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In 2011 I downloaded Evernote for Android and promptly took an important note down while in a meeting. I got an email during the meeting (tablet notification),

In 2011 I downloaded Evernote for Android and promptly took an important note down while in a meeting. I got an email during the meeting (tablet notification), and I opened it. Upon returning to Evernote (using the Android app switcher), my note was gone. "Ever"note must have deleted my note in onPause or onResume. Ugh. I've been calling it Nevernote ever since. The #1 thing Evernote had to do was not delete my notes but that's all it did for me. A simple email draft would have been millions of times better. I don't take many chances on new notes apps now. I'm "sure" Roam won't delete my notes...until it does. Gmail drafts as notes for life. Offline, syncing, multi-platform, extremely unlikely to shut down. Easy social integration (fill in to: field and tap Send). Got everything I personally want. I'm also coding my own take on a new notes app......so we'll see.

haswell 6y ago
No offense, but using Gmail Drafts of all things as a response to what sounds like a pretty rare bug (I’ve been a paying Evernote user for 10+ years and have never lost a note) does not make any sense. What happens when something glitches out with your drafts? I can understand the desire to use caution , but “I don’t take many chances on new note apps now” as a result of that rare bug from ONE vendor seems extreme and unnecessary.
- cryptoz 6y ago
  An attempt at a non-biased search https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note and another https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note+android https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note+and... suggests that notes apps unexpectedly deleting notes is a major concern for users on both platforms (iOS and Android). Perhaps my reaction is extreme, but I haven't lost a note since or worried anxiously about that issue with a new app. I get that gmail drafts isn't for everyone, but this type of destructive bug isn't rare at all. It seems to be very common. And the platform I trust to not cause that bug is gmail drafts. Maybe one day I'll be in for a rude surprise but so far I have been very happy.
- crazygringo 6y ago
  > What happens when something glitches out with your drafts? Not the original commenter, but I have never had Google lose any of my data ever. In Gmail, my drafts are saved locally and also synced. It's never failed, I've never lost even a single character of something I was typing. And I too am in the boat of "bitten once, never again" when it comes to sync and data loss. If it happens once with something insignificant, it could happen to my thesis or book or whatever. My tolerance for data loss is like 0.000001%. Nothing is perfect. But if I ever experience it personally myself, something that ought to be less likely than being hit by lightning... then statistically, it's much more likely that the service is extremely risky to use, than that I got unlucky.

haswell 6y ago

No offense, but using Gmail Drafts of all things as a response to what sounds like a pretty rare bug (I’ve been a paying Evernote user for 10+ years and have never lost a note) does not make any sense. What happens when something glitches out with your drafts? I can understand the desire to use caution , but “I don’t take many chances on new note apps now” as a result of that rare bug from ONE vendor seems extreme and unnecessary.

cryptoz 6y ago
An attempt at a non-biased search https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note and another https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note+android https://www.google.com/search?q=note+app+deleted+my+note+and... suggests that notes apps unexpectedly deleting notes is a major concern for users on both platforms (iOS and Android). Perhaps my reaction is extreme, but I haven't lost a note since or worried anxiously about that issue with a new app. I get that gmail drafts isn't for everyone, but this type of destructive bug isn't rare at all. It seems to be very common. And the platform I trust to not cause that bug is gmail drafts. Maybe one day I'll be in for a rude surprise but so far I have been very happy.
crazygringo 6y ago
> What happens when something glitches out with your drafts? Not the original commenter, but I have never had Google lose any of my data ever. In Gmail, my drafts are saved locally and also synced. It's never failed, I've never lost even a single character of something I was typing. And I too am in the boat of "bitten once, never again" when it comes to sync and data loss. If it happens once with something insignificant, it could happen to my thesis or book or whatever. My tolerance for data loss is like 0.000001%. Nothing is perfect. But if I ever experience it personally myself, something that ought to be less likely than being hit by lightning... then statistically, it's much more likely that the service is extremely risky to use, than that I got unlucky.