I've been here (and paying) for longer than most - and although I continue to be here (paying) it's really only a function of no easy way out. Very frustrated by the marketing directives that have changed the core competencies of the original software.
I like EN for the basics - scan to PDF (PERIOD - the business card ***** is the most frustrating - how bout you guys give me SIMPLE instead of this error ridden marketing driven junk)... Archive (two level hierarchy) and search (visual and text). Email it in or load onto a folder and import - END. SIMPLE and WORKS..
You cannot compete with Goodnotes (and seemingly don't see value in buying them and dumping the penultimate that I've tried at least a dozen times - and every time end back with Goodnotes - it never crashes, never loses anything - is organized and functional). It's SIMPLE and WORKS.
Chat - for what - if I'm going to have an in-house chat - it's gonna be on MY servers (or at least in my control - DUH)... No offense - but you cannot even compete with MS teams - so why are you bothering???
Sharing - with whom exactly - someone you can blast to use your software - are you kidding me. I once shared with myself (different email on a machine that didn't have EN) and you guys blasted me with marketing - I'll NEVER do that again.
Don't know (nor care) about the other "FEATURES" aka marketing fluff. In the late 2000s you were a searchable database - two tier hierarchy - visually driven - good UI - and FAST search. Revolutionary. If I had to describe you today - it's more like in the midst of civil strife - with no idea what you really want to be and ABSOLUTLY no idea what your core competency is.
HOW BOUT SIMPLE - back to your roots. I'm even willing to pay double or triple what I pay now - but for GOD's sake let me turn off all the $&*T you have added in that has absolutely NOTHING to do with your core competency. When I log in - let me see MY DEFAULT SCREEN - you know - what I saw for the first 10 or so years and not some social networked infused artistic and WORTHLESS landing page - just SIMPLE and WORKS... Eliminate the baggage - you used to be FAST - you are not anymore - why - just guessing but all the ***** you have piled onto the core competency eats away at any speed you once had...
I don't remember the last time I asked someone to charge me MORE for less - but for me it would make your software more usable and stable - and that would be worth more...
As it stands - if anyone covered the core competency and figured a way to export / import easily (I don't have time) - I'd have been gone. At one point I had four business accounts and one personal - all but one is gone - why - because it failed the SIMPLE and WORKS test. Loyalty was something that was earned when you PROTECTED that which got you here. You didn't value it - so I'm certainly not feeling any guilt towards the lack of enthusiasm that you might actually care - let alone fix this.
Feature request - LET ME - the CUSTOMER - turn off all the stuff I think is WASTING MY TIME - ALL OF IT, and if you can let me eliminate the God forsaken business card scanner (do you really have cards - do you have a VCR too, how bout a pager?) and default to a PDF ALWAYS - you know - SIMPLE and WORKS.
Wanna know why APPLE is #1 - my 74 y/o mother cannot operate a TV remote - but she does magic on her iPHONE - why - SIMPLE and WORKS - for all the fluff why apple is so so so successful - the reality is you turn it on and it just WORKS (and it doesn't just work this year - its works for a decade). Perhaps you might see other paths are more profitable or more sensible - to which I wish you good luck, someone will be on you six at some point and blow by if you forget what got you here.
I know the brass thinks they are smarter than me - and perhaps its true - but until you can prove it to me - all this JUNK you have forced on us over the years will continue to be viewed as a marketing driven cash grab. You want more money - OK - stabilize and make the software USER FRIENDLY again (you know - SIMPLE and WORKS), not workarounds and ideas that if I dump every other software my life at Evernote will be so much better. You are a tiny cog in a big machine. What's next - you going to bring out an email client and a word processor - better yet, what about a trend setting replacement for PDF - yeah - great.
I don't care what you do - I would just like to return to the basics and NOTHING more. At some point, you will force this last account to leave (if I had the time to move and convert, I would have left years ago - that STUPID landing page - but with 19 devices I don't have time to set defaults - I need access to the basics and NOTHING more - SIMPLE and WORKS).
And to all those who would disagree with me - if you didn't have an EN account prior to 2010 - keep it to yourself - you don't realize what this software was and what a revolution it was, and likely don't even understand the request.
With new ownership come the opportunity they might actually value a veteran user of some 16-18 years now (paying). Or they will force me to leave at some point.
Anyone know someone you can pay to convert to OneNote or notes (mac) - I've something like 35K in notes - it's a giant filing cabinet for me - and the basic functionality of the software has become so clouded - the value is in question - as I search for a string - and it provides nothing - but I go through manually and I find it (in the exact text I searched for)... With all the ***** they have piled onto this - the one thing I cannot forego is reliability. Certainly, hope the Italians see the issues - but at that level how the cow actually eats the cabbage rarely has impacts... Finger crossed (but still searching for alternative solutions).
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I've been here (and paying) for longer than most - and although I continue to be here (paying) it's really only a function of no easy way out. Very frustrated by the marketing directives that have changed the core competencies of the original software.
I like EN for the basics - scan to PDF (PERIOD - the business card ***** is the most frustrating - how bout you guys give me SIMPLE instead of this error ridden marketing driven junk)... Archive (two level hierarchy) and search (visual and text). Email it in or load onto a folder and import - END. SIMPLE and WORKS..
You cannot compete with Goodnotes (and seemingly don't see value in buying them and dumping the penultimate that I've tried at least a dozen times - and every time end back with Goodnotes - it never crashes, never loses anything - is organized and functional). It's SIMPLE and WORKS.
Chat - for what - if I'm going to have an in-house chat - it's gonna be on MY servers (or at least in my control - DUH)... No offense - but you cannot even compete with MS teams - so why are you bothering???
Sharing - with whom exactly - someone you can blast to use your software - are you kidding me. I once shared with myself (different email on a machine that didn't have EN) and you guys blasted me with marketing - I'll NEVER do that again.
Don't know (nor care) about the other "FEATURES" aka marketing fluff. In the late 2000s you were a searchable database - two tier hierarchy - visually driven - good UI - and FAST search. Revolutionary. If I had to describe you today - it's more like in the midst of civil strife - with no idea what you really want to be and ABSOLUTLY no idea what your core competency is.
HOW BOUT SIMPLE - back to your roots. I'm even willing to pay double or triple what I pay now - but for GOD's sake let me turn off all the $&*T you have added in that has absolutely NOTHING to do with your core competency. When I log in - let me see MY DEFAULT SCREEN - you know - what I saw for the first 10 or so years and not some social networked infused artistic and WORTHLESS landing page - just SIMPLE and WORKS... Eliminate the baggage - you used to be FAST - you are not anymore - why - just guessing but all the ***** you have piled onto the core competency eats away at any speed you once had...
I don't remember the last time I asked someone to charge me MORE for less - but for me it would make your software more usable and stable - and that would be worth more...
As it stands - if anyone covered the core competency and figured a way to export / import easily (I don't have time) - I'd have been gone. At one point I had four business accounts and one personal - all but one is gone - why - because it failed the SIMPLE and WORKS test. Loyalty was something that was earned when you PROTECTED that which got you here. You didn't value it - so I'm certainly not feeling any guilt towards the lack of enthusiasm that you might actually care - let alone fix this.
Feature request - LET ME - the CUSTOMER - turn off all the stuff I think is WASTING MY TIME - ALL OF IT, and if you can let me eliminate the God forsaken business card scanner (do you really have cards - do you have a VCR too, how bout a pager?) and default to a PDF ALWAYS - you know - SIMPLE and WORKS.
Wanna know why APPLE is #1 - my 74 y/o mother cannot operate a TV remote - but she does magic on her iPHONE - why - SIMPLE and WORKS - for all the fluff why apple is so so so successful - the reality is you turn it on and it just WORKS (and it doesn't just work this year - its works for a decade). Perhaps you might see other paths are more profitable or more sensible - to which I wish you good luck, someone will be on you six at some point and blow by if you forget what got you here.
I know the brass thinks they are smarter than me - and perhaps its true - but until you can prove it to me - all this JUNK you have forced on us over the years will continue to be viewed as a marketing driven cash grab. You want more money - OK - stabilize and make the software USER FRIENDLY again (you know - SIMPLE and WORKS), not workarounds and ideas that if I dump every other software my life at Evernote will be so much better. You are a tiny cog in a big machine. What's next - you going to bring out an email client and a word processor - better yet, what about a trend setting replacement for PDF - yeah - great.
I don't care what you do - I would just like to return to the basics and NOTHING more. At some point, you will force this last account to leave (if I had the time to move and convert, I would have left years ago - that STUPID landing page - but with 19 devices I don't have time to set defaults - I need access to the basics and NOTHING more - SIMPLE and WORKS).
And to all those who would disagree with me - if you didn't have an EN account prior to 2010 - keep it to yourself - you don't realize what this software was and what a revolution it was, and likely don't even understand the request.
With new ownership come the opportunity they might actually value a veteran user of some 16-18 years now (paying). Or they will force me to leave at some point.
Anyone know someone you can pay to convert to OneNote or notes (mac) - I've something like 35K in notes - it's a giant filing cabinet for me - and the basic functionality of the software has become so clouded - the value is in question - as I search for a string - and it provides nothing - but I go through manually and I find it (in the exact text I searched for)... With all the ***** they have piled onto this - the one thing I cannot forego is reliability. Certainly, hope the Italians see the issues - but at that level how the cow actually eats the cabbage rarely has impacts... Finger crossed (but still searching for alternative solutions).
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