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Due to some weird bug in Evernote, I lost about 10% of all my notes. Some of them critical. This happened about a year ago, and I never found out the actual cause. I think it was some kind of bug triggered by the combination of syncing from/to the mobile app and the desktop app. But I completely stopped trusting Evernote after this and stopped using it.

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I've always had a terrible experience using Evernote across multiple devices. Editing a note on mobile seemed like a surefire way to get a merge conflict. I believe I also experienced a mysterious disappearance of a large chunk of my notes.

I just opened for Evernote for the first time in years and it looks like all my notes are now duplicated for some reason. Awesome.

I had a similar issue, and moved away from it. I had been becoming heavily invested-

It's unfortunate, but they -need- sync to be 100%. 99.99% is worse than 0% :(

This has happened to me as well. Not just entire notes, but even while I am typing it will have a synching hickup and delete everything I have written and rollback to the previous synching state. It is really really bad at synching.

I've always thought the Evernote sync issues got much less attention than they deserved. Both myself and my co-founder were repeatedly burned by Evernote sync when working on notes between mobile and desktop. Sync was the foremost reason we began working on a replacement.

We picked "sync" and "security" as the two core values we wanted to put most focus on when building our note app (https://www.amplenote.com/).

It's curious to me that Notion has so little to say about the effort they put into sync and security -- these seem like such essential features to a great todo app, and I don't think either can be done right unless it is an active, top-tier priority.

I also lost some data. I used to keep a personal journal in some random website, but when they closed that I copied it as a single huge block of text, encrypted. One day, it cropped 80% of it. Gone forever.

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