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I don't think Evernote need(s/ed) a team version, but I do think its not sufficiently better to current alternatives for note-taking and bookmarking. I use Poc

I don't think Evernote need(s/ed) a team version, but I do think its not sufficiently better to current alternatives for note-taking and bookmarking. I use Pocket for tagged bookmarks and OneNote when I want more context. Where there is a gap in the market, tying notation to memory and productivity, would be some kind of notation context and intelligent reminder (e.g these web tabs, that note, this tag) tied to some event or place where it would be useful - you're in the workshed and picking up some old project; its someone's birthday you wanted to remind them about xyz. Now that would be a genuinely useful memory aid.

huffmsa 8y ago
I saw a guy pitching a location based notes app years ago one morning on CNBC. I believe it was called "Acorns" (not the investment app). I was super hyped for it. Would mean the wife could just jot a note about grocery items at any point during the week and I'd get an alert whenever I got to the grocery store. Brilliant. No "don't forget milk" texts, which I forget because it's not on my actual list. But it never launched. Or did under a new name I was unaware of. I've been waiting for location features for a long long time.
- random_kris 8y ago
  I use google keep, it has time and location based reminders. I think there is even an option to create shared note with your SO edit: yes it works :D I managed to share a note with my gf and she sees it. Now she tried to set up a reminder that will ring my phone when either of us gets close a certain groccery store that we visit
  - huffmsa 8y ago
    Keep is my current go to. They've added a lot to it recently, but I was unaware they've added locations. The ML predictions for grocery items when you're writing a list is a nice touch. I'm trying to get off Google's teat, but it looks like I'm on the Keep train, until they abruptly discontinue it in 12-18 months.
    - sammorrowdrums 8y ago
      This behaviour was also in Google Inbox but as they are killing it slowly other Google apps are getting it's features. The teat is annoyingly hard to ween from! They get a lot right.
    - random_kris 8y ago
      hehe I'm in the same boat... been wanting to ditch google for so long but their software is one of the best if it works / the don't discontinue it...
    - rwc 8y ago
      I know the "until they pull the plug" is a popular meme but EOL expectations for GSuite products are completely different than other Google products.
      - huffmsa 8y ago
        I didn't know Keep fell under the Gsuite umbrella. My concerns are mildly alleviated.
        whatthewhatwhat 8y ago
        According to posts I've read here on HN, Keep is a one-developer, 10%-time project. I've no doubt it will be killed whenever Google feels like it (or when its developer gets a new job). They'll probably dump its data into Docs, like they did with Notebook (remember that?). I'm still using it, because it works quite well (better than Evernote!), but I don't expect anything I store in it to be very permanent.
      - irrational 8y ago
        Hangouts and Google Talk used to be part of the core services of GSuite and they still got the axe.
        huffmsa 8y ago
        Rebranded as "meetings" or something. But I still use Hangouts.
  - hknd 8y ago
    OMG! I didn't know about the location reminder, and now I will be using it all the time.
- yspeak 8y ago
  Google's keep does this as do others
- dangoor 8y ago
  If you're in the Apple ecosystem, there's an app called Grocery[1]. It uses the built-in reminders database, but does lots of excellent grocery-specific things (remembering the order of items in the store, using geofencing to know which store you've arrived at, Apple Watch support for checking items off). And, since it's just Reminders under the hood, you can tell Siri "Add Foo to my grocery list", and it works. [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1195676848?at=10l3Vy&ct=UUimUdUnU48830YYwYg https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1195676848?at=10l3Vy&ct=UU...
- egypturnash 8y ago
  Oh man Astrid on Android used to do that and it was THE BEST. I lost that when I shifted to iOS years ago and I still miss it now and then.
criddell 8y ago
> Where there is a gap in the market, tying notation to memory and productivity, would be some kind of notation context and intelligent reminder If I were running the company, there's no way I would start chasing idea like this. I like how they used to describe the product 10 years ago - your external brain. It's an application for taking notes, not calendaring or task management. There are lots of apps that do exactly what you are describing. I think it's a core Android features. You can say "ok google, remind me to buy eggs when I'm at the store" and it just works. I believe iOS has the same functionality.
- guiriduro 8y ago
  Reminders of that sort are pretty basic; I had something more like "Now where was I?" in mind - recovering the context, or at least easing the context switch cognitive load. E.g. a task which pops out of the backlog based on your current context of being at the hardware store, to remind you to get a claw hammer, along with the why (you may have forgotten). A memory aid as a synergy of todos, note-taking and reminders basically. It also reduces the constant re-iteration and procrastination over important but not urgent items or ideas that you can push off the top of mind to your note taking app if you can trust it to bring it back at the right time and place or in the right context.

huffmsa 8y ago

I saw a guy pitching a location based notes app years ago one morning on CNBC. I believe it was called "Acorns" (not the investment app). I was super hyped for it. Would mean the wife could just jot a note about grocery items at any point during the week and I'd get an alert whenever I got to the grocery store. Brilliant. No "don't forget milk" texts, which I forget because it's not on my actual list. But it never launched. Or did under a new name I was unaware of. I've been waiting for location features for a long long time.

random_kris 8y ago
I use google keep, it has time and location based reminders. I think there is even an option to create shared note with your SO edit: yes it works :D I managed to share a note with my gf and she sees it. Now she tried to set up a reminder that will ring my phone when either of us gets close a certain groccery store that we visit
- huffmsa 8y ago
  Keep is my current go to. They've added a lot to it recently, but I was unaware they've added locations. The ML predictions for grocery items when you're writing a list is a nice touch. I'm trying to get off Google's teat, but it looks like I'm on the Keep train, until they abruptly discontinue it in 12-18 months.
  - sammorrowdrums 8y ago
    This behaviour was also in Google Inbox but as they are killing it slowly other Google apps are getting it's features. The teat is annoyingly hard to ween from! They get a lot right.
  - random_kris 8y ago
    hehe I'm in the same boat... been wanting to ditch google for so long but their software is one of the best if it works / the don't discontinue it...
  - rwc 8y ago
    I know the "until they pull the plug" is a popular meme but EOL expectations for GSuite products are completely different than other Google products.
    - huffmsa 8y ago
      I didn't know Keep fell under the Gsuite umbrella. My concerns are mildly alleviated.
      - whatthewhatwhat 8y ago
        According to posts I've read here on HN, Keep is a one-developer, 10%-time project. I've no doubt it will be killed whenever Google feels like it (or when its developer gets a new job). They'll probably dump its data into Docs, like they did with Notebook (remember that?). I'm still using it, because it works quite well (better than Evernote!), but I don't expect anything I store in it to be very permanent.
    - irrational 8y ago
      Hangouts and Google Talk used to be part of the core services of GSuite and they still got the axe.
      - huffmsa 8y ago
        Rebranded as "meetings" or something. But I still use Hangouts.
- hknd 8y ago
  OMG! I didn't know about the location reminder, and now I will be using it all the time.
yspeak 8y ago
Google's keep does this as do others
dangoor 8y ago
If you're in the Apple ecosystem, there's an app called Grocery[1]. It uses the built-in reminders database, but does lots of excellent grocery-specific things (remembering the order of items in the store, using geofencing to know which store you've arrived at, Apple Watch support for checking items off). And, since it's just Reminders under the hood, you can tell Siri "Add Foo to my grocery list", and it works. [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1195676848?at=10l3Vy&ct=UUimUdUnU48830YYwYg https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1195676848?at=10l3Vy&ct=UU...
egypturnash 8y ago
Oh man Astrid on Android used to do that and it was THE BEST. I lost that when I shifted to iOS years ago and I still miss it now and then.

criddell 8y ago

> Where there is a gap in the market, tying notation to memory and productivity, would be some kind of notation context and intelligent reminder If I were running the company, there's no way I would start chasing idea like this. I like how they used to describe the product 10 years ago - your external brain. It's an application for taking notes, not calendaring or task management. There are lots of apps that do exactly what you are describing. I think it's a core Android features. You can say "ok google, remind me to buy eggs when I'm at the store" and it just works. I believe iOS has the same functionality.

guiriduro 8y ago
Reminders of that sort are pretty basic; I had something more like "Now where was I?" in mind - recovering the context, or at least easing the context switch cognitive load. E.g. a task which pops out of the backlog based on your current context of being at the hardware store, to remind you to get a claw hammer, along with the why (you may have forgotten). A memory aid as a synergy of todos, note-taking and reminders basically. It also reduces the constant re-iteration and procrastination over important but not urgent items or ideas that you can push off the top of mind to your note taking app if you can trust it to bring it back at the right time and place or in the right context.