Evernote has got a update and today we're going to go over what it means for the future of Evernote
and give you an insight into some of the key takeaways from this announcement so obviously
one of the things I've been following here on keep productive is Evernote and of course the bending
spoons acquisition and they've been in charge for apparently seven months now which is pretty mental
um and of course there's been quite a rocky ride um there's been pricing changes layoffs
and uh there's been um some definite stability issues with Evernote well this post is meant
to address that and really try and rally users around the stability of Evernote
so of course I've made some notes myself I've got the post here but I'm going to be talking
um about this with some of my own opinion so of course take it with a Pinterest salt but of
course I'll read out some of the key takeaways from this from this video so Evernote obviously
have had large significant changes and one of the core things they want to address is the stability
issues which is actually one of the most important points speed and synchronization but before they
do that they wanted to say that Evernote um is was acquired to be a long-term uh profit maker for
them obviously a long-term success not short-term goals and they clearly State as well saying that
um it's not not as a way to make a quick Buck to be honest I don't know who would have thought that
it was going to be making a quick Buck um I don't think they could make a quick Buck by just like
upping the pricing and doing that for a couple of like a year I don't think you could make a general
genuine huge amount of money from that um I think you would probably annoy more people than ever and
that's why I think that this company is definitely um a lot better in the longer term benningsman's
actually got quite a lot of investment quite a lot of credibility and I don't think that meant
to make a quick buck so I think reiterating that was uh probably helpful for a lot of people but
obviously pretty much a giveaway I think for for what they're trying to do and what their company
is is working on they've also had credibility in I believe they bought splice um from GoPro
a couple of years ago and and reinvigorated it so I can think that this sort of thing is what they
try and do is try and bring back quality Brands and and quality applications so what they want
to do is Revitalize Evernote and ensure its future growth and obviously one of the things they stated
here was to focus on making Evernote your secure and reliable second brain I could see Thiago again
yes they've continued rubbing it on energy obviously mentioning about the second brain
concept is probably like yes evidence gonna carry this on um but of course it's like it's something
that's quite core to whatever it was started on like the fact that they have the second brain
mentioned there is probably something that relates to a lot of users and at the moment their priority
is reinforcing Evernote fundamentals and stirring too true to the original Vision so they start off
by talking about speed and synchronization and they were saying that that new sync process that
came in which synchronized uh real-time editing and and the general note was launched in May
2023 and to be honest I constantly heard problems with Evernote users with stability like probably
for about two or three months my inbox was like Francesco you need to contact Evernote because
they have this many issues synchronization's not working so Basics I can't even load and experience
it and I think during that period of time I opened up Evernote every single week just to see what the
experience was like for me as somebody who reviews productivity apps and I think on about 60 of
occasions the stability was not great um and that was both for mobile and desktop and I think what
they want to do is quite rapidly address this and they've said here they're aiming for faster note
synchronization and conflict-free simultaneous uh editing but they've also stated that um what they
want to do is have that on multiple devices but they said that they're happy to share that the
rollout of this important instruction system is complete and I've noticed um from opening Evernote
I haven't had it many I would say I have noticed an issue in the last couple of weeks and I've also
had messages from people saying these fixes that they're doing these patches that they've had sent
through have solved the issues for a lot of people so that's good news um and apparently the new data
structure is something called conflict-free replication data types crdt supported why why
JS implementation I have no idea what this means um I could probably ask Carl uh who works with
us until finder but to be honest is way past my grade of learning but at the same time it seems
like what they're trying to do is make this a lot easier they're saying the transition obviously how
the challenges but now they want to leave to a smoother user experience so moving on um they've
also talked about speed adjustments um the new synchronization apparently initially caused some
users to experience note loading issues so this is a speed adjustment and the system note processing
caused abnormal generation of excess extensive histories in certain cases and three performance
related bugs identified and fixed in June and July so that's good and they said here we saw almost
immediately we saw the return of healthy note loading on affected accounts so that's great news
so they're stating here make sure you've got the latest version of Evernote to really understand
whether it is it's made the difference now they've also talked about navigation changes
these are under the hood changes I like how much detail they're giving in the background about this
because I guess for those who are interested it really gives them perspective about how difficult
actually is I feel like in the past when Evernote did that huge thing when Ian small initially
announced uh they were doing like a complete overhaul of this underground systems that was like
yeah that was useful but then it was like okay what does that mean so this actually is a nice
breakdown to be honest um apparently this includes the complete rewrite of the Evernote
desktop application web navigation system mobile navigation updated too and apparently they've got
new URLs updated too you can see them here and apparently it's not just a small Cosmic change
unlocks the ability to expand the navigation system as the product evolves in the future
which is an interesting statement I don't know what that means but could mean more features
and apparently they've also done a monolith migration they've gone from an old Java Enterprise
Edition application uh they're managed to most uh and that manage most of evidence back end and
they clean the code base to address technical debt you're probably all switched off from this because
I I definitely when I was reading this I was like oh oh apparently um that's all helping the sort of
core experience of the Evan experience but let's go to future plans for Evernote um apparently
after we're focusing on reflectrine bugs they want to improve that first move of experience across
all platforms they aim to enhance a reliability of tasks syncing and boost speed in the Evernote
client so it's all about speed and function and smoothness and they say as well the core features
are the focus Innovation is not sideline that's really good news because I feel like Evernote
need that more than Evernote they need like 50 stability 50 reaching out to the stars
um next they talk about the testing of the AI powered search it's already began
with positive feedback and a lot of Evernote experts and employees have diving dividend
dividend into it Dove dove into it I'm not one of them sadly I would like to be but
they didn't like me anymore let's see no they do live they do reply to my emails
more than the last Evernote company which is good um a solo Foundation is being laid for
more expansive plans in the future but I it's really interesting to see that this AI powered
search is is actually and through people having the feedback as enthusiastic and encouraging
so this is good news evident we've taken the opportunity bending spoons take an opportunity
to look at what they found with their core and they are addressing it instantly which is great
they're talking about what the problems are and it's good that they're being so technical
with it because I think it helps to understand a little bit more I mean some of the stuff there
right past my head but the majority of it seems pretty decent in terms of its update so good news
for Evernote stability changes are on the way and hopefully this gives you a better outline
of everything you need to know about Evernote as the progressive conversation continues stability
seems to be getting better so let's see what evernote's got in the next chapter if you're
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