Evernote was really great for a little while. In 2015, when I purchased my first mobile device, I realized I needed to get up into the cloud, and one of my loca

Evernote was really great for a little while. In 2015, when I purchased my first mobile device, I realized I needed to get up into the cloud, and one of my local-only apps was note taking in Ubuntu Linux. So I auditioned a few apps and decided that Evernote was really nice, and cross-platform, and had plenty of offline functionality. It was good, it had good features that I appreciated, and in fact I used it so heavily for notetaking that it became my de facto password manager. I found that I was recording lots of notes about every account I had (many real-world-related accounts, such as utilities and benefits) and so it was totally logical to just put credentials in there too. Yep, unencrypted! Evernote really helped during an intensive job search. I could clip the entire job listing to an article on Evernote, and I could refer to the full text later on. I could also add notes to it in any form! Nice! At the time, I was also using Dropbox for cloud storage. I exited both Dropbox and Evernote eventually. Now I just use Google Workspaces for everything; no complaints.