Evernote is still too big and clunky to me. But I always seemed to be gathering a lot and then ended up throwing it away months later.
It advertises with being a second brain, but makes one huge mistake. Building a useful second brain in 2026 is not about GATHERING information mindlessly, but about WHAT you store and HOW you are able to retrieve it. Our own brains are dynamic wonders of nature. In my opinion a second brain it’s basically stale and useless if you don’t tie it dynamically to your notes directly to goals, projects, tasks etc.
I’ve used evernote for years when I switched to better alternatives in 2013. Since then I’ve discovered Notion and never looked back.
