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The problem with Evernote (and most of desktop apps) is that, it requires a bunch of RAM and CPU usage to use it. (Can relate with Slack desktop app, or Github desktop app). Just like user/customer could blame your web app if it starts too slow. The same applies to desktop apps, too.
The problem with Evernote (and most of desktop apps) is that, it requires a bunch of RAM and CPU usage to use it. (Can relate with Slack desktop app, or Github desktop app). Just like user/customer could blame your web app if it starts too slow. The same applies to desktop apps, too.
A bunch of RAM and CPU compared to what? A website?
In my case, open/close a web app on a new tab is much much faster than openning an Excel file. It's the point. And they're different.
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A bunch of RAM and CPU compared to what? A website?
I don't compare to anything. The point here is, it requires my RAM and CPU usage. Just like, i prefer using Google Docs cloud to opening an Excel document on my computer. In my case, open/close a web app on a new tab is much much faster than openning an Excel file. It's the point. And they're different.
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I use google keep, it has time and location based reminders. I think there is even an option to create shared note with your SO edit: yes it works :D I managed to share a note with my gf and she sees it. Now she tried to set up a reminder that will ring my phone when either of us gets close a certain groccery store that we visit
Keep is my current go to. They've added a lot to it recently, but I was unaware they've added locations. The ML predictions for grocery items when you're writing a list is a nice touch. I'm trying to get off Google's teat, but it looks like I'm on the Keep train, until they abruptly discontinue it in 12-18 months.
The teat is annoyingly hard to ween from! They get a lot right.
It's absolutely crazy some of the reasons stated for evernote failing to get investment early on. Today people would be clamoring to invest in a company that was bringing in users by offering the product for free. The sell is so compelling "Get our users to write everything in evernote, build a huge userbase and then you can start to monetize because you've got a fantastic way of keeping them". I feel like that's one…
Then a ton of VCs got burned, and Paul Graham wrote "Ramen Profitability" (2009), and later "Default Alive or Default Dead?" (2015).
Nowadays, you NEED to have a story for how you're going to become default alive, and not rely on investor cash. That's because of what we learned from all of the failures from Evernote's era.
Think about other companies that started in that era – Facebook, Twitter, Yelp. The entire strategy was user growth and figure out monetization later. You don't see that as much today.
I suppose Uber/Lyft are good counter examples, but they at least had massive revenue along the way, and a great story about future profitability. (Swap out drivers with self-driving cars.)
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I use google keep, it has time and location based reminders. I think there is even an option to create shared note with your SO edit: yes it works :D I managed to share a note with my gf and she sees it. Now she tried to set up a reminder that will ring my phone when either of us gets close a certain groccery store that we visit
Keep is my current go to. They've added a lot to it recently, but I was unaware they've added locations. The ML predictions for grocery items when you're writing a list is a nice touch. I'm trying to get off Google's teat, but it looks like I'm on the Keep train, until they abruptly discontinue it in 12-18 months.
I use it for all kinds of notes, like for example short tutorials on the command line, issuing commands that are hard to remember, TODO lists (both at work and for grocery shopping), meeting notes, listing pros and cons, everything.
In meetings I like the ability to record audio, or to add pictures I take with my phone, which isn't necessarily a capability of your average open source alternative.
Its search capabilities are also great. I have a ton of notes in my Evernote and I never have issues finding what I'm looking for. Compared with Google Docs for example, which is terrible.
My problems with it is that the data is not easy to port, I would have liked for example periodic Markdown backups to my Dropbox. Also support for encryption is weak. Apps like Evernote can be end to end encrypted, there's absolutely no reason for Evernote, the company, to have access to my notes.
I also worry about Evernote, the company, dying on me like many other startups before it.
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I don't compare to anything. The point here is, it requires my RAM and CPU usage. Just like, i prefer using Google Docs cloud to opening an Excel document on my computer. In my case, open/close a web app on a new tab is much much faster than openning an Excel file. It's the point. And they're different.
Well every single application or website you could run requires RAM and CPU. If you're not comparing to anything then you're complaining that it uses any RAM and CPU? That's not a reasonable thing to say is a problem. Why do you have RAM and CPU if you don't want to use them at all?
That's my experience with most of desktop apps. The only exception, is VSCode and iTerm2. Can't live without them.
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Well every single application or website you could run requires RAM and CPU. If you're not comparing to anything then you're complaining that it uses any RAM and CPU? That's not a reasonable thing to say is a problem. Why do you have RAM and CPU if you don't want to use them at all?
Maybe, my computer is slow, maybe for another reason i don't know. But openning a google docs file on my Chrome is much faster than openning a local Excel file. Maybe in your case it's different. That's my experience with most of desktop apps. The only exception, is VSCode and iTerm2. Can't live without them.
> is much faster than
If your key point is 'it requires my RAM and CPU usage' then you're going to be disappointed to learn that a website also requires your RAM and CPU usage.