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
#2Used evernote a ton for a long time, but their last major overhaul 18 months or so ago left me behind. They switched their UI, process flow and more. It took it from a tool I found indispensable to one that tried to force me to their will.
Eventually, I grew tired of trying to fit into their new methods and moved on.
It doesn't surprise me they haven't been able to grow their paid base.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#3i hope i don't lose Skitch. that's a decade or more worth of screenshots and convenient annotations...
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#4Used evernote a ton for a long time, but their last major overhaul 18 months or so ago left me behind. They switched their UI, process flow and more. It took it from a tool I found indispensable to one that tried to force me to their will. Eventually, I grew tired of trying to fit into their new methods and moved on. It doesn't surprise me they haven't been able to grow their paid base.
What tools are you using now? Also looking to move away from evernote.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#5I'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 alternatives, but so far nothing has stuck. Last time I looked at OneNote it seemed promising, but the lack of tags (seriously?) was a showstopper. DevonThink Pro was interesting, but the Mac experience and UI is archaic to the point of being unusable IMO. Esp. the way that DT bakes a really terrible styling onto imported Evernote notes.
I'd love to hear migration success stories from those of you who've moved on.
(1) One example: Want to create or modify a table on the iPad app? Nope. Baffling.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#6i hope i don't lose Skitch. that's a decade or more worth of screenshots and convenient annotations...
Let this be a lesson against relying on proprietary walled gardens.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#7I 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.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#8i hope i don't lose Skitch. that's a decade or more worth of screenshots and convenient annotations...
Let this be a lesson against relying on proprietary walled gardens.
Open source companies could run on a blockchain and one could have a smart contract to release the source code or access to one's proprietary data upon company going out of business..
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#9I'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'm still writing some notes in Evernote on my mobile, but on desktop I've just switched to markdown notes in a Dropbox folder. I have a vim plugin now that generates a html preview as I type.
I think markdown is the most future proof technology for the moment because you can just use pandoc to convert it or most note systems will accept markdown as an input format.
I'm not sure how tags would work in markdown, I guess you can create links manually but that's not really what you want.
Re: Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise
#10I 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, Microsoft has some nice landscapers.