Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices

I was an Evernote Premium customer and enjoyed multi-device syncing and private notebooks. I had my own account, paid for out of my own pocket for a year. The company I worked for also decided to used Evernote and I could see our &quot;Team&quot; notebooks, right along with my stuff. When the company stopped using it, not only did I lose the &quot;Team&quot; notebooks, it took all of my personal data with it. I lost everything.<p>Support acknowledged it was a bug and told me that there was nothing they could do. They didn&#x27;t even offer to let me have a few months free to catch back up and re-create my notebooks.

&gt; Evernote’s strength is in its core: notes, sync, and search. That’s where we’re going to focus.<p>Well, like many others, I&#x27;ve been wishing Evernote would drop all the auxiliary stuff and focus on their core product. Hopefully that&#x27;s exactly what will now happen. Evernote has become an absolutely critical part of my life. Even though I use it for business (along with everything else) though, I have no use for the majority of the new features they&#x27;ve added over the past few years. Of course, not every feature will be useful to everyone, and just because I don&#x27;t use something doesn&#x27;t mean it shouldn&#x27;t exist. However, when you see significant bugs languish for years while niche features get priority, it suggests a problem. I really hope this signifies a change in direction (as opposed to a milestone in the current, downward, one).

Evernote is a note taking app in 2015. While slack and hipchat are somewhat iconoclastic, they have network affects and boost productivity. Evernote is competing with apple notes, google docs, whatever microsoft has, every password keeping app, a notebook, a text editor and using a blog. This is something that will likely happen to dropbox and box. You provide storage. Simple math will provide you with the cost of storage in 5 years and it is not a lot. Further, similar to evernote, it solved a problem that had a lot of friction and was novel a few years ago, but is standard now.<p>Syncing. This is a default piece of all browsers, the 2 main operating systems win&#x2F;os x, and comes standard on most phones. This is like the browser, you can have it for free so you stay in our ecosystem. Mega GIVES you 50GB of storage completely free NOW, and it is likely more secure. I don&#x27;t know enterprise as well as I know consumer, but at some point I would imagine the choice is between buying a few SSDs and having an internal server, or setting up your own secure system via VPN. There can&#x27;t be much room for this.

The problem with Evernote is with the way they treat data. I found a really interesting guide hosted on Evernote[1] and I tried to download it. But no, I couldn&#x27;t, because, they took the pains to block someone from downloading their notebooks and made my life so difficult in the end that I not only gave up on the conversion, but also stopped being their customer. I couldn&#x27;t even print the damn thing! Ironically, they called it a shared notebook. What a joke!<p>I refuse to stop paying for any service that doesn&#x27;t believe in open sharing through widely accepted&#x2F;popular formats. The internet is alive today only because people believe in sharing information, not holding it back behind such a walled garden.<p>I refuse to support such companies. Not in 2015 atleast.<p>[1]This is the notebook in question and mind you, it&#x27;s a &quot;Shared&quot; notebook: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evernote.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;contentblueprint&#x2F;thecontentmarketingblueprint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.evernote.com&#x2F;pub&#x2F;contentblueprint&#x2F;thecontentmark...</a><p>Ever since I left Evernote, I created a private Wordpress blog and used their sharing bookmark to store notes, snippets and everything else.<p>I also use Google docs and Apple Notes app for other kinds of data and it has served me well. I understand this wouldn&#x27;t fit everyone&#x27;s bill, but it definitely fit mine.<p>So, adios Evernote! Hope someone replaces you soon!

businessinsider had a great article on evernote here, &quot;Evernote, the first dead unicorn&quot;, which really foreshadowed this: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&#x2F;evernote-the-first-dead-unicorn-2015-9" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com.au&#x2F;evernote-the-first-dead-un...</a>

In the last 5 years I&#x27;ve accumulated some 8 000 notes in Evernote, which I would love to move to a safer platform&#x2F;format in light of recent evidence of data loss and speculation concerning Evernote&#x27;s longevity. What are the alternatives to organizing this second brain&#x2F;memory?<p>50% are &lt; 1000 words long texts written by me, transcribed from an audio&#x2F;video&#x2F;paper source or saved&#x2F;clipped&#x2F;copypasted from elsewhere<p>20% complete webpages or complete articles deemed important enough to save a copy for later 10% graphics, annotated images and PDFs 10% oneliners and quotes 10% todo-lists, task lists, shopping lists, etc.<p>Every new piece of information I have been exposed to and deemed important enough to return to later has gone into my Evernote inbox, from where it would be weekly sorted into an appropriate notebook by subject, life area, etc. Most important ones are tagged for regular review. Everything else gets some regular dedicated random browsing time, and is often discovered in research when preparing presentations, writing or thinking about any particular topic. There are 80+ notebooks in 10 sections.<p>Organizing this corpus efficiently and engaging with it with an appropriate interface would effectively be a multiplier for the ability to utilize knowledge and experience. Interacting with such data accumulated over decades through a combined voice assistant &#x2F; mind map &#x2F; dashboard &#x2F; big screen (Microsoft Surface style) is a futuristic idea of knowledge work - the only question is whether there is a large enough consumer user base for such an infovore&#x2F;generalist&#x2F;researcher approach to information.

I was a big fan &amp; paying customer of Evernote until they lost my data and then blamed me for syncing from two devices.

I have recently moved to Quiver. Its user interface is very similar to Evernote. But it has support for Latex, code highlighting, and markdown! In addition, you can specify the location of library as a Dropbox folder, where data is written in JSON. Here is the data format <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HappenApps&#x2F;Quiver&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quiver-Data-Format" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;HappenApps&#x2F;Quiver&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Quiver-Data-Format</a><p>Lack of Latex support, being able to export raw data easily, and long startup time which renders notes unaccessible are my three problems with Evernote. These problems don&#x27;t exist with Quiver.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;happenapps.com&#x2F;#quiver" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;happenapps.com&#x2F;#quiver</a><p>PS no relationship with either Quiver or Evernote

Evernote&#x27;s former CEO promised to focus on core features last year[0]. After 18 months with no improvements, the new CEO makes the same promise of focusing on core features. Seems like a sinking ship to me.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.evernote.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;on-software-quality&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.evernote.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;01&#x2F;04&#x2F;on-software-qualit...</a>

I wish they would ditch the business focus and return to plain old &quot;remember everything&quot;.<p>Who on earth needs features like &quot;work chat&quot;?

Long ago I got tired of Evernote&#x27;s bugs and creep of extraneous features and switched to Workflowy [1] for the majority of my general (plaintext) note-taking. I love Workflowy and can&#x27;t imagine life without it.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workflowy.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;workflowy.com&#x2F;</a>

Maybe now they&#x27;ll fix sync and iPhone editing? I&#x27;ve pretty much stopped using Evernote because the whole point was universally synced notes and todo lists but every time I would edit something on my iPhone I both had to deal with the formatting bugs in the iPhone editor AND the very high likelihood I&#x27;d end up with a &quot;Conflicting Modifications&quot; regardless of how many times I clicked sync.<p>As a paying customer it&#x27;s been very frustrating to see &quot;business&quot; features like note sharing and chat consuming valuable resources while the reason I bought the product, managing notes and todo lists, becomes increasing unusable.

&gt; This team has achieved three incredible feats: they’ve created one of the most important productivity tools in history...<p>That&#x27;s a very, very bold statement...

I know that it is the common vernacular, but you didn&#x27;t let them go, you fired them. Surely they would prefer to not go and continue to pay their mortgage.<p>I&#x27;m sure it wasn&#x27;t easy to fire them, but don&#x27;t try and make the situation rosey. The folks who decided on the direction of the company decided wrong and now they have to fire the people who executed those decision.<p>Edit: Would you all prefer the word &quot;Terminated&quot;?

Bullet lists - I literally left this app for One Note because Evernote COULD NOT properly handle bullet lists. The following is not my post but as of my time of leaving the app, you STILL couldn&#x27;t properly manage a bullet list. There are dozens of posts asking for bullet lists to be fixed.<p>I used 5% of the overall features - all I want is to take notes and have them indexed. There was so much bloat and I couldn&#x27;t make a proper bullet list, so I had no choice to switch. I never understood why people paid for this app.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussion.evernote.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;67060-list-functionality-such-as-bullets-and-numbers-are-a-categorical-nightmare&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discussion.evernote.com&#x2F;topic&#x2F;67060-list-functionali...</a>

Ah, the death of a unicorn. The operational end is doing fine: <i>&quot;Our paid subscription growth is very strong and almost entirely organic; the number of new paid subscribers is 40% higher than this time last year.&quot;</i> But the hype has faded, the $1bn valuation is down, and there&#x27;s no greater fool available to fund them.<p>This is a problem with too much funding. You have to pay off the investors, which requires rapid growth, which often requires buying market share at a loss.

&quot;Making great products means making difficult decisions,&quot; says Evernote CEO Phil Libin. &quot;Our choice was between great user experience, and new features. We are proud to announce that our next release will have many new and exciting features.&quot;

I&#x27;ve been a stalwart supporter of Evernote for quite some time now. I&#x27;ve pushed through when feeling like the platform got slower and slower as time went by. I pushed through when it felt like their focus was scattered, like the core offering was being surpassed by other platforms.<p>Two months ago I pretty much decided &#x27;ok you know what. This is it&#x27; after waiting for 25 seconds to get a note back that then turned out to be mysteriously &#x27;missing&#x27;.<p>It happens, right. I get it. And I got it back with some support. But the focus wasn&#x27;t there, and the platform got old.<p>Wind the clock back a year and a half (maybe two?) and Evernote was unstoppable compared to the competition.<p>Now? It&#x27;s stale. Slow. Predictable and uninspiring.<p>While reading letters of layoffs is almost always a depressing thing, I sincerely hope that the &#x27;focus&#x27; which they speak of is real. That everything, and I mean everything, gets dropped except making the core product as amazing as it once was.<p>If they do that, I&#x27;ll come back in a heartbeat. I&#x27;ll come back with dollar bills.<p>I got faith Evernote. Come back to the light.

I switched to OneNote very recently, and the biggest reason was that I was fundamentally fed up with all the extraneous features:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;taoofmac.com&#x2F;space&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;16&#x2F;1800#onenote-to-rule-them-all" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;taoofmac.com&#x2F;space&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;16&#x2F;1800#onenote-to-ru...</a>

Anyone know which offices? How many employees does Evernote have? Were layoffs mostly from closed offices?<p>Edit: the Business Insider article (which maybe should be retained as the link?) has some of the information: 13% of workforce let go. Taiwan, Singapore, and Moscow offices closing. I couldn&#x27;t tell if the 47 were from these offices mostly. I wouldn&#x27;t think a note-taking app&#x2F;website would need to be too dispersed around the world.

Alternote is what the official Evernote client should been. It&#x27;s the only thing that keeps me on Evernote, since the official client is horrible and slow.<p>Let&#x27;s hope Evernote stops messing around with useless features like &quot;Work Chat&quot; and start improving their clients instead. It&#x27;s kinda silly that a third party can make a client vastly better and more pleasant to use than the official one.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alternoteapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;alternoteapp.com&#x2F;</a>

If anyone is looking for a possible alternative for notetaking that is not OneNote, I like nvAlt: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brettterpstra.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;nvalt&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brettterpstra.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;nvalt&#x2F;</a><p>I have exported from evernote and moved to nvAlt and gone back again...<p>It takes a little work to set it up to sync to mobile but it is doable with dropbox.<p>It does not have the same &#x27;notebook&#x27; concept that evernote does, but that might not matter to you.

&quot;Evernote, The First Dead Unicorn&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syrah.co&#x2F;joshdickson40&#x2F;55e1beac15970d6c01395d9d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;syrah.co&#x2F;joshdickson40&#x2F;55e1beac15970d6c01395d9d</a>

I&#x27;ve founded a startup that wants to tackle the digital notebook and save-for-later problem, for any content - not just web stuff. What&#x27;s your wish list for your ideal notebook?

Wow that&#x27;s rough. Taiwan is in the middle of a Typhoon lashing. Hope the people in their Taiwan office is doing ok through this traumatic event - at a time when most would be relying on their business life to carry them through the physical disasters.

I cannot help but think about the article last week about WhatsApp needing only 50 engineers for over 900M users. Evernote just let go that many people and their software is bug-ridden next to WhatsApp. Seriously, what do all of these engineers do?

Just started using Evernote after a coworker shared a note with me the other day.<p>After years of using notepad, notepad++, sublime text, and now atom, I feel like the plaintext experience is severely lacking.<p>Select all the text in a note, mark as plain text, copy something from any site, paste, formatting is ignored. Paste with source formatting should be the exception, not the norm.<p>The lack of headers and other basic formatting options is also frustrating. Wordpress does a better job with it&#x27;s editor... and it&#x27;s a web app!

I&#x27;m a very casual Evernote user; I only use the free version, every few months, to sync basic things (e.g., shopping lists, or directions) between my desktop and phone.<p>A few months ago, I noticed that there were suddenly <i>lots</i> of ads within Evernote, encouraging me to upgrade to the paid version. I&#x27;m not complaining, since they need to make money, but it did strike me as being more aggressive than before. Now I understand what was (is) happening.

I&#x27;m a long-time evernote premium customer who is saddened but not even slightly surprised by this.<p>I firmly believe that Evernote raised too much money, at far too high of a valuation, and they fucked themselves. They did not have the product and market to justify a $1B valuation. They just didn&#x27;t. They bet huge on their ability to invent whole new markets that sound like they&#x27;re related to evernote, but aren&#x27;t, really. And unsurprisingly, that didn&#x27;t pan out.<p>Now the core product has been stagnant for years; gaining &quot;features&quot; like work chat which were clearly dreamt up in a silo, completely disconnected from the market&#x27;s needs. And now the troops will pay for management&#x27;s complete and total fucking incompetence. And yes, I know one CEO is gone, but the new CEO is an absolute fucking joke as well.<p>And long-time customers like me... we keep hoping that OneNote or some similar product will add an &quot;Import from Evernote&quot; button. So that we can escape this mismanaged, formerly great product.

I think why news of layoffs is so disconcerting is that it can be really, <i>really</i> hard to differentiate between what&#x27;s fat and what&#x27;s muscle in the business. A lot of &quot;cost centers&quot; like development end up meaning a lot to brand perceptions, which isn&#x27;t valued correctly in the traditional P&amp;L hierarchy and can have a significant time lag.

From my perspective (as a UX&#x27;er). I&#x27;m seeing more and more projects &amp; organisations need a &#x27;vision&#x27; of what the product should be to help them focus product&#x2F;feature efforts. There seems to be an underlying &#x27;enabling&#x27; of superfluous dev effort due to the proliferation &amp; ease of user of stacks&#x2F;libraries&#x2F;platforms.

I personally struggle with Evernote - not in the utilization aspect as I use it multiple times a week, but rather, on its lack of focus on addressing &amp; fixing the features its users really need &amp; want: i.e code formatting, inconsistencies between formats across mobile, web &amp; app, and oddities when copying&#x2F;pasting content into notes &amp; it breaking the rest of the note are just some of the minor issues I personally struggle with. Features such as presentation mode and larger transfer size are fine and all, but neither of which I personally care for - I primarily take text notes and have some images embedded here and there, so I&#x27;m not necessarily asking for a major shift in features. I want to find reasons to pay for Evernote as I depend on it so much from a notebook aspect, but alas, I haven&#x27;t been convinced that they necessarily care about addressing these pain points.

I almost got used to the old interface, it was pretty much the same for 7 years so I had plenty of time, the new one introduced this year I can&#x27;t seem to adapt to. What were all those employees actually doing?<p>A blessing in disguise is that this made me find an alternative which was trusty Atlassian Bitbucket, along with their free private repos each can be accompanied with a markdown tolerant wiki, sure it&#x27;s not quite the same but as a developer notepad bitbucket wiki has worked out quite well.<p>The latest news just locks me further into migrating all remaining bits from evernote, then again if the 47 employees let go were responsible for web client new material UI (there is no support linux client) and the remaining employees rollback and want to do as little innovation as they did between 2008-2014 then perhaps I&#x27;ll reconsider

I rely heavily on Evernote. I actually thought about making my own notes system before, but the native apps and doing synch right is a hard thing to do, especially when talking about a complex system of notebooks, notes, tags, file attachments, search, etc. You don&#x27;t get that with a file system.

I&#x27;ve tried evernote as a consumer and couldn&#x27;t quite figure out where it fits between dropbox and other &quot;cloud&quot; providers such as gDrive and MSOffice 360.<p>It seems like a smart move to focus on the features that are most useful to their core users instead of trying to be everything to everybody.

You know what _really_ sucks about this? They&#x27;re closing off the API &amp; got rid of their evangelists.

A bit surprised no one has mentioned SimpleNote (www.simplenote.com) - a stripped down note taking service.

I&#x27;m a long time Evernote user (I think I got an email stating I was in the first 3k users) but I&#x27;m also seriously considering migrating away to something else. My company is moving to Office365 and with that I&#x27;ve been exposed to OneNote and it looks like a good alternative (though the lack of a Linux client is a big problem).<p>The other note-capture tool that I&#x27;ve used religiously is &quot;The Brain&quot;[0], it&#x27;s great for bookmarking and visualizing relationships (I even use it as my address book for contacts), it handles notes, links to files and URLs and can be synced with Dropbox or via their own cloud service.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thebrain.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thebrain.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;ve had a love&#x2F;hate relationship with evernote since forever. The idea of storing everything in evernote really appeals to me (invoices, receipts, warranty, contracts, ...) but yet scares me too since there are wild stories of evernote just loosing stuff.<p>On the other hand for simple note taking evernote really sucks, it&#x27;s too cluttered and it&#x27;s editor is subpar.<p>A few years ago I was an avid springpad user before they shut down, but they suffered from the same issues: too bloated, not really good editor. But it worked beter for me than evernote.<p>To me it feels like evernote tries to solve 2 separate problems: taking simple and small notes, archiving and indexing important documents. Unfortunately it fails at both for me :(

I used to be a customer for a while. Then went with org-mode + git and never looked back.

The only thing I use Evernote for is for indexing research that I do for work. I got burned early with their tool for writing, but it was still compelling for that use case. The tagging &amp; search is fast, their web clipper is best in class and annotation capability works great.<p>But there&#x27;s a cost. I don&#x27;t like having years of information stuck in an app that makes it very difficult to extract.<p>My guess is if the new corporate direction is to monetize&#x2F;nickel&amp;dime, I&#x27;ll take on the lift to moving. I can get 90% of the functionality that I need in the native OS X filesystem with spotlight comments and little helper apps, and I have a work Mac now.

Ah, this explains all the notifications I&#x27;ve been getting trying to get me to go premium. Not that it&#x27;s a big deal—I can&#x27;t blame them for trying to monetize—but I had noticed they&#x27;d gotten a lot more aggressive lately.

- The Windows version sucks: I have a really long note and now I cannot open it, the whole program just crashes. - The Mac version is OK. Still running fine. - The Web version looks cleaner, but it doesn&#x27;t have a <i></i>highlight<i></i> tool??!!<p>Another major complain is that it&#x27;s really difficult to store code in a note.<p>I started using [WizNote](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wiznote.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wiznote.com&#x2F;</a>) recently and it seems really good: markdown, free, multiple directory support, comments, etc

IMHO Evernote is feature complete. It would be great if the company for a while switched focus from growth to support and just collected revenue. However who knows maybe revenue is not their goal and they just wait to be bought by Facebook.<p>Btw does anyone remember this article? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3012870&#x2F;dialed&#x2F;evernotes-quest-to-become-a-100-year-old-startup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3012870&#x2F;dialed&#x2F;evernotes-quest-t...</a> Have they changed their mind yet?

It&#x27;s worth noting that even after letting 47 people go, they have positions open on their careers page. New CEO trying to make his mark by dealing out a bit of worry to the underlings.

&gt; I joined Evernote as CEO two months ago<p>&gt; Today we let go of 47 people from the Evernote team and announced the closure of three of our global offices. We are grateful for the immense contributions of each and every affected person.<p>So, new CEO gets appointed and starts torching the place. I suppose that will help the bottom line short term. But I&#x27;d really like to see the number of resignations in the next days.

Hopefully we will now see some competition in this space, rather than &quot;Evernote&quot; being the answer to &quot;Why aren&#x27;t you launching?&quot;. Though given their finances, I suspect not...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transpose.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;transpose.com</a> is an interesting start, but needs a big cash injection to make it better - and suffers from data lock-in again.

Anyone knows which non-core features will be affected by this?<p>Evernote Food was already shut down (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.evernote.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;16&#x2F;better-brainstorms-with-scannables-newest-update&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.evernote.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;16&#x2F;better-brainstorms...</a>) a couple weeks ago.

Evernote feels like the Microsoft Office of the Notetaking world: it&#x27;s huge, it&#x27;s bloated, and it seems to be continuing to focus on stuff that the vast majority of its userbase will never use.<p>At some point I installed Google Keep, which is lightweight, easy to use, and syncs, without feeling like I just installed an entire suite simply to jot down some quick notes.

I reckon Evernote would be good bolt-on for a cloud collaboration company like Huddle or Box. The problem is that it&#x27;s not worth $1bn to a company like that, so any acquisition would result in a paper loss for those who invested at a $1bn valuation (not to mention the founders and employees who would probably get screwed by liquidation preferences).

I am also worried that Evernote didn&#x27;t innovate in the recent years, but I still consider it a best notetaking application on Windows. (and I tried several others like ResophNotes, Onenote, etc). I can quickly add new note by clicking on tray icon or by global shortcut, filter notes by tag, and Search is also spontaneous.

Does anyone know an online doc editor like Google Docs but one that lets you create sections within the doc and move them around?<p>I write a lot of articles and I have to constantly rearrange sections to achieve a better flow. It&#x27;s getting annoying to constantly copy and paste chunks of text to move them around.

The problem with Evernote is they lack vision. Or maybe focus. Not sure which one. I understand selling socks makes money but ...<p>I was under impression that Evernote will evolve into something like RealTime+Word+Powerpoint - but no :(<p>I think Evernote is done. They lost their mojo and there is no way to get it back :(

For those looking for an Evernote-to-OneNote migration utility, see my comment in this thread at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10301284" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10301284</a> --- it seems to work fine.

...and then there came OneNote and syncing was even better, features even more, collaboration best, and it was free and I started using it and soon after I never accessed Evernote again. And many, formerly hot loving Evernote fans in my peer group changed, too.

I was thinking to get an account (free one), but after reading many &quot;negative&quot; comments I&#x27;m rethinking it. Will probably give it a try anyways... At the moment I&#x27;m only using it as a FF plugin for &quot;cleaning up&quot; blog posts.

So what is are you paying for at evernote that you cant get (or get well) elsewhere. I haven&#x27;t used it myself for more than a few minutes and didn&#x27;t see it but obviously there is something there. Curious to understand what exactly that is?

Issues I had with Evernote which made me switch to Trello:<p>* Rubbish font handling and formatting<p>* Superfluous functionality when it doesn&#x27;t get the important things right<p>* The new beta interface doesn&#x27;t give you a nice general overview of your notes. I preferred the old interface.

If I could find something that did image and PDF OCR as well as Evernote, I&#x27;d probably migrate, but for now, I&#x27;ll risk the data loss for the ability to search everything so easily. I certainly welcome recommendations though.

Is there a solid way to type&#x2F;paste code and format it properly in Evernote finally?<p>Last I checked that was near impossible despite it being a largely solved problem in every other text input service out there (Slack, forums, StackExchange, etc.).

I wonder how effective their free to paid conversion is. I have never felt the need to move off the free account. I liked OneNote better but it didn&#x27;t have the same reach as evernote at the time.

I use evernote for shopping lists and logging my workouts - not exactly mission-critical stuff. It is buggy and I frequently find my last amendment reverted. I cannot imagine using it professionally.

I am a premium member and I stopped using Evernote when I understood how their versioning works! Seriously, they should rename it to regular backups at 8hr intervals.

I would gladly pay for Everynote Premium if they had automatic backups. Why isn&#x27;t this an option? I just want to be sure my stuff never disappears, regardless.

The real question is - will Chris O’Neill listen to what core paying users have been asking for with regard to keeping the basic application functional.

I thought it was weird that Springpad, a much better alternative to Evernote just randomly gave up.<p>Maybe note taking apps just have no money in them?

For people looking for replacement ideas: I use Zim + Syncthing. Works on my Linux machines, and Android app works OK.

I used Evernote for a few weeks &amp; it lost a bunch of my work. I can&#x27;t believe they are still around.

I used to be a evernote user for a long time then last year moved to OneNote, OneNote has come a long way.

I wonder if this is a prelude to some acquisition or merger to make the company more sellable.

The first two charts in the &quot;Growth&quot; section has significantly different scaling!

the only thing that keeps me using evernote is the ability to forward emails to it and then merge similar ones.<p>If something else did that I would swap in a heart beat and for my other notes I&#x27;d convert them to google docs.

Do they really have a &quot;Go Premium&quot; CTA at the end of this blog? Wow.

And so it begins...

I wonder if this is why I saw so many notifications from Evernote lately for me to verify my e-mail address trying to churn up some apathetic users?

And the death of the unicorns begins

Why did they have so many offices?

Url changed from <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;evernote-layoffs-2015-9" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;evernote-layoffs-2015-9</a>, which points to this.

what&#x27;s evernote again? I keep hearing about it but never seen it or have used it.