In the last post I wrote about migrating from Evernote to Apple Notes, here I want to show you how to organize your notes with similar features of Evernote.
Evernote recently changed their price plans, free accounts can only sync across 2 devices.
<img src=”https://images.kinopyo.com/images/evernote-price-change.png) alt=”Evernote free account sync limitation” width=”500”>
The change itself is okay, you can’t blame the company trying to make some money and make better products for their core users, but after using it for 7 years, and all the “improvements” the company has made during the time, I realized it’s not the right tool for me. I don’t need presentation mode, nor chat, or any other collaboration/business features; I just want to take notes. I did upgrade to Pro user before but I found I was never using any of those features heh. This change of prices gives me a perfect chance to look for alternatives.
I encountered this problem when I synced my evernote in Mac OS.
Can’t synchronize error, Content is not valid.
I googled and found this in the evernote support forum.
One of the Ruby gems replaces the built-in ‘tidy’ command in OS X (/usr/bin/tidy) with a broken script in the same location. You need to restore the original /usr/bin/tidy command that comes with OS X.
On my 10.6.6 box, that command is 65072 bytes:
~ $ ls -al
which tidyrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 65072 Aug 31 2010 /usr/bin/tidy
Once you’ve fixed that broken part of the OS, Evernote should work ok. You may also want to file a bug with the Ruby folks, who absolutely should not be replacing this file with their own.
It seems like that ruby gems in mac did a mess that replaced the /usr/bin/tidy command unintentionally.
So if your tidy file size does not match 65072 bytes, just copy on from other Mac OS, and chmod it.