Evernote again

Posted by Garland Coulson
Jan 26, 2015 at 06:52 PM

I was one of those diehard Evernote users who defended Evernote and I posted several times in the power user thread you referenced.

They they pulled a major feature I and others had put a lot of time into - shared notebooks. I was using these to create time management coaching notebooks for my clients. Evernote did put it back when we complained, but this just showed me the danger of relying on a company that could just arbitrarily delete a feature used by many users without notice.

At that point, I moved entirely from Evernote to OneNote and haven’t looked back. I do miss the vibrant Evernote forum, but OneNote supports the way that I am sharing notebooks. I did find a better OneNote forum here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117204050916106398006

Not up to the level of the EN forum, but people are very helpful there.

dan7000 wrote:
For years I have been hearing predictions of EN’s demise only to see it
>get bigger and more popular.
> >The thing that has convinced me recently that EN as a personal product
>(as opposed to some business collaboration platform) really could be
>dying was this thread on the EN forums:
>https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/66103-power-user-discontent-best-alternatives-to-en/
> >The key thing about the thread is that participants include forum
>members who for *years* have been absolute 100% EN fans. People like
>BurgersNFries, who were crowned EN “evangelists” by the company and who
>monitored the forum constantly answering questions and coming out to
>attack anybody who dared to question EN’s product trajectory—and who
>now says she is abandoning the product for OneNote. A number of others
>on the thread have also been huge EN supporters or at least hugely
>involved in the EN community like JMichael and jbenson2. Now all of
>them are looking for alternatives.
> >When you lose your biggest fans—and when they publicly use your
>forums to talk about how best to abandon your product—that’s a sign.
>