Sad state of Evernote

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 5, 2022 at 06:22 PM

I still keep an Evernote account as a backup for gathering random information. The one thing Evernote hasn’t been beaten at (in my view) is in the ubiquitous methods for putting data into it. For a long time I have found the interface confounding and uninviting, so it is not my primary PKM… shockingly, that’s still a work in progress and probably always will be.

I don’t think we can know yet just what the acquisition of Evernote will mean. If history is a guide, it will mean the slow fading away of Evernote… that’s what seems to always happen, whether it is whether it is ECCO Pro being acquired by Symantec, or Brainstorm being acquired by whomever that was, or, well, you name it. When another company acquires an established app, it usually is bad news for users. But that isn’t necessarily a foregone conclusion. Let’s see what happens.

BTW, I am interested in counterpoints… where the acquisition of an established app ended up improving the service for the users. Any thoughts?

Steve