I think Evernote is most important as a showcase of how much we have transcended file systems. Mobile devices have abandoned them, and through cross-platform ap

I think Evernote is most important as a showcase of how much we have transcended file systems. Mobile devices have abandoned them, and through cross-platform apps like Evernote, this notion finds its way back to the desktop. Back in the day, we'd just make folders on hard disk for "thought projects", adding text files, bookmark files (!), photos, possibly word documents. For ordering, there are file name conventions, and the Mac OS finder still supports colored files. I think Evernote shows what any modern File Manager should do for it to be useful. Instead they are being stripped down until everybody thinks they are useless. Their benefit is easily overlooked -- files are yours, easy to sync, easy to back up, restore, pass on and copy, with no walled garden anywhere. There are so many different use cases for file managers, yet most modern ones don't go beyond basic folder maintenance and retreiving downloaded files from an unmaintained folder.