The Slow Death of Simplenote (opens in new tab)

Simplenote is a fast, lightweight app for taking notes, with just the essentials: basic text editing, syncing across devices, and the option to share notes for collaboration with other Simplenote users. Fred Cheng and Mike Johnston created the first version of Simplenote in 2008. While building the product, they developed a sync engine. This sync engine would become the basis for Simperium, their cross-platform data syncing service. Simplenote became popular because of its straightforward fea...