Elephant (Evernote/OneNote alternative)
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:17 pm
Cross-platform, open source Evernote alternative that appears to have hesitated in terms of development and needs some usability work.
Portable: No, writes settings to C:\Users\USERNAME\.com.pinktwins.elephant.settings
Other notes:
I was disappointed that the program advertises the ability to sync over DropBox and similar tools. Clearly the functionality would break if you didn't have the database saved to the same username and file location on both computers
I'm a little annoyed that the author is calling the program "Elephant Premium" as I think that's just confusing but given my frustrations with OneNote and Evernote, I don't blame him/her.
Good:
* Very solid file embedding tool
* Handles PDFs well, though it seems to want you to give the PDF it's own area as I couldn't seem to click around it. If you just click the document, it'll duplicate the tab. Not sure what that's about.
Wishlist:
* Needs image resize
* No right-click functionality (e.g. to cut, copy, or paste an image)
Main: http://elephant.mine.nu/
Github: https://github.com/jusu/Elephant
EDIT: I tested version 29
Portable: No, writes settings to C:\Users\USERNAME\.com.pinktwins.elephant.settings
Other notes:
I was disappointed that the program advertises the ability to sync over DropBox and similar tools. Clearly the functionality would break if you didn't have the database saved to the same username and file location on both computers
I'm a little annoyed that the author is calling the program "Elephant Premium" as I think that's just confusing but given my frustrations with OneNote and Evernote, I don't blame him/her.
Good:
* Very solid file embedding tool
* Handles PDFs well, though it seems to want you to give the PDF it's own area as I couldn't seem to click around it. If you just click the document, it'll duplicate the tab. Not sure what that's about.
Wishlist:
* Needs image resize
* No right-click functionality (e.g. to cut, copy, or paste an image)
Main: http://elephant.mine.nu/
Github: https://github.com/jusu/Elephant
EDIT: I tested version 29