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We’re Innovative!

March 12th, 2010

We’re incredibly honored to be named one of Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Mobile Companies [article].

The remember-everything notebook app is beloved by 2 million obsessive project managers and forgetful creatives everywhere. Evernote’s breadth of ways to access your info is its best feature — Mac, PC, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Palm, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android are all supported. Everything is stored safely in the cloud.

There’s certainly no doubting our commitment to mobile. Since launching Evernote, we’ve released versions for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm’s WebOS (Pre and Pixi), Windows Mobile, and a mobile web version (http://www.evernote.com/m) for other phones. We also recently announced partnerships with Nokia on their N900 and with Samsung Android phones. And that’s not all. More mobile goodness is on the way, so stay tuned.

Vote for us

We recently learned that we are nominated for a Bizzie Award for Best Mobile App. Please vote. Thanks!

Notable Tech Event Panel: Competition in Tech

February 26th, 2010

Last night was Evernote’s first Notable Tech event in San Francisco. In addition to great partners and guests, we also had an interesting panel discussion on Competition in Tech. The panelists were Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote; Loic Le Meur, founder of Seesmic; and Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded.com. The panel was moderated by Guy Kawasaki.

The video

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Ask the CTO: API and integrations Q&A webinar

February 18th, 2010

With Partner Month in full swing, we thought it time to help you get your awesome Evernote integration off the ground.

Join the man behind the API, our CTO, Dave “el c-API-tan” Engberg, for a half-hour live Q&A session on all things API and integration related.

We will be taking questions in advance, so if you have one for us, please write it in the comments section of this post. Dave will also answer your questions live.

Participate

• Date: Tuesday, February 23rd
• Time: 11am PT
• Register: Sign up now »

We will post a recording of the session on our blog.

The Evernote API

If you’re looking for more information about the Evernote API and scripting options, check out our Developer Section.

Notable Tech

Want to see how others have integrated Evernote into their products? Come to the Evernote Notable Tech event in San Francisco on February 25th. Register now »

Maintenance Alert: Feb 6th 11am-4pm Pacific Time

February 4th, 2010

Evernote has grown very quickly over the past year, and it’s time to give our servers and facilities a major upgrade to ensure that we can keep growing without a hitch!

We will be performing some maintenance on the Evernote Service on Saturday, February 6th from 11am through around 4pm Pacific Time (1900 to 2400 GMT). We’ll be bringing up servers as they’re ready, so some users will have access to their accounts sooner than others. We’re sorry for any inconvenience that this downtime will cause.

What to expect

Once the maintenance period begins, you will no longer be able to perform any operations that require access to the Evernote Service. These include, synchronization, image recognition, emailing to/from Evernote, and the @myEN Twitter integration. Desktop versions of Evernote will continue to function.

How will I be affected?

Different platforms will be affected in somewhat different ways. Here’s what to expect:

• Evernote on the desktop

  If you use Evernote on Windows or Mac, then you will see the smallest disruption. You will still have access to all of your notes, but you will not be able to sync any new content until the service comes back up.

• iPhone and iPod Touch

  If you are a free subscriber, then you will be able to create notes, view your favorites, and see any notes that you had previously viewed or created on the device. If you’re a Premium subscriber, then you will be able to access any/all notebooks that you’ve previously marked for offline access. In either case, you will not be able to sync any new content. Please anticipate any notes that you’ll want to access during the downtime and either view them, favorite them, or download the notebook(s) that contain them before Saturday.

• Android, Palm Pre, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile

  If you use Evernote on a device listed above, then you will be able to create new notes, but will not be able to access any of your existing notes.

• Evernote Web and Mobile Web

  Evernote Web will be completely unavailable during the maintenance period.

Why we’re doing this

Our goal is to ensure that you have the best possible experience using Evernote. This was true when we had 10,000 users and it’s true now that we have 2.3 million. Saturday’s upgrades will help us continue to do so for years to come.

We’re excited about the shiny new Evernote!

More Ways to Go Premium

February 1st, 2010

Evernote is free. You can use Evernote forever without paying us a cent, and we’re ok with that. To some, this may seem crazy, but thanks to Evernote Premium, it’s actually a business model that works (see: Freemium model).

Today, we’re announcing that there are more ways than ever to go Premium. We now accept credit card payments with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, and JCB. These are in addition to Google Checkout, PayPal and in-app purchasing through the Apple AppStore. We’re also offering 3-months of Evernote Premium for free through TrialPay. Click on the TrialPay option on our Checkout page for more information.

Go Premium now »

Why go premium?

Supersized monthly uploads

Your monthly upload allowance will be increased from 40MB to 500MB. Each month, you get reset to a fresh 500MB.

Attach and sync files

As a free user your notes can contain text, audio, images, and PDFs. Once you go Premium, you can put any type of file into your notes, including Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, Photoshop files, and just about anything else. Then, watch as these files sync and become accessible from anywhere.

Offline notebooks on iPhone and iPod Touch

Take any and all of your notebooks offline. Not only does this make accessing your notes faster, but it also means you can browse and search even when there’s no network connection available.

Search through your PDFs

When a Premium user throws a scanned document PDF into Evernote, we run it through our servers making the text searchable.

Collaborate with others

You can share your notebooks with individuals and the world through Evernote Web. Premium users can allow other to both view and edit their notes, turning Evernote into a great collaboration tool.

And more…

• No ads in the desktop and web versions
• One business day response for your support requests
• Priority treatment by our image recognition technology
• Better security through SSL encryption

Always remember

You can switch from free to Premium and back to free at any time and you’ll never lose anything you created while you were Premium.

Learn more about Evernote Premium »

Happy Tablet Day

January 27th, 2010

Evernote loves tablets. We’ve got a long and storied history with tablets of all kinds. Got an old tablet lying around somewhere? Chances are we either developed technology for it, had applications that ran on it, or both. Usually both.

Remember the awesome Apple Newton? Evernote’s current R&D engineers developed the handwriting recognition technology that made it so notable (and ahead of its time). Remember those Doonesbury strips making fun of the Newton? You know who cried when those came out? We did. Well, not me personally, I was in college and the Newton was at the top of my unattainable gadget drool-list, but the guys sitting next to me right now clutching their Newton prototypes while watching the Apple liveblogs did. I’ve got those Donnesbury strips in my Evernote account now.

We’ve also been on just about every other form of tablet known to man. The original version of Evernote was written to run on Tablet PCs and the digital ink technology in the current version of Evernote for Windows is still the best in the industry. I even use an old Hitachi slate as a drink tray at home. Tablets are our roots, man. Our roots.

So naturally, we’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about our plans for supporting Apple’s hitherto-mythical tablet device, but we’ve avoided answering them just in case it turned out not to be a tablet but, um, a shoe or something. Still, we always hoped it’d be a tablet. You always remember your first love…

Anyway, now that the iPad has officially gone from “imminent!!” to “just announced!!” we can officially spill the beans on our official plans for Evernote on it. Here’s we go:

Evernote is going to support the Apple iPad. Oh Yeah. We’re gonna support the hell out of it. We’re glad to see that the current Evernote iPhone app will run on the iPad without modification, but we’ll be modifying it anyway to optimize the experience on the larger device. Oh how we’ll be modifying it! Expect rapid improvements to our iPhone app which will benefit all of our iPhone, iPod Touch and, now, iPad users in the near future.

Ok, so we’re excited by the iPad itself, and by the HP Slate, and the Sony VAIO L series, and the Nvidia Tegra, and by the added light that these and other devices will shine on touch computing in general. I’m looking at some happy engineers right now.

Evernote named a New York Times “Tech Theme To Watch” in 2010

January 6th, 2010

The New York Times named Evernote one of its Five Tech Themes to Watch in 2010!

“Evernote, the popular note-taking service, recently announced it had hit a major milestone by surpassing two million members. But the company’s victory signals a larger shift in how the Web – and our mobile phones – are becoming a larger repository for our memories. Companies like Evernote are paving the way, but expect to see more entrepreneurs and start-ups vying to supplement our gray matter with silicon.” [via NYT, read full article]

We couldn’t agree more. Evernote’s goal is to help the world remember everything. Ambitious? Yes. But, in these days of information overload, it’s absolutely critical.

Stay tuned for an exciting year.

We can finally say “Millions”!

December 30th, 2009

“What do you want for Christmas?”, Robert De Niro asks Jean Reno in Ronin, just before engaging in some spirited gunplay. “My two front teeth.”

Well, all we wanted for Christmas was two million users. And we got it, big time, pushed over the line by great numbers from our recent Android and iPhone launches! And we did it in about half the time it took us to get our first million.

Obviously, we couldn’t have gotten two million users without, um, our users. So here’s what you did to make it possible:

We love our present! Thank you!

Just when we needed it

December 25th, 2009

I came into the office yesterday and there were two bottles of wine on my desk along with a note. Someone had dropped them off at our door.

Thanks! Merry Christmas Sungmoon. And happy holidays to all of our users, employees, friends and family! We’re taking a day or two off and will be back strong next week.

Evernote Looks Good on You

December 15th, 2009

Show the world that you’re an Evernote fan by getting a snazzy t-shirt from the brand new Evernote Store!

The store is stocked full of great Evernote tees. We currently have four different designs for both men and women. All of our shirts are printed on super soft American Apparel fabric. Go on, get one for yourself and for that special someone.

Check out the Evernote Store »

Could this guy play the ukelele without his Evernote shirt? Who can say?

Sorry folks, but we’re all out of yellow. Check back often because we’ll be adding lots of other great Evernote-related products.