‘Newsworthy’ Blog Posts

We’ve just released version 1.1.4 of Evernote for the Mac.  This version makes several improvements to editing, clipping and dragging.  You can see the release notes and auto-upgrade your current Mac version by using the “Check for Updates” command from the “Evernote” menu.

You can also download a fresh copy of all our clients; Mac, Windows, iPhone, Windows Mobile, etc.; from the downloads page.

More updates for all the platforms are in the works…  We never rest.  Well, *I* rest, but not our developers.  Ok, sometimes they rest a little.  One at a time.

Apple just launched the App Store for iPhone and it’s got a shiny new Evernote! Our iPhone app is the best Evernote experience on a mobile phone yet; it’ll let you capture image, voice and text notes and automagically zap them to your Evernote account. You can also find, browse and search your notes with full tag, attribute and keyword support. All this without having to futz around with email or the web browser.

Oh, and since your iPhone knows where you are, it’ll geo-tag anything you capture! Having location information in your notes is going to open up lots of new possibilities and future enhancements.

Of course, any self-respecting external brain is the same no matter what device you use to get at it, so the new iPhone version of Evernote automatically synchronizes with all of our other PC, Mac, Web and mobile versions.

Evernote for iPhone works on first generation iPhones (just download the iTunes 7.7 which came out today and upgrade to the 2.0 firmware), as well as the iPhone 3G that comes out tomorrow. To get it, go to the new Apple App Store, or visit our new iPhone download page. Like all of our clients, the new iPhone version is free to download and works with both free and premium Evernote accounts..

We’re really psyched about this new platform for Evernote and are already planning lots of additions and enhancements. Evernote for iPhone is just scratching the surface compared to what’s coming, but it’s a pretty nifty scratch. Check it out and let us know what you think!

[Update: Some people in the comments are reporting problems with notes lingering in the ‘Pending’ section of the app. This is partially caused by the slowness of the iPhone’s EDGE network which has been hit particularly hard in these past few days. The phone will sometimes go to sleep while sending a note and it doesn’t always wake up smoothly. Syncing works better over WiFi and 3G.  We’ve also submitted a new version of the Evernote client to Apple that improves syncing performance across all networks and has a few feature enhancements. You’ll be able to auto-update as soon as Apple starts pushing out application changes to the App Store. We expect this to happen soon, but - since Apple has a lot on their hands today - we’re not sure when.

Thanks again for helping us make Evernote the best it can be!]

Big news today: Evernote is now in Open Beta and we’ve rolled out many changes, including premium accounts.

Four months ago, we introduced the invitation-only private beta of the new Evernote service.  Our goal was to get about 10,000 people to use the system so we could fine-tune our servers and try out new features.  We were blown away by the response and watched with equal parts of glee and horror as the closed beta users count passed 10,000, then 25,000, then 50,000…  By the end of the four months, over 125,000 people had participated in the closed-beta!  Luckily, our hardware, software and team held up with only minor incidents of spontaneous combustion.

Since launching the closed beta, we’ve released new feature updates virtually every week and today we took the biggest step of all: Evernote is now open to the world!  You no longer need an invitation to create an account.  Anyone can sign up right from www.evernote.com and start using your shiny new external brain in 60 seconds.

We now have two types of accounts: Free and Premium.

Free users will keep all of the features of the closed beta, including automatic synchronization between Windows, Mac, Web and mobile phone clients and advanced image search.  There is no limit to the total number of notes that you can store.  Free accounts can upload up to 40 megabytes of new notes into the service every month.

For $5 per month (or only $45/year, because we’re bad at math), you can upgrade to a premium account.  Premium users have their upload quota raised to 500 megabytes of new notes per month and get a number of other goodies, including enhanced security through SSL for all data transmission (free users only get SSL for login), priority access to the recognition queues (for much faster image recognition, even during peak busy times) and premium customer support.

You can try out a premium account at any time without worry: if you ever decide to go back to a free account, you’ll still have all of your notes (you’ll just go back to 40 megs per month for new notes).

We’ve also got a limited number of stylish Evernote launch t-shirts (pictured above) that we’ll give away to one-year subscribers until we run out of stock.  I’ve been wearing one around the Las Vegas strip lately and getting more compliments than I deserve.  People just like swirling pink elephants.

For more info on free and premium accounts, check out http://www.evernote.com/about/premium/.

Two more big changes are going to get their own blog posts soon, but you can try them out right away: we’ve got a brand new web clipper and a completely redesigned web interface.  I think you’ll like them.

We’re excited (and a bit scared) about abandoning the relative shelter of the private beta for the open waters ahead, but if we’re really going to expand everyone’s memory, we’ve got to let everyone in.  As always, let us know how we can improve.  We’ll be keeping up the rapid pace of new development throughout the open beta.

Thanks to the 125,000.

Wish us luck!

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.

The great folks over at TUAW (aka The Unofficial Apple Weblog) are giving away instant Evernote accounts until 2pm EST tomorrow (May 20th).

Get your instant account now »

Not a Mac user? Not a problem. Register for an account, then download and install our Windows client or just use our Web version.

Hurry, before time runs out.

The new Evernote closed beta is about two months old and we’ve just passed an important milestone: our first one million notes!  During this time, we’ve made lots of improvements to the service and we’ll be announcing a few more big things in the next couple of weeks.  Stay tuned.

To celebrate (and to do some stress testing on our registration servers), we’re giving away instant beta accounts to everyone who clicks on this secret url (http://www.evernote.com/Registration.action?code=1MN0tes) from 6 am to 9 pm, California time, today.  If you miss the time window but want an account, just sign up using the normal beta application and we’ll send you an invitation soon.

Big thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to test Evernote and send us feedback!  We couldn’t do it without you.

We teased you with the Mac client a couple of weeks ago in our overview video, and now it’s here. Trust us, it was worth the wait. Evernote for Mac has all the features you expect —advanced image search, synchronization, new note authoring, tagging, and note sharing— and some amazing extras:

• Thumbnail view — Zoom in or out and visually scan through your notes
• Snapshot note — Photo Booth-like interface that takes a snapshot and adds it to a notebook
• Notebook publishing — Publish any notebook for the whole world to see right from your desktop
• Mac clipper — Turn screenshots and copied content into new notes

Check out our new, more comprehensive Mac video:

If you have an Evernote account, go ahead and download the Mac client here. If you’re still waiting for an invitation, Download Squad and TechCrunch are giving out a whole bunch today, or you can register here.

Evernote for Mac is designed for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

In related news, Evernote Web now supports Safari 3. We have a few short tutorial videos on how to install and use the browser web clipper with Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer here.

Welcome to the shiny, new Evernote Blog. We’ll be posting news,
product update information, helpful tips, and, occasionally, thoughts on the world.

Our goal is to give you the information you need to really enjoy using Evernote. There’s a ton of new and exciting stuff to tell you about, so stay tuned.

Thanks,

-The Evernote team