OTE 3 is getting limitations you're now limited to 50 notes and one notebook So today we're going to
go over everything you need to know about this new release um also what alternatives are out there
and how this Ryan Reynolds backed invested company is changing the way that we look at Evernote and
we're going to unpack everything in today's video first off I apologize for being in this room it's
not very good in terms of journalistic quality as this brand new release comes out um but uh
the office is currently being uh well I can't get to it cuz the garden's being done so it's
a bit of a mess um so today we're going to look at evote 3 and and this actually is rolled out
already it's been 4 days since it rolled out and this is the new Evernote 3 limitations and very
simply this was actually sort of teased about half a month ago a lot of people getting messages to be
prompted to upgrade to the the well to premium because their plans were going to be limited to
50 notes and one notebook and I felt like this could could have been a little bit of a test
experiment like a little bit of a PR trick to see whether people would be annoyed or not and maybe
they we' retract it but actually they've gone and officially announced it so December 4th this new
free experience is changing now we saw it on the Evernote Forum a lot of people talking about it
but this is what's new so basically any new and existing user will have the maximum limit of 50
notes and one notebook per account now naturally this means that you will um not be able to add
anything add if you've got more than 50 notes but for example if you're somebody that has
8,000 notes like me then you will be able to edit view uh Delete export and share those existing
notes you have so it's sort of like nothing you have will be damaged but you won't be able to
add any new notes which is sort of a little bit painful now obviously this is trying to push a lot
of people more towards the evan8 premium pricing which is the professional and personal plans which
are fairly highly priced at the moment um but also they state that they think that this well they
think they know that this is going to support some of the AI based features improvements to stability
and increase of across uh all the platforms with security and technology and architecture now it's
it's really crazy this is happening because um obviously this is this is sort of like the nudge
that a lot of people have needed to go okay I need to actively look for an alternative because I'm
not actively able to add any notes and for a lot of the evote community who are actively well at
least who were actively involved with Evernote and creating notes and things like that in the
past this is almost the red warning sign to get out of there and actually take a look at other
Alternatives so if you're looking for Alternatives we can help you with tool finder you can go to the
categories page for no taking apps and just browse as many as you like there so I'll include that
in the link in description um but largely this um concept is something that I have an opinion
on when it comes to bending spoons for those who don't know bending spoons bought Evano officially
at the start of the year and obviously they made some pretty dramatic changes I think it was June
time they made pretty much everyone uh most people laid off and then they pretty much got rid of
all of the final Evernote team so they made some pretty drastic changes and to be honest with a lot
of these companies uh that come in they do want to see profitability um so they're going to make
some pretty dramatic changes but for an app like evote I think you've got a user base that has uh
really um you know they're very loyalist um like obviously the last 10 years even 15 years up to 15
years with AO it's been quite a tight-knit group and Community but I think what Benning spoons
and I've said this since the start I think what Benning spoons are doing they're focusing much
more on a market that isn't focused towards Community anymore um they've obviously been
a company that has been growing pretty rapidly I think they had over collectively five 00 million
downloads across their applications and they've almost become successful by being quality based
app that pretty much nobody knows about as in like um you won't be able to go like that's a vending
spoons application to some extent because what they're doing is they're building for Mass Market
not for a community orientated set of people um and OT is that um I think it will work in the long
term because if you're somebody that is is coming from the into the note taking space that is like
okay what a strong quality AI application which bending spoons will have let's be practical in the
long term um they for for a value proposition I think that's a lot more attractive without having
coming from the community aspect if that makes sense and that's what I think bending spoons are
actually aiming to do uh in the long term I think they're they're betting on their actual strategy
being around that so it's a pretty dramatic change uh obviously a lot of people looking
at Alternatives and hopefully I can help with some Alternatives now so let's go over to tool finder
and look at a few evot Alternatives so first things first when we created this article nimus
sopes was actually an application within a week they've just changed their entire business mod
to project management so scrap Nimbus note ample note is a great alternative I think because um
for those who are looking for quite like to like GTD altern um an EV alternative this is quite very
much DTD orientated and it also combines a little bit more than uh what I think Evernote had in some
areas a lot of people turning their heads to the likes of obsidian and notion just purely because
of the quality of those applications in terms of providing uh for obsidian a PKM experience and
notion obviously that allinone experience I know that Thiago Forte who runs second brain has been
jumping on board with notion and importing all of his EV notes into the new uh Q&A function in
uh Notions AI if you're looking for something a little bit softer As you move away from Evernote
then upnote a pretty good alternative and so is bare note because they're both lightweight
experiences that I think are worth the the the shot and note plan also a consideration
because it's got that sort of multimodal markdown experience that a lot of people like if you're
looking for some more I guess uh PKM alternative there's meem reflect capacities as well which are
all good experience es and we've also just put out a piece about visual note taking applications I
think this is probably one of the times to do the most heaviest amount of research possible
because when you're changing a note taking application it's also important to look at
how your style of taking notes has changed has it become more visual has it become more structured
has it become more uh networked thoughts type so this is a good opportunity for you to actually
look at ones that might not be like aote or ones that might be a little bit more modern or maybe
even the other way a little bit more uh raw in terms of its setup so obviously there's loads of
event Alternatives out there so it's well worth checking out what we've got on tool finder to
see what categories we' got and obviously see the reviews that you might find helpful but a
pretty crazy week for Evo and for those who didn't get the Ryan Reynolds reference he is actually an
investor in bending spoons so an interesting sort of little tweak so again Ryan Reynold is probably
one of uh the most interesting business people in the last sort of five years um he must think
it's going to be a good long term but I don't think it's for the evote community anymore big
bold statement but again something that we can move on from now I think it's it's very
sad thank you very much folks and I'll see you all very soon apologies for being in my bedroom
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