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Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by awill on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:00PM (#25766485)
Both evernote and dropbox started making the free service worse by limiting how many devices you could connect. Dropbox also dropped support for xfs filesystems on Linux (which they later brought back, but not after infuriating Linux users). That's when I stopped using both. I then moved to Google Drive (which is half the price of Dropbox), and moved to using markdown note apps sync with Google Drive (which is free!)

I don't think there's a single example of a company where >90% of their userbase if free, and they succeed after making the free user experience worse. They're thinking in terms of money (or reducing costs), but the other view is that they're making the experience for >90% of customers worse.

What dropbox seems to forger is that many of their enterprise contracts happened precisely because the decision makers used dropbox personally, and liked it. By screwing over your free customers, you are actually only hurting future sales.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by lightgreen on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @02:51PM (#25767116)
> markdown note apps sync with Google Drive

Can you recommend the app please?

I migrated away from Evernote when it started to have too much features, and was no longer convenient note taking app.

I'm using Apple Notes now, which is more or less good, but it is vendor-locked, and I plan to move away from iPhone to Android.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by bihla on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:29PM (#25767560)
I've recently move to using a git repo has my store for notes, and different clients for access and editing.

On Desktop I use Obsidian (although most anything will do) and on mobile I use GitJournal which easily links into an existing git repo.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by lightgreen on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @03:52PM (#25767814)
> on mobile I use GitJournal

Is it good?

On mobile the common case is to launch an app and immediately see/search the notes.

Or type something, close the app and assume notes are synched.

But git pull and git push are not blazing fast operations. And there are no pushes, to get updates from the server immediately.

Git is a good storage, but I doubt it is suitable for notes without intermediate service handing note-specific scenarios.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by vhanda on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:13PM (#25768669)
Hey. I'm the author.

It will try to sync it as soon as it can. If you immediately close GitJournal, it won't be able to. Otherwise, on each modification it tries to sync. (Configurable) Maybe I can add some background sync.

The common use case to see and search through the notes works.

Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by rossmohax on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @05:10PM (#25768627)
roamresearch.com works really well for me
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by xmprt on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:12AM (#25772373)
Roam is pretty expensive and I've heard it can get slow. Have you tried Notion and if so, how would you compare them?
Re:Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce by rossmohax on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:12AM (#25774561)
I haven't, roam was the first tool of that class I tried, liked it straightaway and saw no reason to look for alternatives.