Nimbus Notes

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 26, 2014 at 07:23 PM

I don’t understand EN’s approach, and I find it most interesting EN is ignoring this discussion and tweets I have made.

A lot of EN’s work on analog/digital inter-connectivity, while not of great current interest to me, is valuable. For me a strong focus on the analog is important because it is another way of thinking and working and one which is to my mind finding support from some of the pschoneuro imaging studies.

But interconnectivity is important. I applaud EN for it, but am concerned by the superficiality of its merchandising efforts, especially with partners like Moleskine who have not been the epitome of honesty (the notebook Hemmingway used), quality (cf Leuchtturm), or economy.

The great EN contradiction has always been its information management feature set. It is very good for some things - that’s why I have 10,000 items in it. But EN’s plethora of engineers and fan boys on the forums don’t seem to realize the limitations in managing info.

And now the graphic design folks - and I’d argue that thanks to Windows 8, tablets (which I love) smart phones, etc design is at an all-time worst for the net in recent times - seem to be intent on trivializing EN and making EN harder to use.

Seems that info management to EN and life hacking sites and people who make a killing writing books on how to work around EN flaws is all about keeping track of day-to-day business info.

So I will try to learn how to get by with EN’s recent Android app, and hope that EN designers don’t wreck the Windows version.

Occurred to me EN is the “getting by software” though not always in a good way.

Here endeth the rant.

Daly

WSP wrote:

>
>Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Incidentally, I just installed new Evernote version on my Android
>>tablet.
>>
>>This new version will make it slower to use, and because spacing
>between
>>tags has increased srolling through tags will be even more of an
>ordeal.
>>
>>Fortunately the new Android version isn’t as much a piece of dumbed
>down
>>fluff as the new browser verion - but inasmuch as it may reflect a
>>future direction for Evernote design it doesn’t increase my confidence
>>in EN.
>>
>>Daly
>>
> >Daly, I see that the new version of Evernote for Mac, introduced just a
>few days ago, copies the stripped-down visual elements of the Web
>version. I suspect (and fear) that’s coming to the Windows version soon
>as well.
> >Bill