{"id":3241,"date":"2016-06-29T09:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2016-06-29T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T01:56:55","slug":"evernote-significantly-increases-prices-has-the-product-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2016\/06\/29\/evernote-significantly-increases-prices-has-the-product-improved","title":{"rendered":"Evernote significantly increases prices – has the product improved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been an Evernote<\/a> user since February 2009, and I believe I found it extremely valuable and useful that I have dutifully paid $45\/year for probably that long. Sara practically lives in the application on her Mac, iPad and iPhone. As of this writing, I have 18,198 notes.<\/p>\n

Today they have announced changes to their pricing plans<\/a>. For what I’m using, it would be $69.99\/year, which is nearly a 56% markup<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

I’m going to continue paying, but I fear many will be thinking about alternatives. The real discussions are at the forum<\/a> which I encourage you to read. There are more alternatives these days — Microsoft’s OneNote (has an importer<\/a>), Apple Notes is getting better, and so on. <\/p>\n

There are still deficiencies with Evernote. Try exporting<\/a> your scanned business cards as a CSV? Try two people editing the same document – you’ll notice locking<\/a>. We’ve seen premium users go from “unlimited” to 10GB storage<\/a> per month (not that I use all of that space). They’ve killed<\/a> apps like Hello, Food. They’ve arguably made Skitch worse. They’ve once even lost data<\/a> from Sara’s iPad – drawings from Penultimate disappeared. There was no resolution<\/a> beyond the PNGs and JPGs I managed to extract.<\/p>\n

If you ended up purchasing merchandise, like the Fujitsu iX500 ScanSnap Evernote edition<\/a> or a Moleskine Evernote Smart Notebook<\/a> you would have received points in your Evernote account. 10 points buys you a month, 120 points buys you a year – its unclear if this will change (it probably will), but I just spent 160 points to extend my Evernote account.<\/p>\n

Phil Libin once talked about how Evernote would be a 100-year old startup<\/a>. He also talked about how you turn loyal users into paid customers<\/a>. He’s a big fan of Stewart Brand’s book, The Clock of the Long Now<\/a>. Alas, he’s now a VC and there’s a hired CEO at the helm. Maybe we’ll get a Steve Jobs\/Apple return moment at some stage. Till then, here’s to Evernote’s longevity. <\/p>\n

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