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Posted by Hugh
Oct 26, 2009 at 09:36 AM
I think Evernote raised $2m. of re-financing in September, this on top of $4.5m already raised.
H
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 11, 2009 at 02:31 PM
For whomever is interested in checking out an alternative, eNoteFile is an uncannily similar product, but with some interesting differentiations, e.g. one can use the freeware version and do local backups without subscribing to the service: http://enotefile.com
Posted by MsJulie
Nov 11, 2009 at 04:30 PM
FWIW: My understanding is that the Evernote folks are the same ones that do RitePen, a marking system for Tablet PC’s. (Long ago these people worked on the Apple Newton.) RitePen has within the last week come out with an upgrade, and that may have been occupying them. I don’t know.
Posted by J-Mac
Nov 13, 2009 at 05:47 AM
Long time Evernote user here - from the original Evernote beta a few years ago. When they decided to go with an online, subscription-based model for V.3 I was at first happy, but wary. When it became apparent that they were abandoning a lot of their advanced features in V. 2.2, like intersecting categories, hierarchical categories, and advanced searches, I was more disappointed yet. However I also loved the idea of having my notes available from any computer. Of course that same feature forced me to alter greatly what type of data I keep in Evernote - I don’t have great confidence in their data security; after a number of emails back and forth with the few design team members I still know, it was obvious that security was fairly low priority for them.
I can’t really fault Evernote for changing their overall design model so drastically. Their previous model catered to the more advanced, albeit “geeky” users and that, coupled with a very generously robust free version, combined to make for a horrible revenue stream. Phil realized that they needed to go for the money or get out of the business. So now they must aim for a large, premium-paying but less demanding market. Very understandable. But not a good thing for the so-called “power users”. (I say “so-called” because I never consider myself to be a power user, but they do).
So basically, I don’t believe that Evernote will ever be a powerful tool for personal info management, but instead a nice place to store a lot of data with lesser importance, and also less security requirements.
My opinion, anyway.
Jim
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 16, 2009 at 09:04 PM
Those interested in this topic might want to read this short interview with Evernote CEO Phil Libin over on The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/16/phil-libin-on-the-past-present-and-future-of-evernote/
I was interested to read that “the first version of the software is always for the Mac; Libin is an unabashed Mac fan, having switched to the platform a few yeas ago.”
Steve Z.