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 only heard of them because I wanted to move to Italy and they were hiring and relocating DevOps engineers.
I didn’t apply but that was first time I heard of them like 2 years ago.
IIRC they wrote the italian COVID app, “Immuni”
That sounds familiar. I remember being impressed by then because Italy is not known for its tech sector (my brother in law here just learned about docker etc for example even though he’s a system admin) and they seemed pretty current on tech.
I had never heard of them before this post.
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
Oh yeah, Evernote used to exist, forgot about that.
More enshitification
FOSS for the win. Joplin and obsidian are the way to go.
Edit: apparently obsidian is not foss. My bad.
Obsidian is not FOSS.
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.
I used to be a big fan of Standard Notes, until they revamped their UI ans made it super clunky on Android. I’ve switched to Notesnook which is a little bit better in that regard.
Interesting, I don’t remember what the old UI did better. I was pretty frustrated with them for some of the bugs that came with the new UI though (which seem to mostly be fixed now).
I might checkout Notesnook at some point, I’d realistically like to see their code audited though and a few more years of them being around. It would definitely be the first software I’ve used knowingly out of Pakistan and I’m not familiar enough with Pakistan politics to know what kind of implications that might have on the security of the product.
(Granted, Standard Notes is out of the United States, and as patriotic as I am, I don’t trust my country to uphold privacy rights so… Maybe that’s insignificant, an audit would regardless still be nice)
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.
only Joplin is FOSS, just saying.
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.Obsidian is love. Obsidian is life
In case anyone is looking for a recommendation, I started using Obsidian for taking notes recently. It creates markdown files which keeps things nice and clean and then I use Syncthing to sync my files rather than their paid sync option. If Obsidian ever enshitifies I can either use an old version of the application or switch to any other markdown editor.
I’m considering having some sort of nightly sync to a git repo as well for version control but that might be more complexity than I need.
Been using Obsidian for a bit less than a year. It’s been great for what I need it to do - take notes because I suck at keeping facts and data straight throughout my day.
I recently moved to logseq and I’ve been pleasantly surprised.
There is a git plugin for obsidian that works really well, and is pretty simple to setup. I use it to backup the notes and it can be configured to commit every x minutes.
Using Obsidian + Google Drive.
I use Obsidian in the work laptop because they don’t allow any cloud tool for confidentiality and I like it a lot.
For personal stuff I’ve been using OneNote just because its free and has clients for almost every system I use.
Another alternative is Trilium
“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 Evernote existed. Time to back up my notes from 2014.
Had an account since about 2010, looks like I stopped using it around 2016. Just logged in to see what if anything was left. A few notes, nothing important.
Tried closing my account instead of just leaving it hanging out there and it fails. Guess I’ll try later
Those looking for an alternative, I suggest Joplin. I exported/imported from Evernote a few years back and am really happy with it.
- supports markdown
- can store data on multiple services
- Open source
- can fully encrypt your notes
Fuck I’m a relatively heavy user of Evernote
My yearly subscription renewed in January
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
Truly
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.
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
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