You can change this keyboard shortcut in the system settings (keyboard area). It’s a quick trick I use to change Apple’s shortcuts to what I would like them to be.
Thanks Carl. Left Evernote in the past months due to too much friction. My data shouldn’t be tied to a link, etc; too difficult to simply pull MY data out. Using Apple notes for current year, current goals, etc., and KeepIt for archival (past years, articles, manuals, books to read...things I don’t need in seconds). KeepIt is really , really good and plays well with Apple Notes.
This is my setup after many years of Evernote. Keeps things simple. However, using Apple Note share to KeepIt doesn't seem to work - I have to drag the Apple Note (selecting all the contents in the note) to KeepIt to archive. I also maintain a zero inbox using an apple script to send important emails to KeepIt, then deleting from Apple Mail.
Good video. I'm in the same boat as you. I am a Premium Evernote user, but am using Apple Notes more and more. There are really only two things keeping me from fully jumping to Apple Notes: (1) the Evernote Web Clipper; and (2) the ease of sharing a "live" link to an Evernote note with someone outside of the Evernote ecosystem. Can you cover these two things in future videos? I.e., how would one "clip" web pages whole into Apple Notes, and how would one share a note with someone who is on, say, a Windows machine?
It got me both excited and sad what you said about Evernote and your feelings with apple notes. Same here. My complaint however was the font size in iPad and they had not been updating for ages
Hi Carl! Another useful video... I was thinkig to definitely migrate from a "mixed app" system (EN + Apple Notes/Reminders) to a "coherent" system (Apple Notes and Reminders). My biggest concern is I have a huge amount of notes in EN (21k more or less) with lots of attachments. I should try to migrate some notes and notebooks into Apple Notes and see how it goes. Keep up the good work!
@@Carl_Pullein I just made a test with 300 notes, all with a Word document attached. Migration went flawlessly. The only problem is that "Search" does not look "inside" the Word documents, but I still do not know, by the time, if iCloud is still parsing all the docs or if this kind of search is not available...
@@peterziegler2037 you export the notes from EN in an ENEX file and the import it into Apple Notes. tidbits.com/2018/09/06/tipbits-how-to-move-your-evernote-notes-to-apples-notes/ www.macrumors.com/how-to/migrate-from-evernote-to-apple-notes/
I'm really waiting for the tags feature to come to Monterey, since I use the desktop the most, and I'm quite excited about the tags feature, since they are so easy to make. It's a game changer.
Mr Carl great video again as always , i am using Notion mostly for work , for personal use i recently moved to apple notes after trying different note taking apps , it doesn't have all the features i want but it is native app and keeps my notes synchronized on all my devices , the only missing feature is the apple watch , wish they will schedule it in the future
Why is Evernotes not usable on iOS? What are the setbacks? Have you got an update on this video for the latest version of Apple notes? Does losing the Evernote tags mean you have to tag each note manually again, or does Apple notes in iOS 15 now have a tag feature?
I made the switch a while ago. Once the Apple Pencil came out Evernote failed with handwritten notes (penultimate is a joke). I'm sure Apple holds back a bit for anti trust issues on some of their apps, but this still blows Evernote away. I use Evernote for older notes instead of migrating, but only need to check it the odd time. Apple notes is great as long as you stay with Apple. Nobody can make the handwriting tools like Apple does.(at least yet). more formatting flexibility with each note would be better though.
Thanks for the video! I'm definitely "making the move" away from Evernote to Apple Notes. Yes, the lack of tags was a small thing, but definitely not a deal breaker. I also have a work laptop with Windows, so I sometimes have to jump to the iCloud website to get to Notes through Windows.
Hello Carl, Thank you for your useful videos! Is it fairly easy to import Evernotes into Apple Notes and to retain full Evernote formats, without major changes? Have you tried it successfully? Any tips to make it most time efficient with minimum manual adjustments to the notes, most appreciated. If you've got separate videos on this that are up to date, any links would be much appreciated. Cheers!
It used to be, but that was two years ago when the rumours were that Evernote was going to disappear. I've heard a lot of mixed reports on recent migrations. If you do decide to do it, do it notebook by notebook rather than exporting everything.
Notes lack of tags keeps me from using it as a power user. Have you tried Bear? It’s okay. I don’t like how cluttered notes look with markdown. However, it’s powerful and fast.
I’ve weaned myself off the reliance on tags now. I basically use search in almost all my apps as most apps have significantly improved their search functions.
This is great Carl. However, I just got to know about Notion. What do you think about it? I do like the web clipper plugin, think I can find something similar with apple notes? Thanks for this video though. Have a very productive week as well ahead.
I tried Notion a while ago but found it too feature rich for me. I want an app to do one thing and do that one thing very well. Notion has a lot of customisable areas which means I would just play with customising never really finding something that makes me completely happy.
Late comment on 24JUNE2021. This would be a great topic to revisit with MacOS Monterey, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Especially looking at he new text in picture OCR feature being added. Will it be available in Apple Notes search? That is my main reason for holding out for Evernote, the auto OCR of text in photos so you can search and copy such text as well as search within attachments like PDFs. I just cannot give up Evernote without those features.
I will be doing some videos on the new features nearer the time of public release. I don't download the public beta until at least the fifth interation.
Question - you hinted about if you move not using tags - so what additional structure would you anticipate using? Tagging is explicit, where as search as in your example Bond = bond = bonds = bonding, etc. and I have found that when trying to get say project details from the list of major or small clients/projects where contractual "bonds" have nothing to do with electrical "bonding"... ... can be a pain to "hand filter out, hence tags. Tags are also, if you add via the naming and collecting habits, are like 'saved searches' so all the quotes from your newsletters or pointers, etc., are found from a tag "Carl Pullein" [The underscore space trick came too late : (((( ]. As I am in the market for a new phone soon, and so if the current iOS and Evernote clash, then either move to Android or moving from Evernote makes a big difference.
Never been a problem for me, Tim. I've pretty much always searched by keyword and only in Evernote did I use tags to any degree and often found these became overwhelming and just more stuff to remember.
I just moved to apple notes and left Evernote. I used Evernote for approximately 5 years non stop. Mostly for simple note taking and sometimes a bigger article. On my iPad, everytime I switch to another app, to copy something, and switch back to Evernote, there is a annoying bug. Once I switched back to Evernote I got to the home screen instead of the note and position I last worked on. This basic stupid decision to not be able to continue your work made me left. Imagine you are a musician and everytime you left your DAW the music program would leave your project.... Apple notes is clean, simple and gets the job done.
Hello everyone. I’m using notes app in my ipad. It’s quite amazing experience. But one thing i want to ask you how to insert any image in pdf file while using notes app
Do you mean, how to edit a PDF file in Notes? That's not possible. Yo would need to open the PDF in your PDF reader app and if that allows you to edit the PDF you can do it there and then re-import the PDF to your note.
@@Carl_Pullein Yes you got my question. Best app for ipad users?. I do lot of study. Many time i need to edit my pdf but it's not possible in notes. Permanent solution to edit & store the pdf in same app??
Now I’ve tried this without success. Are you sure there is OCR recognition in Notes like there is in Evernote? I can’t get it to find imbedded text in PDFs. But I’ve only tried it in iOS.
For sometime I have been using Apple notes as my dump it location, as an inbox. I then tidy stuff up / export to Evernote. An extra step but find apple notes is faster for quick day to day notes, Evernote better as a deep storage solution. Evernote OCR/handwriting/attachment search features are yet to be beaten....but agree the iOS Evernote web-clipper is unseeable in most cases so just use Evernote for reference on iOS (or photos of whiteboards, paper text), apple notes is my main text place on iOS.
Apple notes is actually not free because you will pay with cloud storage. Tagging the web clipper and the ability to send emails to apple notes will get me to migrate.
I tend to agree, Evernote just isn’t getting there, they have been saying they will improve for the past 12 months and it really hasn’t moved. Is apple notes a good sharer of notes though within say a small team of 10?
Used Evernote for years but last few months it has stopped functioning the same. I add a document on phone but it doesn’t sync with iPad and vice versus. I hope notes can replace.
Carl Pullein Thanks for video. I use notes all the time but not like I’ve used Evernote for years. I’m going to give it a try as an Evernote replacement. Evernote’s main benefit was i could save PDF of my work schedule to whatever device i was on and then obviously access it on any of my devices. But once Evernote stopped syncing it became much less useful.
Recently, I have converted alle my notes from Evernote to Apple Notes and I kind of like it in Notes. One thing I miss is the ability to search in on folder only. Do you know how to achieve this?
Using your iPad or iPhone, you can only search in one folder at a time. Disappointing, if they don’t put a search notes on here, I going back to Evernote or Draft
Exported my ENEX to Notes. I have a modest amount of Notes, 6500. It imported the notes fine.... However, it never synced all my notes to all devices the most it ever synced down was 2000. This was 3 weeks ago. Any tips would be helpful. @kmf
You have good topics. However… Please be more succinct and to the point. Time is short. I have rarely been able to sit fully through an entire video of yours. Thanks
I'm retired: why on earth is the world trying to get me more productive. And this chap's not even a millennial. Two minutes in I saw one of your folders. “Self-Development” noooooooooooooooooooooooooo................
I'm a huge believer in CANI, Phil. I'm going to the grave thoroughly used up and worn out. My biggest fear is to 'die peacefully in my sleep" Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Suppose I want to stop using Notes some day and take my notes someplace else. You can not mass export all your notes. Screw that. I use PDF in Dropbox where they are just PDF files that can move anywhere.
You access the search with Alt-Cmd-F. Thanks for your videos, I‘m currently experimenting with Apple Notes also.
WOW!!! Thank you, Peter. I spent an hour trying to find the keyboard shortcut for this.
@@Carl_Pullein You're very welcome... :-) Works in Mail too.
You can change this keyboard shortcut in the system settings (keyboard area). It’s a quick trick I use to change Apple’s shortcuts to what I would like them to be.
@@Carl_Pulleinjust like Evernote under windoze - Ctrl-F, totally logical my dear chap. See question above... ...
Thanks Carl. Left Evernote in the past months due to too much friction. My data shouldn’t be tied to a link, etc; too difficult to simply pull MY data out. Using Apple notes for current year, current goals, etc., and KeepIt for archival (past years, articles, manuals, books to read...things I don’t need in seconds). KeepIt is really , really good and plays well with Apple Notes.
I'm looking at KeepIt as a possible digital filing cabinet at the moment.
Carl Pullein pulls in enex files well, backs up in iCloud 😉
This is my setup after many years of Evernote. Keeps things simple. However, using Apple Note share to KeepIt doesn't seem to work - I have to drag the Apple Note (selecting all the contents in the note) to KeepIt to archive. I also maintain a zero inbox using an apple script to send important emails to KeepIt, then deleting from Apple Mail.
Good video. I'm in the same boat as you. I am a Premium Evernote user, but am using Apple Notes more and more. There are really only two things keeping me from fully jumping to Apple Notes: (1) the Evernote Web Clipper; and (2) the ease of sharing a "live" link to an Evernote note with someone outside of the Evernote ecosystem. Can you cover these two things in future videos? I.e., how would one "clip" web pages whole into Apple Notes, and how would one share a note with someone who is on, say, a Windows machine?
Will look at that, Mark.
I migrated and mirrored my Evernote setup in Apple Notes. It works well and search is fast with about 600 notes.
Did you „mirror“ your notes also?
Do you have notes (in Apple Note) with Word documents attached? Does searching inside these docs work? TIA.
I haven't done that yet, but it could happen over the Christmas break.
It got me both excited and sad what you said about Evernote and your feelings with apple notes. Same here. My complaint however was the font size in iPad and they had not been updating for ages
Agree with you there, Anthony.
Hi Carl! Another useful video...
I was thinkig to definitely migrate from a "mixed app" system (EN + Apple Notes/Reminders) to a "coherent" system (Apple Notes and Reminders).
My biggest concern is I have a huge amount of notes in EN (21k more or less) with lots of attachments. I should try to migrate some notes and notebooks into Apple Notes and see how it goes.
Keep up the good work!
How would you migrate? I was thinking about it but I carry around 11.000 notes in EN. There HAS to be an automated way or I can't move over.
It’s something you can test. I’m not ready to do that yet, but if Evernote does not improve soon I will be becoming more serious about migrating.
@@Carl_Pullein I just made a test with 300 notes, all with a Word document attached. Migration went flawlessly. The only problem is that "Search" does not look "inside" the Word documents, but I still do not know, by the time, if iCloud is still parsing all the docs or if this kind of search is not available...
@@peterziegler2037 you export the notes from EN in an ENEX file and the import it into Apple Notes.
tidbits.com/2018/09/06/tipbits-how-to-move-your-evernote-notes-to-apples-notes/
www.macrumors.com/how-to/migrate-from-evernote-to-apple-notes/
Hi Peter Ziegler Try this. It worked for me. www.macrumors.com/how-to/migrate-from-evernote-to-apple-notes/
I'm really waiting for the tags feature to come to Monterey, since I use the desktop the most, and I'm quite excited about the tags feature, since they are so easy to make. It's a game changer.
I’m playing around with them at the moment and it does improve the experience, a lot.
notes in iOS 13 seem to be a good alternative for OneNote as well. Thanks Carl.
You could be right there, Artur.
Mr Carl great video again as always , i am using Notion mostly for work , for personal use i recently moved to apple notes after trying different note taking apps , it doesn't have all the features i want but it is native app and keeps my notes synchronized on all my devices , the only missing feature is the apple watch , wish they will schedule it in the future
Thank you, Maria. I agree with you, syncing everything smoothly between my devices is great.
Why is Evernotes not usable on iOS? What are the setbacks? Have you got an update on this video for the latest version of Apple notes? Does losing the Evernote tags mean you have to tag each note manually again, or does Apple notes in iOS 15 now have a tag feature?
I made the switch a while ago. Once the Apple Pencil came out Evernote failed with handwritten notes (penultimate is a joke). I'm sure Apple holds back a bit for anti trust issues on some of their apps, but this still blows Evernote away. I use Evernote for older notes instead of migrating, but only need to check it the odd time. Apple notes is great as long as you stay with Apple. Nobody can make the handwriting tools like Apple does.(at least yet). more formatting flexibility with each note would be better though.
Agree with you there, Howard. Evernote really dropped the bal with their handwriting features.
I've heard good things about notability. Have you tried it? I haven't and I'm new to this whole apple ecosystem myself.
@@UnitCodesChannel Notability is excellent for using Apple Pencil. I actually use GoodNotes for that, which is also very good.
Thank you for your video and I can see you did highlight some of the text in your note please can you tell us how did you do that, please?
Thanks for the video! I'm definitely "making the move" away from Evernote to Apple Notes. Yes, the lack of tags was a small thing, but definitely not a deal breaker. I also have a work laptop with Windows, so I sometimes have to jump to the iCloud website to get to Notes through Windows.
Definitely something I'm considering
Hello Carl, Thank you for your useful videos! Is it fairly easy to import Evernotes into Apple Notes and to retain full Evernote formats, without major changes? Have you tried it successfully? Any tips to make it most time efficient with minimum manual adjustments to the notes, most appreciated. If you've got separate videos on this that are up to date, any links would be much appreciated. Cheers!
It used to be, but that was two years ago when the rumours were that Evernote was going to disappear. I've heard a lot of mixed reports on recent migrations. If you do decide to do it, do it notebook by notebook rather than exporting everything.
Notes lack of tags keeps me from using it as a power user. Have you tried Bear? It’s okay. I don’t like how cluttered notes look with markdown. However, it’s powerful and fast.
I’ve weaned myself off the reliance on tags now. I basically use search in almost all my apps as most apps have significantly improved their search functions.
This is great Carl. However, I just got to know about Notion. What do you think about it? I do like the web clipper plugin, think I can find something similar with apple notes? Thanks for this video though. Have a very productive week as well ahead.
I tried Notion a while ago but found it too feature rich for me. I want an app to do one thing and do that one thing very well. Notion has a lot of customisable areas which means I would just play with customising never really finding something that makes me completely happy.
@@Carl_Pullein I actually am a victim of falling into the customization well and then not getting things done per se. Thanks Carl!
Late comment on 24JUNE2021. This would be a great topic to revisit with MacOS Monterey, iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Especially looking at he new text in picture OCR feature being added. Will it be available in Apple Notes search? That is my main reason for holding out for Evernote, the auto OCR of text in photos so you can search and copy such text as well as search within attachments like PDFs. I just cannot give up Evernote without those features.
I will be doing some videos on the new features nearer the time of public release. I don't download the public beta until at least the fifth interation.
Question - you hinted about if you move not using tags - so what additional structure would you anticipate using? Tagging is explicit, where as search as in your example Bond = bond = bonds = bonding, etc. and I have found that when trying to get say project details from the list of major or small clients/projects where contractual "bonds" have nothing to do with electrical "bonding"... ... can be a pain to "hand filter out, hence tags. Tags are also, if you add via the naming and collecting habits, are like 'saved searches' so all the quotes from your newsletters or pointers, etc., are found from a tag "Carl Pullein" [The underscore space trick came too late : (((( ]. As I am in the market for a new phone soon, and so if the current iOS and Evernote clash, then either move to Android or moving from Evernote makes a big difference.
Never been a problem for me, Tim. I've pretty much always searched by keyword and only in Evernote did I use tags to any degree and often found these became overwhelming and just more stuff to remember.
I just moved to apple notes and left Evernote. I used Evernote for approximately 5 years non stop. Mostly for simple note taking and sometimes a bigger article. On my iPad, everytime I switch to another app, to copy something, and switch back to Evernote, there is a annoying bug. Once I switched back to Evernote I got to the home screen instead of the note and position I last worked on. This basic stupid decision to not be able to continue your work made me left. Imagine you are a musician and everytime you left your DAW the music program would leave your project.... Apple notes is clean, simple and gets the job done.
I have the same issues, Gordon. It's why I've started the move towards Apple Notes.
Hello everyone. I’m using notes app in my ipad. It’s quite amazing experience. But one thing i want to ask you how to insert any image in pdf file while using notes app
Do you mean, how to edit a PDF file in Notes? That's not possible. Yo would need to open the PDF in your PDF reader app and if that allows you to edit the PDF you can do it there and then re-import the PDF to your note.
@@Carl_Pullein Yes you got my question. Best app for ipad users?. I do lot of study. Many time i need to edit my pdf but it's not possible in notes. Permanent solution to edit & store the pdf in same app??
Does Apple Notes search inside PDFs and text in images?
Richard Allum yes it does
Now I’ve tried this without success. Are you sure there is OCR recognition in Notes like there is in Evernote? I can’t get it to find imbedded text in PDFs. But I’ve only tried it in iOS.
Anyone know how to search within a folder? Also, the use of Tags will be added to the next OS update in Fall 2021. #ByeEvernote
For sometime I have been using Apple notes as my dump it location, as an inbox. I then tidy stuff up / export to Evernote. An extra step but find apple notes is faster for quick day to day notes, Evernote better as a deep storage solution. Evernote OCR/handwriting/attachment search features are yet to be beaten....but agree the iOS Evernote web-clipper is unseeable in most cases so just use Evernote for reference on iOS (or photos of whiteboards, paper text), apple notes is my main text place on iOS.
That's the way I am using Apple Notes and Evernote at the moment, George.
Apple notes is actually not free because you will pay with cloud storage. Tagging the web clipper and the ability to send emails to apple notes will get me to migrate.
True. By $2.00/ month is cheaper than Evernote subscription.
I tend to agree, Evernote just isn’t getting there, they have been saying they will improve for the past 12 months and it really hasn’t moved. Is apple notes a good sharer of notes though within say a small team of 10?
It's a little more complicated than sharing with Evernote, but once you learn about the quirks is definitely possible to share notes.
Used Evernote for years but last few months it has stopped functioning the same. I add a document on phone but it doesn’t sync with iPad and vice versus. I hope notes can replace.
@@JohnWilliams-vr8fp I noticed that one too, John.
Carl Pullein Thanks for video. I use notes all the time but not like I’ve used Evernote for years. I’m going to give it a try as an Evernote replacement. Evernote’s main benefit was i could save PDF of my work schedule to whatever device i was on and then obviously access it on any of my devices. But once Evernote stopped syncing it became much less useful.
Any ways to integrate it with Todoist?
Yes. You can use the share sheet from your note and link it Todoist with the URL link.
Recently, I have converted alle my notes from Evernote to Apple Notes and I kind of like it in Notes. One thing I miss is the ability to search in on folder only. Do you know how to achieve this?
That's not a search term yet, Ole. Hopefully that will be expanded in iOS 14
@@Carl_Pullein Thanks for your reply, Carl. I'm looking foreward to see if that specific way of search will be included in iOS 14 😊.
Apple Notes lacks a website clipper, so I use Evernote.
It does have one of sorts, but it's not as good as Evernote's that's true.
How you can set a reminder date in a note? 🧐🧐🧐
Just see "Tip nr. 3" in this article: www.makeuseof.com/tag/organize-life-apple-notes/
;-)
Using your iPad or iPhone, you can only search in one folder at a time. Disappointing, if they don’t put a search notes on here, I going back to Evernote or Draft
Likely to be a long wait, sadly.
Exported my ENEX to Notes.
I have a modest amount of Notes, 6500.
It imported the notes fine.... However, it never synced all my notes to all devices the most it ever synced down was 2000.
This was 3 weeks ago. Any tips would be helpful. @kmf
What usually works for me is to log out and re log in on the devices that are not syncing. That usually clears whatever is causing the sync issues.
You have good topics. However… Please be more succinct and to the point. Time is short. I have rarely been able to sit fully through an entire video of yours. Thanks
Evernote ♥️ 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Oh I hope so!!!
I'm retired: why on earth is the world trying to get me more productive. And this chap's not even a millennial.
Two minutes in I saw one of your folders. “Self-Development” noooooooooooooooooooooooooo................
I'm a huge believer in CANI, Phil. I'm going to the grave thoroughly used up and worn out. My biggest fear is to 'die peacefully in my sleep" Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
Evernote is way too expensive
Hmm compared to what?
Suppose I want to stop using Notes some day and take my notes someplace else. You can not mass export all your notes. Screw that. I use PDF in Dropbox where they are just PDF files that can move anywhere.
All you need is a little app called Note2Txt - it costs $1.00 and can export all your notes into plain text files (universal) in next to no time.