Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
I have over a thousand notes in Evernote.<p>One day I noticed that one was missing shortly after I created it. Eventually I discovered that the convenient new-note shortcut was failing every time with a database corruption error - but the error only appeared in a system log I was unaware of. There was no indication to the user that the notes were failing. To this day I have no idea how many notes I lost due to this bug. It was a traumatic experience.<p>It also sometimes simply doesn't sync for days on end, until I notice and trigger it manually. This leads to conflicts I must resolve manually.<p>What do other people use that has similar:<p>- Low-friction global shortcuts for creating and searching.<p>- Organization (tags and notebooks, or something similar).<p>- A UI that handles large note bodies well.<p>- Is at least on Windows, macOS, and Android.<p>I'd love an alternative, but I've yet to find one. And I don't even use most of its features.