Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about.
If you’re still using Evernote, probably a good time to stop.
So basically, they are following enshitification same as many companies have been doing.
Soon to be purchased by:
A) Meta
B) Microsoft
C) Alphabet
D) Some venture capital firm nobody who uses a computer daily has ever heard of
Place your bets now people!
How many people had heard of Bending Spoons before they bought Evernote? They’re a software company but I’d never heard of any of their apps before, either.
I only heard of them because I wanted to move to Italy and they were hiring and relocating DevOps engineers.
I didn’t apply but that was first time I heard of them like 2 years ago.
Why would MS be intereted in Evernote? I guess they could incorporate something into OneNote, but what would that be? Are there any technologies worth buying in Evernote?
Higher interest rates mean every company has to be profitable ASAP or they’re deader than bed bath and beyond. Gonna keep getting uglier
In case anyone is looking for a recommendation, I started using Obsidian for taking notes recently. It creates markdown files which keeps things nice and clean and then I use Syncthing to sync my files rather than their paid sync option. If Obsidian ever enshitifies I can either use an old version of the application or switch to any other markdown editor.
I’m considering having some sort of nightly sync to a git repo as well for version control but that might be more complexity than I need.
There is a git plugin for obsidian that works really well, and is pretty simple to setup. I use it to backup the notes and it can be configured to commit every x minutes.
Those looking for an alternative, I suggest Joplin. I exported/imported from Evernote a few years back and am really happy with it.
- supports markdown
- can store data on multiple services
- Open source
- can fully encrypt your notes
I use nextcloud notes, you get all the above mentioned benefits + Nextcloud
Nextcloud is nice, but it’s kinda slow. To be fair, I gave it two vCPUs (not gonna call 'em cores, because they’re not full cores) and 2GB RAM, so part of it might just be weak hardware, but tbh it’s not like I, the literal only user, stressed it much. Also a huge annoyance is that switching from one module to another does a full page reload.
I switched from Evernote to Joplin several years ago and haven’t looked back. I had over 8,000 notes in Evernote and now have over 11,000 notes in Joplin. I’m using free Dropbox storage for syncing (3GB out of 6GB free) and run Windows, iPad and Android clients. I haven’t missed Evernote at any point.
I forgot Evernote existed. Time to back up my notes from 2014.
Looks interesting. Would love to know more about the people behind it. A lot of trust to put in some anonymous devs with a new app
I’d like to learn more about this. I’m a notion user myself but a few weeks ago I was looking into alternatives and didn’t get anywhere. What’s your elevator pitch?
