Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel, it is Francesco here. It's good to be back with you guys
I am excited today to be chatting with you guys about Evernote now in this video
We're gonna be touching on I guess two key areas
we're gonna start by talking about the Evernote's new features and we're gonna be diving into
Specifically the ones that in small and the team have pre confirmed in their behind-the-scenes series
but and she's gonna be talking about four of the main ones and
Sort of digging into them and and what it means for you as a user in the next couple of months
Then the second part of this video is mainly going to be I guess a rant
It's gonna be talking about the experience of Evernote and how fast they're progressing
So we're gonna be giving you a bit of feedback on that
But also give you some constructive stuff because I believe I guess it's not about just talking rabbit
It's about giving you the best advice in terms of making your decisions with Evernote
So guys without further ado, let's dive in
So to get the ball rolling let's talk about some of the newest Evernote features that they announced during this behind-the-scene series now
I will link up in the description all of the videos that we mentioned and all of the release dates that they've
Given, although they've been very obscure with them
So let's start with the first feature and that is better web search
Now this feature was with the designer. I believe it was a chief design in Mariano
They had a chat about the search experience inside of specifically the Evernote web version
so this is a better web search now their goal with this new web search is
Basically to make it sleeker and smarter when using it to type in say for example
The new search will allow you to filter get suggestions and connect with existing notes
So for example, if you work with someone in a specific Evernote notebook, it will allow you to
Put in that notebook specifically with that person and even search inside of that. It's not any different
I'd say to the existing search
It just looks faster and looks more
You know
Suggestion connected which is nice and it's a lot more attractive to say the least and it it's in available through this sidebar
So it doesn't really distract you wrote for a drop down necessarily the block some of your notes now
They haven't really given us a release date
But they say it's been handed off to developers and will be available on web OS
Now the second feature is a new improved editor and I'd say this is probably the biggest change
there will be seeing this one is already in beta and
It aims to address a problem Evernote's had for a while something. I've even mentioned here on key productive
This is something that Evernote essentially wants to solve because they have five
Different editors across the five different platforms and what they want to do with this one is create a cross-platform
Solution that unifies all of the experiences and this will really help
Now this one specifically strata daeun chatted with Sascha
who is part of the the one who is sort of leading this new editor design and she talks about the
Everything from the headers to the new section diviners being changed even adding multimedia improving fonts
Which is something I know a lot of people have been sort of getting angry at Evernote for for a while and even updated
Checkboxes now eventually had the opportunity to play around with this and I'm glad it's sort of been released in the wild circuit. Olecranon
Now I'm gonna say it's not a huge release
I'd say it's very similar to what the Mac editor looks like before but having this experience on mobile
will actually really really improve your overall experience and what I like about it as well is that it will obviously
When there's an update on Mac or when there's an update on on the iOS version
I guess they'll release it across all platforms, which is really really good
Now one of the things that I wanted to touch on in this feature specifically the sasha touched on is the new tables
Well, obviously in tables for a while
but they have this sort of drag abilities and tables tables look a lot more fluid than they did before and
I think that level of functionality is something that they continue should focus on continue to focus on because I guess that's where
Notion is taking the lead is the actual sort of
multimedia databases side of stuff and if they can crack that egg in the next couple of updates and
build this sort of core that will allow them to
Then they do have a good running now in terms of relief State this is already in beta on all devices
I believe so keep an eye out
obviously, I think if I'm honest I'm probably an august released as they start to sort of fine-tune anything and
Bring it out. But as you can imagine will cover the news here will keep productive
now if you sort of want a break or you want to read this article or these features
We've done a medium article that you can read about the for evernote features
which we actually dive a bit deeper into
So if you just want to jump off this video and watch all the original content then please do
But make sure you're subscribed. Of course. Now number three. It's a better service reliability now
this one was the third episode in the series and talks more about the infrastructure and
carnold abilities of evident now
this is a lot more technical than I'd say other people would want to know in this channel with unka who is part of the
Infrastructure team covering the system stability and reliability of Evernote and how it works in reality
this I'd say is more of an education video for those existing Evernote users on to understand how things work and they also
Address the issue that ever known had a few months ago
I believe with an outage and hopefully Anka can sort of patch Evernote up so it doesn't do this in the future
now they're going to be continually working on this because of course service reliability is
number one
But as you can imagine they didn't give a specifically release date because it's a very generalized system
Now the fourth and final update that they mentioned is a better iOS and Android mobile
Buttons now, this is really very simple but in actually prove your experiences
I think this will be a big update for a lot of people now at the moment you obviously can add stuff
using your Evernote account
But I guess is a little bit messy because nobody knows what like will dance and had that actually opens up
So what they've done is we've created this unified
New note tab where you can open it up and it gives you up soon from choose a template to and remind a record audio
start sketch and
Attachment and take photos scan document blank note and that's actually something that I know a lot of people will love because this is good
News this is like, okay
I can now access all the stuff at a quick glance instead of having to and a note go into the and
Multimedia, I hate doing that especially when I'm trying to capture a document on the go
This is gonna speed things up a lot now
The release date has they've stated it's gonna be released in a coming mumps, which I do
Hope is before August or at least at the end of August because I guess it looks almost done
But again, you don't know what the developers are working on
It's gonna be available on iOS and Android think they'll clean up a lot of experiences
So guys this second half is going to be a little bit of a rant. I'm gonna tell you as
Evernote user for maybe seven eight years now
Blimey, that's a long time. So just to give you a bit of clarity. I am still an Evernote user
I'll use evident more these days like I would Google Drive than I do
Notion, so my Google Drive is place to store my documents and be able to you know
Like find big files heavy files and even create documents, but my Evernote is a sort of middle ground
It's a place for me to store anything from travel financial information
past house documents and stuff
I can access quite easily on the go and be able to share and send to people when I need it
So Evernote has been this
Really useful resource for me over the last however many years. I've been using him. I still use it today
I don't upload it as much but I still definitely use it quite actively
And I am on the Evernote free plan. So I did dump down based on how I was using it
But I would say that it doesn't actually it notion actually hasn't replaced my evident
Use notion has replaced my Trello use more now notion lacks for me
Certain reference abilities aren't files
I want to be able to locally store it
You know being able to clip stuff and also being able to have that sort of knowledge that everything's uniformly organized in
these notebooks I
Still can't get away from the evidence structure and that's why I use it and have it transferred all my data over to notion in
Terms of having a set up there. So that's my sort of
Mindset with it. But looking at these updates they are some good updates been they're not great updates
I know Ian's focus has been
Reprioritizing the basics of Evernote and I do believe that's what you should be focusing on but for me
I'm a little bit annoyed at how slow this has come out now, don't get me wrong
I really loved these series where they focused on it because that actually gave you an insight into
this sort of plans and features and and actually it reminded me of given rid of nostalgia to the
Phil Libin who used to be their CEO those sort of days when you've got a bit of an insight
A little bit of like conference vibes Evan. It used to have a yearly conference
well
They dived into the topic and it gave me a good sort of feeling about
the future of Evernote I guess but at the same time when you look at the facts like for example
You know notion is a twenty roughly person team
Last time I checked anyway
and Evernote is a pretty large team now and you sort of compare the rate of development you
Know it does have a sort of impact on you because you're you're like why can't ever note develop faster
but of course
I know there's more red tape
But Evernote ever don't tend to be a little bit better on how they release features. I'd say in my opinion
It's a lot more you like formalized. It's a lot more
There's a lot more sort of thought process behind it and how it affects the system
Like they're not gonna release a feature that effect how GTD users use Evernote
Where as notion in a moment are just sort of flinging out features in an effort to sort of?
Unify it later. So I guess my sort of
Feelings on it are evidence should move faster
With these sort of development packages that they've got that's just my opinion
But I do and I'm very excited for Evernote future in the next couple of months
Now here's my window or timeline of opportunity
I'd say if evident release these features and give us a bit of a timeline on
What things are working on by the end of the year? I'd be a happy puppy. I'd actually be
really looking forward to what 2020 brings and how Ian's gonna tackle that situation, but at the same time
If they don't get these features out by the end of the year
I will be a little bit annoyed because these are features they're sort of patch up the existing experience and should
Be really prioritized in terms of getting out again. I am NOT a developer
I worked in marketing, but I still would appreciate it as user these features to be released
So that's my thoughts. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below
I really hope this was constructive because I didn't want to necessarily just poke and go this is annoying
I just wanted to give you my thoughts
I'm sat with a cup of tea in my lounge that come literally just just one a it sort of
You express my thoughts on this whole situation and how it's it's molded out
And I really love to hear what you guys think. I had a question
From we're gonna have a question
I had a message from Don who's one of the key productive class members and he was like, you know
I'd love to see more content about Evernote and I do
100% agree with them and Thank You Don because
There's needs to be more evident content the last couple of months on this YouTube channel. I have primarily focused on notion and
Internal wiki's and whilst that's good for many of the amazing notion users out there
I believe it's important to collectively, you know bring together
There's nothing wrong with Evernote now
It is still the bee UMF of a notetaking application that it is and I do want to focus on it more
so stay tuned for some more setups and
maltose of Evernote because I do want to give you guys a better idea of how to improve your use as
They start to bring a come back into the mix
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