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Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by joshstrange »

piaste wrote: post #304
offtotheraces wrote: post #260

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This is a common response. unfortunately it doesn’t hold water: the average lifetime of a paid user of Splice is somewhere in the 7-10 week range (source is confidential). What super users of editing products do you know that only stay 10 weeks? None. What’s actually happening is Bending Spoons is exploiting the App Store’s ease of payment and dark patterns to trick unsuspecting users into enrolling in a super high p…

> without their knowledge I've never had an iPhone so I'm not familiar with these dark patterns. Are you saying it's actually possible to get an Apple user to subscribe without clearly displaying the payment amount or frequency?

> Are you saying it's actually possible to get an Apple user to subscribe without clearly displaying the payment amount or frequency?

Both are displayed by a system-controlled modal but even with that there are many stories of people not realizing/noticing the frequency. Apple has forced developers to place the frequency more prominently on their info screens but it's only helped so much. I have a hard time seeing a legitimate use for a weekly subscription other than to trick users. I almost think that Apple shouldn't allow that frequency or they should have extra vetting/restrictions/alerts for users. I know Apple sends out an email before they charge a recurring subscription (or at least I've gotten them for my yearly subscriptions) but maybe a push notification on the phone/tablet (that you could disable per-app) would be a another way to help prevent this type of fraud/scam.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by daveidol »

TremendousJudge wrote: post #93
thefourthchime wrote: post #49

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I tried a few alternatives and landed on Apple Notes. It's blinding fast, and while it's not exactly feature-rich, it does everything I need while being seamlessly synced to the cloud and my devices.

I have a directory of .txts on my phone. There are nicer solutions but at least I 100% will never lose access to my notes since they're just files.

How do you quickly make a new note? Is this Android or iOS?

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by mblevin »

hyperdimension wrote: post #250
jjtheblunt wrote: post #79

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> The End of an Error not sure if that is autocorrect, or a joke, or autocorrect making a pun from "end of an era" with "error" given the sentiment. either way, it's funny!

Yeah, regardless of the two it is, I'm saving that for later.

Very much on purpose and I stole that from somebody else long ago.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by amh999 »

I'm adding here in case Evernote reads this thread.

I used to use Evernote extensively, mainly for web clipping, but also filing things away.

Nowadays I rarely use anything except the mobile apps, or the clipping browser plugins, but Evernote is essential to me for permanent filing which I can search at any time. I would be lost without it and am willing to keep paying for it. I'm sure other people want it for note keeping and I have no idea how well that works. What does work is their document/photo scanning app, which I use regularly.

A long time ago, the founder made much of the fact that my data was fully portable and provided the api details to enable me to export it out of Evernote completely. I think this is very important, especially for a company that may be seen as less viable for a while. I was disappointed, the other day, that I could no longer use Evernote's published query language to search using a boolean query. This may well be because the facility is now a pay-extra feature. I have to say that adding on little features and then asking users to pay for them is the worst thing when I am already a premium user! Please stop doing this.

That's my two penn'orth.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by TremendousJudge »

daveidol wrote: post #332
TremendousJudge wrote: post #93

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I have a directory of .txts on my phone. There are nicer solutions but at least I 100% will never lose access to my notes since they're just files.

How do you quickly make a new note? Is this Android or iOS?

I'm on Andrid, I use a small file manager called MK Explorer [0]

Flow is, open the app, go to bookmarks->notes (this is a shortcut I set up), choose a folder (I have a bunch for different things), then menu button->new file, enter a title, and use the file explorer's own text editor. It's not as quick as opening Google Keep and tapping plus, but at least I know I can trust it.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.mkexplorer....

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by deely3 »

frans wrote: post #230
frans wrote: post #178

These are mostly negative reviews of Evernote. Yet, I do like the product and I am yet to find a replacement that offers these must-haves: * Multiple tags per note * OCR/search on attachments * Web clipping (full page and individual sections) * Mail to Evernote (with attachments) * Decent WYSIWYG * Good scanning support ("scannable" app) It did have its problems and did lose 3 or 4 notes due to syncing issues but tod…

I did some searching via [1] and it turns out amplenote comes closest to my requirements list. [1] https://www.noteapps.info/apps [2] https://www.amplenote.com/

Hey, thanks!

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by tionis »

spiffytech wrote: post #275
digdugdirk wrote: post #266

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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.

HedgeDoc uses Y.js under the hood

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by mvkel »

The biggest mistake Evernote made was not looking at how their customers used the product.

They insisted on this to emphasize privacy (fair enough), but never stopped to consider 1. If their customers even cared 2. How they would learn how the product they were building was actually used.

The result is a note app that tries to do everything good, so it does nothing well.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by emeril »

unixhero wrote: post #127

I for one released on simplenote.cpm for my noting needs

I've been using resophnotes as windows client for simplenote for years (and the ios client if I need to look something up on the go) after evernote become terrible 10+ years ago

Nothing sophisticated for sure, but a little windows macro and I can make a new note for something with a timestamp sorted the way I want with one keystroke

plain text is underrated though I think they are more sophisticated plain text options now but I don't feel like importing my database elsewhere when my current solution works pretty well

further, for super ad hoc stuff, I just need notepad++ open with 100+ tabs using pleasantly little memory...

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by jdshaffer »

ben1040 wrote: post #270
jdshaffer wrote: post #237

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I'm curious why you moves from ScanSnap (which I use) to a Fujitsu. Just time for an upgrade, or do you prefer some newer feature(s)? I use my ScanSnap with OCR turned on and haven't had any problems, but I'm always looking for what will replace it when it finally died (still going strong at about 10 years or so, I think!).

I suppose to be precise, the new scanner is also a ScanSnap; the ScanSnap IX1600 (but ScanSnap is a Fujitsu brand name). https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/peripheral... I had been using the S1300M before that, which had held up since 2010 for me.

Silly me! I should have realized (or remembered) that it's a Fujitsu product. It's just the name "Fujitsu" isn't on the machine anywhere, so I tend to forget (just double-checked, and no name on the outside!)

Thanks for sharing the model numbers, too. I'll be sure to check out the newer models!

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