EagleFiler

I wanted to create a central repository for all the personal data I've generated over the years in one location, searchable within a single program. I have a Gmail account that's 19 years old with 144K messages. My Evernote account goes back to 2008 and has over 7K notes. In addition I have an Obsidian vault with another 7K notes plus an archive from Facebook beginning in 2008 and one from Twitter beginning in 2009. I have over 1K bookmarks in Raindrop.io and hundreds of personal documents primarily in Microsoft Office and PDF formats dating back to the mid-90s. The app I chose to create my personal database is EagleFiler by Command-C Software.

Using Google Takeout, I got an .mbox with all my old emails. I requested archives from social media sites. I created export files in Evernote and in Raindrio.io. The initial import process was fairly quick. Subsequent imports have been easy. Eagle creates a folder where you can place any type of document you want to have imported. When you open the program, everything in that folder is added to your primary database aka library.

Some of the things I really liked:

• All my tags from Evernote imported along with the original creation date of the notes
• Eagle created web archives for all of my bookmarks, giving me a static copy of many, many articles
• Bulk edits to imported documents make organizing easy
• Folder structure of notes is easy to manage
• I can edit text and RTF files within Eagle Filer
• I can search with Spotlight or using the app's native search
• Built in encryption

EagleFiler is $59.99 on the developer's website, but keep your eyes peeled for sales. It was recently included in Bundle Hunt for under $10.