Major decline of the Mac app

I have been using Evernote for years, and all along I was a vocal advocate for this app. I recommend it to friends all the time. For me, PDF annotation, the search functionality, and organizational tools are all indispensable features. I rely so heavily on Evernote on my Mac and on my phone for school, work, and my personal notes because it is so robust and reliable.

Unfortunately Evernote for Mac has violated that reliability over the last few months. First PDF annotation became slower and somewhat buggy. When MacOS Sierra launched, PDF annotation stopped functioning completely, and in general the Mac app has multiple difficulties handling embedded PDFs now. Text input has also become extremely frustrating — Evernote frequently adds extra return lines while I’m working with bulletted lists, and randomly becomes unable to format text unless I relaunch the app.

Overall, my experience with EN for Mac has gone from outstanding to extremely frustrating in just a few months. I’ve worked with tech support in depth on these issues back in September, and ultimately they just told me they had no fix and that they were working on it. I’m afraid that the change of leadership at Evernote is having a negative effect—I hope it turns around soon!

Dale Niño about Evernote, v6.10