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What you get free

Fast, simple plain-text notes synced across devices with version history.

What you miss

Rich formatting, notebooks, attachments and OCR search that Evernote supports.

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  1. Obsidian Local Markdown notes with backlinks, graph view and community plugins, stored as plain files.
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  3. Simplenote Fast, simple plain-text notes synced across devices with version history.