#bendingspoons — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bendingspoons, aggregated by home.social.
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After seeing what #BendingSpoons did to #Meetup, the long-time home of #Seattle's #Steelers fan club, I found #OpenMeet, an #opensource alternative. #PlatformDecay is no match for human ingenuity.
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After seeing what #BendingSpoons did to #Meetup, the long-time home of #Seattle's #Steelers fan club, I found #OpenMeet, an #opensource alternative. #PlatformDecay is no match for human ingenuity.
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After seeing what #BendingSpoons did to #Meetup, the long-time home of #Seattle's #Steelers fan club, I found #OpenMeet, an #opensource alternative. #PlatformDecay is no match for human ingenuity.
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After seeing what #BendingSpoons did to #Meetup, the long-time home of #Seattle's #Steelers fan club, I found #OpenMeet, an #opensource alternative. #PlatformDecay is no match for human ingenuity.
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After seeing what #BendingSpoons did to #Meetup, the long-time home of #Seattle's #Steelers fan club, I found #OpenMeet, an #opensource alternative. #PlatformDecay is no match for human ingenuity.
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Jetzt, wo Bending Spoons wahrscheinlich Miro kaufen wird (und damit BS-Dinge tun wird), werde ich mich wohl nach einer Alternative umschauen. Was würdet ihr empfehlen? (Super wäre auch, wenn‘s DSGVO-konform wäre.)
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PetaPixel: Vimeo Can Decide To Change Your Plan and Force You to Pay 5x More. “This new Studio subscription came to PetaPixel‘s attention because of a discussion on Threads, the origin of which has since been deleted for factual inaccuracies, about a huge Vimeo price hike. While some details weren’t quite correct, the basic complaint was: Vimeo determined the user was no longer eligible for […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/11/petapixel-vimeo-can-decide-to-change-your-plan-and-force-you-to-pay-5x-more/ -
okay, who's planning their #miro exit now? #bendingspoons
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bending-Spoons-acquires-Miro-Airtable-purchase-completed-11449829.html
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Bending Spoons acquisisce la piattaforma #Miro in una transazione in contanti da 1,36 miliardi di dollari. L'operazione segna un nuovo passo nell'espansione del gruppo tecnologico nel settore della collaborazione digitale. #Bendingspoons #Tech
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"Bending Spoons" ist weiter auf großer Shopping-Tour. Nach Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Komoot, Vimeo und WeTransfer nun also auch Miro:
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Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-miro
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643848
#HackerNews #BendingSpoons #Miro #Acquisition #TechNews #StartupInvestment #BusinessGrowth
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@dennishorn das ist doch eine der Marken von #BendingSpoons .
Genau wie #komoot .
Irgendwie muss die Kriegskasse ja wieder aufgefüllt werden, um die nächste funktionierende Plattform zu kaufen und in die Tiefen von Mordor zu werfen.
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💸💸 Harvest price hike hits business with 1500% increase in bills
｢ Harvest was acquired by the Italian tech company Bending Spoons in 2025, and changed its pricing structure the following year.
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So, 🤡 Bending Spoons swoops in, waves a magic wand, and *abracadabra* 💸—your Harvest bills now come with a side of bankruptcy! Because clearly, nothing says "innovation" like a 1500% price increase to remind you that the only thing bending here is your wallet. 🤦♂️
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq011414eo #BendingSpoons #Innovation #PriceIncrease #Bankruptcy #WalletWoes #HarvestBills #HackerNews #ngated -
Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq011414eo
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374920
#HackerNews #Harvest #BendingSpoons #pricehike #technews #businessnews #appupdates
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1 day and 16 hours ago, harvest (now owned by the private equity company #bendingspoons) sent a notice that the cost to use their service would rise from $184/year to $1,158/year (USD)
a month ago, they disabled CSV export of invoice data, which i used to do my taxes
they've replaced their customer support with LLM gaslighting
i've replaced their service with a python script and a spreadsheet :blobcat_thisisfine:
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Now that #Meetup is going all in on dark patterns, with #BendingSpoons having rewritten its mobile app to cram people into extra groups and pitch them unnecessary paid subscriptions, I’m looking to move a 500+ person group off. What do others use for free social group event organizing?
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Bending Spoons acquisisce #airtable con un deal in contanti da 1,285 miliardi di dollari. L'operazione, che si concluderà entro fine 2026, rappresenta il primo passo post-IPO della società. #bendingspoons #tech
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Airtable was just acquired by Bending Spoons. Goodbye to Airtable.
https://www.revenuerulebreaker.com/airtable-was-just-acquired-by-bending-spoons-goodbye-to-airtable/ -
🚀 Bending Spoons is now flexing its financial muscles by buying $1.3B worth of... spreadsheets? 😂 Because when you're a tech company, nothing screams innovation like acquiring digital LEGOs for grown-ups. 🧩💼
https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-billion-airtable-deal #BendingSpoons #FinancialInnovation #TechAcquisition #DigitalLegos #SpreadsheetHumor #BusinessMoves #HackerNews #ngated -
Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166182
#HackerNews #BendingSpoons #Airtable #Acquisition #IPO #TechNews #BusinessDeals
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Deleted my #komoot account today. I have not used it for some time and with #bendingspoons as the new owner... #byebye
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shorturl.at/ThEyn
A $23 billion company with 1,000 employees that has never built a product you use. Bending Spoons just IPO'd. The machine behind it explains the extraction economy.
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🚀 Oh, the tech world finally meets its savior – a company named after... kitchen utensils? 🍴 Bending Spoons, the grandiose puppet master behind the powerhouse duo of AOL and Vimeo, has graced the public market, leaving us all wondering if their #IPO will be as unforgettable as their name. 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/ #technews #BendingSpoons #innovation #startup #kitchenutensils #HackerNews #ngated -
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799966
#HackerNews #BendingSpoons #AOL #Vimeo #public #technews #businessinsights
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Bending Spoons goes public, spotlighting its aggressive digital brand acquisition strategy
📰 Original title: What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
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Evernote is forcing a decision on me
As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.
That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.
But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.
These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:
- Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
- I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
- I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
- Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
- Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
- Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
- Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
- Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
- The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
- A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.
Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs.
I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.
#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn
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Evernote is forcing a decision on me
As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.
That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.
But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.
These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:
- Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
- I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
- I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
- Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
- Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
- Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
- Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
- Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
- The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
- A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.
Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs.
I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.
#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn
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Evernote is forcing a decision on me
As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.
That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.
But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.
These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:
- Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
- I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
- I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
- Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
- Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
- Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
- Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
- Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
- The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
- A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.
Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs.
I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.
#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn
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Evernote is forcing a decision on me
As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.
That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.
But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.
These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:
- Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
- I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
- I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
- Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
- Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
- Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
- Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
- Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
- The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
- A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.
Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs.
I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.
#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn
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Weekly output: phone plans, Nvidia keynote, passkey adoption, Bending Spoons buys AOL, SpaceX simplifying Starship lander, Internet luminaries on the open Web
This is not going to be a great week for normal sleep cycles: Tuesday, I will wake up at around 4 a.m. to spend a 15-plus hour shift working as an election officer for Arlington, and then Wednesday I’m off to Dulles Airport for this year’s final business trip across the Atlantic. I’m departing for Web Summit in Lisbon several days early because the organizers of another conference, the Mozilla Festival, offered a press pass and a travel stipend to cover that event in Barcelona. I’ve heard good things about this conference over the years, so accepting an invitation to spend a few days in one of my favorite cities in Europe was an easy call.
In addition to what you see below, Patreon readers got a detailed recap of how this past week’s event-packed schedule left its own series of dents in my calendar.
10/28/2025: The Best Cell Phone Plans, Wirecutter
This was going to be a modest update to the guide that I’ve been maintaining since 2014, but T-Mobile jacking up prices while AT&T and Verizon inflicted more modest rate hikes led to us dethroning T-Mo on cost grounds and handing our “for most people” pick to AT&T, which has advanced its own 5G network considerably.
10/28/2025: In DC, Nvidia CEO Touts New AI Partnerships, Goes a Little MAGA, PCMag
Heading into Nvidia’s conference, I was worried that CEO Jensen Huang would go into the weeds about the finer points of GPU architecture. Instead, he used this nearly two-hour keynote to jump from topic to topic without getting into too much detail about any of them–and kept coming back to opportunities to praise President Trump.
10/29/2025: Passkey Adoption Sees Striking Progress, With One Obvious Leader, PCMag
I struggled to get this written at the end of a long workday, resulting in my getting some nuances wrong that required updating the post the next morning.
11/1/2025: Serial Dot-Com Purchaser Bending Spoons to Buy AOL, But Why?, PCMag
Writing about AOL in 2025 makes me feel so old, but as one of PCMag’s graybeards I had to cover the news of Bending Spoons buying the company that once ruled the online world. I got to this story a day after it broke, so I turned that lag into an opportunity to expand the piece with some quotes from a publicist for that Italian firm and from a podcast interview of its CEO Luca Ferrari last year
11/1/2025: After Elon Tantrum, SpaceX Now Prepping ‘Simplified’ Starship-Based Lunar Lander, PCMag
Since I wrote about Elon Musk’s childish reaction to NASA’s understandable concern over the pace of its Human Landing System work, I had to reach for a keyboard to cover SpaceX’s grown-up corporate response.
11/1/2025: ‘The Truth Is Paywalled.’ Internet Vets Lament the State of the ‘Open’ Web, PCMag
This Monday-evening panel was one of the first items on my calendar this week, but having event after event after event follow it led to me not writing it up until Thursday night. Once again, it was a serious treat to hear some of the Internet’s founding figures talk about the state of the thing they invented.
#AmericaOnline #AOL #ArtemisIII #ATT #BendingSpoons #BrewsterKahle #CindyCohn #Dashlane #FoundationForAmericanInnovation #HumanLandingSystem #JensenHuang #Nvidia #NvidiaGTCDC #passkeyExport #passkeys #phonePlans #smartphonePlans #SpaceX #TMobile #unlimitedData #verizon #VintCerf
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Vor etwas mehr als einem Monat machte das sehr beliebte und gern genutzte #Outdoor-#Navi #Komoot Schlagzeilen: Das deutsche Unternehmen wurde vom italienischen Konzern #BendingSpoons aufgekauft. Es lohnt also durchaus, einmal einen Blick über den Tellerrand zu werfen und sich im #AppStore nach Alternativen im Outdoor-Navi- und #Tourenplaner-Bereich umzusehen. Eine davon ist #Outdooractive, die wir uns nun genauer angesehen haben.
Alle Infos: https://www.appgefahren.de/?p=378329
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Evernote has gotten seriously better
Almost doubling the subscription price of a program is usually not a recipe for customer satisfaction, but I can now make an exception for Evernote. Yes, the note-taking app that many people seemed ready to leave for dead three and a half years ago, when a European software company I had never heard of bought the app that I’d already been relying on for more than a dozen years.
The Nov. 16, 2022 TechCrunch headline on Kyle Wiggers’ post about Bending Spoons buying Evernote practically sighed, calling it “the end of an era.” By then, Evernote had fallen greatly from its heights a decade earlier, when it was a frequent home-screen occupant of iPhones in Silicon Valley and visionary CEO Phil Libin talked about making the company a “100-year startup.”
After Evernote’s introduction in 2014 of a business-card-scanning feature that I still rely on, I had not seen many new features useful to my own work. And I was still experiencing too many note-synchronization glitches between my devices, despite the vow of new management to focus on the app’s core note-taking functions.
All this had me wondering if the premium account that had been a fixture in my Web-services budget since 2015, and which had increased from $45 a year to $69.99, was an expense I would be better off zeroing out. The obvious alternative was Microsoft’s OneNote, which I was already paying for with my Office 365 subscription.
But some genius at Microsoft elected to retire the company’s Evernote-to-OneNote importer in September of 2022, making any such migration a lot more difficult. And then the new management at Bending Spoons got to work improving the product–and one of the first things the people at that Milan-based firm addressed was note sync.
They made enough progress that when the company announced a steep rate hike at the end of 2023–from $69.99 to $129.99–I grudgingly decided to re-up for one more year and see where things stood. Eight months later, I was pleasantly surprised to see words I typed in my laptop’s copy of Evernote appearing my phone’s copy of the app a second later.
Today, that lag is barely discernible.
And last year, Evernote added a feature that directly helps one of my core tasks as a journalist, writing down what people say. This AI Transcribe tool that once served up long, unbroken blocks of text has gotten increasingly accurate and useful.
When I tested this Saturday afternoon by having the Evernote app on my iPad record and then transcribe a video of a 15-minute talk from the HumanX AI conference, the transcript that it generated in 40 seconds was just about as accurate as the Read AI transcript on the conference’s site (aside from botching a company name) and added bullet points and numbers to match the speaker’s pacing.
Evernote’s new management has also done a good job of communicating with its customers, posting detailed release notes for the app’s Windows, Mac, Android and iOS/iPadOS versions (why is that so hard for other companies?) to go with its frequent updates. The app still needs a word-count function, but overall it seems immensely improved from two years ago.
Meanwhile, Evernote’s cross-platform competition hasn’t done as much to earn my business.
OneNote still doesn’t have a built-in business-card-scanning feature–that requires a separate app–and sees fewer updates than Evernote, with less detail published about the content of these updates. I don’t see the same hustle at Microsoft.
And I just don’t want to trust this function to Google Keep, the free app Google had the temerity to announce in 2013 literally a week after the company killed off its beloved RSS client Google Reader. Twelve years later, a lot more of my digital life now happens on Google services, which makes me even less interested in handing over this extra bit of it to that company.
Yes, $129.99 is a serious amount of money for a Web app and service–but not in the context of one that I use and find useful multiple times a day.
#100YearStartup #AITranscribe #BendingSpoons #businessCards #Evernote #GoogleKeep #noteTaking #notes #OneNote #PhilLibin #transcribe #transcription