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Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by criddell »

arkitaip wrote: post #87
acl777 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OneNote. It’s free on all platforms and handles your listed requirements.

If OneNote had been made by a hot new startup if would have crushed the competition (easy to use! affordable! very flexible! just works!). Instead, it's too often glossed over because it's made by one of IT's behemoths and not considered to be sexy enough.

How is the OCR in OneNote now? One of the features keeping me on Evernote is being able to take a photo of a whiteboard and put it in Evernote which then does a surprisingly good job of recognizing the text and making the photo searchable.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by irrational »

sgt wrote: post #42

Due to some weird bug in Evernote, I lost about 10% of all my notes. Some of them critical. This happened about a year ago, and I never found out the actual cause. I think it was some kind of bug triggered by the combination of syncing from/to the mobile app and the desktop app. But I completely stopped trusting Evernote after this and stopped using it.

This has happened to me as well. Not just entire notes, but even while I am typing it will have a synching hickup and delete everything I have written and rollback to the previous synching state. It is really really bad at synching.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by ubermonkey »

happytoexplain wrote: post #71

I have over a thousand notes in Evernote. One day I noticed that one was missing shortly after I created it. Eventually I discovered that the convenient new-note shortcut was failing every time with a database corruption error - but the error only appeared in a system log I was unaware of. There was no indication to the user that the notes were failing. To this day I have no idea how many notes I lost due to this bug…

For me? OrgMode.

I'm 100% done trusting proprietary formats for this data. My OrgMode files are all plain text, so they can be read on any platform.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by ubermonkey »

bad_user wrote: post #38

I'm a paid customer of Evernote, I must say that it works great and it has no reasonable replacement. 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 pho…

>it has no reasonable replacement.

Others suggest OneNote does exactly that.

>My problems with it is that the data is not easy to port

This is a fatal problem, and is a big reason I don't use either EN or ON anymore at all.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by criddell »

bad_user wrote: post #38

I'm a paid customer of Evernote, I must say that it works great and it has no reasonable replacement. 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 pho…

> I also worry about Evernote, the company, dying on me

I'm a paid user as well and also worry about the company dying. Frankly, I wish they would focus 100% on the core product and kill features that aren't part of that core. For example, get rid of chat. Other companies do it better.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by open-paren »

steve19 wrote: post #9
hs86 wrote: post #5

After I noticed that their forum thread [1] about requesting LaTeX-style math notes was almost as old as my Evernote Premium subscription, I came to the conclusion that this is just a ripoff. I paid all these years only to keep my access and for the occasional design update but the core experience stagnated. Dropbox Paper already provided a better note-taking experience and with Notion.so I finally found a full repla…

Notion looks great. I was hoping your comment implied it support latex math but unfortunately not.

Notion does have Latex math (called "math equation") blocks

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by irrational »

rwc wrote: post #53
huffmsa wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 know the "until they pull the plug" is a popular meme but EOL expectations for GSuite products are completely different than other Google products.

Hangouts and Google Talk used to be part of the core services of GSuite and they still got the axe.

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by sverige »

geolgau wrote: post #95
badfrog wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you do about ideas you think of when you're not at a computer? Or when you're at a computer that doesn't have access to the network you usually store notes on?

press a single key combination, of course! but in vim!

That's the best feature of vim, it works even when you're away from the computer!

Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential

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Post by StacyC »

aristophenes wrote: post #62

I use Evernote for anything that is relevant to others in my family. We can keep each other up to date on things like shopping lists and trip planning, family events or projects. Plus take notes. It’s one of the only apps I use and pay for. Chose it because it works on all devices and is simple. They could handle syncing a little better, when a change is made on two devices at once. But the almost unforgivable sin is…

Same. I have been using it for my consulting business for years, keeping daily notes for client work as well as personal items in a notebook that my wife and I share. Evernote has proven to be quite useful for me.
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