Evernote reinventing itself

Posted by nathanb
Sep 25, 2020 at 12:56 AM

So Evernote is doing what Microsoft has been doing with One Note for the past 8 years or so by dumbing it down to be universal across all screens?

Unfortunate. Though I guess they have no choice. That’s the curse of having to cater to a large audience. It’s all about ‘usability’ from the perspective of the average casual user.

It must be soul crushing to design for the market leading tech products. Apple can’t ‘innovate’ iphones faster than the casual user will tolerate. Imagine the meetings at Evernote when they present simple ways to emulate Roam/Notion features but are shot down for fear of scaring away the casuals to OneNote.

Software used to all be niche because casuals were on paper. I’ve long since finished hoping any big platforms will add power features. At least for PKM software, I’m only interested in software created for people like us. Roam is adding quirky experimental features almost weekly and it’s a blast. Meanwhile OneNote keeps polishing it’s own pallet and crap like that.