How to export your notes from Evernote
I want to leave Evernote. How do I do it?
Evernote has changed its privacy policy, and people aren’t impressed. The company has added a stipulation whereby a small number of its employees may be able to access your notes in order to improve the company’s machine learning abilities for improve future features. The move comes after the company, which had been experiencing financial troubles, limited to two the number of devices able to access notes on its free tier.
There are, frankly, better options out there now. From Google Docs to OneNote to your own convoluted system of HTML and PDF files, here’s how to get your stuff out of Evernote ASAP.
How to export your Evernote data
Note: This guide uses macOS for screenshots on how to export Evernote data, but the same steps apply, in the same order, for Windows. You cannot perform an export from the web version of Evernote, unfortunately.
Open Evernote.
Sign in to your Evernote account.
Click on Edit in the Menu bar at the top left of your screen.
Select Select All from the dropdown menu.
Select File in the Menu bar.
Click on Export Notes from the dropdown menu.
Name the file anything you want.
Select where to save the file. I saved it to my desktop so it can be easily found.
Select Format and select HTML
Click Save. It will export as separate HTML files, and put assets in separate folders.
Open Google Drive in a Chrome browser.
Tap on New and tap Folder or File.
Upload HTML files to chosen folder.
Open chosen file.
Tap Open with Google Docs.
Now you can access your Evernote files in Google Docs! It’s not a perfect solution, and some formatting issues may persist, but if you’re really sold on moving your stuff from Evernote to Docs, this is your best way.
Don’t like Evernote invading your privacy? Try these other note apps
Evernote has updated its privacy policy to include some alarming changes, and now users are ditching the note-taking service.
In its latest privacy policy release, unveiled Wednesday, Evernote said its employees sometimes review users’ notes in an effort to improve the company’s machine-learning capabilities, which may include searching with natural language queries. Although users can opt-out of the changes, Evernote employees can still access your data, like with resellers, for sales and delivery requests, and law enforcement, according to ZDNet.
Just take a look at Twitter to see how users are responding to this news. (Hint: They’re not happy.) In response, Evernote CEO Chris O’Neill published a note on Thursday to clarify that employees only view random notes, without any idea who they belong to, etc. Still, if you don’t accept the updated policy, which goes into effect on 23 January 2017, you’re basically left with the option of exporting your data and quitting the service.
Also, Evernote doesn’t encrypt users’ notes by default, which makes them viewable to employees or hackers. While it does encrypt messages in-transit, they’re still readable on the company’s servers. So, even if users aren’t upset about the company peeking at their notes when it receives a legal warrant or to improve its machine learning, users should at least call upon Evernote to enable end-to-end encryption by default.
Or Evernote’s 100 million+ users could just ditch the service altogether. If you choose to go that route, here’s three alternatives.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft
Evernote offers some powerful features, such as clipping content from websites, attaching PDFs to notes, drawing and table tools, and more. If you need granular organisational controls like these, consider OneNote by Microsoft. It’s completely free and offers a large feature set, including templates for notes that you customise and the ability to sort notes into tabs and notebooks.
Download: Windows | Mac | iOS | Android | Windows Phone | Web
SimpleNote
SimpleNote
SimpleNote, which is from the company behind WordPress, is a very basic note-taking app. It lets you save and sync text across devices, and it supports MarkDown for formatting your text. It also lets you scroll through different versions of each note, allows you to publish your work to the web with a simple click, and auto-saves everything on both mobile and desktop. The interface is bare-bones, though; you get a note list, support for tags, and a search function. There’s no ability to clip or merge notes. But it is free – with no usage limits.
Download: Windows | Mac | Linux | Android | Kindle Fire | iOS | Web
Google Keep
If you just want something that lets you jot down your thoughts quickly, and then those notes will auto sync across your devices, Google Keep is a good option. It lets you make notes, lists, and even supports scribbling by hand. You can also recording voice memos and capture images, but the simple interface keeps formatting options at a minimal. You can tag your notes to find them later. Plus, it automatically categorises them by topic. And if you want to clip from the web, you can use a Chrome extension to save pages, text, or images.
Download: Android | iOS | Web | Chrome
Still looking for more alternatives?
Here’s two others you can explore:
Workflowy (compatible with Android, iOS, and web)
Google Docs (compatible with iOS, Android, and web)
Xbox One update boosts download speeds up to 80 percent
A big part of current-gen gaming we just have to live with is spending time we could be playing waiting for things to download. Microsoft is looking to ease that burden with an update to Xbox One. With the latest version of the console’s operating system, the company says it increased download speeds 80 percent if you’re internet connection is faster than 100Mbps. If you’re on a slower connection that’s less than 100Mbps, the update should still boost game and app downloads by 40 percent.
Of course, Microsoft warns that exact figures will vary based on your home configuration and your ISP. Download speeds will also be slower when you’re playing a game as Xbox One prioritizes that action over any background activity. Speaking of background downloads, this update optimizes that process to withstand any intermittent connection issues.
Additional updates include a firmware refresh for the Xbox One wireless controller and tweaks that should make streaming music in the background more reliable across different apps. There are also the usual “general performance and stability improvements” where further details aren’t provided. To grab the update, head to Settings on the console and select “Console info & updates” from the System menu.
Source: Xbox Support
The mysterious existential dread of Krillbite’s ‘Mosaic’
Adrian Husby and Martin Kvale have been working together since 2011, when they were finishing up their bachelor’s degrees in Norway. That’s when they began conceptualizing Among the Sleep, a surreal first-person horror game that puts players in the shoes of a toddler, waddling around a suburban house at night as stranger and stranger things creep through the floorboards. With their studio Krillbite, they released Among the Sleep in 2014. It was a hit, selling well across PCs and consoles and garnering a handful of awards.
Today, Husby and Kvale are hard at work on their new project, Mosaic. It’s a mysterious, atmospheric game that retains Krillbite’s trademark creepy vibe. They only want to tease Mosaic for now; they don’t want to give too much away before its expected release on PC and PlayStation 4 in late 2017. As they attempt to describe Mosaic while maintaining its mystery, Husby and Kvale play off each other as old friends do.
“It’s like Brazil has a baby with Every Day the Same Dream and World of Goo,” Kvale says.
Husby adds, “With some driblets of Kentucky Route Zero.”
“Like sprinkles,” Kvale says with a laugh. “It definitely has a lot of inspiration from that game as well; it’s a beautiful game.”
“We draw from a lot of places, definitely,” Husby concludes.
It’s clear that Mosaic is very different than Among the Sleep, but it still feels like a Krillbite game. In its first teaser trailer, Mosaic is bleak and highly stylized, featuring a man with thin, spindly limbs trapped in a monotonous nine-to-five cycle: He brushes his teeth, travels to work alongside crowds of people in suits staring at their phones, and goes home. He does it again. And again. The repetition is cut with scenes of strange technological intervention: A server clicks on, seemingly controlling the movement of the working-class horde. In a flash, the protagonist’s head turns into a fish. We see him sinking into a deep body of water.
Even if the game’s story line remains mysterious, its focus is obvious. This is a dystopian nightmare, a commentary on the monotony of modern life and the life-sucking pull of technology.
“We live our everyday lives in a very systematic manner,” Husby says. “So we go through, to and from these jobs to serve this continuous loop of income and spending, and all that stuff. That’s at the very core of this experience. And of course, how that affects our lives. How does it feel to live in a city where everything’s just automatic and systematic and cold? Inhuman, somehow.”
Kvale jumps in, “And how much a system like that could hurt your daily life and a city’s well-being, kind of.”
“I think I’d rather call it an adventure game than a horror game,” Husby adds.
Kvale offers, “Dystopian point-and-click.”
They both agree on this final description but with a few caveats. Mosaic isn’t a traditional point-and-click adventure game. It has puzzle elements, but they’re not presented in an expected way, Husby says. Plus, the narrative is extremely experimental.
“It’s fragmented and weird,” Husby says. “So there’s a bunch of unchartered territory that makes it hard to describe.”
Mosaic draws from Husby and Kvale’s experience as independent game developers in Norway. The art is blue-tinged and desaturated, drawing from the long, dark winters in their home country. And the story itself — the mobs of people rushing to work every day, eyes glued to their phones — stems from Husby’s feelings of displacement in a busy city. The Krillbite team works hard, but it doesn’t conform to the standard nine-to-five lifestyle.
“When you live a very alternative life, I guess, but you’re still living in the same environment as this, you go to and from your job and you definitely feel like an outcast somehow,” Husby says. “Standing in the tube in the morning, looking around, it’s people on auto-pilot … If we’re able to capture that, that’s proof we’ve come a long way.”
Phones play a big part in Mosaic’s story. The world is filled with people wearing the same suits, going to the same jobs, staring at the same screens. This obsession with technology is a central theme, and there’s even a playable mini-game inside the main character’s phone. It’s a simple, microtransaction-style mobile game that, for now, Krillbite is calling Bleep Bloop. Players will be able to mess around with Bleep Bloop for as long as they want while they’re playing Mosaic; it’s a game within a game about the dangers of technology addiction.
“It becomes fairly meta fairly quickly,” Husby says.
That’s all Husby and Kvale will say about Mosaic for now. They want to maintain the game’s mystery while still intriguing potential players, which is one reason they released the teaser trailer so far ahead of their expected launch window. One thing they learned from Among the Sleep was how important it was to hear from fans, to feel the anticipation around their game.
Husby and Kvale at least want to make it clear that Mosaic is just as creepy, fantastical and surreal as Among the Sleep, but it’s presented in a very different package. Among the Sleep was more survival horror while Mosaic is filled with existential dread.
“This is more, think of your own life and go cry in the corner,” Kvale says. Husby nods in agreement.
President Obama signs the Consumer Review Fairness Act into law
President Obama signed a number of bills into law on Thursday, most notably H.R. 5111, the “Consumer Review Fairness Act of 2016”. The legislation, which passed both houses of congress at the start of December, “makes certain clauses of a form contract void if it prohibits, or restricts, an individual from engaging in a review of a seller’s goods, services, or conduct.”
This is a big win for consumers. There have been a rash of incidents over the past couple of years in which companies attempt to stifle negative user reviews with “gag clauses” that threaten legal action and punitive monetary damages. The Union Street Guest House in Hudson, New York, for example, threatened a wedding party with $500 fines for every bad review the wedding’s guests left on Yelp. Now that the President has signed the bill, the FCC and states are empowered to take legal action against companies that don’t knock it off.
For their parts, the Better Business Bureau already requires its accredited members to not use such clauses and Yelp used to pop a warning screen before users visit a company that insisted on using those clauses. Though, the company won’t need to do that anymore now that it has the backing of the federal government.
“One of our top priorities has always been to protect the ability for internet users — everyone from Yelpers to online shoppers — to share their experiences online, whether they be positive or negative,” Laurent Crenshaw, Yelp’s Director of Public Policy told Engadget. “The Consumer Review Fairness Act gives Americans nationwide new guaranteed legal protections when it comes to sharing these honest, first-hand experiences. We will continue to advocate at both the federal and state levels for legislation to protect consumers.”
Via: NBC News
Source: White House
Plex brings its streaming app to Kodi media centers
If you run your own media server, you’ve likely weighed up the pros and cons of Kodi and Plex. Normally, you’d run one or the other, but some enterprising developers have fused the two, creating third-party plugins that integrate Plex within the open-source software. As of today, however, there is an official add-on in town.
Plex for Kodi operates like many other video add-ons, adding features that extend the default Kodi experience without impacting existing libraries. It can be linked with the servers you run personally as well as those shared with you and, of course, will play back nearly any video or audio format you can throw at it. It can be found in the official Kodi repository but will only work if you run a Plex server and have a Plex Pass subscription.
In a blog post, Team Kodi member Keith Herrington says that the add-on will be made available to all in time: “The intention is for the Plex for Kodi add-on to be available to everyone as soon as we run out of planned features and don’t see any major bugs.” Developers are also encouraged to submit their own feature updates, which may be integrated into the official add-on should they prove beneficial to the community.
Via: Kodi Blog
Source: Plex
President Obama signs nationwide ticket-bot ban into law
New York already passed legislation banning the use of ticket buying bots, but President Obama has just made the ban a nationwide law. Today, the president signed the “Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016” which makes it illegal to use software to purchase tickets to popular events. Of course, the end goal of doing so is to resell them at a higher price. As you might expect, the law aims to give the general public a fair shot at concerts, sporting events and more that sell out quickly.
Under the new law, it is illegal for anyone to use a bot or other software to obtain more tickets than a specified limit allows or circumvent the posted rules for making a fair purchase. It also makes it illegal to resell any tickets than were bought with the help of a ticket bot. Both the person who employed the software and anyone who has knowledge of how the tickets were obtained can be held liable for the offense.
The BOTS Act also gives state governments the power to bring a civil suit to US district court on behalf of its residents. During those proceedings, states can seek to obtain damages, restitution or other compensation for the affected residents in the case. The law gives the Federal Trade Commission the power to intervene in those civil cases as well.
Source: Congress.gov, WhiteHouse.gov
Twitter won’t share tweets with law enforcement data hubs
Twitter is still determined to avoid facilitating mass surveillance by spies and law enforcement. The company has told Dataminr, a firm it partly owns, to stop sharing tweets with the 77 law enforcement fusion centers (that is, data hubs where agencies share info and make connections) in the US. This doesn’t prevent police from sifting through Twitter posts, but it certainly makes their work harder. The centers won’t have ready access to “billions” of tweets they can pass on to the federal government for spying purposes, according to the ACLU.
This doesn’t mean that Dataminr is without government business. Rather, it’s emphasizing a “focused” service that delivers breaking news to first responders, including police. The move should help with emergencies while preventing easy user profiling, geospatial analysis (say, where protesters are operating) and other forms of monitoring. Twitter and Dataminr aren’t flouting the law, then. They just don’t want to contribute to attempts to discourage free speech, whether it’s a protest on the street or journalists who challenge political leaders.
Via: TechCrunch
Source: ACLU
Obama administration says Putin orchestrated US election hacks
Russian president Vladimir Putin personally oversaw the cyber attacks on the United States’ political infrastructure this year, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said today in a press conference attended by the AP. This follows yesterday’s report from NBC News claiming US intelligence officials had evidence that Putin was involved in the hacks. The White House has not offered evidence for its claims, though intelligence officials first revealed Russia’s involvement in the cyber attacks in October.
In that October report, the US Intelligence Community found that “only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.” Today, Earnest said that line wasn’t meant to be subtle, the AP reports.
“It’s pretty obvious,” he said.
US intelligence agencies recently concluded that Russia acted with the intent to help Donald Trump win the election over his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Thousands of documents and emails were stolen from Clinton staffers and the Democratic National Committee, and leaked at crucial moments of the campaign. Intelligence officials also have high confidence that the Republican National Committee was hacked, though that information was never leaked.
The Kremlin has denied its involvement in the cyber attacks. President-elect Trump has also brushed off accusations of Russian hacking and has been outwardly dismissive of the larger US intelligence community. At today’s press conference, the AP reports that Earnest said it’s “obvious” Trump was aware of Russia’s attempts to influence the election.
Source: AP News
The Wirecutter’s best deals: Elac B6 bookshelf speakers drop to $230
This post was done in partnership with The Wirecutter, a buyer’s guide to the best technology. When readers choose to buy The Wirecutter’s independently chosen editorial picks, they may earn affiliate commissions that support their work. Read their continuously updated list of deals here.
You may have already seen Engadget posting reviews from our friends at The Wirecutter. Now, from time to time, we’ll also be publishing their recommended deals on some of their top picks. Read on, and strike while the iron is hot – some of these sales could expire mighty soon.
ELAC B6 Debut Series 6.5″ bookshelf speakers (pair)
Street price: $280; MSRP: $280; Deal price: $230
This is the first good drop we’ve seen on these bookshelf speakers. At $230, this is a $50 discount off a pair of already very reasonably priced premium speakers.
The ELAC Debut B6 Series 6.5″ Bookshelf Speakers by Andrew Jones are our top pick in our best bookshelf speakers guide. Chris Heinonen writes, “With detail, soundstage, and bass response that would be impressive at any price point, these make a great stereo pair, and they’re part of a system, so you can add more pieces for a matched surround setup as your needs grow.”
Blue Microphones Yeti USB microphone + Watch_Dogs 2 PC bundle
Street price: $140; MSRP: $140; Deal price: $100
While this bundle is a little different from most of the Blue Yeti deals we’ve seen, it’s still a great deal. We recently featured the Blue Yeti for $90, so getting the recently released Watch_Dogs 2 for only $10 on top of a great deal price for the Yeti is a very good deal. If you’re not interested in playing Watch_Dogs 2 yourself, it can make for a nice gift for any PC gamers in your life, or at very least you can resell it to recoup some of the cost.
The Blue Yeti is our pick for the best USB microphone. Kevin Purdy and Lauren Dragan write, “If you want to plug a microphone into your computer or iPad and quickly sound clear and engaging whether recorded or live, we recommend the Yeti by Blue. It provided the most reliably well-rounded, natural sound out of all the mics we tested whether on Windows or Mac, or whether recording happened in professional studios or in a small square office. It was often the highest-rated in our three different tests, and when it wasn’t, it still ranked among the best. It offers live headphone monitoring and gain control, two key features for any recording setup (other mics lacked these or made using them too complicated). It is more stable on its stand than most microphones we tested, and feels far more solidly constructed and durable.”
Garmin Nüvi 2539LMT car GPS
Street price: $150; MSRP: $200; Deal price: $130
A solid deal on this former car GPS pick at $130, the lowest we’ve seen it new. While the Garmin car GPS line has been refreshed and our car GPS guide has been refreshed with it, the 2539 still has a lot to recommend it, including lifetime maps and traffic. We’re starting to see nice deals like this as stock diminishes.
Eric Adams writes, “Our previous top pick, the Nüvi 2539LMT, remains in Garmin’s lineup until inventory runs out and is still sold by several retailers. It has a crisper, multi-touch pinch-to-zoom screen and longer battery life, but not the upgraded roster of safety and driver alerts found in the Drive 50LMT.”
LucidSound LS30 wireless gaming headset
Street price: $135; MSRP: $150; Deal price: $113
A new low, $7 below the previous best price we’ve seen on this model, and it includes a free copy of Skyrim – Special Edition.
The LucidSound LS30 is our wireless pick in our guide for the best gaming headset. Dennis Burger wrote, “For a wireless headset the LucidSound LS30 delivers exceptional sound quality, simple connectivity, intuitive controls, good long-term comfort, great mic monitoring, and—perhaps most surprising—an amazing price. It doesn’t cost much more than wired headsets with similar build quality and audio performance, and it’s right around half the cost of our previous wireless pick, the SteelSeries H Wireless.”
Deals change all the time, and some of these may have expired. To see an updated list of current deals, please go to The Wirecutter.com.
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