Get your allowance
June 14th, 2008
With our latest releases, we’re introducing monthly upload allowances to Evernote.
What’s a monthly upload allowance?
The monthly upload allowance is a measure of how much new data you add to your account on the Evernote web service in a given month. For all of our existing users, the month starts today, June 13. Oh, and don’t worry, all the notes you’ve created and all the features you’ve grown to love aren’t going anywhere.
How much do I get?
All free accounts are set to 40 megabytes per month. At the start of each month, your allowance is reset and you get a fresh forty. This means that if you max out your account every month, you’ll have 480MB of notes at the end of the year.
You’d be surprised how much 40MB gets you in Evernote terms. Here’s a rough estimate:
- Typed notes: 20,000
- Ink notes: 10,000
- Mobile snapshots: 400
- Web clips: 270
- Audio notes: 40
How is the monthly upload allowance calculated?
Every time something new is added to your account on the Evernote web service, it counts towards your monthly upload allowance. So, if you have 10MB remaining for a given month and you add a note containing a 1MB image, that will leave you with 9MB for the month. One important thing to keep in mind, you cannot add to your monthly allowance by deleting a note. So, deleting that 1MB note will not bring you back up to 10MB. Notes kept in local notebooks are not sent to the web service and therefore do not count towards your monthly upload allowance.
What if I want more?
Hang in there. We’re putting the finishing touches on our premium subscription, which will offer a significantly higher monthly upload allowance and a bunch of other goodies.
How do I know how much I have remaining?
We’ve built meters into Evernote for Windows, Evernote for Mac, Evernote Web, and Evernote for Windows Mobile to show exactly how far along you are.
There are also a bunch of improvements and bug fixes, so make sure to update Evernote on all the platforms that you use.
Posted by Andrew Sinkov at 1:12 am in Newsworthy, Product updates
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Ah, that looks great, I’m sure I can stick to 40MB/month until you get that premium pricing worked out.
I had already posted this on my blog tonight http://monkeymemoirs.com/2008/06/evernote-premium-services-almost-available-monthly-upload-limits/ without realising you had described it all here. Thanks!
June 14th, 2008 at 3:19 am
The new beta keeps crashing on me.
I’m using OSX 10.5.3, on an Intel Imac. As soon as i open up evernote, it shows up for two seconds, and then it silently quits.
Anybody else having this problem?
(If you guys had a forum, I would have posted it there.
)
June 14th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I don’t like the ida. Now I have to think about what I add and delete. I like the fact that I can add and delete notes as i please, without thinking about my monthly upload cap.
Why not keeping it simple. 1 GB for free subscription and unlimited for premium users… or something like that?
Evernote still rocks though
Regards,
Mugo
June 14th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Try http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/ for the forum.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:15 am
I agree with the commenter above. I will be less likely to use Evernote during my daily workflow if I have to stop and think “wait… do I really want to keep this note? how heavy is it? how much monthly space do I have left?”. This, in my opinion, makes the free version less usable from a process perspective.
I agree that 1gb of total storage would be comfortable enough to swim in – I’d be able to upload files intuitively, which greatly increases my productivity with evernote.
I feel this is a step in the wrong direction.
June 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am
With 40 mb of storage and a capped allowance, Evernote is essentially a crippled service.
20 Mb was weak, but at least I could delete notes – now that my “allowance” is maxed out I simply can’t use the service for the rest of the month! Please work on a better system to implement ASAP.
So far, I really like the service, but the dismally low storage makes it more frustrating than useful. I can’t frankly tell how well it works, as my account is frozen from updates as soon as I upload my notes. The “Upgrade your account” notice offers an startlingly low 500 Mb of storage. I’m expecting at least 1GB w/ a free account (and I’m willing to pay for more) – less than that & I’ll have to find a different service.
That said, keep up the good work! I’ve been looking for something just like this!
June 14th, 2008 at 10:53 am
I think 40MByte a month is just fine for a free service. 40MByte is a lot of text. Sure, if you are clipping hi-res images and audio it will go fast but for text and small images 40MBytes is a lot.
As for integrating Evernote into my workflow, I don’t want to think about how much space I have left and whether something is “Evernote worthy.”
So, I hope the premium service has enough quota (or levels of quota) that we don’t have to think about it.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am
[...] Evernote blog has an article up about quotas – thus, I can finally stop guessing about how pricing for the next Evernote version might [...]
June 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Although I really appreciate the great service, I have to concur with the commenters above. I think a 1GB limit is far too excessive for free, A reasonable limit of 100MB would be greatly appreciated. Saying that, I’d probably end up subscribing to the premium service anyway. Keep up the good work!
June 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I understand how these things go, so I won’t make a comment that would be an overreaction to this. I know you guys are figuring things out, and I am sure that you will find a nice middle ground between the premium accounts and the free lunch crowd.
Since I plan on paying for future use of this, my only concern is that all the noise from the above, who may or may not be future customers, doesn’t distract you all from getting the premium stuff in place.
My only comment is that having the “meter” in such a large conspicuous place in the UI is both distracting and unnecessary.
Thanks for you work so far. Waiting for more good stuff to come.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
[...] 刚刚更新了Evernote，发现菜单栏多了点东西，点了一下发现是显示储存在everynote网站的内容，但是怎么一下子减少到40MB了，记得以前是200MB啊。仔细一看，原来是容量限制从之前的总量限制，变成了每月同步容量限制，Evernote的blog发布了这次更新容量变化消息。跟Flickr类似，再也不用担心是否会超过总容量的限制，要不要删除以往的资料了，而是只要一个月之内不超过40MB，就可以一直用下去。如果不储存音频文件和大的图片文件，40MB是几乎用不完的。 [...]
June 15th, 2008 at 5:58 am
I only hope that premium pricing is a) put into place soon as I will run out within a week or two otherwise and b) that is is affordable.
June 15th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I can´t see the storage status on my desktop version, even when it says it´s updated… where can I find that bar? I can´t see it neither on web´s version. BTW, I stick with those who think 40 MB is not enough, now I have to really think what am I going to upload and how heavy it is… Makes me paranoid. Please, I carry 90 GB daily just in my trousers pockets…
June 15th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I think this is a great solution, managing the trade-offs quite nicely. I really hope you guys can start charging for this product soon so you can make some money. I am addicted to Evernote and my only fear is that you guys won’t be able to keep things running.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I don’t really have a problem with this as long as the notes I add after I have run out of quota will be uploaded in the beginning of the month, as soon as I get more. Will this be the way it works?
June 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I was wondering if you guys were going to add video support to the service. I know that is one thing I REALLY wish I had. Possibly going to be in the upgraded service? or is i possible and I am not aware of it?
June 18th, 2008 at 1:04 am
I use evernote for research. I store lots, LOTS of pdfs in it. 40mb isn’t enough. 500mb/m is a little better, but 500mb total is still not enough. I’d feel safe with a few gigs.
It makes me wonder how your searching feature will work on large sets of data, if your so concerned with 40mb.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
@mr-sk I put a lot of PDFs in Evernote too, many of them scanned pages. I’m now holding them on my hard drive (and backing up to JungleDisk) until such time that my Evernote Quota is increased.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
So, when is the ff3 support coming?
June 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Why not a Linux version?? You are loosing many potential users (like me) by ignoring the Linux platform. Shame on you!
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
i’m running evernote for windows v3.0.0.625 and don’t see the storage status bar. does anyone see the storage bar?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I’ve stumbled upon this service awhile back, and had meant to try it out. Is there a one time transfer plan so I could move everything I had from other services, namely Google Notebook, to Evernote? I’m not sure if the 40mb limit is going to hold for that first and one time transfer. It would be quiet painful if I have to take 2, 3, 4 months to transfer, and have a frozen account for the rest of the months.
Could you guys draft up a transfer plan of some sort for first time user to move their notes from old services? That would be greatly appreciated. =D
July 30th, 2008 at 8:04 am
why if I import a pdf with more then 20-22 pages, Evernote save it, display it but cuts all the pages after?!?
I haven’t read it anywhere..
and.. what happens if I uninstall evernote? do I loose all my documents?
I’ve Leopard..
August 9th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I’ve found that you can save the pdf back to your computer and have them all visionable.
I really like this app!!
August 9th, 2008 at 8:37 am
… i think this 40mb upload limit is a crap idea, … give us a space at least upto 1GB so that we can play under that without any restrictions, …
… i really this this but App, … but i’m leaving it now for some other alternate, … can you please explain you on earth you people have also put limit on the desktop version … ?
March 10th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I have no problem with 40Mb as a trial. Even saving 150 dpi PDFs, for example, this should give you about 100 pages to test the service with.
I do, however, think you should have me tiers of service. 500Mb is probably adequate for a small office, but for higher volume use, like a law office for example, 1 or 2Gb per month may be more feasible.
Also, another suggestion is to have the ability to create multiple logins per account and different access privileges. That way an admin user could add and edit documents, and a standard user could read only.
One other thing I’d like to see: sub-notebooks (maybe you can call them chapters). Other document processing apps I’ve used like SOHO Notes have this ability.
With the iPhone and cross platform capabilities, Evernote has marvelous potential for small business document management.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I really want to use it, but 40MB is to low for me. If you look around many services offer gigs+, so 40MB in 2009 is so……
But the rest is great!
March 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I am just beginning to use Evernote and I like the idea but I think 40Mb monthly upload is going to put me off using it for real.
May 11th, 2009 at 2:22 pm