Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce
I tried to like Evernote.. I really did.  I live and breath in PDFs and read constantly.  I actually had to give up and build my own platform.<p><a href="https://getpolarized.io/" rel="nofollow">https://getpolarized.io/</a><p>I've basically been coding mad and heads down for 2 months building it.  I think we will have a release candidate in another week or so...<p>My hope / goal is to make a BETTER Evernote that's open source and lasts 20-30 years.<p>We have some AMAZING Open Source apps like VLC that just seem to last the test of time.<p>I think we deserve better!<p>One of the other things I wanted was something that was inherently hackable with a plugin API.  The data is stored on disk and persisted via JSON so it's easy for write 3rd party apps that use the data.<p>It also works with git, dropbox, etc if you want cloud sync.  I'm probably going to build in native cloud sync though and probably use Amazon Appsync since it supports offline sync easily.