Productivity

I was a happy, loyal, and paying [Evernote](https://evernote.com/)customer for ten years. I loved the integrated toolchain it provided, with the ability to draw, annotate, tag, OCR, and much, much more. It did everything I needed in a note-taking application, and more besides, such as basic task management and a dumping ground for miscellaneous ideas. And then came version 10. I have not made a secret of my dislike of poorly implemented cross-platform applications that serve business interests far more than customer i...

Many years ago, I took over a small publishing company, that's an entirely different story, and not relevant now, but as part of it, I acquired a Google Apps for business account. For years, I had access to "business" Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Hangouts/Meet, and more. Slowly, Google chipped away at what they gave you for free, which made perfect sense, but I knew the time would come when I would need to move on. [That time came this year (2022)](https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en-GB) and it was time to figure out what I could replace th...