I got into the beta program to try out the new version. As far as I remember, they reached feature parity quickly (at least for the features I used extensively at the time).īut then in 2020 comes another full rewrite: as I understand, they had a different codebase for each operating system they supported (PC, OS, iOS, Android…), which was very hard to keep up with (adding features, fixing bugs…). As a consumer of their tool, I remember switching between the two versions going painlessly. Their first version was implemented in WPF, which they’ve learned wasn’t the best choice for their product, and so they rewrote the entire software from scratch after a while. Compared to the options above, this tool has had a very long and stable run for me. Up until 2020, I haven’t found any reason to replace Evernote with anything else. I always keep an eye out for different ways to improve my process and systems. I’ve put out many blog posts on how I’ve been using it. Being able to use the same tool seamlessly on a PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad: that’s what got me hooked immediately. I gave it a try and have been using it since then. In 2009, I heard of Evernote, when they were still in Beta. How can we trust technology when it goes out like that? But I digress…
Other than OneNote, all of those things disappeared in a matter of just a few years. A nice little tool that vanished without further notice shortly after getting acquired. Then I got into Onfolio (which allowed downloading webpages, organizing them into collections, and building my own knowledge store). Then a Microsoft Pocket PC in 2003, I think, which I hoped it’d integrate with Microsoft OneNote, which I used for some time. I had a Palm OS around 2000 which I used mostly for note taking.
Then there was Microsoft Schedule+, later replaced by Microsoft Outlook, which I stopped using as my personal tool in 2010 or so.
The first “personal information manager” I’ve used was Lotus Organizer in the mid 90s.
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