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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 2, 2016 at 10:55 AM

Interesting and troubling for Evernote that no one seems to be chiming up and saying the service is worth the money. Doesn’t bode well for EN’s future viability. Does anyone on this forum think EN is a good service worth paying $70 a year for?

Steve Z.

Posted by Hugh
Jul 2, 2016 at 12:04 PM

Evernote Premium currently costs £44.99 p.a. in the UK (possibly more when the consequences of our very recent upheavals work their way through!). I imagine that’s what you get for your $70 in the United States, Steve. Evernote Plus is £29.99 p.a., more affordable, and possibly justifiable - because, to adapt Joe Evans Brown in Some Like It Hot, “No app is perfect”.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jul 2, 2016 at 12:21 PM

Steve, I have paid for Evernote for some time, and will not switch to the higher of the two paid sub options.

As readers here may be aware, I have long sought an alternative to EN, because the UI and information handling options are second rate IMO.

I clip a lot from the web, and of all the programs I have tried/used for that purpose, including OneNote and Pocket, EN is the best. OneNote is great when it works, but too often I find if messes up on full page clips.

The other plus with EN is that it works on my android phone the same as it does on my laptop in terms saving; ON will only save a url on my phone.

If ON clipped as well as EN, and worked on my phone as well as EN, I would likely be done with EN, and switch to ON.

One other concern with ON is whether it will function well with 10,000 plus items.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Interesting and troubling for Evernote that no one seems to be chiming
>up and saying the service is worth the money. Doesn’t bode well for EN’s
>future viability. Does anyone on this forum think EN is a good service
>worth paying $70 a year for?
> >Steve Z.

Posted by WSP
Jul 2, 2016 at 01:15 PM

I’ve moved nearly all my various notes into OneNote, but I am still using Evernote for one digital project: a catalogue of William Morris’s library (https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/), done in collaboration with my wife. Here EN offers three advantages.

First, its syncing is quick and reliable. Though OneNote offers some intriguing possibilities in this area—even allowing two persons to revise a note at the same time—in practice the syncing seems quirky and slow to me.

Second, tags are just indispensable for a project like this. We need to be able to do queries such as “Give me a list of all the Morris books in the British Library that we have already seen but have not yet been posted on our website.” In theory I suppose we could do that in OneNote, but it would be rather complicated. (In fact, I’ve done various experiments with tag-substitutes in ON.) It’s incredibly simple in Evernote.

Third, from Evernote we can drag and drop illustrations directly onto our website (which is built on a WordPress foundation). We can’t do that in OneNote or any other note-taking program I’ve tested so far.

Of these three considerations, the tagging is most crucial. If OneNote were ever to introduce a seriously improved tagging system, I suspect we would shift over to Onenote immediately.

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Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 2, 2016 at 03:27 PM

Evernote is not worth $70/year. Personally, I pay $45 (EN just auto-renewed it) because the $70 is for new subscriptions, not mine. $45 is probably too much, but I’m neutral on Evernote at that level or below. When I retire I’ll kill it.

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