So there I was, I was writing some D&D notes today, and I kept getting a new popup saying I can only have one notebook and 50 notes. Well I did have three notebooks but one is the default I can't delete, and then one older notebook I don't really use anymore, so I deleted it. But only 17 notes. Well that's frustrating but should be an easy fix, I'll just highlight all my notes from the non-default notebook and move them to the default one and then delete the now empty second notebook, no biggie right? HAHA WRONG. I can't even move files between notebooks without getting this stupid popup saying I need to upgrade to fix this problem. Well at some point I managed to delete the note I was working on because I couldn't move it out of the default notebook it shouldn't have been in, and then I thought maybe my trash was counting against my 50 note limit so I cleared it, and somewhere along the way I had thought I successfully moved my new note somewhere else and trying to consolidate my two notebooks into one, I lost my most recent note and maybe six hours of prep time.
Pretty frustrating, and I've been getting sick of subscription popups lately anyway, so I wanted to just send in a ticket complaint and close my account, but you can't even contact support without paying these insane subscription prices that are more than a streaming service, so here I am making a forum post that might not even get approved by a mod because it's pretty negative. I just wanted to put some text in a cloud notebook, dudes, and you made that difficult. At this point Dropbox is a better note taking app than Evernote and this is my disgruntled "I'm out" post. Seriously guys this is maybe a $3/mo service at best, it's text in a cloud bucket, you're insane asking for this much. I wasn't even notified of these changes and that's probably the most confusing and frustrating thing about this, because once the changes were in place, I was unable to fix my account to be in compliance with the new limits. I didn't find out about them until I started writing this angry post and was wondering what was going on.
I just searched my email to double check, and I was never even notified of these changes, but apparently in December "any Free user who currently has more than fifty notes and one notebook will still be able to view, edit, export, share, and delete existing notes and notebooks." You know what's missing here? The MOVE FUNCTION. How am I supposed to consolidate into one notebook if I can't move my notes? They reduced the free version's limits and that put me over the max, and that broke my ability to fix it without jumping through some obnoxious hurdles and copy/pasting outside of Evernote, which is insane. If you wanted me to go outside of Evernote so badly, I'm never coming back. I'm switching to Notion and would encourage everyone else to as well. Evernote is run by MBAs who think that making the free version unusable is a better company goal than making the paid version more appealing, and that's unacceptable.