The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by webmasterraj » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 4:14 AM UTC

The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote
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Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by msellout » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:09 AM UTC

Sad, if so. I'm a paying user of Evernote. I have noticed that it hasn't really gained new features lately.

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by dylanjermiah » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:14 AM UTC

Used to use Evernote 10+ times per day. Now it's a few times a week at most. Seems the product has stayed stagnant for a while now.

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by Animats » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:18 AM UTC

Evernote: "Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace. Evernote is the place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important ..."

And they're going down. Not good.

How to export your data from Evernote.[1]

[1] http://jasonfrasca.com/deconstructing-everyday-blog/evernote...

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by xseparator » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:20 AM UTC

As a paying customer, I see Evernote as awesome and terrible at the same time. I've enjoyed using Alternote on OSX as an Evernote client to get what I really want out of Evernote...a place to store, umm, notes. No chats. No web clippings and highlights. It's just notes I write, and associated attached media like document scans or images, in a clean interface. One of my favorite Evernote features is automatic OCR of images within notes. They do an excellent job at it.

I only use Evernote for my personal note-taking, and as much as I shake my fist at the massive clutter that has always existed in their first party apps, I can't live without it. (Notebooks AND Tags AND Search AND a map? Why?) It has never once occurred to me to use it as a collaboration tool. It boggles my mind why they would think this is something their customers want from them.

I've been using Evernote for so long the thought of having to move dozens of notebooks and hundreds of notes to another platform does not sound appealing!

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by arghbleargh » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:24 AM UTC

dylanjermiah wrote: post #3

Used to use Evernote 10+ times per day. Now it's a few times a week at most. Seems the product has stayed stagnant for a while now.

Interesting that engagement seems to be waning from a lot of Evernote users (based on this anecdatum and the article). Is it because the product has gotten actively worse, or do you find less need to use it these days (e.g. you realized it was more hassle than it was worth)?

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by lynchdt » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:27 AM UTC

We tried Evernote for business in our office for around 6 months. The sharing and communication feature-set was really bad. In a shared notebook we ended up with 'conflicted copies' of lots of important notes that really needed to be an authority on things. The 'Work Chat' feature is spectacularly bad and unusable - to the point of comedy. Most of us flipped way to using Google Apps and Keep Notes, which just really nails collaboration and keeps everything nice and simple.

In my opinion Google doesn't get enough credit for it's Apps offering. I see lots of articles on here and elsewhere that deride it as a 'search company' that 'can't build product' - but I really think they're quietly building an excellent product suite.

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by welly » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:27 AM UTC

I use Evernote purely as a tool to store bookmarks. I could probably use anything else but Evernote generally suits my needs for that. Rarely, if ever, use it for taking notes or anything that isn't a bookmark. Best export my bookmarks if the story is correct.

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by mintplant » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:28 AM UTC

So what's the alternative to Evernote?

The article lists Google Docs, which doesn't really seem equivalent, and OneNote. I'm using OneNote right now to organize planning for a media/writing project, and the experience leaves a lot to be desired. The writing interface in particular is clunky, in the web client and on Android -- on my phone, I have to pop open a menu and then a drawer just to switch bold text on or off. And the Office365/OneDrive setup just isn't well integrated overall -- navigating OneDrive is confusing, and you can't, for example, insert a picture stored in OneDrive into a note.

Google Keep doesn't fit my needs, as it's missing support for any sort of real organization. It seems more geared toward quick digital post-its and todo lists.

Is Dropbox's Notes product any good? That seems to be in closed beta still...

Re: The first dead Unicorn will be Evernote

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Post by hkmurakami » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 5:29 AM UTC

Well technically, Fab had a $1B valuation and has died, so that's the first dead Unicorn right? ;)