Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
I have over a thousand notes in Evernote.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.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.What do other people use that has similar:- Low-friction global shortcuts for creating and searching.- Organization (tags and notebooks, or something similar).- A UI that handles large note bodies well.- Is at least on Windows, macOS, and Android.I'd love an alternative, but I've yet to find one. And I don't even use most of its features.