so as we all know evernote had a pretty uh big launch yesterday and silly francesco uh i
thought it was just a calendar only announcement so i missed out on all the sort of new features
per se new plans and also some of their bigger announcements of the future and sort of their aims
so today's video is a sort of catch up um giving you some of my opinions uh overviewing everything
that you might need to know and um looking at the pricing plans and some of the fundamental
changes that they're having so in today's video we're going to break it down you can use the time
stamps if you would like to skip ahead to certain elements but i want to start with the features
now evernote have stated that this is a redefinition of evernote's fundamental makeup and
they've done a few things in this launch not just the calendar if you want to see the calendar video
included below but they've also introduced task improvements as well and removing tasks from beta
which definitely means some great improvements and to stability and things like that but tasks
are also getting upgrades allowing you to create and manage recurring tasks make hyperlinks and
tasks clickable um when you're in the note and task due dates to your calendar allow tasks in
table sales which is i know a lot of problems for a lot of people creating subtasks using one more
than flag forwarding emails into evernote and have them become tasks which is a good addition
and voice capture integrations so apparently they have been listening to users and actually pinpoint
some key problems with it they've also introduced calendar as you can imagine a big introduction and
some improvements to home in terms of the widgets and the way that you can customize it but we'll
get into some of that in the pricing elements because i think i have some opinions on it they've
also introduced very quietly a linux beta which means that linux users um can sort of get access
to evernote now which they couldn't before which basically uh you know adds to that cross-platform
abilities for sure they've also improved search options as well um something called boolean i'm
probably gonna butcher that boolean i've heard of it before um but it apparently is some additional
um a strength to the search optionality you've also got um an introduction of exporting notes
and notebooks to pdfs and also reintroduction of legacy features like bulk export import folder and
quick switcher so they're really paying attention to what people are uh wanting to focus on
okay so let's dive into the plan side of stuff this is where it gets a little bit controversial
seen a lot of comments on it i have some of my own opinions um about what they've done with it um
they've changed the way that it said pricing works at the moment so you know currently well currently
as of yesterday evernote were just having three plans really it was evernote basic evident premium
evidence business now they have four plans uh and they've reintroduced one that was called plus
really um and here they are they're called evident free which is evernote basic evernote personal and
professional which a sort of were premium and you've got evernote teams as well now evernote 3
the only thing that's really changed um or the major things that have changed a three-widget
limitation on home customization which is a bit of a pain but again again then again you're paying
for free and no task additional features which means you can only create tasks um but i don't
think you can go into like things like task view much more detail like i mentioned all of those
features that the due dates the the hyperlinks and the recurring tasks i don't think they
are available inside of this new free plan so meaning you you'll get a very basic task plan
i understand that because that's a new feature and they want to sort of cap that
and get people pushed up the plans that's understandable but what they've done with
premium is they've broken it down into two sort of things personal which is a lighter
use and professional which is more intense use now what they've done with personal is
they've have additional task features advanced widgets for home and also the ease of connecting
primary google calendar with evernote so some good features however uh professional
gets you more assignable tasks abilities connect multiple calendars deeper home customizations and
advanced search capabilities as well as capacity to upload more in that plan double of what you
get in personal now in my opinion from what i know at least and from what people are saying is
i have the evernote premium plan however i was pushed down to evernote personal
which is still the premium plan um and still includes more uh well i'd say more but more than
what it had before because they didn't really stay all of this new sort of task calendar home
pricing and differentiations but i was moved down to that plan like many others um and you
have to then upgrade to get that plan my opinion is that if you're going to do that and grandfather
existing users you should probably put them in the higher tier plan because they've been loyal and
supportive even if it's for three to six months in my opinion because then at least you're showing
a a level of appreciation gives them full access to the features that they may have had before um
but as i said the new task abilities got launched at the same time so it's hard to
know what you fully get but in my opinion i think that's what they should have done um
the difference between pricing between those two um and let me just make sure i've got this right
so uh oh god it's in you uk pricing um okay let's go with uk
at least it's 5.99 a month for the personal plan and 7.49 a month for the professional plan so
they've uh sort of made it like 2 pound 50 fifty difference between the two so it's not a dramatic
increase um you know it works out about sort of i think fifteen sort of actually no it's also like
19 pound a year something like that extra for this professional plan however um it's just something
i think they should have um you know considered all those existing users that had done that had
been on the plans um just in my opinion just a small thing uh that i think they should do
but then again they have added um i think 10 more gigabytes per month and also the ability to have
boolean terms and also export notes as pdfs and integrations with slack salesforce microsoft teams
and others apparently so i guess just slightly more isn't it um and i guess they probably want
people just to move up to that plan that are sort of in my bracket and just just an early opinion
they've also got a teams plan which you know keeps all the team on the same page but aside from that
um they said in a statement if you're already using the latest version that apps has nothing
to do you're automatically if you're on premium uh it will take the current subscription rates
automatically i might migrate you to the personal offering and business and basic
customers will stay on the plans but they'll be renamed but all the new capabilities we're
introducing will be made sure to be available in the latest version it'll take 48 hours up to
understand what they've done here because you're adding new functionality and you want to cap it in
higher plans or potentially do it but in my opinion i think at least they should have done us
for a six-month trial on the evernote professional then to move us down to evernote personal but
again that's probably complicated i'm like yeah do it they're like no this is a bit tricky so
let's talk about the future so evernote have said that home tasks and calendar are this new sort of
merge this hub of uh evernote and it's it's really the focus on tasks and so really to focus on notes
and to construct and connect everything together so they're sort of in a bit of a nice position at
the moment because they've they've pretty much finished what their core elements are like what
um evernote looked like two years ago definitely doesn't look like it does now because they've
got this new sort of blend they're very much targeting apps like ample note um
i think i thought someone in the comments did they just look at apple now and copy it
but at the same time i think it's a great sort of mission because you're looking at these
sort of no plan agenda notes um ample note the ones that sort of hub eyes hubbard habitize
your notes calendar and tasks and they're doing a good job of that and i think that home brings that
together really nicely um and they said in the statement they will continue to improve the core
notes functionality whilst pushing our new constructs forward and explore growing connections
together so essentially what evernote trying to do is improve the improve the core note experience
functionality and what you can do there but then also work out how task notes and calendar and home
can work better together and that's even small things like when they release a new task update
today when they actually said okay we're going to add due dates to any of the calendar events
that's a small connection and i think they'll continue to improve that
they won't apparently they won't stop until they've become the true extension of their brain
ready to help you ready to help you not only remember everything but accomplish everything so
they're moving from a static experience to a more interactive experience which is good because that
might lead to things like emails coming in it might lead to things like uh consolidation
of other applications into this one app so evernote are in a really exciting position
one of the things they also sort of hinted at in the personal plan i believe it was i think it's
the personal plan is it coming soon customize home with filtered notes widgets so that's a little bit
of a hint a feature that's coming and i might even mean like you know you drilling down a search time
and being able to pin it as a note option so that if any new notes come up about that you can find
them or it could mean that in the future that you might have the ability to filter down tasks
um and narrow them down based on a certain element i'm not sure that's available in this one
but the one thing that i got from i'm just spitballing for the future when i watch their
new video which they introduced and i'll play a little bit of a clip of it here
up and i have to manage to do's for all of them can you help me out we have your
tasks organized by project or due date and we can even help you prioritize your um hold up
in my opinion the the sound of the the the ladies speaking um reminding me of sort of the siri
um or the siri assistant um and they're trying to place evernote i think
in the future this is complete ideas as this sort of assistant this sort of siri like character
and i think that's as i said i keep keep saying after talking with ian i think evernote are
heading towards that sort of assistant experience and that could be an exciting future for evernote
because they're not only investing in um the static stuff but they're investing in the things
that you know like imagine if you had an evernote home that every day changed based on what they
think through analysis of your notes using an ai or machine learning is most important for your day
and it automatically reconfigures that or let's say you've got a note that's got all
of your tasks and your calendar on it and it brings it together like as this sort of
automatically plans your day so that's what evernote could be in two years if they keep
putting an effort down and to be honest um i have i do think evernote number one they do need to
improve their core experience the app is still not as slidy and gesturey and lovely as it used to be
in my opinion and a lot of people have found that however i think where they're going is exciting um
the next two years will be real play but if they keep at the pace they've been going in terms of
like what they did is they fixed the core problem they moved on to adding the features and now
they're really going to try and cement that and hopefully add more features bring them together
make it more connected that's what evernote could be in two years is if they put their foot down
like they are but the thing that um i i want to say this because i think at the start i was i was
actually quite like i remember my first call with ian and i was like like where can evernote go from
here to be honest like i think a lot of people were disappointed and sort of annoyed that what
they were doing wasn't enough and they weren't keep eating with the other ones but if you zoom
out and take it from two years ago to now there's been considerable improvement they've reconfigured
all of their cloud stuff they've redesigned their application and they've also added a
bunch of new features which haven't been added so kudos to the team to be honest i'm impressed
and i think the thing is in the future this this this could be where they're going that's just my
thoughts but exciting stuff from evernote um obviously i think they need to fix the pricing
elements they they probably mean just need to make a modification to everyone just say right everyone
who is existing premium user we're sorry that we put you on the personal plan let's pop you on the
professional plan for six months sorry about that you can jump into all the features if you like
then um what they should do is uh it is continue to fix the application at its core and then start
connecting the other two so i think that's when it'll get exciting it's starting to look more
like microsoft outlet boards um but definitely a huge uh interesting leap from evernote but
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