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Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by bennyp101 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #215
kpw94 wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried Obsidian? 3 days ago one of the obsidian makers posted this: https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1675626836821409792 Key quote: "These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last." Seems to align with your philosophy

I tried obsidian but didn’t feel it was much better than opening a folder in VSCode, and as I am already used to VSCode, that is easier for me.

Have you tried https://www.dendron.so/ ? I think that was aiming to be a knowledgebase in vscode

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by benhurmarcel »

ramraj07 wrote: post #208
belthesar wrote: post #79

I feel like Evernote is a prime example of the pains of trying to convert free users to paying users for the same features, something we see in many VC funded software from its era. Once you give something away, it's damn near impossible to take it back, even if you plead your case as honestly as Evernote did. Evernote was great. Honestly, it was worth paying for. But they gave away the farm too early, and folks feel…

Sounds like Dropbox has made the transition just fine. If you’re gonna ask me to pay a tenner a month you better give me what I think is the dollars worth of value. Dropbox did. Evernote did not. At least not for the vast majority of people who barely take some notes on some rare days.

Dropbox never took away anything they gave for free though. In the beginning they handed out extra space like candies, and the accounts that got it at the time still have it.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by villgax »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #213
eru wrote: post #210

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Public laws and private contracts are two different things. For one, you can typically opt out of the latter, but not the former.

Copying my comment from a couple of days ago as that is simply not practically true: >All my university systems run on Microsoft. All my future employers' systems will probably run on Microsoft. All public transport in my country effectively requires an app which is tied to either Google or Apple operating systems to buy tickets. Schools require students as young as 6 years old to have an iPad or chromebook tied to G…

The solution is to have goverments use Linux which many do, use libre office suites, sponsor projects that government project's outsourcing companies use. Web interfaces for all services without needing to signup for a third party EULA.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by NovaDudely »

Animats wrote: post #198

It is perhaps worth noting that spoon bending is a scam from the 1970s.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_bending

I love the idea of of these guys being bought out by a bunch of people who managed to somehow make a fortune bending spoons (Not Uri Geller!).

Like in 30 Rock how NBC is owned by the Shinehart Wig Company.

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Post by rightbyte »

littlestymaar wrote: post #239
barsonme wrote: post #142

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Ex post facto laws should be prohibited in any civilized country.

Crime against humanity didn't even exist as a concept (let alone a law) before Nuremberg, do you think the condamnation of the nazis there as “uncivilized”?

Seems like an extreme counter example. In the spirit of the parent post I guess you could argue theft, murder etc. was already illegal?

Also, it is morally different when you want to punish lawmakers.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by TheLoafOfBread »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #226
devjab wrote: post #216

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I think you’re both right because the original poster left out competition. It’s one thing to take free back, it’s another thing to do it when people can easily replace your product without paying. Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use. At least as far as I know. You can get your disk space in a lot of ways, some bundled with other products you may use making it appear “free” but even if you host your…

> Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use Google drive?

It is only matter of time before Google will kill it.

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by nunodonato »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #226
devjab wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you’re both right because the original poster left out competition. It’s one thing to take free back, it’s another thing to do it when people can easily replace your product without paying. Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use. At least as far as I know. You can get your disk space in a lot of ways, some bundled with other products you may use making it appear “free” but even if you host your…

> Dropbox doesn’t have a competitor that is free to use Google drive?

where's the linux client?

Re: Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

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Post by hackernewds »

prewett wrote: post #9

> How they intend to do that without any staff Contractors from cheaper cost of living countries, I expect.

intend to do what? acquirer probably has no intention of keeping the app running. just reaping whoever subscribes as profit, and having no opex

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Post by allarm »

BaseballPhysics wrote: post #187
willdr wrote: post #177

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If I can ask, what is Paperless? Google is strangely unhelpful.

It's a self-hosted document management system: https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ Think: replacing paper file folders with a digital system. Supports OCR, a variety of metadata, tagging and categories, etc. My primary use case is taxes, but for any important legal or financial documents, I throw 'em in Paperless.

I can’t recommend Paperless enough. I set up email forwarding to the Paperless domain and it automatically downloads the attached documents. The only problem I have now - I am using a somewhat older version and there’s no direct migration path to the recent one.
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