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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 jlos »

bhaak wrote: post #46

Has anybody tried Joplin? https://github.com/laurent22/joplin On paper, their feature set looks great, with various synchronisation options (Dropbox, WebDAV, OneDrive) and apps on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.

>> open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.

Was going to sit down and Google something with this exact set of features. Thanks for saving me the time!

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

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Post by lquist »

I’ve been a long time user of Evernote and have a love/hate relationship with the product. It really doesn’t know how to handle merge conflicts. I’ve been too lazy to switch but I’m starting to feel enough pain that I may make the leap. Edit:typos

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

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Post by wlesieutre »

sxg wrote: post #75
coldcode wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$1 per download isn't enough to pay the bills. That's not much more than a 99¢ game. It means people don't actually value the product enough to pay for it.

One huge problem is that there’s a lot of competition that provides most of the same core features for free—like Apple Notes, for example. It’s also easy to repurpose apps like MS Word and Google Docs to achieve the same functionality. Obviously they’re very different apps designed for a different purpose, but many of my friends don’t seem to mind. They just want a reasonably functional way to take notes for free.

OneNote is a direct competitor and honestly a better one

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

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Post by ckorhonen »

akurilin wrote: post #40

Can't recommend notion.so enough as a modern replacement for Evernote.

I’m on the fence after using it for about 4 months. Initially I was drawn to Notion due to the features, templates etc. - it made me feel like I was running a legit business, with sections for company vision, expense reports, meeting minutes etc!

The multifunctional nature reminded me a lot of Lotus Notes, empowering users to build new functionality and database (not a bad thing, though leads to silos and lock in).

Two main things ended up frustrating me about Notion that I went back to Bear and other tools:

- For pure text editing some of the shortcuts drove me insane. The syntax was kind of like markdown but not quite, and the shortcuts for moving between levels of indentation were different from pretty much every other app I had used. The rich content was cool, but ran into so many issues with embeds only working on certain platforms, and rendering blank or crashing the app on others. - It was surprisingly easy for team members to screw things up. I’m talking about cluttering tables with blank records, moving documents around and causing them to disappear into the ether for other users. There just didn’t seem to be very good controls or audit trails.

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

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Post by davidandgoliath »

failrate wrote: post #65
bhaak wrote: post #46

Has anybody tried Joplin? https://github.com/laurent22/joplin On paper, their feature set looks great, with various synchronisation options (Dropbox, WebDAV, OneDrive) and apps on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.

Well, I will now .

Boostnote is another great alternative, though it currently lacks a mobile app.

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

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Post by egypturnash »

lquist wrote: post #93

I’ve been a long time user of Evernote and have a love/hate relationship with the product. It really doesn’t know how to handle merge conflicts. I’ve been too lazy to switch but I’m starting to feel enough pain that I may make the leap. Edit:typos

ugggghhhh same

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

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Post by product50 »

caymanjim wrote: post #73
mikestew wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The same reason every mid-sized company gets bought: to obtain the users. Evernote was there first, and has an established market through nothing more than inertia. Their product is terrible. Someone will buy them, absorb the userbase, and get rid of the existing product.

Have you used OneNote? It is definitely a comparable product vs. Evernote and is integrated with Office365 which makes it part of all existing enterprise subscription packages.

THey also have a free version which is pretty good.

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