Get your allowance

Product updates | 14 Jun 200814 Jun 08 | By Andrew Sinkov

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UPDATE: Free and Premium allowances are now 60MB/1GB per month, respectively.

UPDATE: Premium users can now purchase up to 5 GB of additional new upload allowance and up to 25 additional upload gigs in a year.

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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.

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VictorE

i’m running evernote for windows v3.0.0.625 and don’t see the storage status bar. does anyone see the storage bar?
Opersai

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
marco

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..
marco

I’ve found that you can save the pdf back to your computer and have them all visionable.

I really like this app!!
BlueStreak

… 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 … ?
http://www.altmktg.com Russ Alman

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.
C

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!
D J Ingham

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.
Nanette

Evernote for Mac reports that after one day of use for the current month’s allotment and 8 short recipes clipped that I have used 20.5MB of my monthly allotment. Evernote Web client reports that I have used 120KB, which is more believable. How do I reconcile these two?
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  @Nanette That’s odd. Please contact our support team for help: http://s.evernote.com/support
  - dincsi
    
    Andrew: I have the same issue. How can i report bug for evernote Mac OS X?
  - dincsi
    
    addendum to the issue: it seems to me, the mac os x client counts the content of the local trash when calculates the monthly allowance. (If you empty the trash the monthly usage displays the real value.) I hope it helps.
http://victoriamarinelli.com Victoria Marinelli

I use Evernote primarily for organizing material for a highly complex nonfiction manuscript with tons and tons of background information I need to be able to summon at will, and I run up against the 500 MB limit pretty quickly in each cycle. My only solution thus far is to load lower priority docs into a local folder and then add it to a synchronized folder later if there happens to be room. About 1 GB per month would be ideal for my purposes. REALLY hope there might soon be an increase in capacity.

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