Final post. After writing a script to port my 10 years of Evernote content to Zim for a few hours, I ported all my content. Sadly, Zim crashes every time now, maybe it wasn't meant to handle that workload. But hey, I got to enjoy diving back into Perl programming again.
So, instead of investing more time into debugging the crashes, I've moved on to Emacs org-mode which is working well. I've been using Emacs for over decades years, so it OK. For encryption and backup, I'm using jcs's veracrypt port to have a container on a usb key and backing up remotely to a cloud data store. Veracrypt is important to me because I want to flexibility to access my data from whatever OS I'm at. There just simply aren't good native personal wiki/notebook apps available on OpenBSD (rich text, copy/paste content like web pages [maintaining webpage rendering] and images, etc) at this time. Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions! org-mode ended up being the choice to pick, but mainly due to other options not being available and it was the best from what remains. https://www.privacytools.io/software/notebooks/ Anyone looking this thread up in the future (here is my setup): 1. Use org-mode: export your notebooks to enex files and use a utility like https://github.com/aladine/EverOrg to convert them 2. Use jcs's port (at the time of this email) for veracrypt: https://github.com/jcs/openbsd-ports/tree/master/security/veracrypt 3. Keep the encrypted container on a usb key and back it to a cloud/remote data store regularly/as-needed. On 6/28/19 11:48 PM, Chris Humphries wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 02:37:20AM +0000, Ipsen S Ripsbusker wrote: >> I realized that you did mention what you liked in your first mail. >> >>> I keep a lot of my brain in Evernote, and having a replacement is a >>> big productivity boost for me. I mainly want a way to categorize notes >>> into categories/labels/notebooks, be able to view all notes in that >>> category/label/notebook, and be able to search all notes. >>> >>> If I could also access that information from a mobile device, that >>> would be great but not required. >> >> As others have pointed out, specialized text files in a synchronized >> directory do seem to accomplish this. I consequently think there is >> more that you like about Evernote but have not articulated. >> > > You are right. > > I surely left stuff out because I did not articulate all the reasons I > use Evernote. I conveyed the main reasons I use Evernote and in a > sense what features are that I care about on a day to day basis. > > > I'm leaning towards Zim (which is in ports, has a nice GUI, has the > features I wanted, and its data files are text files) with rclone for > syncing to a cloud data store. > > I start migrating all my Evernote data to it tomorrow. I will probably > write up a blog post about it once I've completed the entire > process. I'll need to write a script to handle the conversion. > > > I appreciate your reply. > Take care! > -- Chris Humphries <ch...@sogubsys.com> 5223 9548 E1DE DE87 F509 1888 8141 8451 6338 DD29
