Technology Whisperer

On 2/21/2018 at 8:58 PM, TK0047 said:

Following shows my journey. I did not really use it much in 2013 and 2014 as shown, in 2015 I put the effort into it and I must say after 2016 I saw a huge habit change and now I "get" it. It is customized to my liking and needs and works really nicely. Once you realize how easily you can retrieve things (for me especially with tags) then you start capturing even more. Right now averaging 12-13 notes a day and I have 12,200+ notes.

Like @Duane said, it is not competition and to be honest, the number of notes does not really matter if you cannot set it up that you cannot retrieve it when you need it. Otherwise, anybody can dump anything into it and reach the 100,000 note mark but like anything else if the information is not retrievable, you don't technically have it.

PS! This chart was already in Evernote, was not updated in 2018 but was easy to retrieve. 

best presentation of note trending ever!

On 2/22/2018 at 11:55 AM, CalS said:

Since November of 2009.  Currently at 36,300 plus 5,800 notes moved to a free account from completed projects.  So a little over 42,000 notes in 8 plus years.  Per @TK0047 it is not a race, it is use case based. 

I decided to really go paperless so just about every statement, manual, whatever ends up in EN.  Add to that GTD and meeting/project/phone stuff and the count just builds.  I suppose there are some older notes I could prune, but the juice just isn't worth the squeeze for me, as long as I can find things quickly.  FWIW.

I image all papers now - come tax time, it's great to pass the statements and documents via links to my accountant.

On 2/17/2018 at 3:12 PM, ByteStix said:

Some of you guys are crazy. I just started Evernote, but these numbers are crazy. How long have you all been going for?

Eight years - 17K notes 

I was always curious how I fit into the usage curve - as of this moment, I have 17,849 notes with about 380 tags since April 9, 2010.

I would estimate 50% of my notes come from my web clips or forwarded emails from my inbox.

At the rate I'm going I might hit the max. in 10 years - but that is not that far off. I figure by then the underlying Evernote database technology and certainly the underlying Evernote infrastructure will change and remove those limits. I put a lot of pictures I want to keep a long time into Evernote - would like to add video, and I'm sure that would really bump up the storage needs - my guess is that Evernote will hold off on video storage for some time.

I actually refer to my Evernote as my external brain pack. (Kudos to Dilbert for the term).

Keep up the great work Evernote!