Honestly Apple Notes works really well. It doesn't have much features, but its simplicity should be the baseline of any note taking app
If it were easier to link from one note to another, that'd be my main note taking app.
Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
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Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#142Evernote absolutely did realize its potential. The problem is that they threw everything into the trash afterwards with their decisions.
It's what happens when you don't care about building a decent product.
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This is the same use case I have, I use Evernote notably because of the excellent web scraper. Can you share more about your software?
I don't want to derail the comments on this post too much, but it's called Notado (another commenter has already linked it) and I have posted about it a few times on HN before (all in my submissions history). There are quite a few high-quality discussion threads on those previous posts that are worth checking out if you're interested in learning more!
Thanks, I’ll check it out
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#144I find this an interesting reflection of an org I used to work for. Originally successful product allowed to stagnate over the course of decades with all the energy being sucked up by new shiny bolt-ons while the core business need and core product is never re-imagined to fit in with modern industry trends. On reflection it always looks kinda daft that this can end up happening but I think (at least in my case) its e…
How would you design the org to avoid this? You basically need to disband the team once the product is done. How do game studios manage it?
They hire a bunch of people leading up to release, fire them, and start the cycle over on the next one. Same with the VFX industry: it's not unheard of for them to produce a record-breaking movie and shut down between then and the awards shows. I don't think most tech workers would tolerate it.
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#145Not seeing many mentions of Simplenote. Does anyone else find it sufficient (syncing, web-app, tags, search, *no-payment)?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm also very interested in this, but particularly the book part, which I couldn't find on the website linked above, unless it only works with Kindle highlights? I have a gigantic EPUB library and have yet to find a good way to export my notes and highlights from all these books (mostly read in KOreader).
Kindle-only right now as it's the biggest piece of the pie and what I use personally, but let me look into the KOreader highlights storage format and see if I can hook you and the other KOreader users with something.
Can you summarize how it works? You highlight something on kindle and it gets sent to your online db for storage?
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#149I'm interested in an app that I can just throw a million disorganized documents (PDFs, word files, text files) at, and have it draw insights and help me write. There have allegedly been apps like this since forever but none of them ever really work. Devon Think is bad. Evernote is bad. OneNote is bad. Notion is bad. Men is bad. They all want data to be in tiny little chunks or formatted and tagged just so. Or they ig…
> just give the thing decades of emails and giant PDF folders and make sense of it.
just?
Re: Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)
#150Related ongoing thread:
Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623402 - Nov 2022 (113 comments)