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interesting long piece about Evernote
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Posted by WSP
Apr 4, 2019 at 08:48 PM
Entitled “Ahead of Its Time, Behind the Curve: Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential.”
https://usefyi.com/evernote-history/
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 4, 2019 at 10:57 PM
Interesting piece. That screen shot of an early (first?) edition of Evernote on Windows was a hoot. Using a handwriting font to make it look like Evernote 1.0 supported handwriting. So retro.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Apr 4, 2019 at 11:21 PM
I cringe whenever I see a new report that Evernote’s future is uncertain (or grim). If they do go belly-up, I hope they give us enough lead time to migrate to another system. What are the alternatives that have Evernote’s functionality?
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 5, 2019 at 11:08 AM
I would not want to see Evernote die.
But, on the other hand, I’ve never had a case where a developer, without warning, vanished or went out of business and their app simultaneously and immediately stopped working and my data were unretrievable.
(Web-only apps and Circus Ponies and its execrable developer being the outliers here.)
Even Bento still launches seven years after Apple up and abandoned it. The 64-bit thing is about to catch up with Bento and it will stop in 6 - 12 months. But the app itself is still usable today.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 5, 2019 at 02:39 PM
I actually fondly remember that version of Evernote. I liked the scrolling roll of notes on the timeline. I wish someone would bring that format back to note-taking.
Steve Z
Paul Korm wrote:
Interesting piece. That screen shot of an early (first?) edition of
>Evernote on Windows was a hoot. Using a handwriting font to make it
>look like Evernote 1.0 supported handwriting. So retro.
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