Is Evernote Becoming Useful?

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Posted by exatty95
Dec 19, 2024 at 10:30 AM

I know that Evernote has long been far out of favor here (and I dropped it in favor of Reflect—thanks, Steve—and Obsidian). But I keep seeing updates on the one device where I still have it, and heard an interview with the product leader at the company that acquired it in which he sounded pretty sensible. It made me wonder if it is improving to (or toward) the point where it is a quality option. I do miss its cross-platform (Macs/Windows/Web/Phone) and webclipping strengths. Are folks still relying on it? Have its export options improved? Thanks for any input.

Posted by satis
Dec 20, 2024 at 12:24 AM

Perhaps you were refering to the Vergecast’s episode a few months ago about ‘The Great Evernote Reboot’?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGElTGoN_lo

I think most of Evernote’s problems were self-inflicted, especially after the current owners laid off most of Evernote’s staff then offered no changes for months. That’s a lot of institutional knowledge that disappeared. This year the app’s design has been revamped and some new features have been added (while switching to a bloated Electron-based app that lost functionality from the legacy app), but prices have increased yet *again*, and cheaper alternatives (OneNote, Apple Notes, UpNote, Notion, Joplin, Obsidian, NotesNook, etc etc) offer more features.

As for your question about export, last I heard they are still allowing only a maximum of 100 notes exported per day. The legacy version didn’t have that limit, but that app was killed off in March. That’s resulted in some clever hacks from competitors to help people import their Evernote files.

https://help.notesnook.com/importing-notes/import-notes-from-onenote

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 1, 2025 at 08:57 AM

exatty95 wrote:
>Are folks still relying on it?

I, for one, am still using it and intend to continue doing so if it is well supported.

18 months ago I had written on how my Evernote use came to a halt when I reached the ‘system limit’ of 100,000 notes:
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/10155/0/evernote-system-limits

I then spent time removing some older material, and saving new material on 2-3 potential replacement tools in parallel, while still mailing URLs to my Evernote account. The latter remained part of my regular ‘muscle memory’.

I kept getting error notifications in response to such mails, i.e., that my notes weren’t saved, but I figured that even if it never got recorded the Evernote, I would still have the mail archive.

Some months back, the error replies ceased and I assumed that Evernote had just given up on me. But, apparently, what happened is that the system limit for notes has been raised to 150,000 for my paid account.

This implies that development is no longer just cosmetic, but includes interventions in the database infrastructure itself. Let’s see how things evolve.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 18, 2025 at 08:16 AM

This overview may be of interest:
https://evernote.com/blog/100-improvements-2024

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