It’s a desire to get off cloud based tools where storage of highly personal data is encouraged but without no-knowledge encryption in place, which is increasingly frustrating to me.

Especially for a company like Evernote who are no strangers to security issues.

I also dislike the “AI based” content suggestion crap or whatever that is. I don’t want that in my note taking tool. Things like that cross a line for me. It feels yucky.

And in general Evernote has totally stagnated as a product in my opinion.

I’d even happily pay them more money if the product fitted more in alignment with my use-case.

It’s really been great over the years but there is so much they could have done to keep it relevant and for me it just isn’t any more.

DropBox has gone a little in the same direction. An “originally great” disruptive product that sadly has bloated and stagnated without adding much more actual value on top of the original concept.