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Evernote alternative
I had to write – first, to agree with the “Artful Dodger” Dick Pountain (see issue 353, p20). His excellent article rang bells with me after my recent travails with Evernote, who peremptorily announced an effective shutting down of its “free” offering at the beginning of December.
After much research I settled on Upnote. It does everything I want, quickly, and its price of 89p per month is modest. Its “lifetime” upgrade at £23 is little more than Evernote wanted for a month.
The Upnote website is excellent in design and content, answering every query I had, including a link to discussions about the team and business viability on Reddit. I was using Evernote for “projects and files” and WorkFlowy for the here-and-now, but with Upnote I could dispense with WorkFlowy – however, I’m keeping it (subject to rent-seeking) as it’s so good and simple.
My second reason to contact you was to congratulate Barry on his ChatGPT article (see issue 354, p26) – a masterclass indeed!
Andy Jupe
Communistic 5G
I agree with Adam Jackson (see issue 353, p24) as to the abysmal mobile coverage in this country. Recently I was in Dalston, a central suburb of the metropolis, and yet even there I had a hard time getting any signal. No EE, no O2. Coverage given by the big four appears to be wildly exaggerated. Good luck trying to get a Vodafone signal travelling through the Trent Valley!
Contrast this with my recent visit to Prague. No interruptions and even a signal in the caves in the countryside! Perhaps a period of communism might assist. At least maybe we would have a functioning 4G or 5G signal after the revolution instead of the disaster we have now...
Jeff Kelland
Never mind The Jetsons
It is undeniable that AI was the big tech talking point of 2023 and, along with humanoid robots, will surely continue to dominate headlines. However, while many people are worrying about a Terminator-esque cyborg uprising, I suspect the future will be somewhat less “exciting”.
As a child of the 1970s and 1980s, most futurologists back then would have had us living a life much like The Jetsonsby now – but as we know, many things we thought would be radically different have hardly changed and, conversely, things we couldn’t have fully grasped are what changed the world completely.
My point is that while there’s some amazing w
