For people looking for replacement ideas: I use Zim + Syncthing. Works on my Linux machines, and Android app works OK.
Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
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Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#452Earlier 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've gone the other way (Keep to Evernote). I need a cross platform solution, and with any significant amount of data the Keep webapp is practically unusable on my iPad. If they had released a native iOS version, I probably wouldn't have switched.
> If they had released a native iOS version, I probably wouldn't have switched.
You mean like this?
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#453I'm a very casual Evernote user; I only use the free version, every few months, to sync basic things (e.g., shopping lists, or directions) between my desktop and phone. A few months ago, I noticed that there were suddenly lots of ads within Evernote, encouraging me to upgrade to the paid version. I'm not complaining, since they need to make money, but it did strike me as being more aggressive than before. Now I under…
I have the same feeling with you at the moment(s) every time I open Evernote it prompts to ask you to upgrade.
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#454- The Windows version sucks: I have a really long note and now I cannot open it, the whole program just crashes.
- The Mac version is OK. Still running fine.
- The Web version looks cleaner, but it doesn't have a highlight tool??!!
Another major complain is that it's really difficult to store code in a note.
I started using [WizNote](http://www.wiznote.com/) recently and it seems really good: markdown, free, multiple directory support, comments, etc
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#455You know what _really_ sucks about this? They're closing off the API & got rid of their evangelists.
Looks like the Evernote API is still open, alive, free and public:
https://twitter.com/evernote_dev/status/650089211844890624 https://twitter.com/evernotehelps/status/650086523719671808
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#456Earlier quoted context omitted.
Markdown support has been a common feature request for years, with many feature requests in their forums as well as entire blog posts from fairly prominent bloggers – just try googling "Evernote markdown support". I've had the strong suspicion for a long time now that they simply aren't listening to these sorts of feature requests that don't tie into their enterprise/business focus – at least since about 2013.
They just tweeted me back saying: "We don't have full markdown support, but check out this post for an update on where our editor is going: https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/09/22/the-future-of-writ...
Link seems to be dead. Edit:
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/09/22/the-future-of-writ...
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#457Earlier quoted context omitted.
great article! ;)
(Sorry for posting off-topic but I know you wrote the syrah platform and I can't find an email address for you) Could you please remove this bit of CSS. I'd like to be able to see my scrollbar: body::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 0!important; }
lol seriously. What crosses your head when you just remove the scrollbar?
Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'd have moved by now if I could find something that was both highly cross-platform (Mac/Win/iOS) and lighter (Markdown pretty please). I've compromised on OneNote, which isn't lightweight, but has become impressively cross-platform.
I tried to get back into OneNote last night (after the frustrations brought up by posting in this thread). I appreciate the cross-platform aspect, but I really don't like the interface - especially on desktop. The really weird text-box thing just blows my mind, I just want to write.
You can turn that 'text box thing' off and make it behave like normal page.
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#459Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google keeps trying to force me to open files in Docs, Sheets, etc., which is very annoying. It also tries to convert Excel files into Sheets.
This drives me mad! Even simple Excel files break Sheets. Google pushes users into using a unsuitable product for what? Short term market share gain?
I actually like and use sheets (it's much better than Excel for simple and/or non-analytical use cases), so when I use Excel for something, it's because I want to use Excel for that thing.