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Posted by Hugh
Oct 24, 2012 at 08:16 PM
Personally I can’t forget that Evernote has a record of abandoning one set of users (including me) and the development of a perfectly acceptable (for its time) Windows PIM with with some attractive features, when another apparently more commercially-attractive notion caught their attention. That’s capitalism, of course, and who’s to say that Evernote as it is now doesn’t have greater utility for more people. But “Fool me once…” etc. etc.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 24, 2012 at 09:03 PM
>I can’t say that Evernote’s terms of using the API are clear to me. I was really wondering whether we would be able to see the actual text and use it further, e.g. copy/paste it.
It isn’t clear, you’re quite correct. The way I read this, and most forum posting go in that direction, that they want to prevent an app from sending an image to EN and recuperating the OCR’ed data, hence using it as an OCR service. This is not what is planned for IQ, so I think we’re OK !
Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer
Posted by WSP
Oct 24, 2012 at 09:31 PM
I have a lingering distrust of Evernote for the same reason. The early history of Evernote has been heavily mythologized by Phil Libin and others. I have no doubt that they were struggling in those days, but their melodramatic story of last-minute, providential intervention by an investor—almost supernatural in its overtones—is, I suspect, rather overblown. They simply saw an opportunity in a cross-platform note-taker and grabbed it; fair enough. But they tossed aside their early users in a remarkably brutal way, and I haven’t forgotten that. When some of us protested that the program was being dumbed down for no apparent reason (with no explanation being offered by the Evernote folks), we were sarcastically dismissed as “power users,” which rapidly became a term of abuse whenever it was invoked on their forum.
I continue to use Evernote for certain limited purposes (mainly archives of old notes), and I admire the cleverness of many of its newer features. Nevertheless, I still have vivid memories of how they treated their most loyal early users, and that is part of what makes me wary about their future.
Bill
Posted by WSP
Oct 24, 2012 at 10:16 PM
To return to the subject of my original post . . . it strikes me that another possible substitute for Evernote in this case is a combination of PDF files and RightNote.
RightNote allows virtual links, and searches of those linked PDFs (from within RightNote) show the word or phrase highlighted and in context. Not *quite* as convenient as the more powerful search mechanism in Evernote, but close. And it means the old notes in question are preserved in a universal format that is not dependent upon the whims or fortunes of one software company.
Bill
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Oct 25, 2012 at 05:33 AM
Hugh wrote:
>Personally I can’t forget that Evernote has a record of abandoning one set of users
>(including me) and the development of a perfectly acceptable (for its time) Windows
>PIM with with some attractive features, when another apparently more
>commercially-attractive notion caught their attention. That’s capitalism, of
>course, and who’s to say that Evernote as it is now doesn’t have greater utility for
>more people. But “Fool me once…” etc. etc.
If I remember correctly, this was not done under the direction of the original developer, but after Phil Libin took over as the CEO, no? So we might as well be talking about a different company.