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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 failrate »

astrodust wrote: post #48
hndamien wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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 caymanjim »

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…

The same reason every mid-sized company gets bought: to obtain the users. Evernote was there first, and has an established market through nothing more than inertia. Their product is terrible. Someone will buy them, absorb the userbase, and get rid of the existing product.

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

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Post by sxg »

coldcode wrote: post #54
nodamage wrote: post #29

> “In the past three months (June, July, August), Evernote has been downloaded 2.5 million times worldwide,” a spokesperson for analytics firm Apptopia said. “After store fees, the app has brought in revenues of $2.9 million through in-app purchases.” That seems like... not a lot... for a company that has raised $300 million in funding.

$1 per download isn't enough to pay the bills. That's not much more than a 99¢ game. It means people don't actually value the product enough to pay for it.

One huge problem is that there’s a lot of competition that provides most of the same core features for free—like Apple Notes, for example. It’s also easy to repurpose apps like MS Word and Google Docs to achieve the same functionality. Obviously they’re very different apps designed for a different purpose, but many of my friends don’t seem to mind. They just want a reasonably functional way to take notes for free.

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

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Post by dahdum »

ram_rar wrote: post #58

I dont know, why there is soo much hate for evernote in here. I understand , the valuation seems crazy. I have been using evernote for years and it suits my needs. I write journals daily and tag them with keywords. That way, i can read my past journal and laugh at myself.

I used them for years as a paying customer, and though the apps were also a bit slow and buggy I thought they were worthwhile.

I only cancelled when they changed their terms to allow engineers to read your notes to improve their ad targeting. Though they eventually walked that back it soured me enough, now I get by with google docs instead.

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

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Post by jiaweihli »

synaesthesisx wrote: post #21
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…

Personally I use Ulysses which has been great on desktop & mobile (supports code blocks, markup & more). However I'm not sure how I feel after they switched over to the whole subscription-model thing...anyone else have any success with similar alternatives?

If you live in the Apple ecosystem, I highly recommend mweb[1]. It ticks all the boxes I've been looking for:

  - intuitive UI: lets me see 1) raw markdown syntax or 2) formatted preview... no weird in-betweens
  - sync to/from mobile, with preview & edit support
  - markdown support with nice preview and support for code (similar to github style)
  - search
  - support for folders (and potentially tags, if I ever find a good use case for them)
  - pdf export
  - no subscription model
Alternatives I've tried which haven't done as well for one reason or another:

  - Bear: confusing preview/editing mode
  - Evernote: no markdown
  - Ulysses: subscription model shift
  - Standard Notes: confusing/buggy UI
  - Quiver: poor mobile support
[1] https://www.mweb.im/

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

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Post by luckydata »

tolien wrote: post #25
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…

> 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.

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

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I wish them well. I was a paying customer for many years but a few years ago I backed up all of my notes and cancelled. I noticed that I spent much more time creating and curating notes than ever using them. Now I use org-mode and occasionally Apple Notes and Keep.

I re-evaluated the utility of long term curation of notes and working material.

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