I've been with Evernote since 2008. I felt my loyalty was being scoffed at by the new owners. it also seemed like they wee putting in a lot of "fancy" features nobody was asking for, and ignoring some things that needed to be fixed.
Overall, I think Apple Notes has come far, for what is a "free app." I like the new highlighting, the tagging, and the heading implementation. It's also great for handwritten notes. But it is by no means a Pro app. It still feels a lot like the early days of Pages.

If they can stabilize it, I'll be happy to give it another go. But given how long the app has been around now, I suspect they aren't even thinking of users like me in the design. So I suspect I will be relying on Evernote for the foreseeable future.
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Question: When you say, "search within a folder," can you define this more? I've got Notes organized in multiple folders, and when I search for content from the main search bar, it will pull results from multiple folders concurrently, including a folder I have as shared with my spouse. Are you meaning, isolate your search within a particular folder? That I haven't seen Notes do, but I also haven't tried.
 
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Question: When you say, "search within a folder," can you define this more? I've got Notes organized in multiple folders, and when I search for content from the main search bar, it will pull results from multiple folders concurrently, including a folder I have as shared with my spouse. Are you meaning, isolate your search within a particular folder? That I haven't seen Notes do, but I also haven't tried.
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Yes, that's the issue exactly. I can't figure out how to limit my search to a specific/particular folder. It seems like it should be a basic feature!
 
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