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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 trallnag »

pjmlp wrote: post #235
Foobar8568 wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still can't figure out how to use note,I have tried different approach but having to jump different application and rewrite everything 2 or 3 times, just don't compute in my brain.

Basically how I came around using it, was instead of having txt files, office files and a bunch of screenshots scattered around on the filesystem under the respective project directory, I started organizing such content inside Notes itself.

So you store all your documents within OneNote?

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

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Post by Lolaccount »

kelipso wrote: post #36
pyeri wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There have been stories of how convoluted and practically impossible the unsubscribe process from Amazon Prime is. At almost every step, the system sort of nags you with "Do you REALLY want to do this?" almost with a trolling attitude! If this is the case with proper big tech capitalist, think what will the scenario be with smaller pleb capitalists like Evernote in this grave recession.

There's at most like three do you really want to dialogs to cancel prime. I do a month every so often and the cancellation works reliably. It's bad yeah but not anywhere as bad as the site just not allowing you to cancel.

Yeah, I was surprised about the recent rulings ...

I've found it easy to cancel ... and several times where I forgot to cancel, customer services happily, easily and promptly refunded the charge ...

I'm no big tech Amazon fan ... but never had a problem.

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

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Post by scrollinondubs »

I moved to Notesnook about 6mos ago and have been pretty happy with it. The founder is active in Discord and shipping new features about every 2wks. It's E2E encrypted and open source so you can self-host if you want to. I used their Evernote importer to move all my notes and it worked about 95% accurately (only formatting that didn't transfer correctly was the checkboxes): https://importer.notesnook.com/

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

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Post by fredgrott »

I like to add, since I got slightly organized after getting my ADHD under control, you never ever price-silo your workflow as then its locked away to be leveraged against you.

Personally, I use vscode with a combo of zettelkasten and kanban boards which works quite well even for those with ADHD!

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

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Post by bighi »

izacus wrote: post #302
DeathArrow wrote: post #289

Boss1: let's create a great note taking app Employee1: creates a great note taking app Customers: :) :) :) Boss2: let's milk more money, does anyone have a good idea? Bean Counter: let's add some useless crap, our customer base will quadruple Employee1: ads useless crap Customers: ? ? ? Boss3: let's milk more money, does anyone have a good idea? Bean Counter: let's fire Employee1, hire Employee2 for half the wage and…

You missed "Let's add subscription and tell the stupid users it'll actually be used to improve their experience!"

Evernote had subscription since the beginning

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Post by HPsquared »

heywhatupboys wrote: post #291
slg wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Evernote CEO Phil Libin announced at the recent Le Web London conference that the company will soon set up a protected fund and include a legally binding guaratee that users’ data will be maintained for 100 years That almost sounds like a threat to commit a crime in certain jurisdictions. A lot has changed regarding how we talk about data in the last decade.

So much shit here against GDPR which is basically: 1. if you want your data removed, companies HAVE to remove your data 2. if you don't want your data stored, companies CANNOT store your data and then a bunch of if-when-then-else-must-cannot-time-dependent-legal-stuff

The devil's in the details.

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Post by jve »

kpw94 wrote: post #173
Brajeshwar wrote: post #138

I like to bring up my personal opinion and realization of owning an open format -- plain-text - content for your life-long textual contents. I was once an Evernote user since its early days and a premium subscriber for many years. I have used many notetaking apps and bought enough of them – iA Writer, ByWord, Bear, SimpleNote, nvAlt fork of Notational Velocity, etc. I have moved to a simpler notetaking and writing ha…

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

Since when twitter allows posting 2172 character long message? Apparently char limit is now 25k for subscribers...

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

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Post by N19PEDL2 »

xvilka wrote: post #112
swayson wrote: post #77

Obsidian.md for the win. I used to use evernote way back when they started, was cool software, then they started scaling and added worst search UI I have ever come across. That day, I deleted my account and went markdown with my own storage. Don't see the benefit of why your notes should be controlled by others.

It's not open source. If migrate from Evernote, at least it's better to migrate to FOSS. Sadly, most FOSS solutions lack mobile app support.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611355
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