Evernotee: Whats Up?

Posted by Jonathan Probber
Oct 26, 2009 at 12:18 AM

Hello all—

I’m sort of waffling about Evernote too. I love the concept, was besotted by the feature list etc. and paid for the premium service. After almost a year, I’m using virtually none of my paid-for capacity. I had wanted to dump all of my music onto their servers, but they make it difficult by limiting the size of one note, so I’d have to do it song-by-song, essentially. Not going to happen.

When I took a really hard look at my requirements, I snapped back to reality based on the following: there really isn’t that much stuff I need to archive—I can go back on the web and get it. Stuff I truly do need to preserve is on Google Docs, or Gmail as well as a backup hard drive. Also on paper. When I need to clip a little text, jot a quick note, or save a URL I use a nice thing called Shovebox (I’m a Mac) which fulfills my needs. Cheap, low-impact and really suits my style. Reminds me a bit of Borland’s Sidekick, for you oldsters.

It’s better for me to separate outlining, calendaring, etc. into software which better handles those. I use Gcal, and Omni Outliner. I’ve just joined Google Wave, and am starting to fool around with that.

Thanks for all the good day-in day-out chat.

Jon

I won’t be re-upping with Evernote. Mostly because it’s too big a production for my relatively modest needs.