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September 6, 2026
Should you encrypt your notes? The honest trade-offs
Every encrypted-notes pitch skips the bill. A note your app genuinely can’t read is a note it can’t search, can’t OCR and can’t hand to your AI. We checked what five notes apps encrypt by default, and what each one gives up to do it.
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September 3, 2026
We handed the books to an agent
Hours of monthly bookkeeping, done on a schedule by an agent, with the finished statement filed into Harbor as a note. Why a note beats a spreadsheet for this, and why the boring guardrails matter more than the AI.
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September 2, 2026
Evernote Web Clipper alternatives: what actually replaces it
The clipper is the thing Evernote users are most afraid of losing. We checked which notes apps ship a first-party clipper in 2026, what each actually captures, and — the part nobody covers — what happens to the thousands of clips already in your account.
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September 2, 2026
MCP servers for notes, explained
MCP is the standard that lets ChatGPT or Claude reach into your notes app. We went through the major ones to see who ships a server, who leaves it to volunteers, and who puts it behind a paid plan.
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August 30, 2026
What is an ENEX file? Evernote's export format, explained
ENEX is the file Evernote gives you when you export. We opened real exports and read the current spec: what each part holds, how to open one without Evernote, why a small notebook becomes a huge file, and what the format cannot carry.
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August 29, 2026
Your notes were always yours. Now they're Markdown too.
Markdown export is here: a folder per notebook, one .md per note, attachments alongside, and frontmatter that carries your tags and dates. The interesting part isn’t the export — it’s that Harbor reads it back in.
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August 27, 2026
Work over here, life over there
Harbor now has workspaces: group notebooks into views, flip between them, and the sidebar, search, tasks, tags and trash all follow. It’s a filter over what you see — and we’re clear about what it isn’t.
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August 25, 2026
Is Evernote still worth it in 2026? An honest review
Evernote in 2026 is a good product with a hard commercial edge: the entry plan caps you at 1,000 notes, and the uncapped one is $249.99 a year. We counted 500 recent reviews to find out who is still happy with it — and who is not.
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August 24, 2026
Fold it
Collapsible outlines are in Harbor: fold a bullet, fold a heading, hide the section you’re not working on. The fold lives in the note, so it follows you to every device.
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August 19, 2026
What Bending Spoons did to Evernote: a timeline, with data
A dated, sourced timeline of everything Bending Spoons has done to Evernote since 2022, and an analysis of the 500 most recent App Store reviews that shows what users are actually angry about. It is not what most people assume.
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August 17, 2026
We timed a 1,158-note migration into Harbor
How long an Evernote-format import into Harbor actually takes, measured twice with a stopwatch: what came across, what did not, and why an attachment-heavy library behaves completely differently from a text-heavy one.
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August 11, 2026
Evernote pricing in 2026: every plan, and ten years of price increases
Evernote costs $99 or $249.99 a year, and the $99 plan stops at 1,000 notes. Here’s what every plan limits, which one you’d actually need, and every price change back to 2016.
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