Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant • Hacker News Board

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by morganherlocker » Sun, Jan 05, 2014, 8:36 AM UTC

niels_olson wrote: post #212

dlu wrote: post #211

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Hello! Evernote employee here, I first wanted to say thanks for posting. Its always good to hear from our users directly. I've been at Evernote for a while and it is still weird to see us show up on HN. Anyways, I enjoyed your comments wanted to give my personal opinion & point of view for at least points 1 & 2. 1. You're right that scaling is very hard. If you want a closer look at it, we have a tech blog that even…

> third party applications that can convert from HTML into a number of other formats, so we're relying on that You should fix that. Skip RTF, DOC, whatever. Just plain text is fine. Everything else can handle it. The world needs to wake up and realize plain text is the alpha and the omega of language. Do that right first and make sure it's the last thing to fail.

Plain text loses much of the most important data that people store in notes. If I imagine my notes minus formatting... not pretty.

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by da_maire » Sun, Jan 05, 2014, 9:00 AM UTC

veidr wrote: post #100

As a paying user for years, I've had Evernote lose data many times -- sometimes important, irreplaceable data that I hadn't yet had time to back up elsewhere. Evernote is some of the very worst software that has ever survived more than a few months on my computer without being deleted. Horrible show-stopping crash/data loss bugs are the norm, and have been increasing steadily as they add feature after feature with ap…

I knew things were going south with Evernote when they added a store that sells fucking socks and backpacks while the Mac client still couldn't edit existing tables in documents. The table editing limitation was eventually fixed but much more serious problems have since cropped up.

Sync issues and the unusably slow iOS client caused me to drop it for personal use a few months ago, now it's relegated to only work notes with the desktop client. For this really basic purpose it's alright, it has a few major annoyances and the interface has gotten much worse over the years but it'd be too much effort to migrate to something else and keep my tags/notebooks.

This is not a healthy relationship I have with Evernote Corporation. I committed to their product but they didn't commit to me.

Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant

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Post by trustfundbaby » Fri, Jan 10, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

triplesec wrote: post #131

trustfundbaby wrote: post #15

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> I've been meaning to move off of Evernote because their OSX client is just slow as all hell Not to mention that their inline search is broken and they refuse to fix it

hey, can you tell more on this? i've been suspicious of it...

Oh ... it just doesn't work right. If you type in two words, instead of giving you fewer results it gives you more results as it matches separate instances of the single words in the query ... pretty dumb actually.