Evernote Note-Taking App Launches 'Home' One-Stop Information Dashboard

[rgschmidt]

Yet another development in Evernote that I did not ask for. They would have better put the time and effort in a stable Evernote product with up to par features.

As a 10+ years premium Evernote user I have only seen them removing features, introducing instabilities, cripple workflows and adding nonsense features.

 

[Ice-Cube]

I was an avid user of Evernote till they started introducing more and more features that made the whole app so clunky. Basic writing was so laggy that I grew increasingly frustrated. I'm cool if they wanted to introduce new features but not at the expense of basic note taking. I've moved back to Apple Notes since.

 

[CarpalMac]

Thanks to Evernote's choices I moved to Microsoft OneNote.

Have never looked back, I'd even forgotten they existed.

 

[edgonzalez32]

So far it looks very nice on iPhone, and I’m looking forward to trying it out on the desktop and iPad too. Already I am noticing a great maturity in it just in a few seconds of use. Evernote has suffered with a very heavy, counterintuitive, clunky, and buggy UI/UX, especially on the Mac, and I once had some really important notes just disappear forever sporadically without being in Trash or backed up to cloud. I have been irritated with them ever since but am eager to give them another shot.

The brand has always been very appealing to me though (an elephant never forgets!), and the app sticks more in my mind over solutions like Dropbox Paper which I feel enforces too much opinion to the organizational structure of files. I also gave Bear a try but don’t like the Markdown showing, and there’s just something about it that never sticks with me.

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Wow that's honestly looking really great.

 

[socialwill]

A few years back I was a heavy Evernote user, but then things started going off the rails. This was when Phil was running the company and they were doing everything but improving the core app. Since then I have moved away and to OneNote. However, I might take a look at what they have done, but like others I curious how their security has improved.

What is hard is to pay for a note taking app when OneNote is included with Office 365. But OneNote is pretty much the same today as it was yesterday, not much has changed. So that is both good and bad IMO.

 

[FranApple]

I'm like many here. Loyal Evernote user for years, even through some weird bugs that were annoying. Shifted away to another solution and haven't looked back. App that just had too many features and started to feel bloated. I'm sure the revision is fine, but I have no desire to go back. My current solution works fine.

 

[jml1982]

Evernote has so many limitations, I'm surprised they are still around. The organization is a mess, and the fact that it randomly selects the photo for your thumbnail is incredibly frustrating. But I moved to Notion because it was way easier to organize my notes.

 

[JulianL]

I migrated away from this years ago because of privacy concerns. Surprised people still using it.

I only use it for info I don't care about. I'm really not worried about whether people can see the shortlist of bedside cabinets that I am considering buying, favourite hotels in various cities or my analysis of what frequent flyer program is most beneficial for me (as 3 random examples of info I feel isn't sensitive, sadly 2 of the 3 pretty irrelevant right now).

Having said that though I do agree about security. I would use Evernote for a lot more stuff if only it supported user-supplied encryption keys that are never transmitted off the client device. With that comes total user responsibility though, if you forget your encryption key you lose your entire database with no way for Evernote to ever be able to help you to get it back, but that is how I have my online backups set up so I am OK with that responsibility.

- Julian

 

[MacRumorUser78]

I used Evernote for years, then stopped due to privacy concerns when they changed their privacy policy in 2017. They seemed to lose their way after that.

Apple introduced more advanced features to Notes around that time, I switched and haven’t looked back. I realised I used to hoard data that I never really looked at after saving it to Evernote. I stopped doing that when I switched to Notes.

I do miss the tagging and search functions from Evernote, I wonder if it might be possible to replicate some of that using Shortcuts 🤔

edit: yes, sort of: https://www.macstories.net/stories/shortcuts-rewind-working-with-apple-notes-part-1/

How is Notes off-line? I frequently (well I used to and will again) travel to remote places.

I just had to downgrade Evernote because its shortcuts take over and can't be changed and am ready to move on. I imagine with the improved Notes I can make it work

 

[drumcat]

Markdown on a repo. It's free. Anything else is not trying very hard.

 

[ahendarman]

Similar story. I was premium paid customer for many years, but starting to use Onenote last year when my company switched to Microsoft 365. I now switched completely and never been happier.

 

[Hustler1337]

I moved from evernote because scrolling through notes was tedious, their UI means only 5-6 notes can fit on a screen, even on the biggest iphone, going into them and waiting for them to load felt like a long time, compare this with Onenote, very dense, and loads quickly. I wish Evernote gave options on viewing preference, it did a lot of things very well and was better to use over all but actually accessing the notes was a lot more important to me.

I just checked on my 12 Pro Max, it can fit 12 notes in a list, with previews and thumbnails if there is an image. Much more usable.



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Not sure of when you last used EN last, but there is an option to set view options. On my phone screen size, I can view up to 8 notes per screen and I'm guessing it'll be similar (possibly more) on the 12 Pro Max.

 

[anthogag]

Evernote would be better if I could use iCloud to store my notes.

 

[shapesinaframe]

How is Notes off-line? I frequently (well I used to and will again) travel to remote places.

I just had to downgrade Evernote because its shortcuts take over and can't be changed and am ready to move on. I imagine with the improved Notes I can make it work

In my experience it does full syncing of the database and attachments so all notes are available offline. You can choose to save notes to the device if you want to be sure it is available offline (or keep your notes off iCloud)

 

[SubduedTiger]

It's been unavailable for months, it only works with an older version of the app... as that very link says.

OK. Sorry then. Didn’t really look because the Watch app isn’t important to me personally.

 

[coolajami]

Evernote?
At some point at their high, they were also start selling socks with their logo because it was a soooooo recognisable brand.

Moved away ages ago when they rendered the free tier unusable, scrapped the Personal subscription tier and they were expecting you to pay the Premium tier for a note taking app. Good luck competing with Office 365 at this price.

Oh, Did I mentioned that they started selling socks in the past?
Yes, and hoodies.

 

[warp9]

I'm still looking for an Evernote replacement because the web clipper is my primary use. Onenote has a terrible web clipper because the page is saved as a giant bitmap file-- no text.

 

[avalon68]

I was a basic user, thinking about getting the premium version about 14 days ago. I started using the Mac version and it was a horrible experience. Empty notes, trouble with embedded PDF files and syncing the notes was slow and not very reliable. During the transition from the "old" Mac version to the "new" Mac version they 've (temporarily?) disabled some menu items. These new features are absolutely useless if the bugs i've had on my Mac (and I wasn't the only one) are not solved.

Ive been a paid user for years....now my eyes are wandering elsewhere. They removed the ability to copy & paste images. Pretty basic functionality to be losing. Plus the latest release was a complete disaster - full of bugs and basically non functional for a lot of users who pay to use it. Im a bit more lenient when Im using a free app, but if Im actually paying for something I expect it to work. I had high hopes they would turn things around, but now Im not sure if they can. Apple notes is looking much improved from the last time I tried it out though, so will probably stick with that for now. Lack of a good export/exit strategy is an issue though - thats one thing evernote did well.

 

[jagooch]

I migrated away from this years ago because of privacy concerns. Surprised people still using it.

I moved to Joplin using Nextcloud server to sync my devices. I left Evernote because it doesn’t support markdown , plus with v10, they added some new limitations to storage, don’t let you export all of your notes, made the app an electron app... I could go on.


A side benefit with Nextcloud for sync is that I control all of my data now. is no longer in the mysterious “cloud storage” location.

 

[shapesinaframe]

I fired up the new version of Evernote today and discovered they have limited bulk selecting of notes to 50 at a time (so you are now also limited to exporting 50 notes at a time, and local notebooks are also no longer supported - so your data is effectively stuck in Evernote now, unless you have the patience to export 50 notes at a time).

I'm not a fan of data hostage situations, so I'm using an old archive I made a while ago to move all my notes (2800+) into OneNote and will probably be closing my Evernote account for good, their product is nowhere near as good as it used to be and is just getting worse. https://www.onenote.com/import-evernote-to-onenote

edit: *hot tip* remove any reminders and encrypted text from your notes, it won't import notes with these attributes.

 

[coolajami]

I fired up the new version of Evernote today and discovered they have limited bulk selecting of notes to 50 at a time (so you are now also limited to exporting 50 notes at a time, and local notebooks are also no longer supported - so your data is effectively stuck in Evernote now, unless you have the patience to export 50 notes at a time).

I'm not a fan of data hostage situations, so I'm using an old archive I made a while ago to move all my notes (2800+) into OneNote and will probably be closing my Evernote account for good, their product is nowhere near as good as it used to be and is just getting worse. https://www.onenote.com/import-evernote-to-onenote

edit: *hot tip* remove any reminders and encrypted text from your notes, it won't import notes with these attributes.

It's particularly interesting how quickly, any of these companies, will turn their business to the "data hostage" model when their business doesn't performs well.

 

[shapesinaframe]

It's particularly interesting how quickly, any of these companies, will turn their business to the "data hostage" model when their business doesn't performs well.

I guess things are getting pretty bad over at Evernote; they’ve massively reduced app functionality (makes code maintenance easier) and now they’re restricting data export (makes leaving them harder).

It used to be such a great product. I’d be really interested to hear stories from the inside about what happened for it to end up where it is now.