{"id":14379,"date":"2011-01-28T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2011-01-28T04:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T02:00:47","slug":"moving-from-delicious-to-evernote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/moving-from-delicious-to-evernote\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving from Delicious to Evernote"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>First things first:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I absolutely love <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\">Delicious<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been using it for ages and it saved my life several times. \u00a0I&#8217;d easily pay for it if there was an option.<\/li>\n<li>My move to Evernote has nothing to do with recent rumors that Yahoo will shutdown Delicious. \u00a0I know that that is not true &#8211; they will probably just sell it or find some other way to chop it off, but they won&#8217;t shut it down completely. \u00a0And even if they would, someone will always start a clone. \u00a0And there are no worries about data export what so ever &#8211; Delicioius was always excellent with that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now that we got those things out of the way, I can relax and tell you what&#8217;s going on. \u00a0Yes, I am moving all my bookmarks from Delicious to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\">Evernote<\/a>. \u00a0I already moved the large chunk and I&#8217;ll sort out the rest in coming days. \u00a0So, why do I move? \u00a0For a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/moving-from-delicious-to-evernote\/evernote_logo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote_logo.jpg?fit=220%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"220,175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Evernote logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote_logo.jpg?fit=220%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14381\" title=\"Evernote logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote_logo.jpg?resize=220%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First of all, there was just too much hype to ignore. \u00a0I kept hearing about Evernote from all sides. \u00a0That alone, of course, wouldn&#8217;t push me to move, but it made me look closer. \u00a0I looked and I liked. \u00a0Here are the things that I liked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Notes<\/strong>. \u00a0I love how Delicious handles bookmarks. \u00a0But bookmarks aren&#8217;t the only type of notes that I have. \u00a0Sometimes I just need to jot something down. \u00a0Sometimes I have a picture. Sometimes a file of different type. \u00a0If it wasn&#8217;t on the web, I couldn&#8217;t save it at Delicious. \u00a0I had a local application (gnote) running on my laptop for such things. \u00a0But my laptop is not always around. \u00a0 I needed a web notes application forever.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web clipper<\/strong>. \u00a0 Collecting bookmarks for several years, I only now realized the risk of losing all that data. \u00a0Bookmark stores the URL only. \u00a0Maybe the title of the page. \u00a0And a brief description at best. \u00a0But if the bookmarked page will disappear, bookmark becomes useless. \u00a0With web clipper though it&#8217;s a different story. \u00a0You select full page or a part of it in your browser, press a button, and it&#8217;s clipped to your notes. \u00a0So even if the source page will disappear, you still have a copy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tags and folders<\/strong>. \u00a0Delicious was the first (or one of the first) applications to bring tags mainstream. \u00a0And tags are great. \u00a0But they aren&#8217;t perfect. \u00a0So are folders. \u00a0But a combination of both can take a long way. \u00a0Evernote organizes things into notebooks (folders) and tags. \u00a0That&#8217;s way more convenient and flexible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Document indexing and image recognition!<\/strong> Not only this has tremendous practical value, but it brushes on my geek nerve. \u00a0It&#8217;s just elegant use of technology. If you upload a PDF or some other document to Evernote, it will index the text in that document automatically. \u00a0And you&#8217;ll be able to find the document by the text it has inside. \u00a0But what is even better &#8211; it&#8217;ll do the same for images. \u00a0Just imaging drinking out somewhere. \u00a0You order a bottle of something absolutely breathtaking. \u00a0But you&#8217;ll never remember how it&#8217;s called tomorrow. So you just snap a picture with your mobile and attach that picture to the note. \u00a0Evernote will analyze the picture, find any text on it, and will make this picture searchable by that text. \u00a0Brilliant! \u00a0We need more applications like that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those things got me thinking. \u00a0So I did a little test run. \u00a0I used Evernote for a couple of days, to see how it will hold up. \u00a0And the more I used it, the more I loved it! \u00a0I started migrating my bookmarks from Delicious not because I wanted to leave Delicious, but because I wanted to have this data in Evernote.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, a few words about the move. \u00a0There is no direct import from Delicious. \u00a0There are some scripts and converters which would tell you how to export data from Delicious, convert it, and then import it into Evernote. \u00a0And I tried some. \u00a0 But my problem wasn&#8217;t with the data conversion. \u00a0My problem was with the data itself. \u00a0As I said, some bookmarks were pointing to non-existing websites. \u00a0Some moved to different locations and had to be updated. \u00a0Some simply became obsolete &#8211; like bits and pieces of technology news which I thought were interesting at the time. \u00a0So after trying to fix data automatically (and I did some), I said that this collection is too valuable for me. \u00a0And I went manually. \u00a0One by one &#8211; checking the bookmark, clipping whenever possible, filing and tagging the note in Evernote. \u00a0Care to guess how much of the material was outdated? Around 35-40%! \u00a0With any kind of automated migration, I&#8217;d be inserting a lot of junk into the system that I was only starting to use. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t want that. So manual it was.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the middle of the migration, I got myself an Android phone. \u00a0Immediately a mobile app was installed which, given Internet access, brought all my notes so much closer to me. \u00a0The only thing that I wanted to have now was some way to synchronize selected notes to my phone, so that I&#8217;d have them even if there is no Internet connectivity. \u00a0Turns out that Evernote can do that too. \u00a0But for premium users. \u00a0For around $35\/year you get the VIP goodies. \u00a0Offline synchronization is supported on the folder-level. \u00a0Just pick some folders and say that you want them on the mobile no matter what. \u00a0And you&#8217;ll have them.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to write this post for a few days now, but my migration isn&#8217;t completely over and I was stalling. \u00a0So what did finally push me to write this before I even finished migrating? \u00a0The new version of the Google Chrome extension. \u00a0One of the new features is as elegant as Evernote&#8217;s image recognition. \u00a0From now on, Evernote has an option to suggest notes next to your search engine results. \u00a0That just solves another big problem of mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote-google-search.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14380\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/moving-from-delicious-to-evernote\/evernote-google-search\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote-google-search.png?fit=582%2C309&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"582,309\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Evernote Google search\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote-google-search.png?fit=582%2C309&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14380\" title=\"Evernote Google search\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote-google-search-500x265.png?resize=500%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote-google-search.png?resize=500%2C265&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/evernote-google-search.png?w=582&amp;ssl=1 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, the thing is that even if I have something useful bookmarked, I often forget I do. \u00a0I run straight to Google and try to find it again. \u00a0Works most of the times, but not always. \u00a0Now, whenever I search Google for something, Evernote searches my notes in the background and lets me know if I have any notes matching.<\/p>\n<p>By now you must be thinking that there must be something wrong. \u00a0Evernote sounds perfect, but we all know that that is impossible. \u00a0So, OK, I&#8217;ll tell you a few things that I don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Import from Delicious. \u00a0Even though I&#8217;d still chose to import manually, for many of my friends that won&#8217;t be the case. \u00a0There should be a simpler procedure to import data.<\/li>\n<li>User interface. \u00a0It works, but it needs polish. \u00a0Again, I myself don&#8217;t mind too much. \u00a0But it&#8217;s a bit awkward to show Evernote to certain people.<\/li>\n<li>Social. \u00a0One of the greatest benefits of Delicious is that it&#8217;s a social platform. \u00a0You can link with your friends, follow their bookmarks or tags, share bookmarks, and even send interesting bookmarks to your friends using Delicious. \u00a0In Evernote you can share a folder (with RSS feed). \u00a0And that&#8217;s about it. \u00a0There is no easy way to follow shared notes from my friends. \u00a0There doesn&#8217;t even seem to be a concept of friend yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the biggest concerns for me. \u00a0But they aren&#8217;t big enough. \u00a0As I said &#8211; the service is awesome. \u00a0The technology is fantastic. \u00a0And it doesn&#8217;t even matter if you are running on free or premium account. \u00a0Have a look at it, try it out, and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: I have several public notebooks, but since I&#8217;m still organizing everything and moving things around, I won&#8217;t link to them at this time. \u00a0I&#8217;ll write another post with all the yummy links when the dust settles down a bit.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>First things first: I absolutely love Delicious. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been using it for ages and it saved my life several times. \u00a0I&#8217;d easily pay for it if there was an option. My move to Evernote has nothing to do with recent rumors that Yahoo will shutdown Delicious. \u00a0I know that that is not true &#8211; they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/28\/moving-from-delicious-to-evernote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moving from Delicious to Evernote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2,62,1334],"tags":[550,213],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-bookmarks","tag-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15624,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/28\/delicious-is-dead-long-live-delicious\/","url_meta":{"origin":14379,"position":0},"title":"Delicious is dead. 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