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ab1kenobee

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  1. DTLow: I understand your point of view.The fact is... EN Power Users have been requesting fixes and upgrades for years... with limited accommodation by EN. Personally, I am still looking for a viable and secure alternative. ~ Alan P.S. QUESTION: Do any EN Power Users have extensive experience with: Laverna? (Lifehacker article)
  2. Hello EN Users: I started this thread August 27, 2014... and to my thinking... EN has not made nearly enough improvements of substance in the past 3 years. I belatedly found Dave544's post starting December 15, 2016, entitled: "It was a good five years"... which specifically discusses EN's Secuity Policy and User privacy compromises. If you have not already reviewed it... it is worth a serious read... particularly for EN power users. ~ Alan
  3. Howdy, Metrodon: You are welcome to your point of view... even though it appears to be fairly biased. I have no interest in litigating the issue with you. Thank you, ~ Alan
  4. Howdy, Metrodon: Appreciate your angle and comments. Articles regarding Evernote finances: I hope Evernote is faring better... however here is a small sample of press comments regarding EN's financial challenges: BUSINESS STRATEGY | Increasing freemium conversions: How to use customer engagement to drive revenue Not all companies that employ freemium models succeed. Cloud-based note-taking software Evernote, for instance, has not been able to convert many of its 200 million users into paying subscribers. As a result, the company was recently forced to placed more limitations on its free service—a move that did not please its end users. Evernote’s story isn’t unique. Dropbox still struggles to monetize the 500 million users of its file-storage service, with less than 10 percent upgrading to a premium subscription. Other smaller companies like Chargify and Baremetrics almost went bankrupt after failing to turn a significant number of users into paying subscribers. SOURCE: VisionCritical Evernote Will Shut Down Market, Its E-Commerce Effort, On Wednesday Some more news from Evernote — the note-taking app and startup of the same name — that speaks to the company’s current rough patch: today it announced that as of Wednesday at 6pm Pacific, it will shutter Market, the e-commerce platform where it sold Evernote swag and Evernote-integrated office products, in an attempt to create another revenue stream around its more dedicated users. Separately, we’ve also learned that there is another senior departure at the company: Ronda Scott, the company’s longtime head of comms, is leaving at the end of this week. The moves come at what has been a pretty difficult period for the startup. Developments have included a number of senior departures, including that of the previous, longtime CEO Phil Libin; other underperforming products getting axed, and the startup — once commanding a $1 billion tag — among several whose valuations have more recently been marked down by large fund managers. SOURCE: TechCrunch
  5. ho-hum resignation = “acceptance” High expectations have been: drowned... quashed... undermined... let down... WHATEVER. Choice of vocabulary is less than congratulatory and ebullient. Bottom line: EN has consistently failed to breathe life into this application for the past 3 to 5 years... it's tired Founder parachuted out... hired a Google exec for Pres... EN is experiencing significant financial difficulties because it can not entice enough users to become paid subscribers. I don't know what kind of picture this paints for you... however it certainly can not be interpreted as OPTIMISTIC from any angle.
  6. DTLow: > I guess my pens are also stagnant and uninspiring but they get the job done I placidly must agreed with your sentiment... however PENS have not the dimensionality and potentiality of SOFTWARE. I interpret your comment to imply a ho-hum resignation to the anemic failure of EN to expand and blossom in finesse and capabilties... as many of its users were inspired to believe and hope for. (Yawn). ~ Alan
  7. P.S. At this point, both EN and MS One are non-innovative and non-inspiring. ~ Alan
  8. Howdy, gazumped: I appreciate your comment above. From my point of view... even though EN has been out-to-lunch for several years in making meaningful improvements requested over and over by its subscription base (especially its subscribed Power Users)... MS has languished in its own right with consistent unresponsive development issues as well. Customer service for both EN and MS are comparably dismal as well. Taking the above realities into consideration... I have not been able to justify moving away from EN to date. I hope this proves helpful to some. Positively, ~ Alan
  9. Has anyone else noticed meaningful EN improvements since EN's new CEO has taken charge? ~ Alan
  10. Howdy, EN Power Users: It is time to pay a COMPLIMENT to the Evernote Team... which is now well deserved. Yesterday I UPDATED to v. 6.0.6.1769 (301769) Public ... My immediate observation is: **dramatic** IMPROVEMENT in SEARCH SPEED I have been a subscriber since 2003... and have been less than impressed with EN's efforts to listen to Power Users to move EN forward. I personally appreciate this new robust speed search capability very much! Thank you Evernote for a meaningful and practical improvement. I hope this post proves helpful. Sincerely, ~ Alan UPDATE - 5/5/2016 - I actually am **thrilled** with this UPDATE speed performance enhancement... the pain has been relieved! If this is a portend of what is to come with EN's new CEO... it will be much welcomed by Power Users! Thank you, again!
  11. DTLow: Appreciate knowing this. On my end, I was actually referred to Tech Support by Members of this forum... didn't pan out... so I circled back... and some of the Power-Users helped resolved this issues (which are well documented elsewhere within this forum.) It's always good to hear good news. Much appreciate, ~ Alan
  12. Howdy. Not hot in the least. Just the facts, Maam! I not once got received a stitch of support from the TECH dept... tech had ignored several of my requests for support. Any support I've needed has come exclusively from this forum.
  13. Centrallo welcomed Heather Wilde ex-Director of Technical Support for Evernote. My question would be: "WHAT TECHNICAL SUPPORT?"
  14. Agreed, GM: If you noticed, I took a neutral position... stated that the comparison was not compelling... and though to simply requisition the opinions of the power-users on this thread. LOL! Thank you!
  15. Howdy, EN Power Users! I appreciate many of the comments above. I have receive the following LINK from the founder of Centrallo: http://dev.centrallo.com/evernote_alternative I personally find the features focused upon less than compelling to consider a test... never mind an application move... but thought it potentially interesting... and may helpful... to open this Centrallo promo to this EN thread. If nothing else, your comments could provide valuable weatherbell info to both EN and Centrallo. I hope this proves helpful, ~ Alan
  16. BurgersNFries: Good to see you again. My only response to yours is... I know you're better than this... because I've read much of what you've written in this forum. When our own attitude has become JADED... which only we control... no one else... then we have lost a piece of ourselves... we are the loser. Technically, I understand your dissatisfaction... however EN is no different than the rest of life... full of ups and downs... thrills and disappointments. We all need to constantly count our blessings... because things can always be a lot worse!!! BTW - Congratulations on being newly retired! ~ Alan That may be an indication of how apathetic many of us have become wrt to Evernote. I'm not going to get my hopes up. I do keep haunting the board to kind of monitor what's going on at EN. I suspect for me, it is too little, too late. Because if they were to address my main point of contention (scalability on all platforms), it would take a major overhaul and at least a year or more. Since I am newly retired, I will be spending less time on my computer and less willing to migrate back to Evernote. When I started my first migration to Evernote (June 2009), I really thought that would be the last time I'd have to do this (after years migrating from various PDAs and their associated desktop apps to another). Onenote is not nearly as useful to me as Evernote (before EN became totally useless due to the scalability issue). But...Onenote WORKS and 60-70% useful is better than zero percent useful.
  17. Dear, dear Evernote Users and Power Users: I can't believe this has NOT already been posted in this thread!!! This could be the best Evernote news for 2015!!! Have you all read this: Evernote picks up new CEO from Google X lab Over the last few months, ​Evernote co-founder Phil Libin had been expected to step down from his CEO role.July 20, 2015http://www.zdnet.com/article/evernote-picks-up-new-ceo-from-google-x-lab/http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/07/evernote-names-chris-oneill-ceo-phil-libin-becomes.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/rexsantus/2015/07/20/the-next-evernote-ceo-is-former-google-x-executive-chris-oneill/http://recode.net/2015/07/20/evernote-taps-former-google-glass-executive-chris-oneill-as-new-ceo/ Evernote's new chief executive officer is Chris O'Neill, who spent about a decade at Google, most recently overseeing global business operations at the secretive Google X lab (a department most famous for producing moonshots and experiments like the self-driving car and Google Glass). Good chance Chris is the kind of lead to breathe new life into Evernote... this could be exciting... we'll just have to wait and see! ~ Alan
  18. Cal & Pete: Appreciate. I did mis-speak in using the term "upload" ... having really meant "drag" or "attach" a file within an EN note... however my understanding was increased in the process... so thank you! ~ Alan P.S. Please see new thread to address my specific EN - Excel: Request ADVICE - Using Excel with EN
  19. Cal: Do I understand correctly? Simple tables - you create using EN tables.More complex data - you use an Excel spreadsheet which you upload into EN. I may ask some questions about the usability of Excel spreadsheets within EN in another thread. Thank you, ~ Alan
  20. Cal: That's sure a novel approach using Excel as described. Would appreciate a clear example... would you mind conjuring up a little case study which we can all see? Thanks much in advance, ~ Alan
  21. Howdy, Thread Participants: I personally would appreciate that the bickering and contention stop from this point forward. There are enough evil and destructive forces operating on this Earth right now... for which accountability is inevitable. The PURPOSE of this thread is: POWER USER DISCONTENT - Best Alternatives to EN ? Please be good examples... stay on-topic... exercise applied intelligence... courtesy... and mutual respect. Thank you in advance! ~ Alan
  22. Working link: Slack confirmed up to 500,000 users personal info has been leaked by hackers http://thenextdigit.com/19403/slack-confirmed-500000-users-personal-info-leaked-hackers/
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