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Who uses, recommends or left Evernote, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

12 people

Teresa Torres
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
loved

I no longer keep anything on my hard drive. It all goes into Evernote. Everything. It’s the best backup system I can think of.

Blog post listing her favorite productivity, reading and product-building tools

2014-01-02·producttalk.org ↗

Neha Narula
Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; computer scientist working on distributed systems and digital currency.
loved

I use Evernote to store all of my random thoughts and lists because it syncs so effortlessly.

Her Uses This interview, on the machines, keyboard and apps she used as an MIT PhD student.

2012-10-05·usesthis.com ↗

Steve Coast
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative world map; later a product architect at Microsoft and Telenav.
loved

I back up everything in 3 places automatically, partially with BackBlaze. I love Mathematica and Evernote.

His Uses This interview, on carrying three computers and outsourcing his reading queue.

2012-06-20·usesthis.com ↗

Tiago Forte
Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs; writes about productivity and personal knowledge management at fortelabs.com.
uses

If you look at the sheer number of different methods for getting content into Evernote, it becomes clear how difficult it will be to replicate this functionality.

A post in which he used Obsidian, Tana and Mem each as his daily driver for about two weeks and evaluated whether any could replace Evernote as his Second Brain.

2023-11-20·fortelabs.com ↗

Matt Might
Computer science professor and author of The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.
uses

My hand-rolled personal note-taking wiki on my linode has been replaced by Evernote on my MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: a setup built to make the right things easy and the wrong things hard.

2012-01-06·usesthis.com ↗

John Allspaw
Engineering leader and author on web operations and resilience engineering; then SVP of Technical Operations at Etsy.
uses

Things I use every day are: Evernote, Omnigraffle, vi, git, svn, ssh, Chef, Firefox, and Adium.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the command-line tools he uses on live production data.

2011-10-14·usesthis.com ↗

Hilary Mason
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and later a machine-learning executive at Cloudera and Hidden Door.
uses

I use Adium for IM, and Evernote for things I'd like to remember.

Her written "Uses This" interview, from when she was chief scientist at bitly.

2011-07-27·usesthis.com ↗

Kevin Kelly
Founding executive editor of Wired; writes at kk.org and runs its True Films and Cool Tools recommendation projects.
uses

I use Evernote for clipping. And I've long used NoteBook for keeping notes, although I will eventually migrate that function to Evernote.

His written "Uses This" interview, covering desk, travel bag and writing software.

2011-05-16·usesthis.com ↗

Cal Henderson
Web developer; former head of engineering at Flickr, author of Building Scalable Web Sites, and co-founder and CTO of Slack.
uses

For keeping in sync between my Mac and my PC, I use XMarks for bookmarks and Evernote for notes.

His Uses This interview, on a PC-first setup and the web development tools he relies on.

2009-11-26·usesthis.com ↗

Gina Trapani
Writer and web developer; founding editor of Lifehacker, co-creator of ThinkUp and the todo.txt format.
uses

Mozy backs up my files online, Evernote stores notes

Her written "Uses This" interview, from when she was writing Smarterware after founding Lifehacker.

2009-02-20·usesthis.com ↗

Guy Spier
Zurich-based investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.
uses

Roam Research is a regular companion. I also use Evernote, keep many Moleskine notebooks for fleeting notes, and have started using Zotero and Glasp.

The 'Knowledge management' section of Spier's homepage, listing the tools he actually works in; no publication date shown, so the date is the sitemap lastmod for the page.

guyspier.com ↗

Anil Dash
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
mixed

I always want to use Evernote, but somehow it just has a little bit too much interface getting in the way most of the time.

His written "Uses This" interview, from when he was founding director of Expert Labs.

2011-05-07·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.