Wow. You know, I read your original comment with the opinion that it was very programmer-centric but this narrative made me think deeper about what you're trying to say.
I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus, things that have already been said to death. But it's amazing how a narrative, storytelling, can make me re-examine my own initial opinion like that.
>> I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus ...
I don't think Evernote sucks in whole ... I very happily pay for Evernote annually-renewed premium subscription, and it's great at doing what I rent it for ...
+ it accepts documents, scans, photographs, text in notes that I can put in categories
+ it clips web page content through browser extensions and saves them as notes
+ it accepts emails composed and sent to it, and emails forwarded to it, turning them into notes
+ it does great OCR on scanned/photographed notes and documents
+ it does great matching on searches, from both explicit text and OCR'ed content
+ the browser interface is great, the Android, macOS, Windows apps are pretty decent
... and that's all I want.
Evernote's seen their missed opportunities and has tried to catch up:
+ they want to be Slack with channeled- and threaded-messaging -- Slack works better
+ they want to be the business document repository -- I much prefer Confluence (or other Wikis) for structuring and storing long-term relevant information
+ they want to be an issue tracker
+ ... every other collaboration thing under the sun
They've been pushing hard on all these multi-user shared-content angles. It seems like both a technical and marketing challenge -- they likely are too boxed-in and the jump a customer needs to make to envision using Evernote's new business/multi-user/collaboration features is too big.
Once the founders left and their "Building a company that will be here 100 years from now" left I left using it. I now use Boost Notes and Google Keep works better for me.
They have all those employees but does Evernote do anything new to make people's life easier in a different way the past ten years??? I answer no.
I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus, things that have already been said to death. But it's amazing how a narrative, storytelling, can make me re-examine my own initial opinion like that.