I wonder if Evernote made the right decision focussing simply on being a "cloud" application. At first, this seemed smart. But now there are so many ways to float your data back and forth across the digital void. On my PC at work I use a simple application called ResophNotes -- which I learned about from Manfred Kuhn's blog. It syncs with Simple Note, then Tinderbox on my Macbook syncs with Simple Note and I can share basic notes that way. Also, PersonalBrain syncs Brains via the cloud. I also have Dropbox available.

By sacrificing some of its original functionality, Evernote has made itself less useful and now it doesn't have cloud syncing as a major point of difference anymore. Just a thought. Time will tell.

Steve Z.