Regardless of traction, is a note taking app (with nothing defensible tech wise) worthy of unicorn valuation?
Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
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#172Tangentially, what I want in a note/todo app is that the first screen will be a list of categories, like "car" and "shower". Under "car" would be a note I made that says "bring new SD card for dash cam". I'd look in "car" before heading out to the car, and see that note and remember to bring the SD card out to it. I'd habitually check all of these before doing anything, so I didn't keep forgetting things I needed to…
The iOS Reminders app?
Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
#173Tangentially, what I want in a note/todo app is that the first screen will be a list of categories, like "car" and "shower". Under "car" would be a note I made that says "bring new SD card for dash cam". I'd look in "car" before heading out to the car, and see that note and remember to bring the SD card out to it. I'd habitually check all of these before doing anything, so I didn't keep forgetting things I needed to…
OmniFocus
Or really, most any Note/ToDo that has first class support for GTD aka Getting Things Done which leverages the notion of @contexts.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do they “kill” the competition exactly? I understand they have a lot of money, but what do they do with it that makes it impossible to compete? (Honest question)
Why would you enter a market where one company publicly has 1B+ valuation? It's Goliath crushing David based on reputation alone.
I have seen cases where the big guys gave things away for free or super cheap to get rid of the competition . Oracle and MS definitely do that.
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#175Lots of people here mentioned they are looking for Evernote replacements. Here is my experience with this: Joplin[1] seems to be the best in my view. It's cross-platform, has decent sync capabilities, plus a web clipper. I've been using this for a while and have liked it a lot so far. I used Quiver[2] for a while when I used to run macOS, but moved away from it because it was macOS specific. It also had some features…
OneNote does have a web clipper: https://www.onenote.com/clipper
I stand corrected. It either did not have that, or it wasn't something I was able to find at the time I was using it.
Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
#176Lots of people here mentioned they are looking for Evernote replacements. Here is my experience with this: Joplin[1] seems to be the best in my view. It's cross-platform, has decent sync capabilities, plus a web clipper. I've been using this for a while and have liked it a lot so far. I used Quiver[2] for a while when I used to run macOS, but moved away from it because it was macOS specific. It also had some features…
OneNote works great on every platform. Really!
Not on Linux. And last time I checked the macOS version was kinda hobbled compared to the Windows version. I know it has a web interface, but that isn't really a replacement for a native client.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
They transitioned that to a paid feature because they had to keep the lights on. Small groups of engineers can do amazing things but in most companies amazing things worth doing run out and staff keeps growing. Salaries need to be paid and diminishing returns start. I have been thinking about the economics of being done with a piece of commercial software. Shut down feature additions, lower the price in regular incre…
That's a much more customer-friendly version of a common late stage strategy in enterprise software: shut down feature additions, keep the price high, milk support contracts and if all that's not enough, sue your customers! I like your sunset strategy better as a customer, but it sounds like something you could only really do if you don't have investors.
It's not just enterprise. You described Adobe. Their patent on tabs just expired.
Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
#178Lots of people here mentioned they are looking for Evernote replacements. Here is my experience with this: Joplin[1] seems to be the best in my view. It's cross-platform, has decent sync capabilities, plus a web clipper. I've been using this for a while and have liked it a lot so far. I used Quiver[2] for a while when I used to run macOS, but moved away from it because it was macOS specific. It also had some features…
I've tried a few apps on your list.
Agree that Zim lacks polish, and that the Windows version is a few versions behind the Linux version. However it's really easy to import a bunch of plain text or markdown files (with .txt extension...just dump it in the data folder and restart)
Standard Notes puts a lot of emphasis on security but doesn't yet have native support for inline images.
Tagspaces seemed more like a file organizer that had word processing features tacked on.
OneNote...I wish they'd restore the ability to use notebooks locally, the newer version wants everything on OneDrive.
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#179Wishing them luck! I really like their app. They do have so many things to sort out in terms of feature request/bugs. Wish their perseverance should pay off eventually.
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#180Maybe fail fast should also include ... fail cheap? >Lots of once-hyped companies live on the “Remember this?” spectrum. On one end, there is a cluster of fast flameouts — the Yo-Ello-Peach-Meerkat-Stolen-Clinkle-Secret-Color coterie. That makes me think someone should create (maybe has) a start-up graveyard for folks to peruse.
That's what FuckedCompany.com was (as a parody of FastCompany.com). They shut down in 2007 though.