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1 hour ago, gustavgi said:

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And you should be careful with using other people's names, even if it's just as a hypotical example..

I just edited the post to make it clearer that the letter is fiction.

On 5/23/2016 at 0:49 PM, gustavgi said:

Sure those are some of the annoying bugs that keep showing up, but it's not what makes/breaks a multi million dollar company.

Your strategy would though. EN has never been under more pressure with Apple Notes and Dropbox Paper etc. Marketing and new features are essential to the company staying relevant in the near future. Sure, there is no need for new features that tries to make EN something it's not, like what's been done in the recent past, but it needs new core-product features.

Again, I may not be a representative user and I get that.

The main reason I'm thinking of switching from Evernote to OneNote or DropBox Paper (or some other competitor) is because I expect those competing products to just work. I do not expect Evernote's products to just work. There are way too many glitches that, as you say, just keep showing up.

DropBox, on the other hand, has worked flawlessly for me for years now, so I trust their software a lot more than I trust Evernote.

*EDIT*. Question @ Gustavgi and anyone else, including Evernote employees. Many of us are aware of "... some of the annoying bugs that keep showing up...". Please complete this sentence. 

Evernote users should endure those bugs for ______ years while employees add new features.

On 5/23/2016 at 0:49 PM, gustavgi said:

If I were EN i would invest heavily in AI and functions which would make everyone's EN experience more personlized. Maybe something similar to "Google on Tap" but for your EN content etc.

Even though I'm sceptical of the Context feature when it comes to external sources, the Context function of showing my own related notes was a step in the right direction. However it needs to be more easily accessable from anything and everywhere. Now it's just "hidden" at the bottom of a note..

If the brakes in a car glitch out a lot and the car's integration with Siri isn't working, fix the brakes first and fix Siri afterwards.

For the record, I use Evernote all the time and it has greatly improved my life.

That being said, I may be an extreme case, but here is

The Evernote Announcement I'd Love to Hear

Dear Evernote Users,

For the rest of 2016 and 2017, we will be introducing no new front-end features at all. There will be no new buttons, no new menus, no new interfaces, no new colors, nothing new at all. We will be launching no new products, no new services, no new marketing campaigns, no new branding, no new pricing, nothing of the sort. We are putting all new front-end ideas and feature requests on hold.

Instead, from now until 2018, ALL developers will spend ALL of their time:

1. Deleting underutilized features and
2. Making the remaining features just work. Think bulletproof. Think zero glitches. Think flawless back-end, too.

We're going to eliminate copy/paste weirdness.

In tables, the up key will move the cursor - you guessed it - up! And the down key will move the cursor - you guessed it - down!

Fonts will be predictable and will not randomly switch to the magical (and otherwise unobtainable) size of 13 (link 1, link 2).

Print preview and printing will prove worthy of shopping lists (i.e. they won't randomly crop out tiny slices of text while misaligning lists).

URLs that Evernote generates will work right away.

We won't make you figure out how to eliminate the double-icon in your taskbar.

That's just the beginning; a lot of great things will happen behind the scenes, too. And when the software works, we'll have earned your trust, and you'll know you can trust Evernote for your life's work, to remember everything, as a digital extension of your brain.

Nothing is going to distract us. Nothing is going to stop us. We're going to make Evernote just work.

Chris O'Neill [as imagined by an Evernote user]

CEO, Evernote

FYI, the glitches mentioned here are ones with which I've become familiar in the past few months. I bet there are a lot of other ones, too. And although there are new features I'd love to see (namely adding text boxes to ink notes), it's probably better to make old stuff work than it is to make new things.

Thoughts?