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Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by HuwFulcher »

r2222 wrote: post #325
HuwFulcher wrote: post #308

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I love Bear but it's been a big disappointment in how quickly it ships features. They've been working on the web version for what seems like a few years now. If you're 100% in the Apple ecosystem it's great. I have an iPhone and M1 Air for personal use but my last 3 jobs have used Windows, being able to transfer knowledge across devices is a massive pain. I ended up switching to Obsidian due to that. There must be a…

Yeah it’s been extermely slow with the updates. The Bear 2.0 is currently on Mac-only beta but not yet open (unless you join their beta forum and ask for access), but even then, it doesn’t have the web app. I’ve seen the Bear team say that they did a full rewrite (in C++ I think?) so that it would be easier to implement the web app in future but who knows how many years in the future that is.

I may be wrong on the features on Bear 2.0 but it doesn’t seem like a lot new features. A full rewrite in C++ may be why it’s taking so long but it definitely feels like they’ve quietly dropped the web version.

It’s fair enough if they want to focus on the Apple ecosystem but they let people think they were developing the web version for a while.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by agos »

paxys wrote: post #199
Manjuuu wrote: post #193

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Completely different type of applications, I remember an old thread on twitter about one useless wallpapers app being sold for that kind of money. And it was not the only one. It's a business model.

Not sure what "useless wallpaper" app you are talking about but I just took a look at https://bendingspoons.com/products and everything there seems pretty useful and well designed.

if you browse Bending Spoons' site on archive.org you'll see that a few years ago they indeed sold wallpaper apps and keyboard apps for debatable prices. They had even more apps, but most of them were removed entirely from their portfolio, and some ended up in the account of Easy Tiger Apps, LLC [1], including a 4,99€/week step counting app that is a blatant rip off of a more famous one

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/tz/developer/easy-tiger-apps-llc/id57...

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by johnmw »

rurp wrote: post #166
bayindirh wrote: post #140

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Actually, their experience is pretty pleasant and the product works very well after they have rebuilt their apps. They don’t need to be jealous. Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market. Yes, I love markdown, and Evernote just provides a slightly more powerful, WYSIWYG version of it. I neither want “everything and the kitchen sink” vision of Notion, and des…

> Their relative utilitarian take on the matter is what makes them so unique and powerful in the market. Man this was not my experience at all. Granted I dropped Evernote quite a while ago, but for years they kept adding a kitchen sink of features that I didn't care about, while regressing at the basics like syncing and merging text notes across multiple devices. They were maybe first company I experienced that blew…

I hope you are taking notes, Dropbox.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by nashashmi »

nashashmi wrote: post #177

I used to love Google Notebook. And then they shut it down. Evernote offered to take in that google notebook data and integrate it into their system. Now evernote is being bought. I need to migrate my data out. Evernote was a great company early on. Not sure why they lost the race. But I think it has something to do with task managers, like trello, and heavy data collectors like database in notion.

Using notion to migrate my data out of evernote.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by [deleted] »

ponkipo wrote: post #300
_lqaf wrote: post #222

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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…

Notion seems to be planning to add some kind of AI-based tool for their app, by the way - https://www.notion.so/product/ai

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Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by soundnote »

egypturnash wrote: post #100
dhimes wrote: post #50

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Would some of the open-source alternatives fit the bill? Something like SimpleNote?

I tried it and cannot recall why that one failed. It missed one of my requirements of * must be a native app, not a shitty web app * must be able to run on my Mac & iThings as well as my collaborator's Windows & Android phone * must be able to collaborate with other people * must be able to ingest a decade of Evernote gracefully * that includes attached images and PDFs, I make comics * must deal with actual rich text…

Simplenote is a web app by necessity - most Markdown ones are since Markdown is just a way to write simple HTML. I don't think there really are native notetaking apps anymore, let alone multiplatform ones. OneNote's probably the only big player left.

I don't think Simplenote really handles file attachments, so it'd be a complete no go.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by soundnote »

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…

Amplenote and OneNote are pretty much what comes to mind with those requirements. Both OCR images, but don't do PDFs.

Re: Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons

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Post by soundnote »

hirundo wrote: post #54

The only reason I've stuck with Evernote is because it scans all of my old paperwork and lets me search by the OCRed text. Without it, so many years of personal data would be locked in images I'd never have time to eyeball. Please someone release me from this foul daemon by suggesting an alternative with this key feature.

OneNote and Amplenote have OCR built in. Images only, not PDFs, mind you, but it's there in any case.

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Post by soundnote »

Lendal wrote: post #52
gumby wrote: post #26

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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.

On iPhone, Notes is excellent. In a browser on icloud.com it's terrible. I need it to work in a web browser because I do software development on Windows. Notes is not an option until the browser version works just as well as the mobile version. For now, I can use Notes for personal but not for work.

Amplenote has OCR for images and a pretty Evernote like interface.

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Post by w0m »

awill wrote: post #125

They 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.

I loved evernote ~10-15 years ago; used it for ~all personal stuff. Eventually it became more metered/locked down (I don't remember specifics anymore) and i moved to OneNote.
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