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Do you have a phone full of screenshots, voice notes you’ll “get to later,” and meeting recordings you’ve been meaning to listen to since last month? Then this one's for you!

Capturing information is easy. But when your ideas are locked in recordings or images, you lose time trying to find or make sense of them later. That’s why AI video transcription tools, image to text converters, and audio transcription software are essential for turning scattered content into a personal knowledge bank.

AI Transcribe is an all-in-one tool that unlocks your content, whether it’s audio, video, or images, turning digital clutter into organized, usable notes that fit right into your workflow. Our powerful AI transcription software supports a wide range of formats, allowing you to convert video to text, extract text from images, and transcribe audio in just three easy steps.

AI Transcribe is designed to support a wide variety of formats and sources, making it a flexible online transcription tool for many needs.

Audio files. Quickly convert audio to text from an MP3 file.

Screenshots and images. Seamlessly extract text from images.

Handwritten notes. Turn handwriting to text in no time with fast, reliable text recognition.

Document uploads like PDFs. Easily digitize records or printed materials, making them searchable and editable.

Direct video links. You can even transcribe from a URL to get text for an online video clip or file from the cloud.

Live recordings. Capture conversations in real time and turn them into searchable text.

Once your file is uploaded, AI Transcribe takes it from there. 

In the standalone web tool, it’s as easy as uploading your content and hitting ‘Transcribe’.

Instead, if you're working in the Evernote app, you'll see a ‘Transcribe’ button appear next to your content—just tap it to begin. Within moments, your audio, image, or video will be converted into text, ready for you to review. 

Whether you're working within Evernote or using the web tool, saving your transcription is quick and effortless. 

The standalone tool gives you flexible options—you can insert the transcription directly into Evernote, copy it to use in another document, or download it as a .txt file for safekeeping.

On the other hand, if you choose to transcribe your content directly in Evernote, you can edit the transcription like any other text: Leave comments, copy and paste sections, or move it to another note or Space.

From archiving old documents and digitizing printed pages to transforming handwritten diaries into searchable content, AI Transcribe helps you preserve and repurpose your important information. Whether you need to convert images to text, transcribe audio, perform automatic video transcription, or transcribe a video link, it transforms content from a variety of formats into editable text. The result? Your cluttered media becomes clean, structured notes—so your best ideas never get buried in the mess.

👉 How to effortlessly convert audio, video, and images to text with AI Transcribe

Convert audio, video, screenshots, and handwritten notes into editable text in just three simple steps using AI Transcribe.

Transcribe audio, video & images to text in 3 easy steps

Transcribe your content using AI in 3 simple steps

From Zoom calls and podcasts to YouTube clips and handwritten notes, we’re often juggling all types of content where having a written transcript would be a lifesaver—but pausing every few seconds to type it all out? Total productivity killer.

That’s where AI Transcribe comes in: an all-in-one online transcription tool that converts your audio, video, and image-based content into clean, searchable text in seconds. Whether you’re looking to transcribe audio, convert video to text, or extract text from images, this powerful AI transcription software handles it all.

Use AI Transcribe within your Evernote account to seamlessly convert audio, video, and images into text, directly in your notes. 

You can also switch to the standalone web tool, which includes all the same features as the in-app version—plus the added capability of AI video transcription for online videos (URL to transcript). From there, you can save the results locally or to Evernote. 

Both options are designed to be intuitive and fit smoothly into your workflow.

Here’s how to easily add a voice recording to a note and transcribe it afterward: 

First, click “Insert” and choose “Audio Recording.”

Press stop once you're done recording, and the “Transcribe” button will automatically appear.

The transcript drops right into your note—you can then edit and format it any way you want.

AI Transcribe handles a wide range of content types, making it incredibly versatile no matter the source.

Perform fast audio transcription. Perfect for when you need to transcribe MP3 to text, like when you’re turning a podcast episode into a blog post or newsletter.

Use it as a voice-to-text converter for live recordings. Just convert audio to text the next time you have a great idea to jot down. Your morning voice note can become your next project outline.

Transcribe MP4 and MOV files, turning speech to text from video. For example, you can turn a recorded Zoom interview into a searchable script for your article.

Transcribe video from an online link. Great for generating automatic video subtitles for a vlog or promotional video.

Convert image to text from formats like JPG and PNG. Useful for digitizing handwritten meeting notes on a whiteboard or extracting content from a photographed flyer or scanned document.

AI Transcribe supports files up to 100MB in size or 1 hour in length, making it ideal for meetings, interviews, lectures, and more. With robust multi-language support, AI Transcribe is a great tool for students practicing their foreign language listening skills or global teams collaborating across languages.

*Right now, the URL to text feature is only directly available in the standalone web tool.

There are three simple ways to convert your content to text using AI Transcribe:

Upload a file. Drop in any supported audio, video, or image file from your device. This could be pre-recorded interviews, voice notes, lectures, scans, screenshots, or photos of written text.

Record audio directly. Use the built-in recorder to capture live speech in real time. Directly record your meetings, brainstorms, or quick thoughts on the go, for a seamless speech-to-text online experience.

Paste a link. Got an online video clip or cloud-hosted file? Online video transcription is no problem—just paste the URL and AI Transcribe will handle the rest.

AI Transcribe is more than just a transcription tool. It’s a natural extension of how Evernote users already think and work. If you use Evernote as a digital “second brain,” you’re likely collecting thoughts, conversations, and ideas from all corners of your life—meetings, voice memos, lectures, even snapshots of handwritten notes. The goal? To organize everything in one place so it’s searchable, usable, and ready when you need it. With AI Transcribe, every word and image can become part of your thinking system—effortlessly captured, transcribed, and instantly accessible alongside the rest of your notes.

AI Transcribe also integrates seamlessly with the Evernote ecosystem: Just scan documents or handwritten pages with your phone or record audio on the go, then drop it all into Evernote to be transcribed. From there, it works hand-in-hand with tools like AI Edit (so you can quickly summarize transcripts), as well as both traditional and AI-powered search, helping you surface exactly what you need—no matter when or how it was captured.

From MP3s and MP4s to JPGs and beyond, AI Transcribe handles a wide range of formats. It’s your go-to video transcription tool, audio transcription tool, and photo-to-text converter, letting you focus on your content—not the typing.

Turn your recordings, videos, and notes into editable text instantly. AI Transcribe supports audio, video, images, screenshots, and handwritten notes.

Convert Audio, Video & Images to Text with AI Transcribe

How to effortlessly convert audio, video, and images to text with AI Transcribe

Back in December 2024, we made Spaces—formerly a Teams-only feature—available for all individual Evernote users. The goal was to unlock a powerful additional level of organization for those looking to build a more robust system. Below, we explore how Spaces compare to other tools like Stacks and Notebooks, and how to mix and match these features based on your specific needs and preferences. 

What’s the difference between Spaces, Stacks, and Notebooks?

The main difference between these Evernote entities can be summarized with the following table: 

Notebooks contain a collection of notes, usually grouped around a single topic. Additionally, notebooks can be shared with others.

Notebooks are one of Evernote’s core building blocks. They serve as the most basic level of organization within an Evernote account. This means that, while it’s possible to use Evernote without stacks or spaces, everyone has at least one notebook in their account.

However, with several notebooks in an account, it’s easy for your account to get cluttered, making it difficult to stay organized or quickly locate the information you need.

That’s where Stacks and Spaces come in!

A stack is simply a collection of notebooks, grouped around a common theme. They’re great for basic organization, but have a few limitations: 

Stacks don’t exist as independent entities, meaning you cannot have an empty stack

For this reason you can’t have notes in stacks outside of notebooks

When clicked, stacks don’t differentiate between which notes are in which notebook, but show one single note list

You can’t share stacks directly—you would need to share each notebook in a stack individually

A space is a distraction-free workspace, perfect for specific projects. Unlike stacks, spaces are independent entities and have additional capabilities: 

Spaces can contain both notebooks AND notes

Spaces provide a structured interface with a clear hierarchy—unlike in stacks, with spaces notes are separated by notebook, making organization and navigation more intuitive

It’s possible to pin notes within a space

Notes and notebooks in a space can be sorted by Title and Date updated 

It’s possible to share your space with others—you can share the entire space, or choose to share specific items while keeping the overall workspace private

The best thing about stack and spaces is that you don’t need to choose which one to use—they can be used in a complementary way. We explore how this works in greater detail later in the article. But first...

Where is your information actually stored?

Evernote is designed intentionally to give you access to your content from various entry points. Here’s a quick guide to where you can find your notes and notebooks around your account.

You can find notes within its dedicated notebook or space. While notes might be visible in various parts of the platform (for example, in the Notes tab or pinned to your Home), each note is anchored to one single notebook or space in your account. 

You can also find all your notes, regardless of which notebook or space they’re part of in your Notes tab. From there, you can easily see and navigate to the associated notebook or space by following the “breadcrumbs” at the top of the note.

Instead, an individual note cannot exist within a stack.

You can find a full list of your notebooks in your Notebooks tab. If you choose to organize your notebooks into stacks, you’ll see them sorted into stacks in the Notebooks tab as well. If a notebook belongs in a specific space, you’ll see it referenced in the notebook list as well.

You can also see your notebooks in the Desktop sidebar. Again, if you’ve chosen to use stacks to organize your notebooks, you’ll see them listed on the sidebar.

Lastly, you can find notebooks directly within a space as well.

❗Keep in mind that both the Notes and Notebooks tabs have a filter to include/exclude notes and notebooks located in spaces, as well as a filter to display shared content. With these two filters, you can remove content hosted in shared spaces from your personal note and notebook lists, creating a clear separation between your personal and shared workspaces. 

💥Now, let’s see spaces, stacks, and notebooks in action! 

Below we look at some real-life ways that spaces, stacks, and notebooks can be combined to build robust, flexible, and personalized organizational systems.

Cleo and Damien are busy parents with two kids—Troy and Zoey. They use Evernote to keep track of their family finances, vacations, appointments, and more.

Cleo and Damien use stacks to group information on similar topics, like school, extracurricular activities, and other major parts of their family’s life. They also need a way to consolidate information for each kid, and for individual, one-off projects, like planning their next vacation. 

Here’s how they set up their Evernote account:

Cleo and Damian have a notebook for each individual activity and project.

They use stacks to group notebooks by specific topics and areas of their family life.

They use spaces to combine notes and notebooks for each individual kid, to create a “hub” of all their activities and important information.

They also use spaces to coordinate larger projects, like planning family vacations.

Joy is a women’s career coach with multiple clients. She meets with each client once per week and helps them with their job search, cover letters, resume, and interview preparation. She also discusses their goals and ambitions.

Joy needs a system to keep private and shared notes organized separately on a per client basis. She also needs an easy way to share content with her clients so that they can collaborate together.

Here’s how Joy set up her Evernote account:

Joy keeps separate notebooks for each of her clients.

She keeps them neatly organized in her sidebar with stacks, which are separated by private/shared content and by client.

At the same time, Joy has a shared space with each client where they keep all the shared materials, a list of goals, and resumes, cover letters, and other active projects.

Stephen is a college senior majoring in 20th century American literature. He’s working on a group project on the life and influence of Langston Hughes, which requires a lot of research and written analysis.

Stephen needs to keep his current notes organized, as well as keep old notes from past semesters on-hand for easy access. He also needs a shared workspace where he can collaborate with his classmates. For convenience, this workspace should also include Stephen’s relevant course notes.

Here’s how Stephen set up his Evernote account:

Stephen keeps separate notebooks for each of his courses.

Using stacks, Stephen can arrange his notes by semester, which makes it easy to find old notes without keeping the notebook list cluttered.

For his group project, Stephen and his classmates organize and share their notes using a dedicated space. Stephen combines notebooks from two stacks, since they both relate to the project. The group also creates shared notes in the space to take meeting notes, assign tasks, and contribute to a shared bibliography.

We hope this article was helpful in explaining how you can combine spaces, stacks, and notebooks to unlock your full Evernote potential. Spaces for individual users are still in beta, which means we’re releasing new functionality on a regular basis! For example, something we’re currently exploring is the ability to add stacks directly to spaces.

You can follow all our progress at product.evernote.com, where we’re sharing the latest Evernote developments. It’s also a great place to share your feedback and request/vote for new features.

Learn how to combine spaces, stacks, and notebooks to create a robust and flexible organization system that works for you!

Spaces, Stacks & Notebooks: What’s the difference and when to use them?

After securing Evernote’s foundational technologies in 2023, we turned our attention to building a fast-paced and dynamic weekly release schedule packed with meaningful updates. We set an ambitious goal to ship one-hundred improvements this year (more or less two per week). As 2024 comes to a close, we counted them up and… we were right on target! 🎯

Below, you can find the ultimate list of all one-hundred improvements from the past year, plus a deep-dive into the latest changes.

Plus, here’s what we worked on most recently:

We’re always looking to keep our product roadmap well-balanced between essential fixes and major innovation. I’m happy to share that between October and December, we rolled out four game-changing updates: 

Accountless collaboration. Now, anyone with a link can view or edit the content of a note—even if they don’t have their own Evernote account. This update resolves a big hurdle for many people who were looking to collaborate with classmates, colleagues, and other contributors. 

Once the note link is shared, it opens in a browser window, where collaborators can see and even change the content of the note using our new “lite” editor (the level of permissions is set by the original note owner).

Mobile navbar customization. After making it possible to customize the Desktop sidebar earlier this year, we quickly worked to release a similar option for Mobile. Now, you can select which sections are displayed in your navbar, customizing it to reflect the unique way you use Evernote on your phone. Anything that’s removed from the main menu is still easily available in under ••• More. Check out this video for a step-by-step guide on how to edit your navbar. 

Spaces for individuals. For a long time, Spaces were a Teams-exclusive feature, but we figured everyone can benefit from another powerful organizational tool! With Spaces, you can group notes and notebooks on a per-topic or project basis, making it easy to stay organized for work, school, or life in general.

AI Transcribe (and other tools). We’re expanding the Evernote multiverse with standalone versions of some of our most-loved in-app tools. Currently, we offer AI Transcribe, PDF Converter, and PDF Editor—and we have ideas for many, many more!

At its core, Evernote is a note-editor. For this reason, refining the Editor experience is always one of our top priorities. Over the past several months, we introduced a range of changes designed to make note-taking easier, more intuitive, and more personalized.

Draggable paragraphs. Previously, only a select number of Evernote’s content blocks could be rearranged using drag-and-drop. Now, we’ve unlocked new ways to quickly rearrange your content. These include the power to drag a paragraph block anywhere within the note, the option to reposition an entire collapsed section at one time, and the ability to move a paragraph block directly into a collapsed section.

LaTeX editor block. With this newest addition to the list of Editor features, you can add complex formulas to your notes using the popular LaTeX notation form.

Remove the default note thumbnail. Evernote automatically selects the first image in a note and assigns it as the note thumbnail. We’ve introduced a new setting where you can remove the thumbnail outright…and we’re very close to unlocking the ability to choose a custom image. 🎉

In addition to these bigger updates, here are some other subtle Editor improvements that make it easier to…

Start a new paragraph: Simply click at the end of the existing text block (no need to press ‘Enter’ each time).

Create a new line in the same paragraph: Press SHIFT + ENTER together.

Exit a quote block:  Press ‘Enter’ at the end of a quote to revert back to normal text, or hit ‘Delete’ on an empty line to separate quotes into individual blocks.

Exit a collapsible section: Just press ENTER at the end of the section.

Select text in tables: One click places the cursor where you click; one click + drag highlights the text as you go, letter by letter. Two clicks highlights the word you’re on; double-clicking and dragging highlights the text as you go, word by word. Three clicks highlights the content of the entire cell.

Add attachment to your tables: Drop them in without worrying that you’ll mess up the existing layout.

Evernote’s sharing and collaboration experience has been another major area of focus for us over the past few months. Aside from accountless collaboration (which I already mentioned above), here are some other ways we made the overall process smoother:  

New sharing experience. We made it easier than ever to share your great ideas with others. By clicking, “Share note” you can instantly create and copy a shareable link. From there, head to the sharing menu to adjust permissions, or quickly unpublish the note with just one more click. 
👉By the way, this is one example of how we occasionally release something and then decide we can do it even better. Stay tuned for a new new experience in early 2025.

Filter out shared notes and notebooks. Earlier in the year, we introduced the ability to leave a shared note or notebook—but then we thought: what if you want to keep the content and just declutter your workspace instead? With this new filer option, you can keep access to the shared content and easily remove it from your personal notes and notebooks lists.

Automatic note & notebook acceptance. Previously, to access a newly shared note or notebook, you first had to click on an email notification or intentionally open the content in your Shared with Me section. Now, we’ve updated the process so that the content appears directly in your note or notebook list as soon as it’s shared. Not only does this create a smoother experience, but it addresses common sharing issues that were caused by these extra steps.

In addition to working on the big things, we’re always looking for small, yet impactful, ways to make Evernote a better note-taking platform. Here are some examples from the past few months:

Now, you can create a notebook from the ••• menu on Desktop, meaning you have one more intuitive way to quickly add a new notebook without missing a beat.

We’ve introduced user-friendly changes to navigation on Mobile, such as more intuitive notebook navigation and the option to use a swipe gesture to return to the previous screen.

We’ve also added a new Title view on Mobile, so you can see up to three times more content at a time in the Notes tab.

You can now individually sort each notebook in your account based on your unique content needs. Once set, your preferences are preserved between sessions and across devices.

In fact, now Evernote syncs all your sorting preferences across multiple devices (including the note list, notebooks, stacks, and templates).

Last but not least, the team continued to work on backend updates to boost speed in a variety of ways. In particular, recently we managed to…

Boost the note list loading time by 3x on Mobile by fine-tuning the way we manage important queries in Evernote’s backend—read more details here.

Make note and notebook creation is up to 10x faster in Teams accounts, thanks to one small change to how we count tags—read more details here.


If you’re curious to dive deeper into other improvements from earlier this year, check out our past summaries—January-March, April-June, July-September—or catch up on our monthly video recaps.

We’re beyond excited with what we’ve accomplished this year, but our work is far from done. Here’s a quick preview of our plans for 2025—keep in mind, this is just the beginning!

We’re already working on a handful of exciting updates that we hope to release soon. These include: 

The ability to add a custom note thumbnail 🎉

Beyond these initial projects, the Editor will remain one of our primary areas of focus, especially when it comes to the Mobile note-taking experience. We also want to introduce even more customization options at both the note and account level. We’re also deep diving into the search experience to make sure it’s always returning the results you’re looking for. And, finally, we’ll continue to work on performance across multiple touch points with speed-boosting backend improvements. 

If you’d like to keep up with Evernote's rapid pace of development, I encourage you to follow our progress on:

YouTube, where we’re sharing monthly updates and helpful tutorials

@evernote on X, where we’re sharing real-time updates as they roll-out

@fedesimio on X, where I preview new projects in the works and ask for community feedback

The Evernote bugfixer, where we share real-time updates on any larger-scale bugs we’re working on

…and hopefully even more platforms coming soon!

Before I sign off, I’d like to express my appreciation for the Evernote team and their incredible work over the past twelve months, my gratitude to the Evernote community for supporting us along the way, and my excitement for everything yet to come. 

This year, the Evernote team set an ambitious goal to ship one-hundred improvements. As 2024 comes to a close, we counted them up and… we were right on target! Product lead Federico Simionato summarizes the team’s accomplishments and previews what’s in store for 2025.

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