Evernote and Curio

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 1, 2012 at 12:27 AM

Steve and Hugh, I agree with you both.

Evernote took a strategic decision to create cross-platform functionality, and I believe as part of that decision, decided to place less focus on various aspects of information management many of us take for granted.

For example, something so basic as being able to highlight text is missing. When I brought this to the attention of the EN CEO by email, he replied straight away that in the next major version that would be included.

Having said that, EN is one of a handful of program which allows one to have more than one note window open, something I find very handy.

Also, EN has probably the best ability to capture web clips and full pages.

But in terms of metadata capture and linking it is still pretty limited.

I hope that with its great market success, EN’s developers will use its revenues now to focus more seriously on information management per se.

Daly

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>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.