"Date of experience" ranges through more than 10 years of using the website Evernote Free. Admittedly, when you pay nothing for a service, you tend to appreciate whatever it is you receive. I considered subscribing but never did because the functionality was spotty from the get-go. One annoyance was Evernote's regular logging out of a user no matter if the user was very active in it. What possible purpose this constant logging out served was never explained as far as I know. Attempting to format a note was an exercise in frustration. The system has idiosyncrasies; I made suggestions with no results. And this was back when Evernote was far more streamlined than it became. During the past 10 years Evernote became increasingly bloated with things the average user has no need for, but cannot opt out of, and with each addition, loading and synching notes became slower. I suspect the biggest negative impact Evernote has experienced in the past decade, such as loss of revenue, is due to these bloatware bells and whistles. Evernote once had a very good companion extension that would copy an online article to a Note. Last year that feature went permanently kaput for me and according to Forums, for many others. And now, with only a few days notice, as of December 4, Evernote announces that free users will be limited to only one notebook and 50 notes. After users relied on the service for years and accumulated many notes during that time, we get only 4 days to figure out how what to do with the many notebooks and notes we have. This abrupt and drastic change is the icing on the cake. I have many different things occurring right now and the last thing I needed was one more issue to deal with.
