![]() This is stuff that you’d expect from a major overhaul. Some of it is just quality assurance issues: Crashes. The Penultimate user community is up in arms over the unusable complete rewrite that Evernote unexpectedly foisted on us on Thursday 11/13/14. ![]() I was afraid it would be abandoned, like Evernote Hello. Still, I was always nervous - EN had bought Penultimate from its original developer, and hadn’t put a lot into updates. I’ve used the others for special-purpose stuff, but I kept coming back to Penultimate for basic handwritten input. I have two other handwriting apps on my iPad, and have tried half a dozen more. So, if I needed to handwrite and didn’t need/want real paper, Penultimate was a good tool. Handwritten notes were easier to get into EN with Penultimate than by photographing a piece of paper, even the fancy Moleskine/Evernote notebooks. You zoomed in on your page, turned on drift, and the “paper” would scroll under your finger or stylus at your writing speed. It was a cool little hand-notetaking app, with a zoom-and-drift handwriting interface that was unique as far as I know. I got all of EN’s free apps for the iPad, and deleted most except for Evernote itself, and for Penultimate. I got heavily into the Evernote (EN) ecosystem in February. But the tale of Penultimate 6.0, Evernote’s latest revision to its only in-house handwriting input app for iOS, is a classic tale of software acquisition disaster. ![]() I spent 30 years in the software development industry, leaving before I wrote a mobile app, alas. ![]()
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