Everytime Evernote gets mentioend on HN, I love to promote my favorite replacement:
Right now, it's more of Bear app replacement than an Evernote replacement, but I feel like they're heading in the right direction.
Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons
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#272I used evernote for a long time. I migrated to Joplin seeking greater control and security. I use it to this day and never thought about going back to Evernote.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
The previous issues were bad enough for me to drop Evernote as a paying customer. I would get notes that would not sync correctly, forcing me to resolve it by hand. Even after doing that, it would still have sync conflicts. This was core functionality that just didn't work. During this time, they were busy jamming in features I definitely didn't want or need. Every release would be a slower, buggier version of its pr…
I really, really want to know what kind of person sees a pair of socks with a productivity app logo on them and thinks "I need these in my life."
I still have some citusdata socks that I wear. They also have an elephant on them.
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#274At 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…
“Incredible journey?”
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Collaborative editing" is table stakes for a modern note editor because even in a single user scenario you will have the same user editing the same note from multiple devices with different levels of connectivity. The product needs a reputation that it will not lose its user's edits, nor will it make annoying branch-style merge conflicts. To do this right you have to treat the other device as an almost-adversarial a…
Very good point, one which I admit didn't come to my mind initially. Any recommendations for good methods or good open source implementations of this that can be mined for ideas?
CRDTs, and Yjs specifically, are lowering the bar on this. I can't name any products I know are using them, though.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Evernote was still decent enough before the ditched the native app for a dreadful Electron webframe.
Ugh. Note taking apps need to be instant. I care far less about the feature set than I do getting the whatever written down and out of my head. If you make we wait while you load a website's worth of js or phone home with surveillance data or whatever, I'm just going to delete you. I'd rather use a 1995-era Textedit or Notepad - they're instantly functional. Just to make sure I maintain my curmudgeon's rep, I'll add…
Yup. This is actually why I dropped Evernote so many years ago -- the distance from "thought" to "blank screen to start writing in" was too much. I just use Google Keep. It has some weaknesses, but it's good enough for my use case and is snappy.
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#277They must be incredibly jealous of all the successful note taking apps (Notion, Ulysses, Bear, Craft). Evernote were first, and blew it. No other way to describe it. I dumped Evernote when they restricted their free accounts to 2 devices. Ironically I'm now paying for Ulysses, money I might have give to Evernote had they not been so awful to early adopters.
Maybe the acquisition will change the nummber of devices to > 2??
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
The previous issues were bad enough for me to drop Evernote as a paying customer. I would get notes that would not sync correctly, forcing me to resolve it by hand. Even after doing that, it would still have sync conflicts. This was core functionality that just didn't work. During this time, they were busy jamming in features I definitely didn't want or need. Every release would be a slower, buggier version of its pr…
I really, really want to know what kind of person sees a pair of socks with a productivity app logo on them and thinks "I need these in my life."
It's probably someone who is really into productivity and self-improvement, makes it part of their identity, mentions it to their family... and then has 10 pairs gifted every xmas.
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don’t want collaborative editing, don’t use it. I’m saying most users wanted it and started looking elsewhere when EN couldn’t deliver. It’s easier to add a lock on collaboration than to backfill later.
Most EVERNOTE users wanted it? I sincerely doubt that even 20% of Evernote users want that. People that want a collaborative Docs app already have Google Docs. Evernote is mostly a "digital cabinet". It's where notes and documents go to die (in a good way).
I've used the collaborative feature in google docs only a few times even tho i write google docs like daily. most docs are authored by 1 person. the side comments, however, are invaluable
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#280Wow, I'm sure I'm not alone in having completely forgot about Evernote after importing all my notes into Bear. They fell off my radar with such force that I literally haven't even thought of them in years, except for one moment months ago when I noticed their logo on maybe a physical notepad sitting in some old bookstore window. Other than that, I have not even seen the logo anywhere else. Like others, it was the device restriction, but also just terribly glitchy note editing/pasting etc.. Moving to Bear (which has also now stagnated pretty hard, but is still good) I was just stoked on the fact that editing was a smooth experience and it kind of got out of my way.