[HN Gopher] Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Profession...
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       Evernote to raise prices for Personal and Professional accounts
        
       Author : gaws
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-05-24 21:43 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | CrimsonCape wrote:
       | What's your non-locked-in, open source solution for note-taking
       | that's zero dollars annually (as opposed to $129.99)?
        
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         | java-man wrote:
         | Standard Notes [0].
         | 
         | [0] https://standardnotes.com/
        
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         | sperr11 wrote:
         | Standard Notes has a free tier with end-to-end encryption,
         | offline notes access, 2FA and password protected notes. Best
         | part for me is the ability to use a custom editor instead of
         | the default ones.
        
         | gentleman11 wrote:
         | Joplin is quite good as well
        
         | riffic wrote:
         | obsidian isn't open source but it's fantastic; standard notes
         | has some issues that put it in the "do not recommend" category
         | for me.
         | 
         | more recs that put SN to shame: logseq, dendron, foam
        
       | gizmo wrote:
       | Those are some very aggressive price hikes. At their scale, 500m
       | users, they could charge very little and still make a profit.
       | Also, they don't have to invest _that_ much in engineering
       | anymore for a 15 year old (?) product.
       | 
       | My guess is that the party that bought Evernote just wants to
       | extract money while they can, recoup the acquisition cost.
        
       | dctoedt wrote:
       | Question: How many people actually refer to their past Evernote
       | notes?
       | 
       | I ask because I hardly ever do, even though I've been an Evernote
       | paid subscriber for many years.
       | 
       | I've used the Evernote Web clipper but then essentially never
       | refer back to any of the clipped pages.
       | 
       | Ditto with scans-to-PDF for things such as receipts -- for which
       | the Apple Notes scan feature seems to do an adequate job. (We're
       | an Apple household.)
       | 
       | I'm half tempted to just declare "scans- and Web-clipper
       | bankruptcy" and abandon my Evernote subscription.
        
       | magic_hamster wrote:
       | Am I reading this right? A note taking app costs $15 monthly?
       | What incredible feature could possibly justify this in a note
       | taking app?
       | 
       | A quick search turns up quite a few FOSS candidates for note apps
       | that you can use or even self host.
       | 
       | I guess I am missing something because I don't see why anyone
       | would actually pay so much for this.
        
         | andrei_says_ wrote:
         | I think people pay to _continue_ using the app they've been
         | using for years and for access to their thousands of notes.
         | 
         | Even if they're not completely locked in, a transfer + re-
         | learning a new app may not be a feasible task for many.
         | 
         | So someone probably ran the numbers and decided they can
         | squeeze more $.
         | 
         | Also, inflation.
        
         | gentleman11 wrote:
         | The existing user base will be reluctant to leave, because
         | they'll lose access to their massive collection of notes in the
         | Evernote proprietary format. They're locked in, to at least
         | some extent.
         | 
         | I pay for a some writing subscriptions, but they all use
         | markdown as the file format. I can switch apps pretty easily if
         | I ever want to leave
        
           | throwaway675309 wrote:
           | I used Evernote for years after switching over from Microsoft
           | OneNote and every year the product got steadily worse.
           | Fortunately the ENEX file format is nothing more than a giant
           | concatenated file of all of your notes in a customized XML
           | blend, and with a little bit of scripting work I converted
           | all of my notes, attachments, and embedded images into
           | markdown notes that I use with Obsidian.
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | The other day there was some other bad news where the subject
       | began with "An Update on...". Seems like that's the newspeak for
       | "Bad news about...".
       | 
       | To be on topic, typical "My replacement for Evernote" comment:
       | Joplin (with a server in a Docker container on my NAS) works well
       | for me. There's even an import from Evernote feature, although
       | when some sections of the Evernote note were password-protected,
       | the same note in Joplin is some undecypherable Base-64.
        
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