I use Obsidian for note-taking, but Evernote for my "digital shoebox" of receipts, PDFs, photos of wine labels, insurance statements, etc. They are all quickly findable through a combination of OCR and tags.
Does anyone have a good alternative for this use-case?
Evernote alternatives for your 'digital shoebox'/'paperless office'.
JOPLIN:
Browsing through alternativeto [1], seems that the obvious replacement for a hosted 'non-tech' offering is Joplin [2] - a free, open source direct evernote competitor which includes Evernote import feature and cloud syncing.
PAPERLESS-NGX:
For the whole paperless office, scan/store receipts and PDF paperwork, I've been seriously looking at Paperless-NGX [3]. Downside is that you need to sort out self-hosting. Upside it's free and looks amazing for achieving a 'paperless office'.
Found this on exporting from Evernote to Paperless-NGX [4], but its not definitive.
Has anyone done this already? Would love your advice.
Demand is out there for someone to write up a good guide on this.
For single use Notes is ok. I’ve been struggling sharing notes with my wife. Some of the notes would never appear on the other device, and it’s been like this for many years, regardless of the devices model and the OS version.
I've been using Stack for a few years and like it a lot. Downside is that it might go to the Google Graveyard someday. Partially mitigated because the app mirrors PDFs of all my uploads to Google Drive, but not sure how much metadata that includes.
On phones Microsoft lens has free pdf OCR scanning. That and Onedrive would probably work. Instead of tags you just put keywords in the file names. I'm not sure how well it would handle photos of wine labels.
Does anyone have a good alternative for this use-case?