Evernote and Curio

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 29, 2012 at 06:22 PM

Hugh wrote:
>It remains a bit of mystery to me that the developers behind Evernote have not yet quite given the
>software the top-notch functionality and UI that the financial resources available
>to them might justify. It has also largely had the field to itself for quite a while,
>although Microsoft, Apple and the likes of Dropbox and others have gradually been
>encroaching upon its territory. Perhaps the effort to make the software
>cross-platform has been all-absorbing. Perhaps it has lacked competitors.

I couldn’t agree more with Hugh. Evernote’s synchronization of multiplatform versions is astoundingly well done. But the actual app is very primitive by the standards set by Zoot, DevonThink and many others. And the Trunk service that was announced with great fanfare has not produced a whole lot of useful partner applications—at least in my opinion.

Okay, Evernote is free and what it does do it does remarkably well, so I’m not complaining. But there seems to be a lot of un-met potential here. All of which is my long-winded way of saying I don’t think there is anything for Windows that works with Evernote even in the limited way in which Curio does.

Steve Z.