Evernote is an absolutely great note-taking service and application.
Or at least it was once …
You see, they have decided to push the freeloaders away and extort encourage us free users to “upgrade” to the premium service. Now, had they ever managed to do a premium feature that was worth the money, that might have worked.
But no, they did not. All the really useful features were already available for free.
So some genius at Evernote realized that the only way to get some of us to go over to premium was to start taking the really useful features away.
Some months ago they remove direct email forwarding to Evernote. That really stung, but I can always use Office integration and so it is manageable.
But today … wow … they just announced that in a few weeks they will restrict the free service to two devices, period. Evernote’s biggest strength is ubiquity across all devices and platforms. And they are now bring that into the paid service.
It makes sense. They obvious have a weak product management team and possibly weak development, so they are taking things that have worked forever and simply shutting us off.
Well, screw that.
I’ll be moving to OneNote rather than pay for what I already had for years. What a joke …
