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Evernote in trouble?
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Posted by jaslar
Sep 13, 2018 at 12:18 AM
Zoho’s Take Notes recently came up on a “best of” list. Still free, not a bad feature list, web client on PC, has an android app (iOS too, I think). Has anyone given it a test drive?
Posted by satis
Sep 13, 2018 at 12:54 AM
If you’re talking about Zoho Notebook (https://www.zoho.com/notebook/) I tried it on Mac and iOS (still have it installed, should probably uninstall) and I really *wanted* to like it, but I don’t.
It’s largely a competitor to Google Keep, with the greater ability to put noted into notebooks, with your choice of attractive covers.
It’s kind of a UI mess. I tested it last year by creating a few notebooks. I called one notebook To-Dos and inside it I put 5 checklists. When looking at the main Notebooks app page there’s no indication of the contents of each notebook - whether there’s text, photos, lists, etc - or how many lists there are. It’s annoyingly opaque.
Once I open the To-Do notebook I see little Post-it style squares showing part of the checklists, but the text is messed up. Here’s one mini-square inside the To-Do notebook:
What’s with those garbage characters?
And here’s that list opened with a double-click:
Like I said, I’d like to like it, but it’s got issues, and when launching the app it’s too unclear as to what’s in the notebooks, and there are still, months later, text formatting issued.
Posted by Paul Korm
Sep 13, 2018 at 09:30 AM
Zoho Notebook is a mess, I agree. It looks like a port of a iOS app (designed for children) to Mac. The instructions for importing notebooks from Evernote are iPad-oriented and wrong. Even after figuring out what the instructions for a Mac should be, the import fails with anything other than plain text notes. Most of the user comments on the Mac App Store mirror @satis’s evaluation. Nice idea. Badly implemented.
Posted by jaslar
Sep 13, 2018 at 10:12 AM
Yes, Zoho Notebook. Interesting. Great reviews on Google Play. But not all apps work well on all the platforms.Thanks.
Posted by WSP
Sep 18, 2018 at 11:25 PM
Another article about Evernote’s problems:
Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/18/evernote-just-slashed-54-jobs-or-15-percent-of-its-workforce/