[haney]

I use Evernote for ebooks, papers, articles and personal notes. Probably wouldn't work well for movies or large photo albums (I iCloud for stuff like that). I use their chrome extension, desktop app and mobile app and it works really well. It's really nice to be able to search everything I've ever written in notes or clipped on the web. It also has some support for OCR for paper notes, and does a decent job of indexing text in PDFs. I searched for an open source or self hosted solution for a long time, but ultimately broke down and chose a well supported commercial solution.

[aasasd]

Unfortunately Evernote gradually becomes worse and worse, at least on Mac. The very basic functionality of editing notes is buggy and slow. Issues keep creeping into both simple text notes and web clippings. Users are complaining about this for years, the devs do nothing but change the looks instead and bolt on corporate features (apparently corporate users don't need basic functionality working well?).

They have the weird community forum where employees don't post anything except for announcements. And now they have an extra tier before actual support, where your question is 'answered' by some community member or someone like that, who apparently can't be bothered to understand the question.

The Android app is a slow mess eating all available memory right away and/or refusing to edit notes. Inability to use SD cards is just what I want when the notes take 6 GB. And the website now “doesn't support” mobile browsers.

Pretty much the only thing where Evernote doesn't have better competition is the web clipper.

[johntash]

The web clipper is definitely the main reason I still use evernote. I've tried a few alternatives, but haven't found anything nearly as good.

Other than the speed issues you mentioned, I'm also worried that evernote is eventually going to start selling my information (if it doesn't already) and I don't feel safe putting personal notes on it.

[petra]

Evernote's search sucks(at least for a free user). can't(sometimes) even handle synonyms well. Sadly, there's no better alternative.

[haney]

I haven't had issues with synonyms specifically, my praise for it comes more from it copying the full text of websites when I clip them and parsing the contents of hand written OCR scanned notes and being able to search over those.

[petra]

are you a paying or free user?

[haney]

Paying