For the last 5 days I have been actively trying to cancel my Evernote personal plan. The site would break every time I navigated to manage my subscription or try and reach support.
I guess that's one way to reduce customer churn.
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
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#12They lost the plot when they suddenly reduced the number of devices for the free tier. There was a time when iCloud wasn't reliable. When that improved, Notes became a simpler free alternative.
Notes isn't as good as Evernote, not even close.
However, it's "good enough" for most people, and free.
One of the greatest bag fumbles in SV history imo.
Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
#13They lost the plot when they suddenly reduced the number of devices for the free tier. There was a time when iCloud wasn't reliable. When that improved, Notes became a simpler free alternative.
The increase in subscription pricing was the thing that got me to cancel my subscription. Hearing about the layoff of the staff makes me glad I did. Notes works just as well if not better than Evernote for my needs.
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#14For the last 5 days I have been actively trying to cancel my Evernote personal plan. The site would break every time I navigated to manage my subscription or try and reach support. I guess that's one way to reduce customer churn.
If you have an apple card, just change your number.
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#15They lost the plot when they suddenly reduced the number of devices for the free tier. There was a time when iCloud wasn't reliable. When that improved, Notes became a simpler free alternative.
For anyone who may not be aware, Apple Notes can import Evernote .enex files. The process was mostly painless, and I’m glad to be rid of the Evernote dependency.
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#16I just copy pasted all my notes into Obsidian, which doesn’t constantly nag me to subscribe
I really love Obsidian, I still have some major blockers. The git plugin is dangerously broken. I've had pushes from different computers overwrite one another. It doesn't show merge conflicts - it's happy to plow forward. I've reduced my usage since that happened. This is a huge problem. I need to have confidence the backups and merges aren't destroying notes. There's no easy way to open multiple workspaces simultane…
Out of curiosity, what's the rationale for using git? Is it to get a history of notes or just for sync? If it's the latter, I believe obsidian has a paid offering for that, or one can MacGyver it with syncthing.
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#17At the risk of I told you so, it was always a stupid idea.
Any service like this that "requires the cloud," but is personal or individual and could be replaced by completely non-cloud software WILL go obsolete.
Obsidian, et al understand this.
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#18This is sad. Evernote was phenomenal and I really loved it, years ago.
Especially when it was a C++ application, not C#.
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#19Evernote lost my note when I tapped on an email notification in Android in ~2011. Nevernote for me ever since. How. in. the. heck. do you call it Evernote if it loses your note when changing apps?!
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#20I just copy pasted all my notes into Obsidian, which doesn’t constantly nag me to subscribe
I really love Obsidian, I still have some major blockers. The git plugin is dangerously broken. I've had pushes from different computers overwrite one another. It doesn't show merge conflicts - it's happy to plow forward. I've reduced my usage since that happened. This is a huge problem. I need to have confidence the backups and merges aren't destroying notes. There's no easy way to open multiple workspaces simultane…
I have obsidian on my iphone, ipad, and windows desktop all synced across devices to a single private github repo. You do not have to use the git plugin. I use Working Copy app on ios devices and the free github desktop on Windows 10.
If you want multiple workspaces, you can create a separate vault that is backed by a different private github repo.