Comments on: iPhone 3.0 Notes Sync? Sure, But Evernote is Still King

By: yvesrn

yvesrn — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:00:02 +0000

My experience has been entirely different than yours. I've found Evernote to be solid, robust and fast. The fact that they update their application as often as they do, says to me that they are committed to improving it and they have. I use Evernote on the desktop as well as on my iPhone. They are a perfect match. And no, I haven't received one penny from Evernote for any of our posts. On second thought, maybe I should ask them for a cut

By: jtth

jtth — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:24:28 +0000

Evernote is far too slow and crash-prone to use as a Note-taking application. I've been using it since its inception and its stability has stayed the same, crashing about 10% of the time, while its feature set has grown to impressive proportions. I use Evernote everyday, and I'm paying customer. But it sucks as a Notepad.

That's why I use SimpleNote (http://simplenoteapp.com/). It's a very simple text-only notepad that syncs with a web app. It does not mess up, crash, or in any way act slow or unresponsive. I capture what I want in SimpleNote and, if necessary, copy it to Evernote later. Evernote is a terrible Inbox, and its issues with Snow Leopard (it doesn't sync notes created in the EN client) make it even worse. The only real reason I'm still using it is because of the image-OCR support, the source metadata, and geotagging. And the fact that it cannot export anything in any useful file format. So I pay and wait, and my hate grows.

If someone writes a native Mac client that behaves like a Mac program should, they could charge $100 for it and people would pay. DEVON Technologies should just link DEVONthink to it. I'd renew my license for version 2.

We're too used to the awkwardness to notice a lack of grace.

By: yvesrn

yvesrn — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:00:02 +0000

By: jtth

jtth — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:24:28 +0000

Evernote is far too slow and crash-prone to use as a Note-taking application. I've been using it since its inception and its stability has stayed the same, crashing about 10% of the time, while its feature set has grown to impressive proportions. I use Evernote everyday, and I'm paying customer. But it sucks as a Notepad.

That's why I use SimpleNote (http://simplenoteapp.com/). It's a very simple text-only notepad that syncs with a web app. It does not mess up, crash, or in any way act slow or unresponsive. I capture what I want in SimpleNote and, if necessary, copy it to Evernote later. Evernote is a terrible Inbox, and its issues with Snow Leopard (it doesn't sync notes created in the EN client) make it even worse. The only real reason I'm still using it is because of the image-OCR support, the source metadata, and geotagging. And the fact that it cannot export anything in any useful file format. So I pay and wait, and my hate grows.

If someone writes a native Mac client that behaves like a Mac program should, they could charge $100 for it and people would pay. Shit, DEVON Technologies should just link DEVONthink to it. I'd renew my license for version 2.

We're too used to the awkwardness to notice a lack of grace.

By: Mark Richer

Mark Richer — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:12:57 +0000

Thanks for the article. I actually have a 1st generation iPod Touch at the moment. I did upgrade it to OS 3. I am not exactly sure what did the trick, but I do see the notes from my Touch are in the Mail app. I do not see any section on notes or in the Info tab in iTunes when I select my Touch device. So I never chose an option to sync notes, but somehow it did so maybe it's just automatic now. Perhaps you were writing about an earlier version of iTunes than I have. The only time I see anything about Notes is if I sync to Mobile Me. I added the Touch to the mobile me sync/backup and it said more than 5% of my Notes had changed. When I log into the me.com website, however, I can't find the Notes to view. Perhaps it is useful as a backup for a restore, but it is still pretty obtuse. I am switching to Evernote but wonder if there is a way it can import all your Notes or if you just have to copy and paste them from Mail app to Evernote app on OS X.