For a while, Evernote was on top of the world.
The Californian note-taking app surfed the 2000s tech productivity boom to become the leader in its field.
But thenit fell from grace, becoming sluggish, buggy, and expensive.
Users abandoned the platform, heading in droves to other note-taking apps.
And it looks like more change is afoot.
On January 3,the sale of Evernote to the Italian company Bending Spoons was finally confirmed.
On one hand, this could be concerning for remaining users.
Evernote will no longer be an independent company, meaning there could be huge changes to its current direction.
But on the other hand… good?
I was an Evernote user for close to a decade before I switched last year.
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The question is what should it do?
How can Bending Spoons bring Evernote to its former glory?
Well, we have some ideas.
Speed up Evernote apps
This was one of the main reasons why I moved away from Evernote.
Remove the bloat…
The software has tried to do many of the things you dont want a note-taking app to do.
Why, for example, would I ever want to chat on the same thing Im writing on?
But look at those apps above again.
Reduce Evernotes price
Cost was a huge element of me abandoning Evernote.
At the time, I was paying 70 a year to take notes.
Thats a silly amount of money especially with how I used it.
So what was I paying 70 a year for?
So why not introduce a tier thats closer to 20 a year?
Something that offers all the basic features that people need?
Stop pushing upgrades on people at every single possible opportunity.
Stop being so overly restrictive on the number of devices individuals can use the free version with.
Stop ignoring users complaints.
Lets see if Bending Spoons can make that happen.
