Jump to content

persiomenezes

Level 2
  • Posts

    11
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Posts posted by persiomenezes

  1. 2 horas atrás, Razmataz disse:

    Well, good bye Evernote Legacy!

    My copy still starts but doesn't sync anymore, as it seems. So that's the end of EN legacy.
     
    I want to pause for a moment and reflect. EN legacy was a very useful tool. It made me very productive, indeed. I was a paying customer for 15 years and amassed some 16K notes in about 16GB storage space. I used EN in various way, as it offered different "personalities" for a number of usage scenarios.
     
    I loved EN, promoted it and recommended it to many colleagues and friends.
     
    When V10 was announced I was very optimistic. But the quality of the client was shocking and the number of dropped features bewildering. So I went back to legacy. I tried V10 every 6 months or so, just to establish that it is essentially in the same state, not much progress from my personal perspective.
     
    We were promised that over time, many omitted features will come back. But after more than 3 years, they just did not. A good example was the import folder. It carried the statement ("coming soon") in its option for the deletion of files upon successful import. It never came. After I reported the problem many times, they just took away the "coming soon" statement.
     
    About 5 months ago I started to look into alternatives, as I concluded that product management is non-existent, product planning ditto. New, jazzy features get introduced that I don't need. They all come with their own set of issues even bugs.
     
    I am not sufficiently technical I guess, so I couldn't find an adequate replacement as of yet. Thus decided to subscribe for another year. I didn't realize that prices have been tripled in the meantime.
     
    I have been trying hard to "get used to" V10. But the client is a mess. Very buggy, (e.g. PDF printing/exporting, HTML-export), lacks a structure (application specific option barely exist, those that do are dispersed all over the place), it has serious performance issues and, perhaps most infuriatingly, it kills my productivity. It does that by taking away simple but useful functions (e.g. select more than 100 notes, save attachments of a couple of selected notes or ability to change the mod-date of a note). It is not intuitive to use (e.g. grayed out option to copy/paste on context menu but the very same options are available on the main menu). 
     
    It has become very tedious to use EN, one needs external tools (e.g. Autohotkey) to compensate for missing functions. Action that were in clear sight and needed just one click are hidden now and need 6-7 clicks to accomplish (if it is possible at all, which is frequently not the case). Usability and productivity are not something EN product management is wasting time on.
     
    I don't buy reasoning that only features were removed that nobody used. Really, nobody printed PDF, nobody exported to HTML etc.? BTW, by that argument, tags will have to go, too.
     
    V10 is in a terrible shape from my perspective. But the company has developed into a frightening operation, too. Customer support has been eliminated, bugs are not being fixed (some glaring ones are over 3 years old) and in general EN/BS is largely ignoring the customer base. Perhaps they want to get rid of customers who used legacy, just to stop complaints. 
     
    It is quite amazing, all this. What the investor thinks is a riddle to me.
     
    Anyway, I did yesterday the very last printing to PDF, exporting to HTML (with working links and no "untitled attachments), reorganizing with more than 100 notes selected etc. Then I did my backups and drank a glass of wine, toasting to EN legacy.
     
    EN legacy was a wonderful idea, an affordable and  good piece of software and EN was a good, responsive company.
     
    The rest we will see. I am not saying that EN will not be able to come to senses and turn around this business. But it is not on a good trajectory, that's for sure.
     
    This BS/EN is not the original inventor of EN. So there isn't anyone anymore that I could say thank you for Evernote (legacy). But thank you anyway, for the productivity gains I used to have. Sigh.
     

    I subscribe.

    • Like 4
  2. Em 25/03/2022 at 16:55, PinkElephant disse:

    OK, you are happy with your horse. It is aging, but looking good as it always did as long as you can remember. If you find it one morning looking less mobile, don’t be worried, we have solid advise for that situation:

    7934540A-D081-41C6-8A2B-7FB9E71EAB63.thumb.jpeg.e92f26a5fb7af5d7e2844cb7c45e2fa8.jpeg
     

    1. Get a better whip.
    2. Change the riders.
    3. Set up a special committee to analyze the dead horse, or even better, hire an army of consultants and perform an in-depth analysis of the dead horse.
    4. Organize visits to other organizations and countries, and understand how foreign cultures manage to ride dead horses.
    5. Lower the standards at a level where dead horses become competitive.
    6. Reclassify dead horses into “life-disabled resources”
    7. Hire external staff to ride the dead horses. 
    8. Harness dead horses together, to increase overall speed. 
    9. Allow additional budget to boost performance of dead horses
    10. Conduct a study on productivity and find out if lighter riders could improve a dead horse’s performance. 
    11. State that « it is crystal clear: since dead horses don’t need to be fed, they are less costly and thus contribute more to profit than live horses. » 
    12. Redefine the standards to include all horses’ categories.

    Or get a new horse, ‚ya know what I mean …

    Make your peace with v10, if you can - I use it nearly exclusively by now, and it feels fresh, lean and productive for me. V10 will not go away, and legacy is as dead as it can be, just nobody told it yet.

    If v10 is no option for you switch to another app, one that does spark joy again. Because dead horses are neither productive nor joyful to ride.

     

    @PinkElephant

    Dude, your text simple is not abour my topic is about. I am talking about Evernote, I dont know anything about horses, please go to some horses forum.

    • Like 6
    • Confused 1
  3. Citar

    When we work on our desktops, we need a much more powerful app, with true offline sync features (not because we need to disconnect from the internet, but because performance is greatly increased as evidenced with V.625).  [...]   Desktop is Desktop. A Desktop device is aimed at serious work and also fast work.  The Web app is used less than occasionally (ask the users in this forum, they report that in the past they used the web interface on the rare occasion).  Aiming so much efforts to unify Desktop and Web is like pretending everybody works only on Chromebooks. If you can't bring your laptop with you, then you use your phone and end of story. 

    "A Desktop device is aimed at serious work and also fast work"

    That is the point! The guys who creat Evernote 10 dont make any idea of how we use Evernote to work. I really need alternate fast by all notes. I use Key words in my notes so I can use the search bar to filter the group of notes I need in that specific notes. For exaple. In one moment I need to see together all the notes wit the sequence of letter "HashtagAppNotes" and in the second after I need to see all the notes with the sequence "HashtagAppNotesOffLineSync" and after "HashtagAppNotesDesktopClient". In old Evernote, I keep a Windows notepad txt opened with the words I am working, so I copy the and put in the Evernote search bar. It was to fast, easy, smooth. Sometimes I need to reach a note and see the same notes I created that day. All of this was to easy in old Evernote. Now, my work canot do it anymore.

    I have 12.000 notes.

    Evernote v10 look like was designed for some teenager who has 10 or 20 notes with the videogames he want to play in the futures. I am totally frustaed with this s*. I used to use Evernote tshirts and talk to everyone that Evernote was the best thing the Internate gave me. I sped 10 years of my life working and puting all I produce in this plataform, becase I thought it was reliablle. I still hope the guys reconsider. Is the follow this path, they will be transforming the best sodtware ever made in one more waek notes app.

    • Like 4
    • Thanks 1
×
×
  • Create New...