I always thought Evernote was just a more updated version of Treepad. Treepad was a way of making all these labeled leafs of notes and organize it hierarchical

I always thought Evernote was just a more updated version of Treepad. Treepad was a way of making all these labeled leafs of notes and organize it hierarchically. But it ended up being really annoying to manage. It was easy to add notes but easier to never look at them again, rendering them useless. Search or typical tag-based approaches wouldn't solve these problems. I always thought it would require something innovative, perhaps a more atomic line-based input that self organizes as a large list. I'm not sure Evernote ever really came up with a more innovative solution than an upgraded treepad + cloud + search + tags ?