All I wanted was a blank sheet of digital paper to scribble my notes on. I had a premium subscription and even owned their stylus, back when I still used my tablet.īut Evernote's growth strategy did not fit my notes approach. For years, it was a reliable digital notebook. In its early days, bolstered by VC money, big product dreams, and mobile hype, Evernote was an easy-to-use note-taking app that synced easily between my phone and computer. In the Mac app’s case, you also have the option of buying it outright for $50.Poor Evernote, an app I had such fondness for ten years ago, died a slow death of annoyance and declining functionality. To continue using either one afterward, you’ll need to sign up for a monthly or yearly subscription, which is charged for each platform independently - there’s no combo subscription:

Think of as a mix of DEVONthink and Evernote, but not as bloated as the latter, more integrated with iOS than the former, and nicer looking than both of them.īoth the iOS and Mac versions of Keep It are free to download and offer a 14-day free trial after signing up. Everything you do in the iOS app syncs with the Mac version and vice versa.Īs our friend Federico Viticci wrote in his list of must-have apps for 2018:

They can also be individually encrypted with a password, if you’re keeping sensitive information within Keep It. Saved items can be tagged, color-labeled, and kept in folders and/or bundles. If you’re a stickler about organization, Keep It’s got that in spades too. Specific searches can be saved for later reuse.

Once something is captured, the contents of that item are easily searchable later - right down to any recognizable text within PDFs and images - with suggestions appearing as you type. Like Evernote and its ilk, Keep It is a combination of notebook, scrapbook, and organizer that can handle just about anything you throw at it - web pages, images, PDFs (with full OCR support), text documents (Markdown, rich text, and plain text), videos, audio files, notes of your own making…you name it. Yesterday over at our sister site The Sweet Setup, we selected the iOS app Keep It as the best replacement for Evernote in terms of doing long-term research, especially on iPad.

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