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Wow. You know, I read your original comment with the opinion that it was very programmer-centric but this narrative made me think deeper about what you're tryin

Wow. You know, I read your original comment with the opinion that it was very programmer-centric but this narrative made me think deeper about what you're trying to say. I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus, things that have already been said to death. But it's amazing how a narrative, storytelling, can make me re-examine my own initial opinion like that.

baldfat 8y ago
Once the founders left and their "Building a company that will be here 100 years from now" left I left using it. I now use Boost Notes and Google Keep works better for me. They have all those employees but does Evernote do anything new to make people's life easier in a different way the past ten years??? I answer no.
nwatson 8y ago
>> I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus ... I don't think Evernote sucks in whole ... I very happily pay for Evernote annually-renewed premium subscription, and it's great at doing what I rent it for ... + it accepts documents, scans, photographs, text in notes that I can put in categories + it clips web page content through browser extensions and saves them as notes + it accepts emails composed and sent to it, and emails forwarded to it, turning them into notes + it does great OCR on scanned/photographed notes and documents + it does great matching on searches, from both explicit text and OCR'ed content + the browser interface is great, the Android, macOS, Windows apps are pretty decent ... and that's all I want. Evernote's seen their missed opportunities and has tried to catch up: + they want to be Slack with channeled- and threaded-messaging -- Slack works better + they want to be the business document repository -- I much prefer Confluence (or other Wikis) for structuring and storing long-term relevant information + they want to be an issue tracker + ... every other collaboration thing under the sun They've been pushing hard on all these multi-user shared-content angles. It seems like both a technical and marketing challenge -- they likely are too boxed-in and the jump a customer needs to make to envision using Evernote's new business/multi-user/collaboration features is too big.

baldfat 8y ago

Once the founders left and their "Building a company that will be here 100 years from now" left I left using it. I now use Boost Notes and Google Keep works better for me. They have all those employees but does Evernote do anything new to make people's life easier in a different way the past ten years??? I answer no.

nwatson 8y ago

>> I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus ... I don't think Evernote sucks in whole ... I very happily pay for Evernote annually-renewed premium subscription, and it's great at doing what I rent it for ... + it accepts documents, scans, photographs, text in notes that I can put in categories + it clips web page content through browser extensions and saves them as notes + it accepts emails composed and sent to it, and emails forwarded to it, turning them into notes + it does great OCR on scanned/photographed notes and documents + it does great matching on searches, from both explicit text and OCR'ed content + the browser interface is great, the Android, macOS, Windows apps are pretty decent ... and that's all I want. Evernote's seen their missed opportunities and has tried to catch up: + they want to be Slack with channeled- and threaded-messaging -- Slack works better + they want to be the business document repository -- I much prefer Confluence (or other Wikis) for structuring and storing long-term relevant information + they want to be an issue tracker + ... every other collaboration thing under the sun They've been pushing hard on all these multi-user shared-content angles. It seems like both a technical and marketing challenge -- they likely are too boxed-in and the jump a customer needs to make to envision using Evernote's new business/multi-user/collaboration features is too big.