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Posted by WSP
Oct 22, 2019 at 01:48 AM
An article about the effort to create a new editor in Evernote: I didn’t find it terribly illuminating, but it’s a lengthy piece with lots of encouraging photographs of programmers sitting in front of laptops. Any sign of life at Evernote is welcome. (But Ian Small’s videos on the Evernote discussion forum are actually more instructive.)
https://www.builtinaustin.com/spotlight/2019/10/15/working-at-evernote-austin-engineering
Posted by marlowe
Oct 22, 2019 at 11:34 PM
I’ve been impressed with the small improvements over the past year, and think the company is moving in the right direction on larger updates.
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 23, 2019 at 07:33 PM
It would be good to see that come true. I’ve never been happy with anything that claims to import and replace Evernote. The imports are just not consistently good for every one of my notes, which tend to have rich content and not just text. I suppose that’s a “lock-in” factor due to Evernote’s approach, but it is what it is. I don’t admire Evernote, but it’s familiar, works well with the apps I use, and seems to be focused on improvement.
marlowe wrote:
I’ve been impressed with the small improvements over the past year, and
>think the company is moving in the right direction on larger updates.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Oct 23, 2019 at 07:46 PM
They asked me to take part in a survey that would take about 20 minutes. It went something like this:
Gender: male
Age: 66 or older
Thank you. That’s all we needed to know.
I’m assuming that, due to my age, it probably took 20 minutes to get past the first two questions, so they pulled the plug.
Posted by SmallDog
Oct 24, 2019 at 01:55 AM
I’ve always had the same problem. Didn’t find any app that can preserve Evernote’s highlight for example. Many (e.g. Notion) can’t even preserve underline.
A lot of times these formatting informations carry hugely important visual cues that allow me to quickly get the idea of a note, or at the very least allows me to parse a sentence much faster than if they were absent.
Yesterday I happened to look into this again, and discovered that Notable (https://github.com/notable/notable) is able to generate valid markdown that preserves both highlight and underline in my Evernote notes. (in order to be valid markdown, html tags have to be used of course for highlight and underline. But I don’t mind that). I went ahead and finally switched from Evernote (not to Notable the app, at least not yet, but to a more plain text file-based system ...)
Paul Korm wrote:
It would be good to see that come true. I’ve never been happy
>with anything that claims to import and replace Evernote. The imports
>are just not consistently good for every one of my notes, which tend to
>have rich content and not just text. I suppose that’s a
>“lock-in” factor due to Evernote’s approach, but it is
>what it is. I don’t admire Evernote, but it’s familiar,
>works well with the apps I use, and seems to be focused on improvement.
>
>
>marlowe wrote:
>I’ve been impressed with the small improvements over the past year, and
>>think the company is moving in the right direction on larger updates.