I want to like Evernote, but it's a pain to use. I open it up every year or so to see whether it's improved and it never has. Maybe it's not designed to do wha

I want to like Evernote, but it's a pain to use. I open it up every year or so to see whether it's improved and it never has. Maybe it's not designed to do what I want, which is to be a simple digital shoebox into which I can constantly shove stuff and have it searchable and available. For all its visual design polish the core functionality is frustrating and I object to being bugged to buy overpriced desk furniture by a notes app. I call it Skypeification. A simple utility - making calls, taking notes - gets bloated in features and UI until it takes far more space and resources than it should. At it's smallest window size, Skype takes up almost half my laptop screen to display nine interface elements. There's no excuse for that.