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Ask HN: Why is Evernote unable to make a good product?

1 pointsby jurgenwerkabout 5 years ago
I&#x27;ve been using Evernote for many years, and the user experience honestly never felt good. To this day Evernote is still clunky and sluggish, and I can&#x27;t get used to how the notes and notebooks are organized. The &quot;New note&quot; button feels completely out of space.<p>Also, at one point not so long ago, the search function just stopped working. I had to go to a secret menu and request re-indexing. I was legit freaking out I had lost my notes.<p>All these years I&#x27;ve been giving Evernote a second chance, but the product just never improves.<p>Can anyone give some insight on what&#x27;s happening inside this company? What kind of legacy code or management burden are they carrying?

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dangusabout 5 years ago
&gt; I&#x27;ve been using Evernote for many years, and the user experience honestly never felt good.<p>Sounds like it&#x27;s time to stop using Evernote. I can&#x27;t imagine there aren&#x27;t other, better solutions for you. Unless you&#x27;re on their board of directors it&#x27;s not really your question to answer!<p>I am not really a note-taker in terms of my personality so I can&#x27;t tell you what those alternatives might be but I am sure there are dozens upon dozens.