Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by ungamedplayer » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:19 AM UTC

klausjensen wrote: post #12

I still use Evernote for scanned documents (invoices, receipts, insurance papers etc etc), and have done so for ~10 years - because I can free-text search in scanned documents. During those years, Evernote has kept getting worse and worse, becomeing slower and more unreliable at doing cores things, while they slap features on it, that I do not want (collaboration, chat and other garbage). I want to migrate off at som…

Has this changed your mind about hosted third party services? I have seen a number of people bitten by this kind of vendor behaviour, but they swiftly go back to making the same mistake.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by srvmshr » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:20 AM UTC

mkl95 wrote: post #19

Evernote have been walking a slow death march for 5+ years.

It is quite unfortunate. Around 2013-2014, I started systematically saving everything to Evernote and even got a paid plan. There were two issues:

1. Their app was getting buggy to handle on mac/win. The migration was terrible and they had a custom container format for export which was pretty useless. It became like the Hotel California of software. You could bring your stuff in, but never leave due to the lock-in.

I eventually migrated everything out of Evernote by saving printing emailing and started using plain Git on a local server for document save / version control.

2. There was no app for Linux. They made a lot of efforts on windows mac, and then ios/android but left native Linux support completely out of the picture. Evernote in 2015 had a hard time with Wine for emulation.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by WJW » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:21 AM UTC

molszanski wrote: post #15

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notion has a strangely huge and fanatic fan base so it's not surprising It's like a cult

There are a few cults :D - Notion Nation - Roam Legion - Zettelkasten Zealots - Bear Bros PS. Add more ;)

Also the:

- Evernote Evangelists

- Orgmode Promotion Society

- Plaintext Patriots

- Joplin Javelins

- Obsidian Organisation

etc etc etc

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by fluder » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:23 AM UTC

https://fsnot.es for macOS/iOS ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by fredgrott » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:28 AM UTC

Hmm, that is why i use Github as my note taking tool as I have learned from experience that having a local git and being able to back that up to a cloud git server trumps everything that a normal 3rd party service can claim to provide

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by langsoul-com » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:29 AM UTC

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #6

hwers wrote: post #4

Feels like both the comments in here are paid for by Notion somehow.

Notion has a strangely huge and fanatic fan base so it's not surprising It's like a cult

Eh, it's just a good product. As soon as it becomes shit, expect everyone to jump on the next product.

Just like people who used to like evernote, but not any more.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by nfriedly » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

Personally, I'm using the next cloud notes app. It's somewhat limited - essentially just plain text with a bit of markdown support, but the upside is that my data is stored in plain text files that are easy to backup and/or export if I ever decide to switch to something else.

I'm running it on an unRAID server with nightly backups, but you could just as easily run it from a raspberry pi.

Before next cloud, I was using text files in Dropbox.

My employer just started using notion. It seems fine so far, but I don't see myself switching away from next cloud any time soon.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by smcleod » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:30 AM UTC

They replaced the good enough native apps with a horrible Electron piece of garbage. That was the final straw.

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by ibluehh » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:31 AM UTC

DangerousPie wrote: post #30

Maybe 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…

Notion

Re: Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

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Post by molszanski » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 10:32 AM UTC

morituri wrote: post #29

molszanski wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a few cults :D - Notion Nation - Roam Legion - Zettelkasten Zealots - Bear Bros PS. Add more ;)

Obsidian Ocelots?

Since Obsidian is a glass stone, it can be something related to mining?