Second, Evernote as a product and company had seen better days. I felt a desire to to refine my note taking process and to slim down the number of notes I had. First, my Evernote notes had become a bit of a monster, both conceptually and organizationally and in terms of the total number of notes. Unfortunately, a few cracks started to appear with Evernote and my usage. Evernote’s mission to “capture everything” had largely became how I used the tool. For example, I had used Evernote as my task manager, Evernote as a read-it later app like Pocket or Instapaper, and even Evernote as a sales and networking CRM.

I had come to depend on Evernote as the “Swiss Army knife” of my productivity tool kit. Over the years, my personal usage of Evernote had grown to cover more than just note-taking and journaling. In their place, I now have 11,278 plaintext files and a completely new way to write, learn and organize my work. That’s the number of notes I had in Evernote.Ī few weeks later, only a few thousands notes remained in Evernote.

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