Comments on: New Premium feature: Increase Your Monthly Allowance

By: jean

jean — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:01:51 +0000

1GB per month is probably overkill if everything you upload is just text-based. But when you throw in pictures, that adds up quickly.

I think it’s both storage/bandwidth AND optical character recognition (OCR). There’s an Evernote blog post about it
http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2011/11/01/even-grittier-details-on-evernotes-indexing-system/

My guess is this OCR is the bottleneck…if they let unlimited uploads, most of their storage would be images/PDFs, which all must be run through their advanced OCR (which is more intense than normal OCR, if you read the post above). This is probably why they only slowly let the per-month upload allowance increase (remember, they started at 500mb before, now 1gb, and recently you can buy more than 1gb). I *guess* they need to make sure they have the processing power to handle it as well, not just throw in more hard drives.

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:17:40 +0000

If you make a notebook public and share it with the world, then it will be available via search engine.

By: Agence web Maurisource

Agence web Maurisource — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:23:28 +0000

Hello, i was wondering if we could make our notes public and viewable by search engines while using premium?

John P.

By: bowflex

bowflex — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:06:28 +0000

Great, now i will purchase premium feature and get more. Thanks for this post. Regards, bowflex

By: David Lowe

David Lowe — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:52:39 +0000

This is a great option for those a few months when some of us had more than 1GB to upload. It provides a temporary ceiling bump-up while keep the base fee steady. Thanks for offering this option.

By: Andrei Thorp

Andrei Thorp — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:59:31 +0000

As far as I know, that’s not possible — but as a workaround, you can:

1) Find out your personal evernote e-mail address. Everything mailed there will be stored in a note. (There’s a blog post about this).
2) Forward the e-mail to the above address.
3) If you want to “add” the e-mail to an existing note, select the e-mail note and the other one, right click and select merge.

I know it’s not the most elegant thing, but it’ll work well as long as you’re not doing it a hundred times

By: Orion Withrow

Orion Withrow — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:05:13 +0000

I think it is a matter of a sustainable business model. With a limited per month upload, they can map out how much storage they will need at any given point in the future by only knowing how many users they have and which of their users are premium subscribers. Unlimited upload would be unsustainable because some users could upload several GB per month.

By: David E Y Sarna

David E Y Sarna — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:16:05 +0000

I think that is a great suggestion, and parallels similar options from many on-line services. Everyone realizes that servers cost money to but and maintain, so charging and imposing limits makes sense. But paying more to get more also makes sense.
With so many EN users, one-size-fits-all can usefully expanded to pay for what you need.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:41:42 +0000

Thanks for the reply Andrew. Keep up the great work.

By: Jan Deseyn

Jan Deseyn — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:44:48 +0000

What about adding an email to an existing note by dragging & dropping ? Or is that already possible and did I miss it ?