![]() ![]() ![]() Along with the social communications built-into these tools – like commenting, and co-editing – inclusion of checklists has led to these solutions acting as content-centric work management tools, or ‘ work processing’ tools. In reality, these tools are increasingly being used to manage and share information related to coordinating work. Ultimately, it is about your own deep understanding of how you work in this new world of having everything wherever you are.In June I wrote a piece on what I called ‘work processing’, where I explored some ideas about the use of new productivity apps, like Dropbox Paper, Notion.io, or Quip, and looking at how these tools that support sharing, co-editing, and commenting of digital ‘docs’ can form the groundwork for something altogether different from what we used to call ‘word processing’. And, if the goal of an app is to help you be more productive - and you’re spending more time figuring out how to bend it to your particular workflow - ask yourself whether your investment of time and energy outweighs the benefits you hope to derive. Understand the long-term vision of the organization you are trusting with your most important data. But, as I have preached on this site before, be smart about where you store your data. (In fact, every post I’ve written so far for Attorney at Work this year has been in Quip.)ĭoes this mean you should abandon Evernote today and use Microsoft’s tool to export your data out of Evernote and import it into OneNote … or Quip? Not necessarily. ![]() With its vast number of integrations with Evernote (you can import notes from Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, Twitter, Gmail Pocket, IFTTT, Email, Slack and more), it is as amazing as it is unobtrusive with an incredible focus on getting things done. I believe it will reign supreme over the Elephant in no time. Launched in 2013, Quip has filled the gap in every conceivable way - a gorgeous interface, simplicity, chat, collaboration and organization in a highly secure environment. In my opinion, the app that will win the productivity market is Quip, created by former Facebook and Google executives (and recently purchased by Salesforce for $750 million). Other apps arrived on the market, too, looking to fill the void in some of Evernote’s functionality, while some older apps such as SimpleNote and Workflowy saw a resurgence. Though not as robust as OneNote, it added the ability to take photos using Google Drive and “scan” and OCR documents and photos. Google also advanced with its Keep product. ![]() OneNote also leveraged powerful integrations through IFTTT that put it on the same playing field as Evernote. It not only segregated OneNote, its competing note-taking app, it made it available for free and increased its functionality across Android, iOS, Mac and Windows operating systems. The market matured and became saturated with new ideas as Evernote lagged. Evernote’s lost focus and constant internal turmoil, mixed with its exceedingly fast growth, landed the behemoth behind in both investment and product advancement.Īs Evernote’s focus drifted, Microsoft was relentless. It was the equivalent of a TV show “jumping the shark.” Unfortunately, Evernote’s focus was off when it came to finding ways to continually innovate its core product. The downside to Evernote’s early popularity was the company’s desire to monetize by selling everything from branded socks and shirts to co-branded notebooks, briefcases and scanners. By 2015, there were already 100 million users worldwide. Have a sidebar chat with a colleague about a project or task without creating yet another email chain.Įvernote let us do all this and its popularity skyrocketed.Collaborate on a document without 36 different revisions, all having a new suffix such as “v8,” “v9.1,” “v10withDGedits.”.Get rid of the scraps of paper we write ideas on, but keep those thoughts somewhere easy to find and remember.Dictate an audio note and store it with every other brainstorm (not in Apple’s voice memo app where we’ll forget about it).Take a photo of something we want to remember but don’t want to save in our phone.Take a note without saving it as a Word document.The Amazing EvernoteĮvernote created something amazing we knew we needed but had no way of doing, allowing users to: We want access to our most important stuff on all of our phones and devices, anywhere we are. We aren’t just working out of Windows Explorer or Apple’s Finder. We no longer work on just a desktop or a laptop. Launched in 2008, Evernote gained popularity because it solved a major constraint in our productivity - recognizing the changes in the way we actually work, access information and communicate. ![]()
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