Everchords is sunsetted

Back in 2018 I had a problem. I was writing song lyrics in Evernote, but displaying them for playing was annoying. I started work on Everchords a tiny platform allowing you to connect your Evernote account and display SongPro lyrics beautifully. Over time I added more convenience features for songwriting that helped me a lot to streamline my song writing process. This was a big help when producing Bettlektüre.

All this ended a year ago, when I stopped using Evernote. So it wasn’t part of my workflow anymore. I kept doing security updates, but these took more effort lately. I thought for a long time how to continue it, but ultimately, I don’t know. I’m using Obsidian.md now, which does not have similar APIs. While all data is fully accessible being “just markdown files”, there is no default pipeline to process and there are so many ways to build this pipeline, that it makes little sense to build and maintain a full platform around this. So I decided to take offline.

The itch it scratched is still there, as I write my notes in , I may want to have a better songwriting experience again. We will see in time how I will change my process, adopt a different tool set or build something again to cover this.