Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?
by bayindirh on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:59AM
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I don't think so.
Yes, the "first" Evernote had great features, but it was all over the place. No clients had the same set of features, and web side was even worse.
When they ditched everything and rebuilt all clients from the same base, they've lost some of the cool features, but I find it much easier to use and rely on.
Only after that point I bought a subscription, fully went into it, and currently building my knowledge base inside it, and collaborating on some stuff.
Simpler is not always worse. Yes, the old Evernote was a "road warrior's utopia", but the current incarnation works much better on a cross-platform perspective, and I'm a happy camper.
Yes, the "first" Evernote had great features, but it was all over the place. No clients had the same set of features, and web side was even worse.
When they ditched everything and rebuilt all clients from the same base, they've lost some of the cool features, but I find it much easier to use and rely on.
Only after that point I bought a subscription, fully went into it, and currently building my knowledge base inside it, and collaborating on some stuff.
Simpler is not always worse. Yes, the old Evernote was a "road warrior's utopia", but the current incarnation works much better on a cross-platform perspective, and I'm a happy camper.