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Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by dalacv »

austenallred wrote: post #23
tempestn wrote: post #8

> Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus. Well, like many others, I've been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that's exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the maj…

It would also be a huge plus if it didn't take 5 seconds to load every time I opened the app. Not sure how a company with so many competitors can survive long-term with its product in such a state.

"It's traveling to space. Give it time" - LCK

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by jseliger »

tempestn wrote: post #8

> Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus. Well, like many others, I've been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that's exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the maj…

I wonder if they're experiencing feature creep because they've satisfied users of the core features. I use a program called Devonthink Pro according to this method: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... and in some respects my use hasn't changed that much. I use syncing features and some other pieces, and maybe the engine has gotten a little better over time, but mostly I do what I did with it 10 years ago.

I wrote a little more about DTP here: http://jakeseliger.com/2010/11/12/scrivener-or-devonthink-pr... , though I understand that some people use Evernote differently than DTP.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by duderific »

cag_ii wrote: post #54

> This team has achieved three incredible feats: they’ve created one of the most important productivity tools in history... That's a very, very bold statement...

Yeah really, ease up there buddy. How about the steam engine, the cotton gin, the printing press, the computer, etc. I would argue more important than Evernote.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by lemiffe »

Just started using Evernote after a coworker shared a note with me the other day.

After years of using notepad, notepad++, sublime text, and now atom, I feel like the plaintext experience is severely lacking.

Select all the text in a note, mark as plain text, copy something from any site, paste, formatting is ignored. Paste with source formatting should be the exception, not the norm.

The lack of headers and other basic formatting options is also frustrating. Wordpress does a better job with it's editor... and it's a web app!

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by cbr »

dalacv wrote: post #111
austenallred wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would also be a huge plus if it didn't take 5 seconds to load every time I opened the app. Not sure how a company with so many competitors can survive long-term with its product in such a state.

"It's traveling to space. Give it time" - LCK

When their competitors can be 5x faster while still traveling to space that's not so hot.

(And it doesn't actually travel to space unless you're on a satellite connection.)

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by tajano »

swagswag wrote: post #53
tajano wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another prediction: Twitter. 2k+ engineers on staff without notable improvements to the core user-facing product in a while. Declining signups, declining engagement. Nobody stepping into the permanent CEO role. I don't see how this ends well.

140+ char limit is gonna be revolutionary

Brevity is the only thing most Tweets have going for them.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by jimktrains2 »

jseliger wrote: post #112
tempestn wrote: post #8

> Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus. Well, like many others, I've been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that's exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the maj…

I wonder if they're experiencing feature creep because they've satisfied users of the core features. I use a program called Devonthink Pro according to this method: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... and in some respects my use hasn't changed that much. I use syncing features and some other pieces, and maybe the engine has gotten a little better over time, but mostly I do what I did with…

> I wonder if they're experiencing feature creep because they've satisfied users of the core features.

Except for a native linux client :(

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by joshdickson »

greenyoda wrote: post #13
egusa wrote: post #5

businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, "Evernote, the first dead unicorn", which really foreshadowed this: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/evernote-the-first-dead-un...

That article generated a lot of discussion on HN a couple of weeks ago, which can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218915 (Note: The BusinessInsider article was a re-publication of the original on syrah.co.)

thank you for noticing! we are currently back on HN with the Startup L. Jackson post so this was weird timing

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by BostonEnginerd »

mrmondo wrote: post #102
craigching wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ... markdown support Yes, 1000 times yes! I so wish I could author in Evernote using markdown. Getting any sort of rich text done in a note is extremely cumbersome in Evernote, lists for instance.

Have you submitted it as a feature request to their support? I get the feeling they just don't have enough people asking for it.

I made a feature request quite a long time ago for LaTeX math support. Every few months another person +1s the suggestion. I don't get the sense that they really take the suggestions on the forum particularly seriously.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by xiaoma »

defen wrote: post #109
xiaoma wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Groupon is still worth a couple of billion despite the beating it's taken from investors. Its revenue and EBITDA have consistently climbed in each year since going public, and there is plenty of cash on hand without a single cent of debt. As usual, the Motley Fool's analysis is excellent: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/04/07/bull-vs-bea...

GRPN is down nearly 46% since that was written...

That makes the bull side of the argument significantly stronger, especially given that N. American gross billings are up 12% year-over-year in the last quarter.

I have no financial position either way, and I'm not claiming everything is rosy for GRPN but it's very far from being a "dead unicorn" and at least by my analysis the stock is pretty undervalued at the moment.

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