I am probably too late to this conversation. Evernote has a nice checklist feature I use within notes. But as an actual task management tool, I have no interest in Evernote. I’ve been using OmniFocus across all of my devices and it is a fully-fleshed out task management system. It even does pretty well for one-person project management. And there are plenty other task management tools out there - what was the rationale for Evernote devoting precious resources to the development of tasks instead of continuing to improve an excellent note organization system?
Have to admit I don’t have an opinion about Pencil in Evernote. I’d like to see things like expanded support for links between apps within the OSes out there. I love linking within Evernote, but it would be GREAT to be able to link from a note to an OmniFocus task, for example. I am able to link from an OmniFocus task to an Evernote note. Not trying to hype Omni here, but making Evernote work with as many other productivity apps would be a very good way to continue to increase the value of this app against its competitors.
One last shot: Even if you don’t focus on interaction in the mobile app environments, you could focus more on quality control. I think tasks preceded the annoying defect that duplicates messages frequently (seems to happen most if I am editing between two devices. I do not have time to clean up after a product synchronization issue, and I am becoming frustrated trying to figure out which note is the current one. This seems like a core function not working in the app.
I’m just not sure of Evernote’s game plan. I hope you aren’t losing in the note taking & organization market while you’re chasing some other sector you hope to dominate to grow the user base. You know?
Best of luck with the changes coming with the acquisition. I will be watching to see what your focus areas will be as the new management takes over.
