Evernote CS Notes

[FrancoisGmail 0]

Hello

I am an Evernote user for years, especially on iPhone and a bit on iPad. Now I wonder if I should continue, and I would like to have your feedback. 
At the beginning, there was a lot of advantages compared to the standard Notes app from apple. The point is that apple upgraded Notes in the latest iOS versions. Now it is not so clear what is the advantage of Evernote. In parallel, Evernote has upgraded the functionalities, but restricted the free account list of capabilities, which I understand. 
Now, Evernote restrict more and more the capabilities of the free account, pushing now to the new personal account, paying 7€ per month. So what is the benefit, for my personal usage?

Yes there is a nice home page on iPadOS now. Is it enough?

The right question for me now is simple: should I stop using Evernote or continue with a personal account?

Currently the answer is stop using it, because 7€/month is not worth continuing using it.

Why (or what would me pushing paying 7€ using it)?

• Decrease the price of personal account to 3€/month: I cannot imagine pay more than that for a note app. This price has to be compared to other application like ms office 365 for example, which is 7€/month for one person (same price as current Evernote personal account!).
• integrate iOS calendar, iOS notes, iOS reminders in Evernote. Yes it can be seen as integrating a competitor, but in my view, Evernote make sense for me now if it is a way to aggregate data from different sources, make it a home for personal data management, and not anymore being the application to take notes. Such aggregation is not provided by apple, while apple propose the basic bricks (notes, calendar, reminders). Such integration has been done already for google calendar, so should not be too complex in my view. It should become a personal dashboard, and then has a true value.

To summarize, I am happy using Evernote for years, I understand that this company need to earn money, but I cannot pay 7€/month for it. Would this company accept to lose customers like me, that’s the question. Of course, if I stop using it, I will most probably never come back. I wonder what is your opinion.

Thanks for your feedback.

Kind regards

François 
 

[PinkElephant 8,115]

Apple is Apple, and there is one very significant difference for me: I don't know of any real export option for Apple notes. It imports, from EN as well, but it does not really support exporting. It produces a pdf (which means an export is hardly editable any longer), and most of what I read relied on some sort of scripting.

EN exports with a few clicks as HTML, that can be opened in every browser, and in ENEX, that will be import by many other note taking apps. So I can take my notes whenever I want.

If the control over your own data is worth the subscription, you need to decide yourself.

[gazumped 11,666]

As @PinkElephant - this is a decision only you can make.  Subscribing gives you some reassurance that the company will continue to operate - several note-taking apps have fallen by the wayside over the years - and will be able to maintain and improve on the features that you already use.  It gives you access to the Support team should things go wrong,  and freedom from many of the limitations that Evernote has been applying to its free accounts.  

If you check your account page you may find that Evernote is offering some incentives for free users - I have a test account and had an offer today of 40% off a year's Personal subscription.  I don't know where or how widely that's being made,  but I've seen similar deals in the past.  Even at full price Evernote's subscription is pretty cheap considering that you get (potentially) 120GB of cloud storage per year,  a pretty full range of note taking and project management tools,  and cross platform access on (almost) any device.

Only you can decide whether you care.