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Posted by Dormouse
Jul 5, 2023 at 10:10 PM
I don’t remember whether there was ever such a limit in the early days. Certainly wasn’t when everything was local. But equally don’t remember it being brought in - not that I have been keeping in touch with Evernote user groups for many years. But they were always very hot about limiting traffic.
I’d expect that since they have lost new users, and many old users, they have been left with a large number of users who have a considerable number of notes on the system by now. I’m still there with a, now, free account. I don’t use it, but there’s nothing worth deleting.
I can remember thinking a few years ago, “What happened to all the note apps? They’ve all died (TreeDBnotes, Rightnote etc), not extinct maybe but not vigorously expanding either; and Evernote was in that number as the fallen Mighty. All changed now of course. New big thing. Again.
Posted by mkasu
Jul 6, 2023 at 01:42 PM
It looks like there’s no actual source except “a friend”, but apparently Evernote has another round of layoffs?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641
Might be good timing to investigate alternatives.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 7, 2023 at 07:06 AM
It might. But this kind of sterilised corporate Newspeak boilerplate replies have been the standard in many an IT helpdesk for as lond as I can remember. I expect AI tools will use these as reference, reproducing the same result (including the frustration on the customer’s side).
Amontillado wrote:
>Is it just my tin ear, or does that reply from Evernote sound like AI?
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 7, 2023 at 07:13 AM
Thanks for the tips on UpNote. Being the CRIMPer I am, I already have it installed of course, but have only marginally used it in specific types of notes. I’ll give it an EN notebook to chew on; let’s see how it scales.
MadaboutDana wrote: For those still unaware of UpNote, it’s an excellent alternative to
>Evernote, not least because it’s totally cross-platform (Windows, Mac,
>Android, iOS – yes, and Linux).
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 7, 2023 at 07:39 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Interesting. I can see why they may have had such a limit in the early
>years, but to continue to keep that limit seems self defeating.
Quite so. I can only think that it is deeply embeded in their infrastructure since the time the product was squarely aimed at the personal information management market. The relatively recent Team version can reach 500,000 notes, but this number is for all users together, so I find it even more limiting. And, no, I am not going to fork out 16+ EUR a month to have 500,000 notes.
>Hitting 100,000 notes is very remarkable, Alexander. Kudos are in order!
Thanks. Actually, most are from the last few years, since I started systemically following several news sources. I quickly go through the news items and simply forward anything interesting to EN. Then, whenever I am working on a topic and remember that “I’ve seen something on that somehere” (or even if I don’t) I’ll do a quiick search in EN; 8 out of 10, I will find the relevant stuff very soon.
As noted earlier, the system became really useful once it scaled.