So, this is a tool that's been on our review list for over a year now
And it's actually one of the most recommended tools by the community to do a review on and it's time today to do a nimbus
No
Review now nimbus note aims to be an evernote replacement and that's quite exciting and we're finally here to check it out
We'll cover the basic features and then place it against evernote to see what's really different
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so let's start with some of the general information nimbus know aims to be the place to collect all your
Information and knowledge much like tools like evernote
And for sure
It's positioning themselves as an evernote replacement as well as having team abilities and features
For collecting knowledge and sharing between departments hinting at a few coder features in there too. It has been around since
2010 according to their twitter page and the team are based in cleveland, ohio
So let's take a look at some of the features
They aim for you to craft wikis documents and notes in this tool and you can also edit notes for your team
Sharing internal links with your team and publicly too
You can create tasks checklists spreadsheets and databases and they do have some capture abilities which include screenshots
Videocasts ocr as well as e2e
encryption and a web clipper 2 for good measure
It looks much like you would get in an application that we all know evernote and like evernote they actually target teams as well
Now there's a lot to unpack here
So let's focus on the main elements and begin with the pricing now do remember with this review?
We're looking at this from a personal notetaker perspective versus the team tools, but we'll talk a little bit about the team tools as well
Okay, let's start with the pricing. Now. The starter plan is free and you get with that
100 megabyte upload limit monthly as well as 50 notes per workspace and you get two
workspaces now compare that to evernote
And you are getting a better deal with the megabytes per month
But the limitations to taking notes is a huge barrier to entry with only 50 notes per workspace
And of course evernote has unlimited notes on the free plan
But do remember evernote does have a limit to the two devices on the free plan
so they're not perfect and from places i've looked nimbus doesn't have a similar limitation but in my opinion
A limit to the amount of notes is more painful than device limitations
so on their pro plan that is priced at
24.99 a year and it has five gigabyte limit monthly to storage unlimited notes and five workspaces
Now comparing that to evernote it's much cheaper almost fifty dollars a year cheaper without any discounts at a lower rate, of course
But with evernote you get twice the amount of storage with 10 gigabyte upload per month now nimbus does offer
pricing for team plans with all plans available
and in the pro plan
You can actually add up to five team members to collaborate with
Which is fairly good but i'd have to do a full team's perspective feature to explore this further
Now according to the site import from evernote and you get one month free, which will save you
The monthly fee, which is 4.99
Now nimbus offers you offline access as part of their starter plan unlike evernote which offers you only desktop
Offline in the basic free plan and all exits offline in their premium plan
So all in all the pricing is not too bad, but you do suffer if you go with the starter plan
but save in the long term
If you go with the pro plan and I feel like these days people are more comfortable paying for their second brain
Okay, so let's get started a little bit into the design of the application now super similar to design of evernote and slack
They haven't really hid this side by side
They look pretty similar, but I guess that's the natural look people want for note-taking software these days
Plus it does put your mind at rest to knowing where everything is in terms of navigation
Now nimbus like evernote works offline on desktop mobile and comes on windows mac
Iphone android working on ipad 2. Now
We're not security experts
But by the looks of it nimbus have a good level of security and actually prioritized it on the navigation bar on our website
Which showcases the priority and importance for them? Okay. So before we jump into the note editing side of stuff, let's talk about something
That's quite important to many people that use evernote at least the web clipper so much like evernote you can send in
Notes via email and using your unique email address you can send them in and they'll be saved into your evernote
Now I tried this inside of nimbus and from my last memory of actually using it inside of evernote
It actually worked better and neater when clipping inside of nimbus
Now this is free to use unlike evernote to actually put this inside of their premium plan and inside of their premium plan
You still have some limitations with evernote premium business you can save emails directly into evernote up to 200 daily
using that unique email address
But just a note inside of the nimbus account in order to avoid spam attempts
Nimbus inbox will accept incoming emails only from the email that is registered to the nimbus account
So in terms of the email clipper, I think the email clipper seems to be a little bit better than evernote
But there are actually two additional clippers. It's
Complementary if you have the pro experience, it's quite confusing because you do get these in the starter plan
But you also get them in the pro plan and there's also two of them and you can buy the licenses separate
But let's take you through how they work
So the first one is the web clipper and that's available in the browser
You can get that through chrome opera and firefox and through that web clipper
You can do the regular stuff like clipping articles clipping details clipping short pieces of text
And even documents as well
Now it does work
Well, but it does look a little bit ugly if you're someone that goes is coming from the evernote web clipper, of course
Now the other tool is a screencast and video recorder and that's also available through chrome opera and firefox
I'll talk about this a little later
But it's actually quite neat a little tool. I guess if you're looking to sort of
Share a little idea with somebody that you're working with a little like you would inside of an app like loom
But the pro actually locks specific features in the web clipper like search text in images
Search text in documents and the document scanner as well. But if i'm honest, it's quite confusing what you get in each plan
So it's worth checking out before you jump in with this application
Okay, so let's break down the core features of this application the notes editor feels smoother inside of nimbus. I was using this on
Web and much like evernote's methodology
It's actually well designed. So the notes editors does feel smooth inside of nimbus
It's much like evernote's methods of building it and if i'm honest the speed of the web tool was actually on par all better
Than the evernote edition of the editor, which is pretty impressive
Especially from something that is more of a new entry than the likes of evernote
Now the editor is easy to use and you can add all types of media to it
multimedia naturally
But the thing i'd say is that evernote do a better job with rapid thing wrapping everything together?
Evernote's ecosystem does feel much more polished
But this could very well be a bias for of mine from the years of using the tool
So moving on the templates are also accessible and help you to save time building specific sets of notes
The only thing i'd say is that evernote does it better when it comes to note adding?
It feels better on mobile and on web because you can quickly access templates
But also find stuff that you've recently produced so actually inside of the note editor
Nimbus actually has a few subtle differences and the main one is the taskbar which sits on the right hand side of the screen
This is a really nice feature that I think separates specific tasks instead of you having to crawl through long lists
And checking checklists or even having to search you can extract tasks as you go and add them here
I feel like this is a really neat feature and something avenote should have probably added years ago
the only way i'd improve this is if it was able to auto detect maybe check boxes and sort of
Put them available inside that section or something specific so you don't have to do it manually all the time
Maybe just a note but something that would improve it even further
I also like how attachments sit on top of the note for better access
Inline inside of evernote they appear but inside of nimbus they appear at the top of the page
Which I think is better and easier to access
But then again you don't get that in-line ability being able to preview them versus having to open them up separately
so in nimbus
You can actually modify the appearance including the text size style of text and width so you can do that inside of settings
As I said, the clipper is pretty ugly and nimbus
But it works fast and easily from the time I use it to clip a article
It was pretty speedy another feature that does impress me is the video web clipper
Actually seems like an impressive feature and a pretty decent extension here. Here's a little bit more about how it works
Say you wanted to demo a website or something like this to somebody or even talk over it
You can do that and naturally clip it pretty
Instantaneously, you don't even have to share it
necessarily through the platform, but you can definitely
Do it just directly as well
As a final feature note
I think the mobile edition of the nimbus application really lets you down it in the uk at least has a shocking
2.7 rating although that's only three ratings
um
I'm sort of agreeing with that opinion. I crafted a note earlier and when I was inside the mobile edition
It said that i've created something in the old editor
And apparently I need to use the mac or windows version to access that it just seems a little bit odd
And also the mobile edition seems ported as it's not as snappy as the web and desktop versions
Which I was so impressed with which is a pain and if you compare it to the likes of evernote's ios experience
It does not feel on par at all in terms of the speed and quality, even though the evernote's one has
Several issues. Sometimes it definitely
Feels that nimbus aren't as hot on the mobile versions
Now fun fact apparently nimbus while I was looking at the mobile version. It has a meditation app as well called nimbus mind very strange
Okay, so i'm gonna give you my opinion here. Um, so
Thiago forte recently spoke to me about the evernote situation and their position on it
And he said that eminem aren't competing with notion and rome anymore. And I I believe him in a sense from tiango's perspective
They're trying to be the best
Tool that they've always been like a note-taker and compiling cabinet and I think nimbus is trying to fight the same war here
They want to be a robust note-taking slash file cabinet tool like evernote and they do want a piece of the pie
And by the looks of it, it's actually impressing many along the way who are slightly bored of evernote's development cycle
Whilst they have features like coda in terms of allowing teams to collaborate. It doesn't really challenge the likes of the coder model
So they do fall behind there, but when it comes to the face-to-face comparison with evernote things aren't too far away
When you're thinking of things like gtd evernote does provide more resources and probably comes with more workflow
But in premise they do the same job
Yes, the evernote web clipper looks better an overall brand of evernote oozes more stability
I do think nimbus gives a marvelous effort and i'd happily say this tool
Then i'd probably recommend to those who want evernote on a budget
and are comfortable with the experience and I definitely think if you've been hosting your notes inside of evernote for a long time, I
Don't think it's necessarily the jump you necessarily need. But if you're someone brand new looking at note-taking tool
That works like evernote. This could be a good comparison
Okay. So here's the official score i've given it so for design. I've given it a seven for features
I've given it a six for pricing. I've given it an eight
Although i've note noted the fact that obviously they don't have fantastic sort of free plan
But I think their pricing pricing's a lot better than evernote in the bigger plans
Usability i've given it a 6 out of 10 and my final opinion. I'll probably give it a 7 out of 10
so whisking that through the math machine, we've given nimbus note a
6.8 score which we think is
A good score. Um, if you compare it to imdb, I think that's more like step brothers. Um,
Sort of movie score a very good comedy. Um, but definitely not a comedy application at that
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