I've been a stalwart supporter of Evernote for quite some time now. I've pushed through when feeling like the platform got slower and slower as time went by. I pushed through when it felt like their focus was scattered, like the core offering was being surpassed by other platforms.

Two months ago I pretty much decided 'ok you know what. This is it' after waiting for 25 seconds to get a note back that then turned out to be mysteriously 'missing'.

It happens, right. I get it. And I got it back with some support. But the focus wasn't there, and the platform got old.

Wind the clock back a year and a half (maybe two?) and Evernote was unstoppable compared to the competition.

Now? It's stale. Slow. Predictable and uninspiring.

While reading letters of layoffs is almost always a depressing thing, I sincerely hope that the 'focus' which they speak of is real. That everything, and I mean everything, gets dropped except making the core product as amazing as it once was.

If they do that, I'll come back in a heartbeat. I'll come back with dollar bills.

I got faith Evernote. Come back to the light.