Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel • Hacker News Board

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by yannovitch » Sat, Jul 06, 2019, 10:46 PM UTC

charlesdaniels wrote: post #144

Lots 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…

My problem with Joplin is that it's not "true" Markdown (because of the metadata) - as such, I can't just use it as a "let's finish later properly this Markdown file" kind of solution.

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by ryanfox » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 6:52 PM UTC

CPLX wrote: post #118

It used to be fantastic. The killer app for me was that it was actually impressively good at searching text in images which at the time felt like magic. Like you could take a picture of a whiteboard or your handwritten notes from a meeting or slide on a screen at a conference and then do a free text search of the keywords in it a few months later and find it. It was also really good at clipping web pages and helping…

I'm building something that does this. It lets you search text in images, video, local files, anything that comes across your screen. You can manually add e.g. web pages too.

It's at https://apse.io. It has been working really well for me. I'm happy to answer questions if that sounds interesting.

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by ryanfox » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

hartator wrote: post #7

The thing is - what made Evernote great at some point - take a picture of anything and forget it doesn't work anymore. You can't trust Evernote to have searchable archive anymore. Instead it's a convoluted app with lot of useless features. They lost their focus.

I've been working on APSE[0], which does something similar. Everything's stored locally, so you'll never lose your archive.

[0] https://apse.io

Re: Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel

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Post by dexterous » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 10:42 PM UTC

tech_tuna wrote: post #310

stcredzero wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then instead of building on that success the product got worse. Oh well. Evernote seems to have some sort of "reality distortion field" which is somewhat like Apple's, but somewhat mis-calibrated. (Apple's own "reality distortion field" originated with Steve Jobs, and has been losing its calibration ever since he departed this world.) They have a tendency to start with things which feel "magic" then have them fad…

This is how I feel about Slack. I use it, it's everywhere but it's pretty ordinary. FFS, they still haven't implemented a dark theme yet. . . isn't that something you can just do in CSS?

Here's the [black theme](https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme); and a [Solarized Dark](https://github.com/widget-/slack-black-theme) one for good measure.