I posted a few days ago about how I had lost a few days’ work thanks to Evernote not saving them. Still not happy about that, but I’m much calmer now than I was when the incident occurred. And perhaps emotion fueled the decision, but I decided to stop using Evernote after nine years. I’ve canceled my paid plan, and since I had already paid for this year, I will take the remaining time to go through my notes, move over what I want to save, and delete the rest.
Where am I going to be putting my notes next?
As I am sure it’s already clear, I decided to use Notion since I’m already there to track projects and tasks. And it would be nice to have all the things in one place.
What do I need to do to prepare?
I like having everything organized, which was one of the things I liked most about Evernote. I could put notes in specific notebooks, and I knew where everything was…for the most part. So I do need to start figuring out what databases I’ll need to create.
Some that I’ve already come up with and started implementing are:
- An articles database, which will be massive. Most of my notes were in a “reading” notebook, containing articles that I wanted to read or reread at my leisure. Going through that notebook has actually been on my mind for a while, as I need to figure out what notes I still want to keep and even to remember what I have.
- My recipes book, as I’ve been working on it for months. I’ve been copying down recipes from TikTok and online and keeping them all in an e-recipe book, so that I have access to them whenever I might need them. It took some time for me to figure out, since I really liked the system I had in place with Evernote (and it took me FOREVER to get the original part of it set up), but Notion is making it so easy to recreate that setup. And it’ll be far easier to copy and paste what’s already been done in the recipe book.
- Perhaps not even a day went by after the Evernote incident, that I started moving my blog posts from my previous daily writing sessions. I used one of the free Notion templates to create a section that will keep them all together. It’s where I write them and keep track of which ones have been edited, scheduled, and posted.
- I have a lot of notes from when I was in school and when I was writing fiction more frequently—another good reason for the transition. I haven’t touched most of them in years, so it’ll be good to revisit them and clean house.
That’s all I can think of right now before getting into my notebooks. The articles will take the most time to transfer over, but it will be very worth it as there are several that I do want to keep.
What am I excited about?
While I’m not thrilled about the change, I am looking forward to going through all of what I have (specifically the articles) and possibly even making the processes easier for me (which has already been proven true with the recipe book). I also do like organizing, and with Notion, I basically have a clean slate to work with. That makes it fun for me. The work now will be tedious (I won’t deny that, haha) and take a long time, but it will be worth it in the end.
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