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Both evernote and dropbox started making the free service worse by limiting how many devices you could connect. Dropbox also dropped support for xfs filesystems
by awill 6y ago
Both evernote and dropbox started making the free service worse by limiting how many devices you could connect. Dropbox also dropped support for xfs filesystems on Linux (which they later brought back, but not after infuriating Linux users). That's when I stopped using both. I then moved to Google Drive (which is half the price of Dropbox), and moved to using markdown note apps sync with Google Drive (which is free!)
I don't think there's a single example of a company where >90% of their userbase if free, and they succeed after making the free user experience worse.
They're thinking in terms of money (or reducing costs), but the other view is that they're making the experience for >90% of customers worse.
What dropbox seems to forger is that many of their enterprise contracts happened precisely because the decision makers used dropbox personally, and liked it. By screwing over your free customers, you are actually only hurting future sales.
- lightgreen 6y ago> markdown note apps sync with Google Drive Can you recommend the app please? I migrated away from Evernote when it started to have too much features, and was no longer convenient note taking app. I'm using Apple Notes now, which is more or less good, but it is vendor-locked, and I plan to move away from iPhone to Android.
- bihla 6y agoI've recently move to using a git repo has my store for notes, and different clients for access and editing. On Desktop I use Obsidian (although most anything will do) and on mobile I use GitJournal which easily links into an existing git repo.
- lightgreen 6y ago> on mobile I use GitJournal Is it good? On mobile the common case is to launch an app and immediately see/search the notes. Or type something, close the app and assume notes are synched. But git pull and git push are not blazing fast operations. And there are no pushes, to get updates from the server immediately. Git is a good storage, but I doubt it is suitable for notes without intermediate service handing note-specific scenarios.
- vhanda 6y agoHey. I'm the author. It will try to sync it as soon as it can. If you immediately close GitJournal, it won't be able to. Otherwise, on each modification it tries to sync. (Configurable) Maybe I can add some background sync. The common use case to see and search through the notes works.
- rossmohax 6y agoroamresearch.com works really well for me