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Evernote is not a product, it's a feature.

Hence why you have equivalent or better software from other companies

Also, it also struck me as not very user friendly and a tad bureaucratic

Maybe I’m oblivious, but I’ve never heard bureaucratic applied to software. I’ve got to say it fits perfectly in this case.

JIRA also fits the bill.

"enterprisey" is a word I've heard used to describe jira a few times. Its meant as an insult.

Enterprise software:

- Slow GUI

- Horrible Java thing

- Complicated

- Weird patching process

- Doesn't integrate with what you want (or does but costs more)

- Bought and mandated by somebody that doesn't need to use it

(:

JIRA out of the box is fairly sane. The problem is it’s so easy to customise and project managers go crazy with statuses and custom fields and mandatory transitions.

The MySpace effect.

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