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Netflix did something sort of like that when they split off shipping dvds into a completely different unit.
They announced it (Qwikster, I believe), and then they immediately canceled that plan after massive backlash.
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They announced it (Qwikster, I believe), and then they immediately canceled that plan after massive backlash.
It’s back. DVD.com is Netflix’s DVD by mail business.
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I'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that generates a html preview as I type. I think markdown is the most future proof technology for the moment because you can just use pandoc to convert it or most note systems will accept markdown as an input format. I'm not sure how tags would work in markdown, I gue…
I suppose the set of features I need covered include: - Web clipping. Evernotes browser plugins are pretty darn good here. - Notes with attachments (images, PDFs, etc.). Some of these are mixed-media notes, where text, images, and/or file attachments are mixed to create a comprehensive document about some topic. Others are "pure" attachments, e.g. "store this PDF where I can retrieve it by search". - Note taking. Thi…
I've been an Evernote user for a long time, but it's been ages since I've felt that they're actually user-focused by way of improving holes like poor functional parity across their apps(1). As a outsider, a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps while a stream of core app rebuilds launched, none of which significantly moved the functional needle. I've been exploring altern…
I'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that generates a html preview as I type. I think markdown is the most future proof technology for the moment because you can just use pandoc to convert it or most note systems will accept markdown as an input format. I'm not sure how tags would work in markdown, I gue…
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Well, I will now .
Boostnote is another great alternative, though it currently lacks a mobile app.
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The same reason every mid-sized company gets bought: to obtain the users. Evernote was there first, and has an established market through nothing more than inertia. Their product is terrible. Someone will buy them, absorb the userbase, and get rid of the existing product.
Have you used OneNote? It is definitely a comparable product vs. Evernote and is integrated with Office365 which makes it part of all existing enterprise subscription packages. THey also have a free version which is pretty good.
I still miss sunrise.
I have always just really wanted basic plain text on an SD card file system, but locked Android phones and iOS actively throw up barriers to keep people out of the raw file system. Even Google ships non-rooted flagship smartphones without a default file manager, and like, zero support for core geek features like plain text, folder manipulation and zip files.
So then you have these note taking apps, and they aren't free, and they STILL don't provide these sorts of core geek features.
So then I have to attack my phone, break it with some local exploit, risk bricking it in order to reflash, and THEN maybe I get some of the traditional UNIX style file operations.
I'm not saying Evernote to the rescue, because, honestly, I don't expect that to happen. But FFS, having to nearly destroy a phone, or pay money to gain access with an aftermarket upsell, to add basic features that Linux provides for, native, as a matter of being an operating system, when using a supposedly free OS like Android is absurd.
So, if a CTO for a really popular app can't think of a way to help this situation, I'm pretty luke warm about what your company does for a living. How do your geeks use their phones at work?
A readily recognizable company like Evernote should have a clue about this kind of thing. At this point, I'm sick of scouring walled-garden marketplaces for no name freebie/ad-supported garbage apps, because I'm too lazy to crack my phone, and too cheap to pay. Why is there not some default solution. Even github created Atom because text editing is kind of bullshit, moreso than it should be in a lot of areas. Evernote could probably blast open some kind of mobile IDE/tooling offering, if they wanted to. Not branded as Evernote, but as a sort of power-user product worth paying money for, shipped under some other name.
Meh. Whatever.
I've been an Evernote user for a long time, but it's been ages since I've felt that they're actually user-focused by way of improving holes like poor functional parity across their apps(1). As a outsider, a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps while a stream of core app rebuilds launched, none of which significantly moved the functional needle. I've been exploring altern…
I would be happy if Evernote was "done". I pay for a subscription, I am not interested in paying for new features, I would simply be happy if it went into eternal feature freeze and only did security and compatibility updates. Of course this kind of thing won't happen but maybe it says something about the optimization pitfalls of our economy.
It doesn't need to be the only product or have the most users it only needs to be functional and make enough money for it to be worthwhile except with vc funding it has to constantly chase growth and returns.
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One huge problem is that there’s a lot of competition that provides most of the same core features for free—like Apple Notes, for example. It’s also easy to repurpose apps like MS Word and Google Docs to achieve the same functionality. Obviously they’re very different apps designed for a different purpose, but many of my friends don’t seem to mind. They just want a reasonably functional way to take notes for free.
OneNote is a direct competitor and honestly a better one