EN 3 Changes and a Market Overview

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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
May 20, 2008 at 01:38 PM

I received an interesting update today on Evernote Beta:
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Thank you for using Evernote. We’re constantly improving the service, and wanted to give you a quick update on recent enhancements and new features.

You requested it, and we made it happen:
- PDF support
- Encryption on Mac and Windows
- iPhone-optimized web version

We’ve also made the following enhancements to the Evernote clients:
- On Mac: Spotlight integration, new note views, drag-n-drop for multiple filetypes
- On Windows: Faster searching, improved stability, synchronization through password-protected proxies
- On the web: Ability to select multiple notes at once for easier moving, tagging, and deletion, faster search, improved browser support
- Service update: Tons of new hardware to make sure you have the best experience possible

Sign into your account: https://www.evernote.com/Login.action

Share your notebooks with your friends, the world, and now Facebook
On Mac and web you can publish any notebook and share it with anyone. Each public notebook has an RSS feed associated with it, so friends can subscribe to your public notebooks. Evernote now has a widget that can be placed onto any blog or Facebook page. Create a public notebook and click the “Get Widget” link.

More ways to capture and find your memories
Here’s the growing list of ways you can access your notes: Evernote for Windows; Evernote for Mac; Evernote Web; Evernote iPhone Web; Evernote Mobile Web; Evernote for Windows Mobile. Remember, everything is always synchronized and available from anywhere.

Keep sensitive data secure
One of the great things about Evernote is its ability to synchronize all of your notes and memories across all the devices you use. In the event that some of that information is sensitive, you can now encrypt it with the Mac and Windows clients. You can encrypt a portion of a note and decrypt it with a password on another Evernote client. Make sure you don’t forget that password, we do not store it anywhere on our servers and will not be able to recover the encrypted data.

Press coverage
Catch up on the latest Evernote reviews in: Ars Technica, Salon.com, Wired, TUAW, Lifehacker, and more at our media page: http://www.evernote.com/about/corp/news/

Stay on top of Evernote news
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Why the Beta is important
The purpose of the beta is to test the system and get user feedback, so that we can make a better Evernote. Try it out and let us know what you think.

Thanks,
The Evernote team

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Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 20, 2008 at 02:52 PM

Thomas, the nice thing about InfoRecall is they let you try the program each year, when like clockwork, they bring out a new version. They have some good ideas about workspace—but for me it just doesn’t create much excitement.

Re Treepad group—I think Henk moderates it himself. Iknow I had a post that was critical (mildly) lof Treepad, and I suggested an alternative. I never saw my post on the group.l That was a few years ago, and I have not posted since.

I think Treepad makes one of the nices outlines with icons and boxes and stuff, but about the time other developers were discovering that info in outlines could be manipulated, Henk discovered the web and Treepad’s ability to create web pages. So he went one way and I went another (with, I suspect, a lot of users who wanted Treepad for info management, not web page building).

GemX’s on-again, off-again customer care and mercurial response pattern is why I havve not invested much energy in any of their programs. The organizer has potential—less thought to eye candy and more to functionality and power, and they could have a winner.

Daly

Thomas wrote:
>That’s a really nice summary.
> >The only you didn’t mention that I could think of right
>away is InfoRecall. (Last time I used it was over 10 years ago.)
> >Just few notes:
>As
>for MyInfo, it was more like that they were reluctant to implement hoist in current
>version, due to it being too hard to implement. Which I can understand. The way they
>have implemented the tree control, from what I could understood, differs from most
>other products and is non-standard, that might be a factor as well.
> >Treepad group is
>IMHO dead because it’s on moderation, and it’s not much supported - Henk seems to
>prefer other communication channels, doesn’t promote the group much and isn’t
>actively participating except answering the questions.
> >I actually liked GemX
>products, except the bugs and the way of their communication and handling loyal
>users. Do-Organizer while buggy and weak in some aspects, had great
>potential.
> >Usually toilet paper works for me, but couldn’t figure it out with
>Evernote. It was the only thing that didnt’ work for me with EN, unfortunately
>substantial one.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 20, 2008 at 03:04 PM

Dominik, I think I may end up using SQL notes once I have looked at it enough times that it begins to make sense to me! This is one program where what I wrote someplace else about having a well written manual for dummies like me is going to be vital!

WhizFolders does a lot, and has made many moves recently—I hope it can get into columnar metadata. I wish it had different icons or an icon choice for notes. I like the way it has positioned itself as a writers program, with the ability to have a number of windows open.

If itwas stronger with web pages, I could perhaps use it for almost everything. I am using Evernote 2.2 and Surfulater for web pages—nothing better than those two on the market, and it seems Neville always has a trick or two about his sleeves for Surfulater. Evernote’s plan to use all the media available in some way or another is a brave attempt to capitalize on the totality of whatis available now.

I have one friend who is a very in-depth, detailed researcher in his field. He has a complaint that Evernote 3 has lost some of the search capability he needs. He also needs a program that supports other languages with accents and so on, and apparently he has asked Neville to work on it for Surfulater.

I have found UltraRecall sometimes crews up a web page copy, and it is too bad because thereis lots of power there.

Like me, he is a disenchanted lover of MDE InfoHandler’s new changes.

I also miss ADM and its trajectory. Apparently Arne and Eric were last seen as panda feeders at the Beijing Zoo. I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, perhaps we could use a mind mapping program to come up with game called Where in the World Are Arne and Eric?, or Arne and Eric Meet Carmen Sandeigo.

Seriously, I hope Arne didn’t lose everything backing up ADM, and that we might yet see a new, improved version.

Daly

Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>Daly,
> >Thank for your great market overview!
> >Just my 2cents:
> >When I look at
>development speed, communciation, listening and bug fixing then I end up with these
>three applications:
> >- UltraRecall
>- Whizfolders Pro (or Deluxe)
>-
>SQLNotes
> >Personally, despite some CRIMP attacks, I always end up in in using
>UltraRecall. I don’t love it, I like it. And sometimes I miss ADM.
> >Dominik
> >
> >
>

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 20, 2008 at 03:09 PM

Stephen, I have tried The Brain a few times. This last time quite seriously.

I like the screen action—up to a point, then it gets disconcerting.

Apparently there are people with thousands of files connected to The Brain, and they love it.

The Brain has moved ahead a lot with note keeping, calendar, embedded file capabilities, etc.

I think is is quite a good program, but not for me. Although…if I had three months of using it exclusively, I might like it.

I looked at Personal Knowbase after you mentioned it here again. It is a little too simple for me, but its use of key words or tags is good. Incidentally, if Neville could get a system like that for his category tree, he’d have a winning combination in Surfulater.

OneNote came on my new Toshiba, and frankly I haven’t been tempted to play with it. Perhaps I should.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Daly,
> >A few notable applications you left off your list:
> >* OneNote is quite
>powerful, though it is quite different than most of the information managers
>discussed here. It has the support of the titan behind it. I believe one reason for
>EverNote’s change in direction is that version 2.2 was competing directly with ON…
>and even though EN was cheaper (in fact free), it appears to have been losing that
>battle. The biggest issue with ON is that it still does not play as well with its own
>siblings (Word, Excel) as it could.
> >* The Brain… which I do not know much about…
>Is it an information manager or a mind mapper?
> >* Personal Knowbase… I know it
>doesn’t have much of a following on this forum, but it has always appealed to me in its
>simplicity. A keyword based note card system… a stripped down version of
>InfoHandler. Still has a loyal following.
> >And as long as you’re mentioning
>Treepad, we should probably mention the other long-in-the-tooth two-pane
>outliners: Jot+, ActionOutliner, Maple and BlackHole Organizer. These were
>exciting when they first came out six or seven years ago, but now have been passed by. I
>must say, however, that I still use Treepad Lite fairly often. It is quick and easy to
>use, is a single executable file (so can be used from a USB drive), and the lack of bells
>and whistles is just right for some jobs.
> >Steve Z.

Posted by Daly de Gagne
May 20, 2008 at 03:11 PM

Re Maple, Jot, etc., I think they are essentially dead in the water, and in today’s market overpriced for what they do. Unless they get new capabilities, they’ll be gone.

Daly

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