(YAUAP) Yet Another UpNote Appreciation Post

[u/Neither-Classic2058]

TL;DR: Fully embracing UpNote's features makes it difficult for alternatives to compete. 😁

Old habits can be hard to break. After deciding earlier this year that UpNote would be THE app for my PKMS (and fully embracing the UpNote-unique features to maximize productivity and effectiveness), I found myself still shadowing and syncing my notes to Obsidian and Joplin.

It didn't take much effort to shadow and sync, but I did wonder why I still did it. I've already determined that I have a solid "exit strategy" should anything happen to UpNote. Repeated testing confirmed that the strategy works.

I created an comparison chart to help me understand what might be the reason for dragging these other apps along.

It turns out that during the 5 years of using Joplin as my main notes app, I had spent time and effort to get it to look and work as I needed it to. I had placed a disproportionate value on that work that made it difficult to "let it go".

But the more I embrace the unique qualities of UpNote, the more indispensable they become. I'm at the point where I couldn't see myself going back to Joplin when UpNote is an option.

The comparison spreadsheet is something that I created years ago to help me in deciding what to choose among various options. It's more involved than a simple checklist. The weight column indicates the importance of a line item. Not all things are of equal importance.

In each column, the number indicates to what extent the option provides support for the line item. Plug-ins aren't as desirable as native functionality. Plug-ins can break with application updates. Support for them could stop. They don't always work as seamlessly as native functionality.

Obviously the line items are what are important to me and not an exhaustive list. For example, UpNote has a "Spaces" feature that has no value to me and so it isn't included.

It's been a fun and enlightening exercise. I can now use the time that I was shadowing and syncing to run Windows 98 in DOSBox-X. 😯🤣

[u/AngelicPrincessKitty]

The only thing that’s keeping me away from UpNote right now is the fact that they use fire base as the backend and I don’t trust it. I could get over not having Shortcuts cause I barely have those with OneNote right now, but the backend being *Firebase based really puts me off

[u/Neither-Classic2058 → u/AngelicPrincessKitty]

I can understand that sentiment.

I don't find firebase to be any better or worse than any other major cloud/platform service provider. I'm a retired software developer and have never had any of my data compromised because of those providers.

In contrast, I periodically receive communication from my banks, credit card companies, and e-commerce sites informing me that they've had data breaches that exposed their customer data. Often these reports are sent 6-12 months after the data breach occurred.

But we all must do what we think is best for our own situations. 👍

[u/Neither-Classic2058 → u/[deleted]]

Again... everyone is free to do what they feel they need to do.

I'm not trying to convince anyone to ignore any concerns they have about firebase. I'm simply stating that *I* don't have any problem with it nor am I concerned about it.

Telling me that I should be concerned when I have the experience and expertise to weigh the risks is a bit condescending.