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I am very worried about Evernote, and this is another clear sign that Evernote just doesn't "get" it.

50-notes is insufficient for any serious trial of Evernote, and clearly insufficient if you're considering switching any non-trivial note pile to Evernote.

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> I am very worried about Evernote, and this is another clear sign that Evernote just doesn't "get" it.

My interpretation is that they believe the product can't compete for new customers. They're trying to suck as much money out of (a very large number of) paying legacy customers as they can before they shut the service down. They don't care about free users, since they don't expect new customers anyway. They implemented big price hikes a while ago.

Yes, this reminds me that I need to find a way to export my old Evernote docs so I don't lose them completely.

the iOS app can export them one by one to files -- I just went through what I had in there from 8 years back when it was the tool I used to keep things together through a move, and there were like 2 things that I actually cared about.

You can export them in bulk from the website. It is quite painless.

How long until they make that a non-free feature I wonder.

How? All Im seeing is notebook by notebook export.

I don't exactly remember because it was awhile ago when I exported all my notes and I no longer have an account to check. I remember I had to google how to do it, but once I found out how to do it, it was very easy. There was just a button or link somewhere (maybe under account settings?) that allowed me to download everything as a zip file. Oh, and I remember I had to do it on the desktop website and not on a mobile device.

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