so today we will be diving into evernote what we're going to do in this video is help you to
understand whether it's the best Note ticking app for you in 2024 now Evan has changed quite
dramatically over the last 6 months it's got new owners and it is largely a different application
than what it was in the past it is evolving and that's a good thing we're going to talk
through all of those elements whether otees a consideration for you as a note taking application
that's fixing a lot of its flaws and we're going to talk about how it works and where whether it's
right for you so welcome if you're new here my name is Franchesco delesio I review productivity
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of them so you can find those all Linked In description below so here we are with Evano
and I think the best starting place is to look at the pricing because it's quite dramatically
changed in 2024 with the free plan offering a lot less than it formally did so much more focused on
it being much more of a paid application now whilst there are some premium elements it's
naturally probably really utilized when it's a paid experience which is typically where most of
the other applications in the space are going now this is a UK pricing we'll have uh the US pricing
uh on tool finder but you can largely see here that the free plan gives you a limit of 50 notes
and one notebook which is quite quite limiting when you're considering this as a note-taking
application but there is a personal plan which is uh $8.99 per month and it's a lot cheaper annually
and as you can see that's encompassing probably the plan that you will go with this allows you to
sync up to unlimited devices because on the form version I believe you only get two devices and you
can create up to 100,000 notes and 1,000 notebooks which is pretty much what you need to get and you
can you also utilize the other functions like task calendar and and you can add all the attributes
to those elements inside of this plan now if you're looking at the professional plan which
is probably much more suited for those who have multiple workplace Google Calendar or Microsoft
Outlook accounts then that's probably where you're going to be paying it also gives you
the ability to assign stuff to other people and integrate with slack so I would say this is more
for the the professional uh and this is much more for the everyday note taking person who
takes notes um so now we've got the pricing out the way you can start to understand that
EV has changed their thinking about this is not a free application anymore and that's a thinking
that a lot of other applications in the space heading towards for example a really well-known uh
note ticking application that's growing in spaces reflect notes they don't have a free pricing they
have a free trial and it goes straight to pricing I think this is where things are heading sadly but
I just think it's probably the way that developing can constantly evolve the application so a little
bit of background um bending spoons purchased his application in 2023 January they spent uh
primarily the first N9 months by the sounds of it going into the guts of Evano and fixing the core
elements and then in January 2024 a year after their purchase they essentially redesign the
elements of it and the last 3 months I'm filming this in April they've been working on features
and those features have more been quality of life improvements but also ones that change
your thinking about different elements inside of Evernotes now we're going to show you all of
them and let's start with the notes experience now as you can see this is the home area and this is
a place where you can organize yourself we will come back to that but there's this new Note Tab
over on this left hand side you can also create a new note here by pressing crln and once I press
crln or a new note you can see that this new note area appears and one of the things that's changed
I would say about it is I'm going to just resize this you can also see that the note itself is a
lot cleaner in terms of things like spacing and also just general real estate on the page now
one of the things you'll notice if you type in new notes and you go ahead print SL command they have
now Incorporated the slash command that is really common inside of Wiki apps like notion and it has
been naturally innovated from the likes of apps like notion so they finally add the dis ability
you can go in the top left hand corner and add insert things as well but naturally the slash
command is a lot more accessible now they've got a few abilities here they had a few of
these before in in the last and previous version 2023 three let's say but they've got the ability
to add a task inside of here and tasks are like these inline little sort of Sliders and you can
see that an indication comes up here now that this note has tasks in it and you can see those tasks
and how many you completed so for example if I wrot clean car you can add it you know today and
you can even set the time if you would want to as well as setting a reminder flank which is the
equivalent to a priority level and you can even give it a siny I believe that's cuz I've got a
professional account so you can add tasks in here you can also link notes as well so for example if
I press linked note what happens is it creates the note uh which is very easy um and it automatically
creates that so that it's I guess if I go back to this one you can see that that notes automatically
in line in the content so this is great for if you're spanning out on a new idea and you want to
be able to just create that linked note straight away the same thing goes with calendar event so
for example in this case you can see that you can use a calendar event for example I'm going to
insert lunch and I can see some details about it here so this is great for meetings but also just
in general as well now if I press SL command you can do other stuff like tables for example they're
very basic in nature they're nothing like anything like databases and you can also access some of the
other stuff like attachments audio recording images things you typically expect inside of
note ticking applications including the likes of text formatting checklists are disconnected
from tasks but allow you to create things that aren't tasks in the whole system you can also
link a note as part of something a note in here so if you've already created one and you want
to create that relationship then you can link it here this doesn't look as appealing as something
like this but I'm assume they're going to work through this as they go now one of the things
you can do is if I wrote some complex stuff here and I just wanted to refine it even further so for
example I'm going to the park today can we meet in the morning I'm going to tell you about the next
week and the priorities on the list so there is a feature if you select something it's a feature
called AI edit now it's probably not going to do it for this sake because I've written something so
short but what it does do is summarize stuff fix typos help you write stumming translate change
tone to be honest this is what we typically see with other applications that are using I don't
know whether it is open AI but probably likely an open AI integration so if I press summarize and I
want to extend it then what it's going to do is there you go the text is too short so obviously
you can get an idea of it what it will do is extend that text for you so you've got a large
paragraph it will extend it to you and you can copy that to the clipboard and paste it into the
content so the idea behind it is to really help to refine the content that you're doing so here we go
uh it's just done it for the equivalent of this for me and you can see that the typos have been
fixed the idea behind that is to make it much more integrated in the experience now you can still get
the other abilities like the ability to change the fonts and also do things like highlighting
you can also strike through and also add in like indenting or simplify the formatting or
even remove formatting so it's got the Hallmarks of a typical note and if I go over to that learn
Italian place I created earlier and you can see that a bank link has been created because I have
created a relation between this note and the former note as well you can also see up here
that this has the notebooks um breadcrumbs which gives you an idea of how they're connected so I'm
just going to get get rid of that little Tab and you can see that PDFs are accessible in here now
if I click into a PDF inside of EV know obviously because I'm on Mac it'll bring it up but there is
also The annotation ability which I'm going to ruin my career here I'm going to say it Skitch
can't remember what it used to be called evote Skitch I'm going to call it evote Skitch I'm
pretty sure it was that but you can see here that you can go through this and begin to annotate it
you can be like okay you know Paul did this and say um great app and you can start to annotate
it now obviously you can do things like uh blur stuff as well all the regular stuff and you can
even add indications of like we need to remove this Etc so you get the idea um it's a very useful
because once you save it you can also see that in line inside of the document you can see it here
so that's quite nice as well and um yeah works pretty much like a PDF annotation software now
let's go on to the task element so we created a task inside of here but but where does that
live inside of evote now um if I go back there's a tasks area here and it pops open and you can see
the task you got on your list you can see stuff that's assigned to you stuff that's part of a note
and any due dates are coming up this is getting a bit of a remake or redesign and elements like um
priorities are getting changed like small medium and large and that's currently being rolled out
to people now I've got most of the new roll outs but I wasn't able to get this one as the timing
of doing this video but you can start to see that it's obviously you can see the task and you can
move the task into other notes you can also set the due date and also the give an indication of
the reminders and who it's part of but that is actually its own page and what does that look like
well it doesn't come out like a tab like this it comes out like a page like this inside of eot so
let me just make this slightly larger so you can see as a bit of an indication so tasks themselves
are getting a much more upgraded view you can also create a task instantly from this area
here and I'll come back to how some of the home elements are working so this is quite interesting
cuz Evan know are changing their perspective from being this not taking experience to this
task management Hub this calendar management Hub and that leads me perfectly onto next Segway in
calendar management so this is the calendar area every I've made some pretty interesting changes
over the last couple of weeks with this you can see that I've got a Google Calendar connected it's
actually a Google workspace I can add multiple ones on the professional account and I can more
recently add here if I had a Microsoft account which I do there there we go I could connect up
my Microsoft Outlook account which is very helpful so Microsoft 365 Google Google workspace connected
up with evote now but they've just released a feature as of doing this video where you can
create your own event and what it will do is live inside of somewhere called Evano calendar which
allows you to naturally change and add a start date so in this case I might create one like
meeting my typical one meeting with bomb and I can go here and say it starts at 11: to 12 creative
and bang this lives separate to Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 so I can go in here and I can
create a new note and as you can see this meeting items appear this will not land in my calendar
which is really nice for those people that don't like that but I can still go ahead and add notes
correlated to the lunch so for example I cuz I added this calendar rent it's automatically taken
me here but I could go add create one for busy on Thursday so you can start to get an idea of the
the power of having OTE calendar creating their own notes which is very helpful so um I think this
is going to probably progress more so in the tasks area and become a little bit easier to
use so this is a really nice addition to Evo now you can also access something which is a fairly
new feature called files so files is essentially just a zoom out of all of the different files that
you have inside of your Evo account it's just basically tastes any media format that you've
ever uploaded to Evano and basically zooms out and you can see media documents and just quickly
get access to it which is so much nicer so I can see that I've got 10,000 elements of my historic
Evan note use and that includes photos PDFs other elements that I've uploaded maybe even
Word documents Etc from University and there's probably quite a lot of them so files is a new
aspect of evote you can open them up here you can go to the file in the note and you can download
it from here too so that's just going to pop that one up for me cuz I uh pressed it here
but you can download it as well so that's pretty neat as well so in terms of other elements you
can sketch which is something that you when you press you can get this sketch ability blah blah
blah blah blah blah pretty self-explanatory you know you can do things here you can obviously
use this on mobile Etc and obviously get going with a sketch it's pretty self-explanatory um
and there's also audio abilities as well there's also a way to create an event but let's take you
to home because home is improving because it's just slowly getting a bit more interactive like
here obviously I can go in and see those notes for the calendar I can customize this a little
bit further in terms of adding pin notes scratch pan which is like just no ideas and you can drag
in these widgets which I think is very cool so for example you can also have the new home banners
up here as well which is nice and you can access pinotes and my tasks here as well so it's almost
like your easy access place for everything that is going into your Evernote account so that is
Evernote in a nutshell really because largely it's refined itself it's taken whatever note
was in the past and it's made it slightly more polished a better design nicer looking things
and they're sort of slowly gutting features um for those who don't know you can go over to the
everno Twitter account now and in comparison with what was previous they're releasing features or
sharing ideas and this is an example of the tasks area they're sharing ideas relatively often which
is really nice and they're also conceptualizing Concepts as well in here like the task being
available in the calendar as well so that you can organize your calendar and tasks together
but you can start to see even from the time stamps every couple of days there is an update or an idea
that they're conceptualizing and it's drastically changing the way that Evan note is being even the
mobile version is is likely coming out into to be a better version soon but you can start to get an
idea that evot are actually running this more like a business in terms of their offering and updating
so not to annoy people with which is very good so I think this is good news if you're looking
there's sort of two experiences here you might be looking at Evo as a completely new perspective
I'm looking at a note taking application I would look at evote alongside the other options on the
market there are lots of different options on the market now notion quite expansive in terms of what
it can do with databases PKM tools which allow you to go much deeper with connected thoughts but
evot it seems to be positioning itself more as a traditional no taking application with
a productivity Hub along alongside it so that's exciting for a lot of people because it gives them
a more Central more allround experience um and those who may be looking at this video and going
Franchesco I used OTE 5 years ago should I come back to it and my answer is not just yet I think
you have to say to yourself are is the noing app I'm using now do solving my needs if it is stick
with it because it's like moving house no Tak apps are like moving house task apps are like moving
car calendar apps are like moving as phones moving a phone is a lot easier than moving house moving a
house because you got all of your notes is quite stressful so I wouldn't tell somebody to up and
leave a note taking app within a day because it's not the type of thing that you can do
quite easily what I would say to you is continue to follow their updates continue to understand
what the application is doing and whether it's offering more and more of a compound experience
than you're currently using and a better one and then look at that and establish whether
that's a good move for you I will say that I'm impressed with evote at the moment it's actually
releasing things it's refining things it's running things more like a business and that is so good to
see so Evernote in 2024 is a very interesting offering in this video I hope you got a better
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