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Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by tolien »

luckydata wrote: post #79
tolien wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a huge amount of energy felt squandered on a shotgun-strategy of special-purpose apps Never mind random apps, what about socks ? [1] 1: https://mashable.com/2013/09/26/evernote-market/

that was just a marketing gimmick, it's not like core engineers will be busy knitting the socks.

I doubt core engineers were working on Skitch either (for one, it was an acquisition), but GGP still points out that Evernote lacked (still lacks?) focus. Selling branded stuff (they also did business card holders and bags) is another piece of that.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by gaius »

drb91 wrote: post #135
incadenza wrote: post #125

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Maybe I’m oblivious, but I’ve never heard bureaucratic applied to software. I’ve got to say it fits perfectly in this case.

JIRA also fits the bill.

JIRA out of the box is fairly sane. The problem is it’s so easy to customise and project managers go crazy with statuses and custom fields and mandatory transitions.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by kerrsclyde »

colechristensen wrote: post #24
saidajigumi wrote: post #5

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.

This. I've paid for it since 2012, my world would be rocked if they shut it down or modified it significantly.

It does make you start to question why you are paying for a service whilst locking yourself in when the rug can be pulled at any minute.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by DEADBEEFC0FFEE »

dstaley wrote: post #82

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.

I was a paying customer for a couple of years. Their failure to make cutting and pasting bullet lists, intuitive, despite many people complaining for years was enough to make me leave.

I just snapped one day and walked away, never looked back.

I really did like their OCR features. I guess I like lists more.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by doomrobo »

jiggunjer wrote: post #152
doomrobo wrote: post #87

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I use Zotero for the same purpose and it's been great so far: https://www.zotero.org/

How do you save websites on zotero, as pdf?

I think I misunderstood what the parent meant by "article". I use Zotero for academic journal articles and books. I think you can import website links too, though.

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by snaky »

mikestew wrote: post #10
godzillabrennus wrote: post #7

I have been using evernote since it practically launched. I only use Evernote these days because there is no competitor I like a lot. Not because it's good. The app crashes, it takes forever to open, and the company has not improved anything in a long time. Now they even changed the logo making it harder for my mind to locate the app. Total disaster at Evernote. I can't believe Microsoft hasn't bought it yet.

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…

> OneNote runs on everything, ties in well with Office

Not for long.

https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-wind...

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by snaky »

cal5k wrote: post #23
mikestew wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It doesn't sync custom tags anyway.

https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-wind...

Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise

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Post by skinnymuch »

ThePadawan wrote: post #139
irrational wrote: post #102

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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 ;-)

> We rarely watch movies (...), but when we do it is a spur of the moment thing so we just run around the corner to redbox and grab something (...) I find it fascinating that this is core idea that made Netflix so successful, they just rely on much lazier customers than you!

Their library was far bigger than any storefront. Even if you never used the more rare stuff, it was a selling point.
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