I downloaded Evernote to see how much changed in nearly 12 months since I used it last.
Every uploaded attachment came back with “something went wrong when adding your attachment” and “unable to upload” errors.
Notebooks and stacks couldn’t be manually rearranged.
The app was a bloated mess, with pop up notifications everywhere, constant prompts to upgrade, and the app is still one of the worst Electron apps. If anything it’s gotten worse since the Bending Spoons era (presumably all the staff layoffs) and the higher price is a ridiculous ask.
I really wish Craft would improve search and add OCR. It’s the one thing about Evernote I miss.
Yes, some companies do exactly that and it works. My only point is that it costs time and money to set that up and manage it. The post that kicked off this branch of the discussion commented on a concern about whether the new owners could be trusted to keep data private and that led into our current thing on GDPR
I wanted to like Evernote, as it sounds like it would fit my workflow well. So I finally got round this lunchtime to giving it a go again.
Creating an account was problematic… I received an error twice before finally it created a login (using my Apple ID).
The app then loaded… but got stuck on “Getting Started”. After 10 minutes of it sitting there I quit the app. Trying again yielded the same results.
It still sounds great… but only on ‘paper’, sadly. Back to Obsidian
Edit: Managed to log into the website. I see what you mean about popups. Having made my way through several non-removable dialogue boxes (which were designed to lead me to a paid subscription) I tried deleting my account, but I couldn’t because I don’t know my account password - which I never set because I signed up using my Apple ID. Geez.
That and it’s cloud storage allowance is hard to beat. If they can fix the small issues, it is golden. They just taken a series of bad decisions year after year and CEO after CEO.
Sometimes it looks to me as if the new owner is just trying to squeeze as much money out of the remaining customers as he possibly is able doing so before eventually everything is being shut down.
It’s just sad and a reminder to me that in the long run I never ever will put anything on a large scale into a third party solution that is not under my control (= on my NAS, in my home). I totally get why something like Evernote is a great thing. But eventually everything is coming to a close or the service/owner is telling you in good old Darth Vader fashion: “I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further.”
I’m the opposite. Just about all my data is online with Google Workspace, iCloud, and 1Password. Even my medical records are available via my providers’ websites and apps. I backup everything (and routinely test my backups) but I believe these companies can do a better job of protecting my data than I can.
If large corporations feel they can no longer protect their on premises data as well as the large cloud companies what chance does a small company or individual?
“Deloitte’s survey of more than 500 IT leaders and executives reveals that security and data protection is the top driver. With 58 percent of respondents ranking it No. 1 or 2, security is top-of-mind for everyone,”
For me it’s not a matter of security, it’s a matter of losing access to my data without notice. Granted that happens infrequently, but I still am not thrilled with that possibility. That said, I mostly just deal with it. Most companies offer an easy way to export the data, so even if they decide they’re going to go “poof” one day, I typically can get the data out and then do something to import it somewhere else.
I’ve tried using replacement services (Photos, Notes, etc…) built into my NAS (Synology) and it wasn’t a super pleasant experience.
But this is something I’m constantly re-evaluating.
Server farms are targets. They must be better because they are more constantly under attack.
Distributed systems, e.g. thousands of individual homes that need to be broken into to get your data are a much harder thing to crack in any significant fashion. Plus, how do you know whose house holds enough critical data to make it worth the potential risks, including dogs, alarm systems etc.?
In between are large corporate offices which can be a softer target just because they might have on-site servers.
I’m with the keep it in house, my personal house, crowd.
You don’t. You just turn your malware lose and hope it finds something of value. If all goes as planned I may be traveling a lot in the future so cloud works for me. And if not I still don’t want to be constantly checking logs and patching systems. I did that for years. It didn’t make me a security expert just, hopefully, an informed consumer.
“A man’s got to know his limitations” - Inspector Harry Callahan
Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion.
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Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari said AOL has around 30 million monthly active users across its email and web content properties.
Apollo was not actively looking to sell AOL, but the brand’s strong performance prompted inbound interest, pushing the firm to more formally evaluate potential buyers,
Bending Spoons has also raised $2.8 billion in debt financing that will be used to fund the AOL deal as well as future research and development investments and merger and acquisition opportunities.
