Also, style and UI is a personal preference thing.

The trick is to find the compromise that best suits you. The problem with note systems, is there all great but also weak in different places.

The place where evernote really shines is the ability to so easily clip and import all sorts of content, not just text. I also preferred roam to obsidian, because the linking is done on “blocks” (paragraphs of text/media) rather than obsidian that links pages. I think they may have a cloud subscription service that you could pay for to solve that though. It’s also got quite tight lock in.ĭownside to obsidian for me was that using plain text files means it’s not as accessible across different devices. I liked obsidian because it’s based on plain text files underneath, and it has a really nice way of linking between different pages. The other alternative is also roam research. If you want to convert notes from Evernote to Obsidian, there are a couple of converters somewhere on Github, but I've also seen people use the converter that comes with Jopplin. Also to write quick notes for projects or my daily life stuff. Obsidian for Evergreen-type notes, that is, to build long-lasting knowledge, and Evernote to store pretty much every resource I use, and everything that I may use in the future.

I was a Evernote only user, but now I am using both. If you save lots of different things from the Internet, websites, emails, pdfs, Evernote is clearly a winner, because of the Web clipper and because how well it handles pdfs. If you just take quick notes for projects, your life or whatever, it's not really the best, as Evernote is simpler and more convenient to take notes in (obsidian uses markdown, so you have to switch constantly between edit and preview mode, for example). Therefore, if those are the kind of notes you take, it is a good alternative.

Obsidian was created with the idea of building long lasting, linked knowledge.

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