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Evernote was still decent enough before the ditched the native app for a dreadful Electron webframe.

Ugh. Note taking apps need to be instant.

I care far less about the feature set than I do getting the whatever written down and out of my head.

If you make we wait while you load a website's worth of js or phone home with surveillance data or whatever, I'm just going to delete you. I'd rather use a 1995-era Textedit or Notepad - they're instantly functional.

Just to make sure I maintain my curmudgeon's rep, I'll add - advertise AI and I'm also gone. I have zero need for assistance from a tripping robot to type in my work life.

Yup. This is actually why I dropped Evernote so many years ago -- the distance from "thought" to "blank screen to start writing in" was too much. I just use Google Keep. It has some weaknesses, but it's good enough for my use case and is snappy.

Notion seems to be planning to add some kind of AI-based tool for their app, by the way - https://www.notion.so/product/ai

Agree. But you can still download the legacy native apps.

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Ins...

Once these legacy apps are discontinued I’m out. My concern is that this takeover will hasten that.

Evernote has ran my brain for 12 years but I can’t cope with new Electron app - no tabs?!

Yes, still use the older Android version. There are still show-stopping search bugs in the newer versions that haven't been fixed in 3+ years.

In some ways the Electron app is better because there's more formatting options (code blocks, finally!) but most ways not. On my systems it's so slow to startup, and I don't have that complaint about other Electron apps.

Yeah I completely brought my quite powerful machine to a halt at the time, it would eat up resources like all Electron apps do - and I'd hate to think of the potential security exploits with a Electron / unsandboxed chrome that formats clipped websites and attachments etc... - not good.

Not only decent, Evernote was great before they ditched their native apps.

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