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Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly? What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note taking app? A quick search turns up
by magic_hamster 3y ago
Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly? What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note taking app?
A quick search turns up quite a few FOSS candidates for note apps that you can use or even self host.
I guess I am missing something because I don't see why anyone would actually pay so much for this.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoI think people pay to continue using the app they’ve been using for years and for access to their thousands of notes. Even if they’re not completely locked in, a transfer + re-learning a new app may not be a feasible task for many. So someone probably ran the numbers and decided they can squeeze more $. Also, inflation.
- gentleman11 3y agoThe existing user base will be reluctant to leave, because they’ll lose access to their massive collection of notes in the Evernote proprietary format. They’re locked in, to at least some extent. I pay for a some writing subscriptions, but they all use markdown as the file format. I can switch apps pretty easily if I ever want to leave
- throwaway675309 3y agoI used Evernote for years after switching over from Microsoft OneNote and every year the product got steadily worse. Fortunately the ENEX file format is nothing more than a giant concatenated file of all of your notes in a customized XML blend, and with a little bit of scripting work I converted all of my notes, attachments, and embedded images into markdown notes that I use with Obsidian.