Comments on: How Furniture Retailer, Aaron’s, Inc., Built a Point of Sale for 1900 Stores Using Evernote (Business Series)

By: S

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:26:17 +0000

I appreciate the capability of having a note templates.

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:54:39 +0000

You’re right. Evernote search is designed to work from the start of a work, not from the middle or the end. Imagine searching for the name “Ed” and getting every single past tense word in your entire account in the results page. Thanks for your suggestion about ways we could improve our search.

By: Kalpesh Rathod

Kalpesh Rathod — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:42 +0000

You are bang on target Wernerh. Point to Point!
I am planning to include CRM type flow with Evernote. Anyway same thinking here. May be Evernote presently is focused for individuals, and will come out with company accounts like google Apps.

But as an individual I really like the way Evernote team has constantly given good features.

By: K

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:19:30 +0000

After playing around with it for a couple hours, and entering data/creating ntoes, the EverNote search seems to be WEAK or LACKING?

Example

EverNote has indexed ARMANI9567

1. doing a search for 9567 will turn up nothing

2. doing a search for rmani9567 turns up nothing as well.

Search seems to be ONLY good if you can remember the first part of whatever EverNote has indexed. Could you imagine if GOOGLE search was like this :p

Complaints without suggestions is just whining, so here are some suggestions.

REGEXP, or more robust search capabilities

1,000,000 notes.

It’d be nice if EverNote could add this in the premium tier at the same pricing. But if they need to create a small/medium business tier than so be it, just make the offering compelling enough.

By: K

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:31:50 +0000

We were looking at using EVERNOTE to basically manage orders and invoices for a business.

How do you guys possibly do that when evernote has a 100,000 note limit? Did you even factor this fact in???

100,000 may be plenty for a single person but for a business this is tiny considering you have to keep 7 years of paper work…

By: Kasey Fleisher Hickey

Kasey Fleisher Hickey — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:26:41 +0000

Will do!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:21:28 +0000

Totally agree! Please keep up the use cases!

By: John Trainor

John Trainor — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:56:09 +0000

It hasn’t been an issue for us and we have had people roll off the project. It’s really less managed by the sponsored account and more by the shared notebook. We revoke access based on that.

And, just like any good data loss prevention protocol, there may be things that we choose not to share in the team-wide Evernote shared folder for the reasons that are mentioned.

We don’t view Evernote as the end-all-be-all for this. It’s not the only tool that can be used. But, it certainly is useful for 90% of the business of the team and 100% useful for business that always needs to be shared.

By: John Trainor

John Trainor — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:52:26 +0000

Much of 1-4 is covered through good old fashion communication. The team’s daily stand-up and open work area facilitates making sure everyone is on the same page.

For #5, you hit on something interesting. Terms are key to our projects and to our teamwork. We have a standard dictionary of what we call things and we are ruthless if someone is using the wrong terms. We have to do that so that everyone is on the same page. Without it, it would be chaos.

That helps a bit with making it so the search terms are easier. And, tags are really, really helpful.

In my role, I’m less of a contributor and more of a viewer. Also, I’m not 100% engaged with this team. But, that being said, I haven’t had any problems finding what I need to find when I need to. There might be a couple of relevant items, but the UI of Evernote makes it so that I can flip through the 2 or 3 notes quickly enough that it hasn’t been an issue.

By: John Trainor

John Trainor — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:48:40 +0000

It can be secured just by making sure you share the Notebook out to the right team members. We haven’t had a problem with that, at all.

User management for Cory hasn’t been a huge issue (we don’t have a ton of turnover, so that helps).