From Evernote to Notes
by Volker Weber
I migrated from Evernote to OneNote a while ago, and I have not looked back. I have a few hundred notes that I can arrange in OneNote just as I please and it also lets me take handwritten notes on iPad Pro and Surface.
OneNote isn't for everyone though. People who only keep a few dozen notes, on iOS and macOS devices only, may be better off with the Notes application available on both. It's all synced through iCloud so you don't need another user id. Migrating from Evernote to Notes is extremely easy. This is how I migrated Ute on my own Mac.
- Create new user. Login. Log into iCloud.
- Install Evernote. Log into Evernote. Wait for all notes to sync.
- Mark all notes. Export to an .enex file.
- Import the .enex file into Notes. Wait for all notes to sync.
- Remove Evernote. Logout of new user account. Delete user account.
Steps 1 and 5 are only necessary if you migrate somebody else. If you migrate your own data, you only need to export to .enex and import into Notes.
No more nagging from Evernote about upgrading to Premium, for a user who clearly does not need Premium.
Comments
Why not using Keep? OneNote is terrible in respect of resources consumption
Becaue Keep does not support Apple Pencil and Surface Pen. OneNote works perfectly for me.
Since a couple of months OneNote likes to ask for my password around 5 times a day. Did anybody else see that and how did you fix it?
@Mariano: Not 5 times a day but more often than before.
Personally, I've tried Notes and don't like it. For what I do, Evernote works much better. I have several thousand notes on Evernote and upgrading only shows up every couple months.
How do you "select all notes" in Evernote?
Click Notes->cmd+a?
I have a "Apple Notes" Backup of all my "Evernotes". You can even set a Timer just like in Evernote, its called "Reminders" :)
@Werner, wasn't too sure, so I counted. 5 times in between 2pm and now 6:24pm.
Really wondering what is causing it.
Mariano, same here. But I "feel" it's less today than it was some weeks ago.
But still very annoying!
@Serge - I like Keep too, especially the web interface. The Android app is very unstable (it frequently crashes when in use on my 3 Android devices), and there have been very few new features added to it for a while now.
To me, it smells like Keep will eventually join iGoogle, Google Reader et al in Google's code bin.
@Thomas, Werner. Volker suggested to login to the site in the browser. I did on all devices and - knock on wood - in the last four hours I didn't have to login again - which is new!
I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Never mind.
Now, if only there was a migration path from OneNote (free version) to Notes...
Microsoft meanwhile pushed out a new version of OneNote (iOS) and acknowledges the issue. Also mentioned that they did some changes that may fixed it.
Love it.
