laocoon

I used to use Evernote all the time, although I wouldn't consider myself a power user. I don't think I utilized all of the features very well. I came to it through Tim Ferriss, I believe, and it was really amazing for me at the time.

I hardly ever use it anymore, using mostly notebooks for actual note taking now. I used to use the web clipper to save articles, but I found that when I would put something in Evernote, I hardly ever went back to access it later. It was like putting things in a vault. That probably all speaks more to me than the product. I am curious what new features they can provide with access to all of Google's machine learning APIs.

If I have ten minutes in an Uber or something to waste time, I almost always default to Reddit. I can give quick skims to an article and save it if it is something I would like to come back to later. But it's generally a low-attention, something-to-do-to-pass-the-time community for me. I hardly ever come to HN unless I know I am willing to work my mind a little bit. I have faith the posts and comments that I see will be generally well written, but I also acknowledge that if I want to get anything out of it, I can't breeze through it as easily as I can Reddit.

Note: I am not an active contributor to either community - just someone who reads the articles and comments and votes up the things I like.

I have to admit, when I read your previous comment, I looked at your profile, saw the book recommendation and had the same assumption. Thanks for explaining - I'm actually ordering the book now.