Surely their darkest hour, when they also targeted the enterprise market. If they had succeeded perhaps we would have Evernote integrated within the MS ecosystem instead of the horror that OneNote is today. VC also needs Lady Luck around.
PS: Edit to add that Bending Spoons seems to be strongly fueled by VC as well. I for one would like Evernote to still be around in a few years, but we’ll see.
Evernote was so great in the beginning, delivering on its promise to “Remember Everything” in really fun and interesting ways. So many ways to capture, organize, manipulate notes. It had utility and also invited creativity in that it was endlessly configurable. It was friendly and in no way hostile.
Feels like a product of a different era.
Perfectly put. Couldn’t describe my memories of it better.
I left EN several years ago, and apparently a lot of people had been doing that. If the following is correct, EN’s downloads from the Apple and Google App Stores had been declining since 2017. I guess statistics like that attract companies like BS.
I had heard of EN in the early days but didn’t start using it until I listened to an interview with Phil Libin on the old Buzz Out Loud podcast. Seems like I started paying for the service a few months later.
Jumping on the “it makes me sad” train, and in full agreement that the pricing makes no sense (and I’m not price-sensitive for my most used tools).
Sadly, I simply haven’t found anything that makes me happy as a replacement. I’m currently living without any notes app at all. I have all my old Evernote “file cabinet” in Apple Notes, but I never open Apple Notes to take a note in a meeting or conversation because it’s terrible and search doesn’t work (my opinion, not here to litigate). I tried DT. I tried Notion. I tried NotePlan.
I realize I’m the problem but I still miss Evernote.
I struggled with this and some false starts leaving EN behind, but I am very happy with Bear. The unlock for me was accepting its intentional constraints, where I had been trying to find apps that would “be” EN. This isn’t to say Bear the right solution for everyone, just sharing how changing my mindset opened up something that I like better than Evernote.
But I get it.
I don’t know if you’ve looked at UpNote, but I’ve found it to be a very good replacement for Evernote - at least for the way I used Evernote, which was mostly for storage and some “written” notes. And UpNote did an excellent job at importing my 2,200+ Evernote notes. I’ve been using UpNote as my replacement for Evernote for almost four years.
The $250 yearly price jump did cause me to think about cancelling (using Evernote since 2008). The thing is, I use it for everything. Just now, a document came in attached to an email, I forwarded it to Evernote, and later will add a task to look at the document, then share it with 7 or 8 people (who don’t have Evernote), so they can edit, add comments, etc. It is my hub and dashboard, so moving to something else is going to be painful. I have also found myself using the AI assistant quite a bit. It is easy, since I’m in the Evernote app all day.
At one time I was using EN for personal and work. Around a year before I retired I started moving my work data into a business account to leave behind for my team.
Since I’d been a Gmail user since the beta, I had added the Gmail for Evernote plug-in as soon as I discovered it.
This is a very good example of how Evernote can remove friction in many types of workflows. In my experience, it ingests and help you retrieve anything so “being in the Evernote app all day” makes a lot of sense.
I think for professional usage the benefit may justify the cost --which I find too expensive. But going upwards to the golden pot of corporate users it will become fast a compliance nightmare. if I had any capacity in corporate IT I would block Evernote fast with all my might.
I was buoyed by the version released after the buyout, but the pricing schedule is ridiculous.
I am giving another try to Evernote. I opened it up after a long time and was impressed with all the improvements done over past few months.
I find Evernote to have right combination of note taking, storage and formatting (specially copy/pasting in Google Workspace). Bear comes very close.
Plus the Advanced Plan with unlimited plan in India is about USD 84/year (when converted) which is alright for me.