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Oh wow, they even acquired Evernote and fired the entire staff. I hadn't heard about that.

by Sakos 3y ago

bayindirh 3y ago
Yeah, they did that. The app is not going "downhill" yet, however if they start to ruin it for good, I'll be moving out. I was not planning to do that, and I don't wish that they force me to do that.
- monkey_monkey 3y ago
  > eah, they did that. The app is not going "downhill" yet, Isn't that because there's not much further the Evernote app can fall?
  - bayindirh 3y ago
    For my use case, the app is not half bad, except it's being Electron. The underpinnings hold so well, because .enex format is good, and the application understands Markdown formatting cues for the most part. Also, the professional plan has GPS tagged notes, which I tend to like. Evernote doesn't have much alternatives for what I use it for. Notion doesn't work offline, Obsidian is too information dense and not easy to collaborate with. I use Obsidian + publish for my digital garden, but it doesn't work well for other things I use Evernote for. I never had the data loss people mentioned about, either. Lastly, I don't care about AI stuff in either Evernote or Notion. I neither trust the tech, nor I consent to train these "things" with my data.
- sib 3y ago
  Somehow I missed the acquisition. I think the downhill slide has begun - they recently changed the terms / capabilities on their free version to make it even more limited and, presumably, to get more people to upgrade. It's good to know this because it gives me the push I needed to finally move off my very limited use of the app.
AlwaysRock 3y ago
Evernote finally pushed me over the edge when they limited free plans to 50 notes last month. They had made so many changes to the ui and price increases that it was becoming a worse and worse product. Apples free notes app replaced it and other than being SLIGHTLY annoying that I have to log into the web app on windows machines... I dont miss evernote at all.
- w0m 3y ago
  similarly; I got fed up with an earlier change and migrated to One Note. Generally happy with it; and apps on every platform (including linux)
  - qwerpy 3y ago
    There’s a Linux app for OneNote? I’ve been looking for one that isn’t just “use the online version in the browser”. Which isn’t half bad except for the fact that it loads pages on demand and so is slow on first load.
    - w0m 3y ago
      https://snapcraft.io/install/onenote-desktop/ubuntu https://snapcraft.io/install/onenote-desktop/ubuntu though https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/990813/onenote-for-linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/990813/o... Looks like a webapp wrapper. It is snappy in my use though on a 2010 i7 MBA running Ubuntu 2022.
- asystole 3y ago
  Apple Notes is actually pretty great.

Oh wow, they even acquired Evernote and fired the entire staff. I hadn't heard about that.

by Sakos 3y ago

Oh wow, they even acquired Evernote and fired the entire staff. I hadn't heard about that.

Yeah, they did that. The app is not going "downhill" yet, however if they start to ruin it for good, I'll be moving out. I was not planning to do that, and I don't wish that they force me to do that.

monkey_monkey 3y ago
> eah, they did that. The app is not going "downhill" yet, Isn't that because there's not much further the Evernote app can fall?
- bayindirh 3y ago
  For my use case, the app is not half bad, except it's being Electron. The underpinnings hold so well, because .enex format is good, and the application understands Markdown formatting cues for the most part. Also, the professional plan has GPS tagged notes, which I tend to like. Evernote doesn't have much alternatives for what I use it for. Notion doesn't work offline, Obsidian is too information dense and not easy to collaborate with. I use Obsidian + publish for my digital garden, but it doesn't work well for other things I use Evernote for. I never had the data loss people mentioned about, either. Lastly, I don't care about AI stuff in either Evernote or Notion. I neither trust the tech, nor I consent to train these "things" with my data.
sib 3y ago
Somehow I missed the acquisition. I think the downhill slide has begun - they recently changed the terms / capabilities on their free version to make it even more limited and, presumably, to get more people to upgrade. It's good to know this because it gives me the push I needed to finally move off my very limited use of the app.

AlwaysRock 3y ago

Evernote finally pushed me over the edge when they limited free plans to 50 notes last month. They had made so many changes to the ui and price increases that it was becoming a worse and worse product. Apples free notes app replaced it and other than being SLIGHTLY annoying that I have to log into the web app on windows machines... I dont miss evernote at all.

w0m 3y ago
similarly; I got fed up with an earlier change and migrated to One Note. Generally happy with it; and apps on every platform (including linux)
- qwerpy 3y ago
  There’s a Linux app for OneNote? I’ve been looking for one that isn’t just “use the online version in the browser”. Which isn’t half bad except for the fact that it loads pages on demand and so is slow on first load.
  - w0m 3y ago
    https://snapcraft.io/install/onenote-desktop/ubuntu https://snapcraft.io/install/onenote-desktop/ubuntu though https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/990813/onenote-for-linux https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/990813/o... Looks like a webapp wrapper. It is snappy in my use though on a 2010 i7 MBA running Ubuntu 2022.
asystole 3y ago
Apple Notes is actually pretty great.