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Alternative Evernote Client for Mac OS X

10 points by alternote ↗ HN
Hey guys!

We’re developing an alternative Evernote client for Mac. That’s why I wanted to know which features you would like to see in an ideal note-taking app? What’s bothering you most in Evernote?

We’re launching really soon, so subscribe to our private beta at http://alternoteapp.com

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yeroshek
Looks great! Are you going to have reminders support?
alternote
Thanks! Not in the first version, but we’re going to have full Evernote api support further, including shared notebooks & reminders.
schrodingersCat
Honestly, a feature for distraction free note-taking / writing would be nice with better formatting support than the standard app. I always think evernote would be a great idea for writing rough drafts of memos or articles but I very quickly realize that its text formatting is crap. Seriously, it is aggravating to write anything more complicated than a grocery list. Don't get me wrong, its great for importing and searching PDFs and especially scanned documents, but its really bad for writing. I'm not sure what the focus of your client is, but if you fixed this, I would very quickly become an adopter.
alternote
Thanks for your feedback. You got us right, we’re focusing on comfortable writing and we want to make Alternote the best fit from writer’s attitude.

And of course you will make use of all Evernote advantages like lots of snippets and extensions which will sync all your notes back to Alternote.

cmelbye
I don't use Evernote much anymore so maybe this is already possible, but it would be cool to see all of my todo lists in all of my notes in one place (maybe with the note name as the heading for each list).
SashaRakovets
Great idea! We will consider this for further versions of Alternote.

For now you can tag every to-do note and quickly access a list of them.

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cerberusss
Solid, absolutely solid syncing.

I've seen many syncing/note-taking apps which failed to do this. I could expound on this, but really, that's all I want: rock-solid syncing.

andthat
Looks like it'd be much more pleasant to write longer notes in your app, so that's great!

One thing I really dislike about Evernote is the crazy behavior you get after you paste in formatted content.

Personally I would like some kind of markdown support.

rahulmax
A small addition would be the strikethrough (line through). Also, the default Mac colorpicker bothers me in Evernote. Would be nice to do something about that, too.
amirmansour
Looks very nice. You got my attention what what looks like a much better writing experience. I also noticed you guys are from Ukraine. I'm not very informed about the current conflict there, but props for shipping your product during such a time. I look forward to using Alternote.
serabe2
Markdown or Common Mark writing support.
jshq111
Robust Applescript support please
ja27
Screenshots or a way to easily paste them. Being able to quickly sketch a few rough things on an image. Just lines, text, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. would be fine.