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OneNote is a direct competitor and honestly a better one
The OneNote web clipper is a disgrace compared to Evernote's. How do you get around this problem?
Evernote was fine at the start but it seemed like they could never figure out what they wanted the UI to be, so they stretched it in too many different directions.
If Evernote hasn't found a set of features people would be willing to pay for in their ten years of existing, I doubt another round of funding is really the solution. I'd much rather see them reduce their staff to an amount they can afford given their MRR, and focus on fleshing out the features that people are actually willing to pay for.
Hence why you have equivalent or better software from other companies
Also, it also struck me as not very user friendly and a tad bureaucratic
Would love folks to check out our app, Notejoy, at https://notejoy.com - an Evernote alternative with apps for Mac, PC, iOS, web, and Android coming soon. Complete with markdown support, integrations with Slack, Trello, G Suite, and Office. Powerful search with snippets & highlights. Great for team collaboration as well, with real-time editing, threaded comments, and more. Would love your thoughts!
I'll happily pay $10 / month to Apple or Google or MS, assuming basic privacy, to deal with everything - my email, notes, sketches, brainstorms, files, bookmarks, reminders, calenders, contacts, etc.
But I'm not paying ten separate companies $1 each for the same features, even if the individual companies are better than whatever the large providers include.
I just don't want to deal with more subscriptions, credit card bills, and the potential for surprise charges - been shafted too many times by companies that became shady as things became financially desperate.
If Evernote hasn't found a set of features people would be willing to pay for in their ten years of existing, I doubt another round of funding is really the solution. I'd much rather see them reduce their staff to an amount they can afford given their MRR, and focus on fleshing out the features that people are actually willing to pay for.
Evernote is not a product, it's a feature. Hence why you have equivalent or better software from other companies Also, it also struck me as not very user friendly and a tad bureaucratic
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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.
> but maybe it says something about the optimization pitfalls of our economy Of the tech economy, perhaps. Or perhaps that's what you meant by "our", this being a tech site. A huge amount of the workforce is engaged in work that doesn't change much at all. Construction workers, skilled labor like service plumbing or mechanical maintenance, engineering, retail work, etc. It's fairly optimized and if it changes, it cha…
Would love folks to check out our app, Notejoy, at https://notejoy.com - an Evernote alternative with apps for Mac, PC, iOS, web, and Android coming soon. Complete with markdown support, integrations with Slack, Trello, G Suite, and Office. Powerful search with snippets & highlights. Great for team collaboration as well, with real-time editing, threaded comments, and more. Would love your thoughts!
This looks much more like a competitor for Asana than for Evernote.
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I spent my last two years of residency taking my notes in Evernote, but they really fall short in the transition between hand-written notes and that shift to research where you need to make high-quality handwritten notes over a PDF, like Notability, and then move those PDFs to the bibliography phase of databasing. Now that I'm out of training and doing my own work, that like of integration with my future self really…
Geez, that's disturbing. To think Xournal does it more or less for gratis & libre!
You gotta roll your own out of app organization/tagging scheme, which isn't a big deal in keyboard mode, but when my machine is in stylus mode, totally sucks. (I used folders to organize Xournal files. Hard to navigate via stylus. Compare to say onenote with good stylus/touch us)
Also, the UI is just funky. Switching colors of the pen requires carefully tapping an extraordinarily tiny colored box. No way to paste images, you gotta clipart them in (so no roll-your-own stylus screenselect +paste functionality like onenote + windows 10). Scrolling only works sometimes, and leaves little penmark dots usually as it takes a second to understand that that wasn't my stylus.
It only recognizes one of the buttons on my thinkpad stylus.
If you're in putting text and want one word to be a different color, that single word needs to be an entirely different textbox, which is nearly impossible to do so close to other text. Also, no bold, italic, underline.
Gotta roll your own sync, which doesn't bother me because onenote sync is so terrible it actually makes the software worse.
Xournal is an incredible software but it's just soooo cloooose. I keep meaning to hunt around to see if it's open source and see if I can start contributing to get it how I want it.
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It’s back. DVD.com is Netflix’s DVD by mail business.
Really? I wonder how it will compete with Redbox? We rarely watch movies (we don't even have a Netflix subscription), but when we do it is a spur of the moment thing so we just run around the corner to redbox and grab something. Waiting for a movie in the mail? That's so 2010 ;-)
They compete by having a larger library.
But before you get too smug, the idea of going to Redbox to get a physical disc is not exactly cutting edge compared to just clicking on a button and renting a movie on demand from your cable provider/Apple/Amazon/Google/Vudu.
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I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet. Why on earth would they want to? OneNote runs on everything, ties in well with Office, and covers the big ticket features that Evernote does. I'm a vimwiki user for the most of what Evernote/OneNote cover, but what I can't believe is that Evernote users haven't saved Microsoft the trouble, and just switched to OneNote. I mean, if you're going to go walled-garden, Micros…
I use OneNote - it's really great. Until it suddenly decides it doesn't want to sync anymore.