Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.
If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.
So basically, they are following enshitification same as many companies have been doing.
Soon to be purchased by:
A) Meta
B) Microsoft
C) Alphabet
D) Some venture capital firm nobody who uses a computer daily has ever heard of
Place your bets now people!
How many people had heard of Bending Spoons before they bought Evernote? They’re a software company but I’d never heard of any of their apps before, either.
I heard of Bending Spoons because I read an article about an unknown company buying mobile apps, raising prices to insane values, and milking existing customers. Then using that profit to buy another app and repeat.
Than I forgot about them until they bought Evernote.
I had never heard of them before this post.
It was already acquired recently (less than a year ago) by a shady Italian company.
All that lovely text based data on there, I’m sure some companies are salivating at the idea.
Jokes on them, even when I had an account I encrypted all my notes before putting them there. I do the same on Google Keep.
Why would MS be intereted in Evernote? I guess they could incorporate something into OneNote, but what would that be? Are there any technologies worth buying in Evernote?
They bought Wunderlist and Sunrise Calendar. Why wouldn’t they buy Evernote?
I feel like they were some of the leaders - they’ve been making their product worse while charging more to use it for years
Higher interest rates mean every company has to be profitable ASAP or they’re deader than bed bath and beyond. Gonna keep getting uglier
Evernote has been profitable for many years.
I forgot Evernote existed. Time to back up my notes from 2014.
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Looks interesting. Would love to know more about the people behind it. A lot of trust to put in some anonymous devs with a new app
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I’d like to learn more about this. I’m a notion user myself but a few weeks ago I was looking into alternatives and didn’t get anywhere. What’s your elevator pitch?
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No worries! I’ll look into it some more!
Had a quick look. Although the ui is “pretty” usability wise it’s not intuitive at all and needs a lot of work imo.
Oh yeah, Evernote used to exist, forgot about that.
I’ll leave these here for those fleeing Evernote:
https://github.com/akosbalasko/yarle
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/migrate-from-evernote-to-apple-notes/
I haven’t used either, I never really used Evernote, but a couple people have been posting them as a good way to get your notes migrated out of the app.
Better alternative: Joplin
Works much the same way as Evernote with a similar layout including a wysiwyg editor and a web clipper. However, you can host your own server or sync it to a cloud platform of your choice (or both). Doesn’t cost you a thing and is open source. Has an Evernote importer too.
Apple notes can lock you in. Bear or Obsidian maybe a viable alternative but I’m not sure with migration if a seamless import is available.
A former employer bought a lifetime subscription to Evernote for me, I forget why they did that some perky new manager wanting us all to collaborate or something. I used it for notes when learning Spanish if I recall. A few years after that they canceled it and said I had to pay so I deleted my account. I entirely forgot it existed until reading this post. That’s the end of my Evernote story.
Lol, similarly. Is been using it since just after our came out. Once they started removing features behind a pay wall, especially emailing notes, I quit and forgot it existed.
Wow. I ditched Evernote after their last price
gougeincrease, and that’s after being with them from the very beginning. Thank God I bailed when I did.More enshitification
“We’re definitely going to use the extra money to help you, not as a cash grab and run for the hills… LOL, suckers! Shit, the microphone was still on.”
I forgot this app still exists… Who’s using it anyways? Its interface feels like it’s desperately trying to catch up with other note taking apps.
I had an abusive internship over a decade ago that used it and I’m still able to see all of the corporate logins from that job listed in plain text, so that’s one fun use case.
Same. I used it a TON in college over a decade ago and had completely forgotten it existed until this post.
Damn it. I’ve got a lot of stuff on there, organised and tagged.
I’ve thought about migrating for the last couple of years, but just left it as I couldn’t be bothered.
If it’s getting more expensive though, this might be the time to move.
What would be the service with the easiest migration path? Ideally one that:
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has good automatic OCR of all documents uploaded to make them searchable
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has good apps on Android, Windows and IOS
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has a good import function that can retain tags from Evernote
That may be asking too much?
Sounds like Obsidian is a great alternative
One other important thought to add to my own comment.
If I’m moving to a web based service, longevity is important. Nothing lasts forever, but if I move to another solution and migrate everything and they go out of business in 6 mths, that would suck. So it matters that where I move to is fairly solid and sustainable.
That’s why I hoped that Evernote would keep going, they charged a reasonable amount for the service.
But I guess in the commercial world it’s all about constant growth rather than sustainability…
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Obsidian is not FOSS.
I tried Joplin for a little while, after having tried others. Found myself going back to VSC with Markdown preview.
But once I tried Obsidian? Aww yiss.
The first I’d heard of Obsidian was at the same time I heard about the Zettelkasten method. Which was thanks to having stumbled across this video: The FUN and EFFICIENT note-taking system I use in my PhD
It’s been a while since I watched it, so my apologies for not being able to give a TLDW summary.
Since adopting it for myself, I’ve found out that an old semi-retired dev friend, as well as a younger dev that actively contributes to at least 2 projects on GitHub (both popular) are keen users of Obsidian.
I’m surprised to not here more support for Standard Notes around here (which to @noodlejetski@geddit.social’s point is a FOSS app).
Logseq also looks interesting though I haven’t tried it.
Obsidian is love. Obsidian is life
I could never figure out Evernote. Wound up settling on OneNote
To be fair, OneNote is pretty awesome.
Sometimes I hate how much I prefer it. Am I a corporate slave?
Yeah, worked with my s-pen on my phone and I can sync with my PC as well.
Fuck I’m a relatively heavy user of Evernote
My yearly subscription renewed in January
Truly
Consider Standard Notes, it’s a similar product that can import from Evernote, and it also protects your note contents with end to end encryption.
https://standardnotes.com/help/10/how-can-i-import-my-notes-from-evernote
