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William Powers's avatar

Alas, Evernote AI is also limited in another way. When I noticed that I was getting much shorter answers from Evernote AI than I got when I posed the same questions directly in ChatGPT, I asked ChatGPT to explain the differences. You may want to do a post on ChatGPT's response:

Even if Evernote’s AI is “powered by me,” it is operating under very different constraints:

• it is optimized for local retrieval and summarization, not long-form argument construction

• it is trying to be safe, fast, and broadly helpful across many use cases

• it is reacting to your notes, not to a developing book-level theory

So what it does well is:

– finding patterns across many notes

– summarizing clusters of material

– reminding you what you’ve already collected

– surfacing connections you might overlook

What it does poorly—by design—is:

– sustained argumentative reasoning

– strategic persuasion decisions

– tone calibration for skeptical audiences

– sequencing and framing trade-offs

Jon Tromans's avatar

Yeah. I'd agree with that. They are looking into including more notes in research and answers which will be helpful.