I've been through two complete Evernote migrations now — once when I was still doing UX consulting full-time and needed a research capture tool, and again about eighteen months ago when Evernote restructured their plans in a way that made me genuinely angry. A tool I'd relied on for years suddenly limited my free account to 50 notes and a single notebook. Not a downgrade. A near-deletion. So I've tested a lot of alternatives. The ones on this list aren't theoretical picks — they're apps I've actually used to manage client notes, research captures, reading lists, and the general chaos of thinking work. Here's what I found. Why People Are Leaving Evernote The short version: price increases, arbitrary restrictions, and a product that's barely improved in years. The long version is messier. Evernote changed ownership in 2022 when Italian software company Bending Spoons acquired it, then proceeded to lay off most of the staff and restructure the entire pricing model.…