so as many of you folks know evernote have made some considerable changes to
their platform in the last couple of days they've overhauled the subscription plan
they've also added additional features and changed the overview of what the platform's
really aiming to be in today's video i wanted to pull together some of the community bug bears
things that are painful at the moment talking around the premium pricing and subscriptions
and also overview my own experience of home so far so the first thing i want to talk about um is this
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a range of courses there if you wanted to check them out so the first thing i wanted to do before
we actually dive into the content is talk through a mistake that i made in my recent evernote video
i stated when i was talking about tasks that these are new features that are available
inside of tasks however that was incorrect these features here have been flagged by evernote as
most popular feature requests not new tasks and by the statement it said we've also uh going to be
planning on a few of these that are currently research and design phase and will be released
in a couple of months so not all of these will be coming out but they've been flanked as evernote's
main sort of feature requests so i'd like to apologize and i apologize for the confusion for
many users who are watching that video i will pay a closer attention to the information and details
in the future but i just wanted to pass on an apology so the first point of call i
think is the confusion around pricing now for those who don't know evernote have introduced
two new plans personal and professional these two plans replace what is called premium which is what
a lot of people were under and for those who were on premium whether you were people who got
a good discounted rate i think it was 49 uh 44.99 per year which was the discounted rate for premium
that where they were pushing um or those who were paying the full price of 69.99 per year
um it is still weird how they've moved everyone to this personal plan i can understand it because
obviously they've introduced new features new customizations and a few tweaks however they've
decided to push everybody back down to this plan here so uh obviously you then have to upgrade
to professional to get access to some of the additional things like being able to assign tasks
and be able to see it out see tasks outside of a single view and get full customization
of home dashboard as well as having multiple calendar access so evernote i've i think in my
opinion have gone about this in the wrong way and a lot of people i posted in the community
to sort of um you know get a feel for this and a lot of people um particularly found the confusion
around this pricing that was painful saying that obviously why should they be on personal because
they should really be unprofessional especially if they're loyal supporters
i think from the general fielding of it there were really good experiences of evernote and also some
negative ones i think it was almost like a bit of a marmite situation people love the new update or
they hate it um but essentially a lot of people like the fact that evernote have actually started
to bring this together and started to introduce something that makes more sense in terms of the
long run but i think there was a lot of users who were just annoyed that mainly the loyal
users of evernote who are annoyed about the way that this was sort of launched um and one thing
i suggested in one of my videos was actually to grandfather in those people who have been premium
subscribers for the years or even over a year potentially for six months on professional plan
so it would be good if evernote managed to bump everyone up to that because i just think it would
help the community and the growth i've seen some people go right this is enough i'm annoyed but a
lot of people found also that um they'd have to renew their so what what was happening was that
they were actually seeing uh their free account but apparently uh some people were able to restart
their account um and actually get uh access to the personal plan which they weren't able to get
hold of for some reason so if you're having those problems that was a good fix in in closing up your
account uh signing out and then going back in and seeing uh you know what uh actual status you're in
so just taking a moment i wanted to share a few of my thoughts on the new evernote experience
and what i actually think of it um as a existing evernote user now obviously
one of the things i think has been pretty impressive is the way that they've built out home
i did obviously think after having to call with ian the widgets would become more of a focus and
obviously they have been i think that one of the things that's quite confusing as an evident user
is the actual differentiation between the full customization on professional and the full and
the customization you get on personal for example you can't actually access two scratch bands in one
i you have to actually upgrade if you want the secondary scratch pad or a tertiary scratch pad
however that's obviously something that uh their plans um you know dictate at the moment now some
of the things i really like about this is the way that you can really modify your setup so
for example the widget size here and be able to get this fixed calendar experience um and also
the tasks as well being able to be um you know modified uh i quite like it as a small widget here
now i've also like some of the modifications to scratchpad you can now change the title
of scratch pad and the color as well so if you wanted it as sort of an evident green or larger
you can have that and you can move it about per normal now in terms of changing the background
i think they locked the ability to add your own background under pro but i'll double check that
or personal maybe um but they obviously would be nice to see some of more of the background
options i think there's some new ones there but not too many i like that you're able to
add more pin notes which is cool um something that i was wanting to see more of obviously
you can add one already i think i i don't know whether i've had one already um okay so actually
uh you can add one per note but adding more pin notes means that um you don't get that access
now one thing that they are doing i think is allowing soon the ability to get um filtered views
or filtered widgets which is quite cool so say you wanted to only see certain things from certain
notebooks or maybe only things from certain tasks and things like that that would be quite cool
i really like this new linking the linking notes abilities so i've started to use that
in my calendar i probably won't use tasks i'll see how that goes to be honest i'm using
todoist still as my task hub so i don't really see it working with that but maybe occasional
tasks that come under a project might actually be useful there and be able to sort of flag them
as sort of meeting notes and things like that the one thing i do like is the fact that you get tasks
on that side obviously that's specific uh single view is something that is going to be coming along
i do like how the tasks are available on the side as well that's something that's pretty impressive
and i have recently enjoyed having this really simple little create new note area
um and some modifications here now one thing that um i didn't have before that was available
inside of this one is export as pdf now as you can imagine this is just a small feature but it really
goes a long way and it's something that i really appreciate um as a user um and it's now obviously
available in personal plans i believe it is but such a small addition really does make a huge
impact to your experience i also like how you're able to add calendar events um inside of here
so if i did want to attach summit to something then it's future-proofed with a future calendar
event so the tables are pretty helpful but i i still speak with the community and the fact that
being able to add tasks would be really nice on inside of tables um but i can imagine um that's
probably something they're probably trying to work out how to make tables into databases
and much more searchable overall i'm impressed with the new evernote update it makes sense for
somebody coming in who wants to maybe even manage their calendar tasks and notes in one location
and it's also a lot warmer and a lot easier to comprehend as a new user if i were to introduce
this to someone who isn't necessarily productive or in the sort of productivity software space
i probably make this um probably more available to them as in recommend it more because
it's more easier to understand than it was before whereas obviously now you can manage your calendar
tasks and notes in one location and for people who are you know maybe wanting to use this in a light
manner be able to clip basic notes be able to have a simple tally of some tasks they've got coming up
and be able to connect it to events this could be quite handy so folks hopefully that was a
good overview and sort of touching on some of the pain points i think evernote do listen i even saw
ian small inside of the community group the other day actually replying to comments which is always
good to see as a as a ceo and actively involved in the community um but hopefully they do address the
sort of um premium pricing issues at the moment um something i think the community would probably
benefit a lot from anyway folks thank you so much for stopping by hopefully i'll see you in a future
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