Yeah, I’m ambivalent about Evernote. On the one hand it is a great place to put everything (except for notes and documents – I much prefer text notes with MultiMarkdown for that). On the other hand, I would love to be able to replicate the functionality I use in a folder system I could sync and access on my mobile devices.

I can do most of what I need already. The challenge is replicating something like the note-being-everything model with text notes (even if it means some sort of basic folder structure to hold files and associate them with text files) that also works easily on mobile. Other things like moving emails into notes for later reference (I want a single filing system for everything) and clipping stuff on the Web into my system don’t seem to have convenient analogues outside Evernote.

There must be a way to do that or maybe it’s about reconceptualising how to construct that system to handle everything from basic notes to various document types to clipped things from the Web and photos on the go. If it isn’t simple, portable and independent on anything more than the Internet and a basic file system, Evernote will remain the best option. At least for that stuff.