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.

  • MusketeerXEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Damn it. I’ve got a lot of stuff on there, organised and tagged.

    I’ve thought about migrating for the last couple of years, but just left it as I couldn’t be bothered.

    If it’s getting more expensive though, this might be the time to move.

    What would be the service with the easiest migration path? Ideally one that:

    • has good automatic OCR of all documents uploaded to make them searchable

    • has good apps on Android, Windows and IOS

    • has a good import function that can retain tags from Evernote

    That may be asking too much?

  • @[email protected]English
    0•2 years ago

    I will need to find a new personal document manager, I’ve experimented with self hosted paperless ngx but I don’t recant to spend time setting up my containers, I’m happy to pay for something that works

  • @[email protected]English
    60•2 years ago

    So basically, they are following enshitification same as many companies have been doing.

    • *dust.sysEnglish
      29•2 years ago

      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!

      • @[email protected]English
        18•2 years ago

        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.

        • Bezerker03English
          9•2 years ago

          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.

            • Bezerker03English
              1•2 years ago

              That sounds familiar. I remember being impressed by then because Italy is not known for its tech sector (my brother in law here just learned about docker etc for example even though he’s a system admin) and they seemed pretty current on tech.

        • @[email protected]English
          25•2 years ago

          I heard of Bending Spoons because I read an article about an unknown company buying mobile apps, raising prices to insane values, and milking existing customers. Then using that profit to buy another app and repeat.

          Than I forgot about them until they bought Evernote.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 years ago

        All that lovely text based data on there, I’m sure some companies are salivating at the idea.

        Jokes on them, even when I had an account I encrypted all my notes before putting them there. I do the same on Google Keep.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•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?

    • @[email protected]English
      11•2 years ago

      I feel like they were some of the leaders - they’ve been making their product worse while charging more to use it for years

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      Higher interest rates mean every company has to be profitable ASAP or they’re deader than bed bath and beyond. Gonna keep getting uglier

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 years ago

    A former employer bought a lifetime subscription to Evernote for me, I forget why they did that some perky new manager wanting us all to collaborate or something. I used it for notes when learning Spanish if I recall. A few years after that they canceled it and said I had to pay so I deleted my account. I entirely forgot it existed until reading this post. That’s the end of my Evernote story.

    • Frost WolfEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Apple notes can lock you in. Bear or Obsidian maybe a viable alternative but I’m not sure with migration if a seamless import is available.

    • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠English
      11•2 years ago

      Better alternative: Joplin

      Works much the same way as Evernote with a similar layout including a wysiwyg editor and a web clipper. However, you can host your own server or sync it to a cloud platform of your choice (or both). Doesn’t cost you a thing and is open source. Has an Evernote importer too.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    “We’re definitely going to use the extra money to help you, not as a cash grab and run for the hills… LOL, suckers! Shit, the microphone was still on.”

  • @[email protected]English
    16•2 years ago

    Wow. I ditched Evernote after their last price gouge increase, and that’s after being with them from the very beginning. Thank God I bailed when I did.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•2 years ago

    Again it show subscription based services should be avoided like plague. Once you become an intensive user the subscription price increases and it’s painful to change.

  • @[email protected]English
    19•2 years ago

    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
    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 years ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
      English
      1•2 years ago

      👍 for Joplin. It’s nice to configure it with WebDAV directly with Nextcloud for replication and sync.