Most web pages and illustrations, including document scans, were handled well and I am generally very satisfied with Larry’s solution. Others, such as table notes, appear as lists which are perfectly acceptable as a record for future reference. Far from disappointed, I was positively delighted.Ībout 30 notes were listed as impossible to transfer, none of them important so I ignored them. I was surprised by the speed and the efficiency of the operation. I must admit I was rather sceptical and decided to run the Apple Script on whim, reasoning that if it didn’t work I was no worse off for it. Within just a few minutes I had exported all my notes from Evernote and Larry’s script had imported them to Notes without serious problems.

I downloaded Larry’s Apple Script file and followed the simple instructions.

He’s been there, done that and come up with a workable solution. After a few minutes with Google, however, I discovered Larry Salibra’s blog. I was able to export them easily enough but found there was no way to import them into notes. Having taken to Notes, my main problem was the 2,000 or so old entries stored in Evernote. It does enough and, frankly, too many bells and whistles can be distracting and counterproductive. But Notes, with its bullet lists and checklists, is now a pretty well-sorted note-taking application. It has its own ecosystem and synchronisation engine and performs well. Sure, Evernote has some added features, including support for tables. I began to wonder why I need to continue paying for Evernote. It’s free and has useful hooks to other applications within the Apple ecosystem. Over the past few months I have been using Apple’s revamped Notes application more and more. Synchronisation between iPad, iPhone and Mac has always been top of my features list. At the same time, though, I have dabbled with the old Apple Notes, Simplenote, nvALT and several other plain-text note applications. For over five years I have been paying for Evernote premium access and have tried to love Evernote for what it is–a full-featured note and storage application that does almost everything well.

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