I use text for documents and grep/find to search them. I do have them on my phone, Terminal IDE is a full git/grep/yada suite for android.
Sharing with other geeks is easy, share a repository with them. Sharing with non geeks is a different story, of course, that is not covered by this approach.
> I use text for documents and grep/find to search them.
That's wonderful, now what about a picture of a business card or flier I took quickly? What about PDFs I've been sent or have found online? Not everything is generated in a text editor, and as much as I love text and default to it as much as possible, it's not always possible.
This is maybe my 3rd biggest usecase.
> Sharing with non geeks is a different story, of course, that is not covered by this approach.
Which may be my second largest use case for evernote.
I would not call a method that cannot perform more than 2/3rds of the main functions I use daily a replacement, let a lone an adequate one.
Sharing with other geeks is easy, share a repository with them. Sharing with non geeks is a different story, of course, that is not covered by this approach.