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Jason Kincaid
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Jason Kincaid's personal blog at jasonkincaid.net covers culture, writing and startups. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Kincaid's 2014 post on Evernote's bugs and unreliability, including data loss and sync conflicts. Commenters cite it as support for their complaints about Evernote.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-01-04
- Deciding our f82 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-21
What Hacker News says?
Evernote is notoriously bad at keeping notes. http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elep...
Comment linking /2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/
on “Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices”Submitted Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant as a story · 451 points
HN discussionI've also found Evernote's core functionality to be an unreliable piece of shit. Almost any time I edit a note on two devices (even hours apart, always online devices) I get a big nasty merge conflict. Actually, no I don't. I get two copies of the file, with no merge helper. https://jasonkincaid.net/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/
Comment linking /evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/
on “Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel”Submitted A Farewell Ahoy — Thanks For Everything, TechCrunch (Jason Kincaid leaving) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThere are many horror stories on the web of users losing their data. I thought it was already well known that Evernote software cannot be trusted. Recently, two HN users made comments about data loss[1][2]. I'm baffled that users continue to trust it. I do understand that it's a slick product with nice features but if it fails the primary purpose (save the data and also retrieve it later), the GUI bells & whistles a…
Comment linking /2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/
on “If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice”Submitted Deciding our f8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe OP didn't seem to explain too many reasons other than a link to http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elep... which to me seems to be a uber power user use case and a post that could use some rewriting/editing to cut it down to a post instead of a rant. I just use it for text notes though. Evernote works great for me - I'm not going to worry about it.
Comment linking /2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elephant/
on “Why I’m ditching Evernote for Simplenote (and Notational Velocity)”- ed · 2017-02-22
Submitted Deciding Our F8 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
