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Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by cecja »

mikestew wrote: post #10
godzillabrennus wrote: post #7

I have been using evernote since it practically launched. I only use Evernote these days because there is no competitor I like a lot. Not because it's good. The app crashes, it takes forever to open, and the company has not improved anything in a long time. Now they even changed the logo making it harder for my mind to locate the app. Total disaster at Evernote. I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet.

I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet. Why on earth would they want to? OneNote runs on everything, ties in well with Office, and covers the big ticket features that Evernote does. I'm a vimwiki user for the most of what Evernote/OneNote cover, but what I can't believe is that Evernote users haven't saved Microsoft the trouble, and just switched to OneNote. I mean, if you're going to go walled-garden, Micros…

WOOOSH

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by cecja »

gargarplex wrote: post #8
craftyguy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let this be a lesson against relying on proprietary walled gardens.

Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..

They could just as easy use a flux compensator to mangle with the time continuum and use the Bermuda triangle as a energy source for their servers.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by craftyguy »

gargarplex wrote: post #8
craftyguy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let this be a lesson against relying on proprietary walled gardens.

Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..

> could run on a blockchain

git is literally a "blockchain", and has been since before "blockchain all the things" was cool.

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about in the rest of your comment.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by saidajigumi »

icc97 wrote: post #9
saidajigumi wrote: post #5

I've been an Evernote user for a long time, but it's been ages since I've felt that they're actually user-focused by way of improving holes like poor functional parity across their apps(1). As a outsider, a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps while a stream of core app rebuilds launched, none of which significantly moved the functional needle. I've been exploring altern…

I'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that generates a html preview as I type. I think markdown is the most future proof technology for the moment because you can just use pandoc to convert it or most note systems will accept markdown as an input format. I'm not sure how tags would work in markdown, I gue…

I suppose the set of features I need covered include:

- Web clipping. Evernotes browser plugins are pretty darn good here.

- Notes with attachments (images, PDFs, etc.). Some of these are mixed-media notes, where text, images, and/or file attachments are mixed to create a comprehensive document about some topic. Others are "pure" attachments, e.g. "store this PDF where I can retrieve it by search".

- Note taking. This, in isolation, is the easiest.

- Note syncing, mobile and desktop. This gets a bit harder.

- Search. Let's be clear, this was the first and biggest killer feature of Evernote. Notebook and tag organization are important, but rather than just providing direct hierarchical/taxonomic organization, they're largely there to support search with user-defined search facets.

I'd also love good Markdown support – that's one of my most-wanted features from Evernote in the first place.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by ilamont »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #7

I have been using evernote since it practically launched. I only use Evernote these days because there is no competitor I like a lot. Not because it's good. The app crashes, it takes forever to open, and the company has not improved anything in a long time. Now they even changed the logo making it harder for my mind to locate the app. Total disaster at Evernote. I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet.

Didn't Microsoft buy Wunderlist?

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by deedubaya »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #7

I have been using evernote since it practically launched. I only use Evernote these days because there is no competitor I like a lot. Not because it's good. The app crashes, it takes forever to open, and the company has not improved anything in a long time. Now they even changed the logo making it harder for my mind to locate the app. Total disaster at Evernote. I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet.

Didn't MS already buy Wunderlist?

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by ArekDymalski »

saidajigumi wrote: post #5

I've been an Evernote user for a long time, but it's been ages since I've felt that they're actually user-focused by way of improving holes like poor functional parity across their apps(1). As a outsider, a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps while a stream of core app rebuilds launched, none of which significantly moved the functional needle. I've been exploring altern…

>so far nothing has stuck.

Have you tried diigo.com and it's apps? I highly reccomend it to everyone looking for Evernote alternative, especially for web clipping and organizing.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by mey »

mhneu wrote: post #18

Oy. I use Evernote because of its excellent image markup. You can mix images and text in notes and really document an image-based or figure-based data flow. Not sure if there's any alternative that does this as well.

You might look at OneNote

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by jarsin »

cecja wrote: post #12
gargarplex wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..

They could just as easy use a flux compensator to mangle with the time continuum and use the Bermuda triangle as a energy source for their servers.

Let me know when you ICO.
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