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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
#152I've founded a startup that wants to tackle the digital notebook and save-for-later problem, for any content - not just web stuff. What's your wish list for your ideal notebook?
I like something that I can buy and host myself so that when the over-valued company decides to stop making it I can still use it. Then again, I'm probably not a target user base for somebody looking for the next big thing.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed; Google Keep has become my preference for immediate note taking. I think a major factor in Evernote's long-term survival is the friction of switching to a competitor (in conjunction with getting a lot of early traction with power-users).
I'll use Keep for everything the moment they add attachments, rich text and a clipper. It's already pretty close to what I need..
That plus folders or some sort of hierarchical organization would meet all my needs perfectly.
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#154I was an Evernote Premium customer and enjoyed multi-device syncing and private notebooks. I had my own account, paid for out of my own pocket for a year. The company I worked for also decided to used Evernote and I could see our "Team" notebooks, right along with my stuff. When the company stopped using it, not only did I lose the "Team" notebooks, it took all of my personal data with it. I lost everything. Support…
That is incredible. I'm sorry that behavior like that exists and that service providers can be so terrible at what they do. It also sounds like an implied admission, on the part of evernote, of not having working backups ? I would think that they would have found some way any way to get your data back to you given what just happened.
This is a hilarious comment coming from a user named "rsync"
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#155I know that it is the common vernacular, but you didn't let them go, you fired them. Surely they would prefer to not go and continue to pay their mortgage. I'm sure it wasn't easy to fire them, but don't try and make the situation rosey. The folks who decided on the direction of the company decided wrong and now they have to fire the people who executed those decision. Edit: Would you all prefer the word "Terminated"…
I think it's the opposite. Layoffs are when mgmt is at fault. Firings are when the employees are at fault.
But layoffs often come from above as "fire the worst 20% or your team so we can get lean." So in that case the employee does play a part.
The problem with these moves is that the top 20% often see the writing on the wall and leave shortly after. Then the second 20% start testing the waters. Then...
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#156Url changed from http://www.businessinsider.com/evernote-layoffs-2015-9 , which points to this.
That article includes some pertinent information that's not in the blog posting, though (which offices are closing, one of the products that's being discontinued).
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#157Do they really have a "Go Premium" CTA at the end of this blog? Wow.
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#158I was an Evernote Premium customer and enjoyed multi-device syncing and private notebooks. I had my own account, paid for out of my own pocket for a year. The company I worked for also decided to used Evernote and I could see our "Team" notebooks, right along with my stuff. When the company stopped using it, not only did I lose the "Team" notebooks, it took all of my personal data with it. I lost everything. Support…
This is insane. Although I believe Evernote is one of the few products that allow you to export your data.
how do you export? Last time I checked I could only export individual notes, which is obviously not a working solution given that I have thousands of notes.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft has OneNote, which might be a good cautionary tale in this area. OneNote was once the king of note taking, like back in 2003, and it's still a great product. But Microsoft focused too much on the Business market, I think, dropping OneNote from the Office Home packages, and that kind of killed it outside of the corp world.
Isn't OneNote still popular in education, like students taking notes in class?
It is, and is integrated well with the Surface and the Surface pen. Works great for taking handwritten (or typed) notes and having it sync to my phone/desktop immediately. I use it often to take notes at meetings then I am able to send all the notes/diagrams to others in pdf form when I get back to my workstation.
Big fan of OneNote.
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the auxiliary stuff that they've dropped? (or will drop/reduce emphasis on) Genuinely curious. I've noted that they seem to have multiple apps in the AppStore doing similar things.
I don't know what they've dropped, but a few auxiliary features I personally don't use are Skitch, Hello, and Work Chat. I'm sure some people do use them (although I expect few compared to the core product). But everyone uses the editor, and there are significant bugs there that have literally gone unfixed for years. That said, some have been fixed in the past couple months, which is part of why I'm hopeful about thi…
Personally skitch is far more important to me than Evernote itself. If they killed off that app I'd be gone in a heartbeat.