I get that Evernote seems stagnant (or even dead by many accounts) and it certainly is lacking in critical features such as e2ee, but all these (paid) alternatives are only covering a small fraction of Evernote functionally: mostly text notes. No OCR, no easy meeting notes, no templates...
Luckily, where I am I've access to (really!) low cost EN subscription (maybe I've got grandfathered into it? Right now it works out less than 1usd/year) So I'm just never tempted to find alternatives despite it's shortcomings.
Yes, I use Evernote as a searchable scanned documents database (I don’t need plain text notes, and I have thousands of scans lying around from the last 12 years). Every bill, receipt, signed contract, insurance claim etc. gets scanned and goes to Evernote, with tags for quick access. I pay full $80/year for it.
I would really love to switch to something else, but there is no alternative. There is no other document database with built-in OCR. I tried for years to find it, but apparently there is nothing else.
Managing plain-text notes is the easiest part. I could do it with Orgmode if I wanted to. But I don’t know how I could manage my scanned documents, if not in Evernote.
Luckily, where I am I've access to (really!) low cost EN subscription (maybe I've got grandfathered into it? Right now it works out less than 1usd/year) So I'm just never tempted to find alternatives despite it's shortcomings.