I've always loved Evernote IN THEORY. It makes sense to organize your notes through technology, to attach an 'external brain', if you will. Still, I've never been able to really use Evernote the way they intend. I'll throw up a few notes, only to drift away, leaving the notes alone. There's no organization that I've been able to achieve with the platform. Maybe it's just a threshold of initial effort that I haven't crossed, or maybe I just don't take enough notes.<p>Still, I'm glad for this purchase. I think it shows that Evernote understands their base and has a strategy in mind to improve their offerings. Maybe I'll start using Evernote more now.
Good purchase for Evernote. Integrating Evernote into Penultimate would make me use it a lot more and Evernote's OCR/search will hopefully be added to it.
Sigh.<p>Considering how much I love and use penultimate (Every. Single. Day), I'm hope that _this time_ acquisition won't result in a product getting a dose of its acquiring company spang in the middle of the interface, the simplicity, whatever.<p>Congrats to the cocoabox team, though—if anyone deserves it, they do.
I've been waiting for this sort of acquisition from Evernote. As an avid Evernote user, this is a feature that has been sorely lacking, especially for the tablet note taking format. Love it!
Nice to see that Penultimate is going to come to "other devices", I'm assuming that will include Android.<p>I moved all my bookmarks to Evernote after the new owners broke^wenhanced delicio.us and haven't regretted it once.<p>All I need now is a native Linux client for Evernote...
This is going to sound strange at first, but hear me out:<p>Facebook, if it wanted to be really disruptive, should buy evernote.<p>The reason is that FB only offer superficial utility - the social utility layer of being able to track your friends lives and comment on them will atrophy over the next ten years.<p>FB will need a way to really bring together the daily activities, information, interests etc of its userbase and make it matter on a wholly individual level.<p>It seems that what FB does is interesting to its users on an individual level, but it is not. Without any friends at all on FB, the platform is useless.<p>There are two directions that FB can go to solidify longvity; make the platform useful to an individual even with zero contacts/friends and to make the platform a utility that ca be used by a group of people. Think, the ability to create a company/group effort, with tools in the FB platform that the team can use to manage those activities.<p>(There was a company called Huddle which was doing this - they seem to have good traction, though zero marketing/hype as I haven't heard anything about them in a long time, though they seem to be alive and well)<p>Evernote would allow FB to build on the actual actions of their users from a data-mining perspective.