Evano have had a pretty tumultuous time over the last couple of years with huge pricing increases
and a new free plan that has got a lot of people scared many people are looking to see whether
they should leave Evano in 2024 or whether they should stay with Evernote with the rising options
of note taking applications in the market it can be super difficult to ignore them as Innovations
continue to flourish and AI continues to build new ways to use not applications so it makes it
even harder whether you should stick with an application like Evano or whether you should
seek new pastures green today's video we are going to break everything you need to know about whether
you should leave evote or stay with evote in a comprehensive guide to that many people have
stayed with evote for many years and it's really important to make an informed decision so we're
going to do that in today's video hello everyone my my name is Franchesco if you're new here we are
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to picking Evite Alternatives um we're actually not going to cover specific evanite Alternatives
although throwing the odd loose name out there if you are looking for evet Alternatives we've
made a pretty decent in-depth guide that is available in the description below you can
find Evan Alternatives there as well as hundreds of other note taking applications on tool finder
now leaving is not just the regular decision for an Evernote User it's actually a big one OTE have
built a brand with many users from 2011 typically when a lot of people joined and that brand has
introduced them to not just Evan software that you see on screen but products like the mol
skin notebook and many more that they even may carry around today so that decision comes from
the heart and I know as somebody who has been a big time evote fan in the past that decision is
not going to come likely so leaving evote is not just a on layered decision it's a multifaceted one
and when it comes to pulling the heart strings it definitely can make more difficult so let's look
at the first element of this budget I think budget is something that a lot of people get
forget with personal productivity sometimes it's really important to keep within your budget and
for some people that might be 50 bucks a year and for other people it might be 200 bucks a year it
really depends on your situation and budget is really fundamental when it comes to choosing a
productivity application and one of those things that happened with evote recently is that the free
plan has become a lot less free the limitations are now 50 notes in one notebook and of course
you have the regular syncing issues where you can only sync two devices so a lot of people
are actually considering now that they've got a th000 notes in never note over the years 3,000
notes in never note should I move because I'm not able to I'm not able to add new notes to my evote
account if I don't pay the premium pricing which is now $149 9 if you don't consider the typical
40% off you typically get this is really important to note because budget is something that is very
important when choosing a notetaking application it's going to store your notes so in a way you
might have allocating some budget towards it but it's important that meets it obviously there's
a dramatic cost that is increasing across the market but it's something to note when you're
looking a notet taking application if you were to say look at an alternative like obsidian then
it's going to be free but if you wanted some of the sinking abilities in obsidian I believe the
price is $799 so again you're still in that remit of pricing that you typically might need to know
when looking at Alternatives so be cautious with the pricing options I'd recommend taking a look
at what other options are in the market I think what you're typically going to get is between
$5 to $10 for what you need as a replacement and then there's going to be ones that are between $10
to $20 which are a bit more premium and I think that's where the Market's going to be heading much
more premium and much more in intensive pricing option so next up is the Innovation side of stuff
and a lot of people might be considering moving from aote because the innovation has been lacking
over the last couple of years and that's very true um actually the new evot team have been investing
a lot on the infrastructure side and rebuilding it to their standard and their specifications so
of course Evan really haven't been putting their foot down on dramatic Innovations although they
have had elements like uh note cleanup and the ability to use AI search but in terms of what
the market is now offering with PKM tools that PKM tools that have canvas abilities
and newer AI functionality that is much more generative this is actually something that a
lot of people are considering above likes of Evo so Innovation is one of your things that
you are moving for I would also take this with a Pinterest Sal primarily because Innovations are
moving quite fast at the moment specifically with AI Innovations are actually becoming uh
very rapidly adopted because the technolog is becoming a lot easier to understand and
implement but what I would say is if you are looking at Alternatives that have a completely
different spin on Evernote then Innovations in those aspects are totally okay for example if
you're one person is a visual thinker and you're looking at apps like hepto base as you're note
taking app alternative then do consider that because then obviously you're thinking about
changing the way you note take um but it's really important that you look at the foundations of your
productivity when doing so next up is probably the most important factor moving tax and what I mean
about that is just the activation of moving all of your notes to another application this is really
important and when considering leaving evot your Alternatives really needs to have a switching uh
experience which allows you to move your notes from OTE over to the new application now a lot
of these do obsidia more recently upgraded theirs made it much better but it's really important to
note that these applications don't always work well with each other and moving from Evernote
can actually become a difficult one so make sure you do a little bit of inside Research into which
one has that our Alternatives list how to break break down and which ones have an official and
non-official uh TW switcher but this is really important because you may be transferring 3,000
notes in a day and making sure that you're aware of that is really important and the actual time
it takes you to do that and the stress it takes you can also be a factor and have its own price
and nominated to it okay so now the difficult one should I stay with OT in 2024 don't let me leave
move now this is probably one of the things that a lot of people don't understand on the channel
because we talk about different aspects of productivity but we also have an opinion
but we share both sides of it now bending spoons have acquired a lot of uh software companies and
they've done very well rapidly growing them and I don't have that doubt with Evano just because
of the situation with the market I actually think that probably in about 3 years Evan note will be
a much more mainstream Apple promoted Apple adopted application that will appeal to the
different type of user not the regular OTE Joe's that have been in the past um I definitely think
that uh Benning spoon has the capabilities and Leadership to do that and whilst I have a very um
a loose relationship with them in terms of keeping up data with press releases and things like that
I definitely think whilst they're not Community focused I do think they'll be able to produce uh
interesting products in the future now there are sort of two elements to this the infrastructure
side of stuff that they've been focusing quite heavily on recently is changing a lot of the core
foundations of Evano and for somebody looking to stay this is quite an important thing because we
have typically been used to evote in the last four five years being a little bit flaky and I
think we're going to see some pretty standardized structures to Evo that allow you to use it much
more consistently and reliably which is what uh bending spoons typically does well that's sort of
infrastructure ructure as well leads on to their fast nature in developing new features which I
think will probably be one of their top priorities for 2024 they actually released in their outline
for this year that whil they covered loads of infrastructure stuff in uh January I believe it
was or q1 at least they are planning to release a new design to Evano so that's something that users
probably can expect to see in the near future they are also one of the biggest innovators in AI
Technologies whilst there many different companies that are using chat GPT rappers this company has
actually got solid foundations in Ai and a set of investors that are actually pretty well aware of
the future of AI as well so if you're looking to stay it really has to be for the potential that
bending spoons holds and also the awareness that the market might change as well with subscription
pricing I think those are the two factors that if you are an event user and you are sort still on on
on the line on whether to switch over to another application those are probably the two surviving
hopes for you left so let's talk a little bit about Alternatives a lot of people might be
making the move to another application and that's totally fine I would say there's probably three
types of applications that you need to consider with evot and they are heavier lighter and hybrid
heavier applications are applications that are more PKM based that have bir directional links
graph functionality and more and typically allow you to do a lot more in the application in terms
of bringing notes together resurfacing them and there are a lot of these different applications
on the market I typically call them pkms a lot of people call them pkms as well but the application
in a sense needs a little bit of Education to use and I think a lot of people will move
over to these applications they don't typically transfer well with what you may have been doing
with evote um but at the same time it's a well worth consideration L note taking applications
might be the likes of up note bare notes Etc that provide you with more markdown raw abilities but
with lighter notes in mind and for many people moving note taking applications this can be a big
switch over to a lighter more uh easier system uh to use in the future and hybrid many people
might be considering combining notes with tasks notes with calendar with apps like agenda notes
and maybe even the likes of note plan etc etc but hybrid is definitely a consideration for
many people that have stuck with evote for just one thing the change of pricing may spark their
interest in combining one or two of them one or two of their productivity applications in
the future so I hope this was a comprehensive guide to making a decision on moving or leaving
or staying with aano in 2024 and I hope it gave you some insights as I said there is a
full in-depth guide to which alternatives are best and we typically recommend here on keep
productive you'll find that linked below and you can also find insights on tool finder into the
best notetaking applications so thank you very much folks I hope you enjoyed today's video and
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