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Kool

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  1. @PinkElephant You misunderstood what I wrote. I am not comparing Evernote to Google Services. Evernote uses the Google Cloud Platform to store their data. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/226885427-Google-Cloud-Platform-FAQ#:~:text=Your Evernote data is stored,region of the United States.
  2. @Dave-in-Decatur My question was not to insult. I was trying to ascertain whether I am chatting with fellow users or if someone is an employee. In my opinion, a Basic tier could consist of something like the following: 1000 notes 100 notebooks max 100MB monthly uploads max note size 50MB max total data used 5GB no AI no Calendar integration limited sharing Ideally a price point of $1.99/month I'm currently using under 1GB total data with about 1000 notes. I have obtained this information by looking at the Evernote files located under the User/AppData/Roaming/Evernote directory. So, if my info is wrong please let me know. Evernote utilizes the Google Cloud Platform to store user's data. Cloud Storage pricing is based on the following components: Data storage, Data processing and Network usage. According to Google the typical bill for 50GB is $1.19/month. Please refer to the following doc https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing-examples, I may have read the document wrong. So, I estimate the data cost for a user that has about 1000 notes and uses 5GB total data comes to about 12 cents per month. I would guess that the cost for software development, support, marketing and management would dwarf the data costs. But, keep in mind that what I am requesting is already built into Evernote. The specific details of a Basic plan that I have suggested don't really matter. The point is that the current offerings are terrible.
  3. @gazumped I am just one of a million Evernote users angered by the recent changes. I have spent the last couple of days researching alternatives to Evernote. And have found in my limited research that there are some decent choices. Though I can't find one that has a webclipper as good as the Evernote webclipper. I do not benefit or get any money or am associated with any Evernote competitor. I like Evernote, and I want Evernote and Bending Spoons to be successful. I am angry that the current pricing model has forced me to find an alternate solution.
  4. With all due respects @gazumped your argument is flawed. The fact that customers opted out of paying in the past is because the "Free" service fulfilled their needs. The current "Free" option is to trial the software. Just out of curiousity, do you ( @gazumped @Dave-in-Decatur @PinkElephant @s2sailor @Boot17) work for Bending Spoons or Evernote? report to anyone in the management at Bending Spoons or Evernote?
  5. I have been an Evernote member since 2013. I have 14 note stacks, 116 notebooks, and about 1000 notes. I primarily use Evernote on my Windows PC. I use Evernote webclipper with Chrome. I sometimes use the iPhone app. I use the application to keep track of recipes and personal notes. Some of my Notebooks are titled Family, Financial, Health, Home, Recipes, School, Self. So, basically for personal use. I don't care about: Calendar Integration Collaboration/Sharing Project Management/Planning Artificial Intelligence I am thinking about transitioning to UpNote, unfortunately their webclipper is not as robust as the EN webclipper. The cost for UpNote is $0.99/month or $29.99/lifetime. Some features of UpNote are superior to Evernote. UpNote has a desktop client and an iPhone app. In 2019, Evernote reported having about 250 million users, with about 10% being paid users. I don't know how many users Evernote has in 2024. Due to the terrible way that Bending Spoons has handled the transition there are now millions of users jumping ship. There are numerous YouTube videos and articles discussing the mass exodus. Having a situation where 90% of your customers are enjoying the product for free is not a sustainable business model. A large portion of those customers either have very few notes or will never pay. However, I would argue that there are a good percentage of customers would pay a fair price. Let's say 50 million users are willing to pay $2/month for basic features. 50 million x $2/month = $100 million/month. That comes to $1.2 billion dollars of revenue a year. In 2023, Bending Spoons hit $120 million in revenue according to GetLatka.com. So, it's not like Bending Spoons is a trillion dollar company like Apple. Why piss off a potential billion dollar revenue stream. I can only hope that someone will communicate directly with Luca Ferrari that the current pricing model for Evernote is terrible for millions of customers and terrible for his company.
  6. Has anyone bothered to read the reviews on the Apple appstore? There are hundreds of recent negative reviews. People are pissed and are leaving Evernote. Bending Spoons aquired Evernote and the price for basic functionality jumped from Free to $130/year. That is B.S. The current "Free" offering is a joke and is really just to try out the software. I just want a decent note taking application to store my recipes and personal notes. I love the Evernote webclipper and I use the PC software and the iPhone app. I don't need 100,000 notes, 1000 notebooks or 10GB monthly uploads. Why not offer a Basic tier at a fair low price of $1.99/month for customers that just want basic functionality?
  7. Goodbye Evernote. Thank you for the good times. I am not paying $100/year just to store a few notes.
  8. To enable sorting by notebook (this is in the Evernote program on Windows): Click on the note view button Select the sorting you want then check the Always use for Notebook at bottom of list Thanks to Evernote for adding this awesome feature. Admins if you are reading this please update your help documents. According to "https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313628-How-to-change-the-sort-order-of-your-notes" the document states "The sort order is an application-wide setting, so all notebooks, search results, and other note lists are all sorted the same way. You cannot set different sort orders for different groups of notes." Please update your Evernote help document so that users are aware of how to use this feature.
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