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Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by saturdaysaint »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #263
symstym wrote: post #126

Long ago I got tired of Evernote's bugs and creep of extraneous features and switched to Workflowy [1] for the majority of my general (plaintext) note-taking. I love Workflowy and can't imagine life without it. [1] https://workflowy.com/

Serious question. If you are just making plaintext notes how come you are not just using your text editor of choice? Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Atom etc etc

I use Workflowy for easy cloud synchronization, great mobile apps (so I can quickly pull up a shopping list I created at my work PC) and generally the way the "infinite outline" model suits my mental organization. I'd be genuinely curious to the extent that some/all of these could meet some/all of these requirement, but Workflowy is so well designed and completely reliable that I haven't been particularly tempted to look around.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by allengeorge »

rickomegan wrote: post #324

It's worth noting that even after letting 47 people go, they have positions open on their careers page. New CEO trying to make his mark by dealing out a bit of worry to the underlings.

It is possible to reduce employees in one area while hiring in another (after all, your company's focus may have changed). These two events are not mutually exclusive. After all, they're not reducing their workforce by...10%, maybe more?...because they're losing money hand-over-fist.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by redwood »

dragon88 wrote: post #349

Does anyone know an online doc editor like Google Docs but one that lets you create sections within the doc and move them around? I write a lot of articles and I have to constantly rearrange sections to achieve a better flow. It's getting annoying to constantly copy and paste chunks of text to move them around.

great question. Also similar I have been seeking an equivalent online docs product with built-in flows from draft to review to approved

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Post by pjc50 »

davidjgraph wrote: post #360
pjc50 wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Users no more expect vendors to lose their data than they expect banks to lose their money. I suspect we'll eventually end up with some sort of standards body making sure you do backups.

I don't quite follow your point. We didn't lose their data, we never had it.

I've probably put the comment in the wrong place in the tree, sorry.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by balac »

greyman wrote: post #367
everly wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed; Google Keep has become my preference for immediate note taking. I think a major factor in Evernote's long-term survival is the friction of switching to a competitor (in conjunction with getting a lot of early traction with power-users).

What I find missing is a native Windows client. For me, "immediate" note taking means that I just hit ctrl-alt-N (or click Evernote icon in a tray), and I am immediately writing. In Google Keep, you basically need to visit a webpage, which is just not immediate. Or you use it only on mobile device?

You can install keep as a native looking desktop app by using the google app launcher, then you can open it like any other app.

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Post by inthewoods »

apostrophedave wrote: post #316
inthewoods wrote: post #224

A bit surprised no one has mentioned SimpleNote (www.simplenote.com) - a stripped down note taking service.

i dont know what the financial situation is with simplenote or how it works but after the whole springpad thing im not in any rush to get into bed with some service that might not be around in a few years.

It's a fair point - I'm going to wait to see how Notes syncing works with iCloud on Mac/iPhone but that is most definitely not an open solution. To date I've used Google Keep and Google Docs.

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Post by allengeorge »

meepadock wrote: post #229

I'm a long-time evernote premium customer who is saddened but not even slightly surprised by this. I firmly believe that Evernote raised too much money, at far too high of a valuation, and they fucked themselves. They did not have the product and market to justify a $1B valuation. They just didn't. They bet huge on their ability to invent whole new markets that sound like they're related to evernote, but aren't, real…

Why do you say the new CEO is a joke?

Incidentally, speaking of recent changes - one thing I have noticed over the past few months are constant reminders and emails to "Upgrade to Premium". I wonder if this was the immediate focus of the new CEO: to convert free customers to paying. After all, an important point was stressed in the CEO's letter - that their paying subscriber count has increased by 40% YOY.

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Post by mlrtime »

jason_slack wrote: post #106

I was an Evernote Premium customer and enjoyed multi-device syncing and private notebooks. I had my own account, paid for out of my own pocket for a year. The company I worked for also decided to used Evernote and I could see our "Team" notebooks, right along with my stuff. When the company stopped using it, not only did I lose the "Team" notebooks, it took all of my personal data with it. I lost everything. Support…

What I end up doing is storing my evernote project folder in dropbox. Funny enough evernote detects this and warns me, but I know dropbox won't loose my files.

Re: Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

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Post by dctoedt »

dctoedt wrote: post #190
djhn wrote: post #179

In the last 5 years I've accumulated some 8 000 notes in Evernote, which I would love to move to a safer platform/format in light of recent evidence of data loss and speculation concerning Evernote's longevity. What are the alternatives to organizing this second brain/memory? 50% are 20% complete webpages or complete articles deemed important enough to save a copy for later 10% graphics, annotated images and PDFs 10%…

See the "OneNote Bulk" Evernote-to-OneNote migration utility mentioned at http://www.thetechchat.com/2014/09/05/how-to-convert-notes-f... EDIT 1: PayPal and LinkedIn indicate that the migration app's developer is in China. [1] That initially gave me pause about using the app --- who knows where my information might end up? --- but then I'm guessing that Chinese hackers seeking to steal confidential information aren't…

Correction: It's "OneNote Batch" not Bulk.
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