Evernote has just released version 3.5 of their Windows note taking app. Unfortunately, the first screenshot you see here is not the UI for the new version, but a mockup I put together in order to offer suggestions in their beta test. The discussion relating to the UI is one of the busiest threads on their message board for the beta.

The actual UI looks like this:

Which looks like a bad Java applet from the XP days, instead of a WPF-based app for a modern Windows platform (yes, that shitty UI is built on WPF). Throughout the beta, the Evernote devs have, through a profound lack of communication, repeatedly ignored its’ testers/customers, failing to fix bugs that were brought to their attention, and straight out lying when they said they were going to fix the issues that we, as customers brought up. On top of that, a lot of the functionality that was in previous versions was simply dropped, with little explanation.

I will be removing Evernote from my PC, iPod and my family’s Macs, I won’t be resuming my Premium subscription with them. I shall now be researching alternatives. Fuck you Evernote!