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I don’t know. The promotional display, removing local image processing and shipping with Growl on the Mac side (which I had previously tried to avoid installing). I don’t like the recent direction Evernote has taken and as such, I’m holding off on upgrading to premium. May have to consider alternatives if this continues. The promotional display should have the option to be hidden without upgrading to premium. Even Meebo allows you to do that. Until today I was a huge cheerleader for Evernote. Today though … I’m taking a step back and being cautious.

Thanks. WE WANT the “Clip as You See It” that the Mac Users have now. Please, don’t force me to toy with OSX86 just for that

I think the server-side-only image recognition is a great idea. Looking forward to what the coming months will bring!

Interesting. I figured you guys would be quick with turning around more updates since that seems to be a priority post-December funding, but I was expecting/hoping an update for the Iphone app. (Landscape typing is a big deal for me as an Ipod Touch user who can’t always use the mobile note workaround.)

I think some members of the community will be distraught about the loss of image processing in local-only notebooks, as it forces, say, those tracking scanned receipts to put them in the cloud for image recognition. But I’m sure you’re already expecting that, and I’m sure they’re more than capable of expressing themselves!

For me, as I begin the process of refining (and combining) my initial scattershot, this update looks like it may have a lot of things I can put to good use, so thanks!

‘there are big (BIG) things in the works for Evernote for Windows.’

But not for Evernote for Mac?

Used to love Evernote, don’t like the way it’s now going, thinking of deleting it. Sorry.

Local image processing was the only reason I was using Evernote. I have no reason to store the items I have in Evernote online. I don’t mind having to ignore the ads, but I think Evernote just lost the one reason I use it.

It hurts me to see successive versions of evernote in desktop forms without a version 1 of the Blackberry app

In short the motivation for upgrading shoud because your users find your services useful (which i think everybody did) it should not be because your now holding them to ransom if they want to remove a permament advert from there screen in there already oversturated pushy media lives.

I don’t mind you promoting your premium service, to me, via email, or popup at the begining of the program, but this one thing alone make evernote rock a good deal less for me today.

Will be looking at altenatives.

I mainly use Evernote on an HP Mini Note (Netbook) that ironically is used primarily in areas that I DON’T have internet access. I sync up later when I’m home or near a hotspot. Moving functionality off of the client and into the cloud is not very helpful to me at all. I had moved over from MS-OneNote and was considering upgrading to the Premium service, but may have to reconsider.

Yesterday I thought about licencing Evernote for Win — but after the “Upgrade”, I think I’m out: I don’t like “the cloud” for private notebooks (which sometimes have pictures), I use EN, because I’m offline in many places. I hate to see ads without being proper informed about that before installing the so called upgrade. No, that’s not the beste way to make a good thing better.

Eudora did the same with their ad-window years ago, now, they are long gone. Evernote will go the same way down, I fear. It’s all about broken promises.

I must admit Evernote really lost something today. I wasn’t as sharp as some users who commented above and pushed eagerly the update button. Boy, I was in for a big surprise with the nifty bottom left corner panel that doesn’t close.

One person said it is fair that Evernote uses this kind of methods to finance their software. I certainly agree. But I also agree that Everonte became what it is not because of premium content users, but because of people like me, using the free version. Consequently, I assume that this change signifies a trend, a direction the company is going. As many other businesses on the market right now, I think their greed will make them fail. I, for sure, will be less inclined to recommend this program to my friends and will probably start considering alternatives.

The premium content extras were enough in my mind to create an incentive for free users to upgrade because they were ADVANTAGES. Positive additions. Now the company is going into creating DISADVANTAGES, not limitations, but annoyances, to stimulate the upgraders. This is bad policy and it usually yields bad results.

Hello Evernote Team,
It is evident that option to offload client side processing is serious a major step backwards. Instead how about following google chrome philosophy. Maintain two versions of releases as per the User Choice, User chooses the processing options and thereby downloads the client updates as per the individual release cycles.

Abilty to add, index and search notes offline is a lovely feature.. please reconsider.

I agree with most here that losing the local indexing is a huge disappointment. I use the local notebooks for work information which I do not want to have on an external server. Evernote has now made its product less functional for people like me.

Does this imply Local only notebooks containing images are not indexed ?

Keeping a private notebook that I don’t want online was very handy, such as screen shots, so I can find text in error message windows during debugging.

Removal of image indexing for local notebooks that can’t be indexed on the centrally maintained servers, while maybe they don’t have the latest and greatest algorithms, was just fine the way it was, I’d been happy to pay for a “premium” client that does index imaging of local notebooks…

In Evernote’s defence… How do you expect them to make any money if they can’t advertise. If it bothers you, spend the tiny amount they ask for a premium account and you won’t have to see them. The plain truth is that everything has to be monetised. You want things for free, you pay the (small) price of advertising.

Wow! Love the great new features, such as the informative ‘DelphicOracle Panel’ which frees me from having to be distracted by all those pesky USELESS TAGS, FILTERS, and ATTRIBUTES.

Had a bit of a learning curve at first, but once I got the hang of it I realized how useful it was to be reminded on a minute to minute basis that tutorials exist on evernote.com. Stupid me, I keep forgetting this stuff. Can you maybe make it easier to remember next upgrade — I’m thinking big, like hmmm… maybe EN could gently nudge me every couple days by, say, formatting a random partition, or if it’s not too inconvenient/out of the way, maybe send someone over to thump my skull with a crowbar? Okay maybe that’s too much to ask. lolroflbbqkittenz.

And let me just say: you sure made the right decision on my behalf, to trade out half the effective functionality for a bi-monthly bandwidth savings of 30mb. Me and my darn 2.4baud modem totally appreciate it. Pure brilliance.

Kudos to the team for so thoroughly crippling Evernote for me, and without even asking/telling me… you always seem to know just what your customers want! Insulting our intelligence by passing it off as a feature was a master stroke too.

And what timing — I literally signed on this morning, debit card in hand, having decided to finally spring for a Premium account today — despite the recession & even though I’m a quite broke grad student. This was before I realized that, far from a long-awaited upgrade with more useful, promised features (true PDF OCR?! Maybe a BlackBerry app finally?!), you pushed onto your unwitting consumers this stripped-down NAGWARE.

I cannot wait until google and/or micosoft comes out with something better Or some laid-off coder who doesn’t treat his clientèle with total contempt. In conclusion, this rant has been a long time coming, as I’ve been around long enough to remember vividly the beta fiasco. I’m simply stunned by this.

I don’t know why the windows version always contains a lot less features compared to OSX version like thumbnail-grid view etc. Its not as if those features are harder to implement in windows.

Also, please remove the adverts, you’re gonna lose a lot of happy customers just because of it.

Loved your app till today..

Wow, what a bunch of whiners. Evernote stated an excellent reason for moving recognition to the cloud. They also added a little ad in the corner to make some money “-oh no! don’t do that just keep giving me more stuff for free!!!” Upgrade to premium you losers.

I’d be willing to bet 98% of evernote users will continue to be happy with the update. The other 2% won’t part with the dollars for premium anyway.

“… became what it is not because of premium content users, but because of people like me, using the free version….I think their greed will make them fail….The premium content extras were enough in my mind to create an incentive for free users to upgrade because they were ADVANTAGES.”

Then why haven’t you? It appears that the greed is all yours — for a stingy $45/year. People who aren’t willing to pay for the product aren’t the sort of evangelists EverNote needs.

I for one have become dependent on EverNote, loving it since it’s very early days – and convincing countless others at home/work to do the same. I went premium, not because I needed *or used* any of the extras really, but to support a project and folks that I believed in, because I seen what was possible with the first few releases, and imagined what might happen when future releases arrived. Thankfully, I read before upgrading to the latest ver, because making local notebook images non-indexed/processed is a game ender for me. I use local notebooks for stuff i either don’t want online, or for large indexes that I dont want using my allotted limits – why would I want to keep paying for less functionality?

I could care less about the ads, I pay for my premium version with pride – but making a significant change like this leaves me to look for an alternative, and end my support for what I thought was one of the most innovative products I’ve used. Shame guys, shame. Ads we can live with, taking away functionality that costs you nothing to leave in – and benefits us.. that’s just not the company i thought you were.

;( – One Sad Evernoter

i just want to say that i think the product is great, i’m glad its eating up less resources and am a big proponent of the cloud, so moving image recognition there makes sense to me.

i’m still awaiting those features and little details i miss from onenote: remove the pencil and pen cursor in inking mode when on a tablet, it would feel that much more natural. and implement inking and entering text in the same space, it changes and greatly will improve the inking experience in your product.

as for the ads: c’mon guys, you cant get everything for free. this is a great product and if they need to make money to survive, then help them out rather than complaining.

to evernote: i’m assuming (and hoping) most evernote users are totally fine with the changes, but if you find that is not the case then just make the ad smaller and in the titlebar or something, but dont remove it because of a few loud folks.

What bunch of cheap b.st.rds

Really…

The software is good. It is far from perfect, but the reason we see it is because we rely more on it.

I will agree with some of the comments that there are a bunch of important features that are starting to seriously be past “fashionably late”.

But for the nagware… come on, be rasonable. If you have a computer, internet, probably an iPhone or other cameroa phone/pda, Windows, and a bunch of other gadges (otherwise, you would not know about Evernote) and can’t afford $45/year, you deserve the title of chp bstd.

And if you are really SO MUCH into free open source, go get tomboy, put it on linux, and get out of here.

I’m a Premium user these days. But one of the things that sold me the most on Evernote was how well they treated free users: fairly logical limits on use, no distracting promos or ads. I don’t know that I’d have even used Evernote enough to want to pay for it if I had the promo box thing up all the time. It’s not so nice.

Solutions :

1. Make client side image processing available as a post-download add-in. Don’t maintain it, just offer it as is – 90% of people are perfectly happy with it (like me) and aren’t very comfortable with Evernote (or anyone) having complete access to all imported images, no matter what their privacy statement says (like me).

2. Float the ad box & make it always on top. This allows it to be moved around WHEN it gets in the way for someone (like having a 10″ screen).

Outcome :

1. Everyone stops getting narked with ‘Local’ notebooks going the way of the dinosaurs.
2. Atombook users don’t have the ads preventing them from actually using the software.