Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
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Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
#2The other day there was some other bad news where the subject began with "An Update on...". Seems like that's the newspeak for "Bad news about...".
To be on topic, typical "My replacement for Evernote" comment: Joplin (with a server in a Docker container on my NAS) works well for me. There's even an import from Evernote feature, although when some sections of the Evernote note were password-protected, the same note in Joplin is some undecypherable Base-64.
Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
#3What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?
Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
#4Those are some very aggressive price hikes. At their scale, 500m users, they could charge very little and still make a profit. Also, they don’t have to invest that much in engineering anymore for a 15 year old (?) product.
My guess is that the party that bought Evernote just wants to extract money while they can, recoup the acquisition cost.
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#5What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?
Standard Notes [0].
Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
#6What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?
Standard Notes has a free tier with end-to-end encryption, offline notes access, 2FA and password protected notes. Best part for me is the ability to use a custom editor instead of the default ones.
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#8Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly? What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note taking app?
A quick search turns up quite a few FOSS candidates for note apps that you can use or even self host.
I guess I am missing something because I don't see why anyone would actually pay so much for this.
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#9Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly? What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note taking app? A quick search turns up quite a few FOSS candidates for note apps that you can use or even self host. I guess I am missing something because I don't see why anyone would actually pay so much for this.
I think people pay to continue using the app they’ve been using for years and for access to their thousands of notes.
Even if they’re not completely locked in, a transfer + re-learning a new app may not be a feasible task for many.
So someone probably ran the numbers and decided they can squeeze more $.
Also, inflation.
Re: Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
#10What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?
obsidian isn't open source but it's fantastic; standard notes has some issues that put it in the "do not recommend" category for me.
more recs that put SN to shame: logseq, dendron, foam