I am forever surprised that Evernote is still functioning as a company.
It is just a note taking tool, something that can easily be done with a git repo hosted on github.
Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
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Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#122Maybe this is just me getting old, but I feel like Evernote has only gotten worse since I started using it over 10 years ago. Back then it was just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities - perfect. These days they have added all these extra features which I don't need, and which have made the whole app slow and terribly clunky. When I use the iPad app it takes several seconds to load notes or sear…
Joplin - https://joplinapp.org/
I use Joplin with Hetzners storage box service to keep my notes in sync.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#123I used Evernote 5-6 years ago. It was a decent product but somehow I lost a note once. I deleted the app and never tried it again. A few months later my wife went through the same experience.
I now use the iOS Notes app. It’s good enough, including the sharing feature.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#124I used Evernote 5-6 years ago. It was a decent product but somehow I lost a note once. I deleted the app and never tried it again. A few months later my wife went through the same experience. I now use the iOS Notes app. It’s good enough, including the sharing feature.
Same, iOS Notes all the way.
Adding this because I didn't know about it for awhile and maybe someone reading doesn't know - iOS notes includes a pretty good document scanner with the iphone camera. Open a new note and press the camera icon, you can scan multiple pages with the camera and it turns it into a reasonable PDF.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've switched to SwiftScan with automatic upload to Dropbox. It does decent-ish OCR on documents so that you more or less can select text in scanned PDFs. I rarely search inside scanned docs, most of the search is by filename which I manually set a couple of times a week. For file search VoidTools Everything is great.
Any other recommendation for an iOS scanner app that doesn't want me to subscribe to a mailing list and doesn't ask for monthly payment? Free or one time payment only.
iOS notes!! hit the camera button from a note, scan multiple pages, turns it into a PDF
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evernote has only gotten worse since I started using it over 10 years ago That is the modern business model. First you build something so good it becomes indespensible then you squeeze money out of it until your customers hate you just enough to not stop using you.
This is what I call “cashing out the social capital”. I don’t know if I’d call it a business model , but it’s certainly something that many modern businesses do.
Ah, so that's what Blizzard/Bethesda have been doing. :D
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#127Since the move to Electron, Evernote has become a dumpster fire. It's considerably slower in everything and no longer supports standard native affordances. I've moved my 12k notes to Apple Notes and the difference is staggering.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, eh? Sure, Apple Notes may have native window resize, but can you tell if the app is syncing right now? When was the last sync? What happens in case of a versioning clash? Will it decide to work with patchy Internet on that upcoming train ride? Will it sync once you go back online? Will it decide to party with some random Exchange server you used for work once, and how will thi…
My main issue with Notes right now is that somewhere along the way we became OK with software having no Undo at all, combined with the power to instantly sync your typo everywhere so it is truly gone forever, combined with UI that basically encourages accidents. So if I am perfect when typing with a tiny virtual keyboard, nothing goes wrong; otherwise, I could lose things in ways that are interpreted by the software as me choosing to lose them, which is bogus.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Notion
I use notion and I have to say regardless of what you want to use it for it will probably do much more than that for your use case once you understand how it works. My only quibble is the lack of offline functionality.
Yes. We carry supercomputers in our pockets, it's nice being able to use them and not be subject to connection issues or server outages, or developer whim.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#129Old wunderlist user, migrated to MS todo which as expected has gotten worse over time, particularly the buggy macOS app but is good enough on the web and iOS.
IIRC the original developer offered to buy it back from Microsoft but Microsoft refused.
Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
#130I used Evernote 5-6 years ago. It was a decent product but somehow I lost a note once. I deleted the app and never tried it again. A few months later my wife went through the same experience. I now use the iOS Notes app. It’s good enough, including the sharing feature.
I would like to know if iOS notes has reasonable export/interoperability features these days, because last time I looked it certainly didn’t, unless you fancied doing PDF exports for every note manually.