I do miss the old Evernote. Many of the 'enhancements' over the last few years just get in the way of the main benifit of the tool.
Yep, if I could subscribe to the old Evernote then I would, but it's long gone.
Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
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Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#22How the mighty have fallen. Who the heck are Bending Spoons?
Seemingly producers of a random set of mobile apps [0] including a video editor, a basic photo retouching app, and a fitness routine tracker. As an aside, their site is also aggravatingly self-absorbed, at least as it seems to me. Copy about how "we create our own cutting-edge technologies" and "Impossible. Maybe." just hurts to read when they're talking about a 30 day fitness app. [0] https://bendingspoons.com/produ…
I just got the reference. Bending spoons, doing the impossible, like in the matrix. At least the name makes sense now.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#23I really liked Evernote. Yearly subscription instead of the monthly Netflix like prices that ever half baked app asks for these days. Integration amongst all my devices phone, table, various desktops. All nice. And no further dependency on Microsoft, Google or Meta. Product development stalled a long time ago though. I do hope this thing stays in the air, cause I got a lot of notes in there.
I was using Evernote extensively back in 2008. It was a real tossup between Evernote and OneNote (which at the time wasn't cloud based and required syncing the files).
Then Evernote proceeded to cease all feature development on the main app. They where releasing food apps while the main product grew stale. Instead of making Evernote incredibly powerful, they didn't touch it and people left any of the dozen competitors that exist today.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#24Ah, I drove past their office just last week and noticed all the lights were out and the parking lot was empty.
At the time I assumed they'd actually gone under, but now I realise that that would have been the "there is no spoon" scenario.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#25I really liked Evernote. Yearly subscription instead of the monthly Netflix like prices that ever half baked app asks for these days. Integration amongst all my devices phone, table, various desktops. All nice. And no further dependency on Microsoft, Google or Meta. Product development stalled a long time ago though. I do hope this thing stays in the air, cause I got a lot of notes in there.
Not stalled. They created Tasks, which I use every single day!
If tasks is their big accomplishment they are screwed. How about allowing you to change the default font on a note or a task?
I've been using Evernote for a while now, and I just don't get the pace of their development. Their changes seem almost incremental and take forever.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#26evernote was one of the programs that trapped me, it took some effort to finally migrate my data (I'm now using md files/ obsidian for mobile frontend synced with syncthing)
The final thing that has me trapped with Evernote is the very good OCR for both images and PDFs. The second I figure out a replacement for that which works great on Mac and iOS I am gone.
On ios this is now baked into Notes.app
I use swiftscan because I've been using it a long time (same reason you use evernote) but the Notes scanner is pretty effective if Notes works for you.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#27Bending spoon’s website is 100% bloat so that doesn’t bode well for a revitalized Evernote.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#28How the mighty have fallen. Who the heck are Bending Spoons?
Seemingly producers of a random set of mobile apps [0] including a video editor, a basic photo retouching app, and a fitness routine tracker. As an aside, their site is also aggravatingly self-absorbed, at least as it seems to me. Copy about how "we create our own cutting-edge technologies" and "Impossible. Maybe." just hurts to read when they're talking about a 30 day fitness app. [0] https://bendingspoons.com/produ…
They also call their employees "spooners" and talk about how they "they share one thing in common: a drive to become the best person they’re capable of being."
Statements like "Are you ready to come join us in the Spooniverse? We saved you a seat." also make it sound a little like it's a cult.
With that being said, their goals seem admirable and they are scoring pretty well on some employee satisfaction inquiries, so it's perfectly possible that they are actually living up to their ambitions. A fitness app might not seem like a lot, but they may just be working their way up to something bigger.
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#29At long last, Evernote takes an Incredible Journey to be broken down for parts by its new owner. Can't get any more fucked up than it already has been, it went from being an important part of my daily workflow to a place of pain. The rewrite is part of why my last graphic novel ground to a halt, I was using EN to collaborate on scripts with my partner and it is just agony to use any more. I cancelled my subscription…
Could be worse. Wait till they start selling advertisers access to data-mine your notes.
Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
#30I really liked Evernote. Yearly subscription instead of the monthly Netflix like prices that ever half baked app asks for these days. Integration amongst all my devices phone, table, various desktops. All nice. And no further dependency on Microsoft, Google or Meta. Product development stalled a long time ago though. I do hope this thing stays in the air, cause I got a lot of notes in there.
Same. It was ahead of its time and incredibly useful, then behind its time and useful, and now antiquated but still full of my important notes. Do I have a loyalty club membership at that one hotel I stayed in halfway around the world 15 years ago, when I had a different email address? Evernote is the only place I can find out. As soon as there’s a dead simple migration path to OneNote, I’ll have $50/year more spendi…
Though basically the same lock-in issue is what kept me from starting to put all my notes into OneNote years ago. Admittedly at this point, OneNote is presumably not going anywhere. But I still make the tradeoff to mostly keep notes in text files.