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Thanks, we're glad you like our design! I think Evernote is a very well done app also, but targets a more business/work-driven use case. A poor analogy may be if Evernote is good for those 8 hours you spend at work each day, then we hope to be helpful a few times during the rest of those 16 hours in the day (minus sleep, of course).

Evernote is clunky, slow, and confusing to navigate. Just the processes and slowness of finding and editing an existing note, particularly one that has anything copy/pasted with formatting, keeps me from using Evernote for anything much, let alone this. Evernote is close to being excellent, but for me falls short of being usable.

Evernote has a pretty casual user friendly design, too. There are a lot of other options on the mobile apps, but I ignore them and can testify that Evernote Mobile still works fine for me. The two just happen to serve different purposes -- this application is geared towards a more specific one.