Evernote, Evergone

Evernote over the years has been the pinnacle of note taking apps, and was my go-to platform, but like many of its lifetime users, I have noticed a massive decline in its functionality. 

Since its takeover last year, and making redundant its entire U.S. workforce, Evernote has gone so downhill, users have left their droves, with me being one of them.

The once free app, that was excellent at cross-platform capabilities, soon became something that was so dysfunctional at doing what it first set out to do (capture the market of note-taking), became so limited that its free platform was crippled beyond belief and anything that was once standard, was now something you had to pay for as a monthly subscription.

It started to limit itself on the amount of devices you could collaborate with and restrict how much data you could upload to them, becoming an only online platform, unless you wanted to upgrade to using offline content.

The only benefit to upgrading was the amount of storage that you could actually get and for the price, however, other companies, such as Microsoft and Apple, have always had totally free apps for this, albeit at the time, were not brilliant but were free nonetheless. But at least they allowed their users to create limitless notes, folders, web clips etc., and any price structures were for cloud storage for entire workload content across its platform, whether it be for photos, documents, app saved content or music storage.

Today, there is not much I cannot do within the Apple’s Notes app, so after a long weekend of no support from Evernote in export facility, I have finally got all my content from Evernote and now have it residing in Apple Notes and have deleted my account and association with Evernote.

I get it, that long-standing companies need to find ways of keeping their loyal customers and also enticing new ones but at what price?

I have always had the opinion of one price for everything, just a simple one off payment, not this ever increasing monthly subscription, something that seems to be ever more popular these days.