Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you doing this fine day?
Me?
I’m trying to decide what Evernote person I am.
Am I an Evernote Basic, an Evernote Plus or an Evernote Premium person?
See, in the past there were just two tiers of Evernote use, Basic and Premium.
But Evernote has just released a new tier in structure to their service.
So now you can have the mid-range Evernote Plus, Evernote Premium or be an Evernote Basic
person.
Now what does it all mean?
Stick around.
We’ll have a conversation about just that exact topic today on DottoTech.
Now for the longest time, Evernote has been basically a two-tiered service.
You pay $45 a year, I believe was the cost and you got the premium services and if you
didn’t pay, you had the basic services.
There was quite a few additional features in the premium services but it was just basically
a two-tiered model.
Evernote wanted to service people a little bit better so they’ve finally come out with
a three-tiered service.
Now they’ve surprised me with the fact that they’ve kept the premium service at pretty
close to the same cost, although depending on where you live it will not appear as such
to you or it may not appear as such to you.
But what they’ve done is they’ve brought in this mid-range pricing.
I thought they’d probably bring up something a little more high-end but instead they brought
in a mid-ranged pricing.
They’ve taken something away from basic users and they’ve created a new mix.
So I think that you and I should have a look at exactly what’s included in Evernote moving
forward.
Now if you are already in a paid service and you have the premium service, I think until
April of next year, if you would come up for renewal, they’re going to honor the same
premium pricing.
Most people who are premium users will work to remain premium users but they will spend
a little bit more.
Now the official price for premium is I believe $49.95, up from $45.
But I am in Canada and look it is price-adjusted for the weak Canadian dollar.
When I go to upgrade now, my next time, it’s going to cost me $57.99 in loonies as opposed
to the $49 if you’re just a little bit south of me in the States.
So they are adjusting it for local currencies.
Some of us will benefit and some of us will suffer.
Being in Canada, we suffer.
Oh my, how we suffer.
But let’s look at the services themselves.
So in the Basic service, you get the Evernote Web Clipper and you can sort to 60MB/month
in monthly uploads.
This is new.
They’ve given something new to the Basic service in that you can now share your notebooks,
which you couldn’t do before in Evernote.
You could share notes in this could be them but it looks to me like all sharing is turned
on now in Basic, which is pretty cool.
I haven’t confirmed that by seeing a Basic account but that’s what it looks like in
the documentation to me.
And you can sync.
Obviously, you can sync across your phones and computers.
What they have taken away from Basic service, the biggest thing that they’ve taken away
from Basic service is the ability to send email into Evernote.
In the past, all Evernote accounts had an email address attached to that account and
you can forward email from your email software into Evernote and it would convert that email
into a note.
That is not available to Basic users anymore.
That’s now in the Plus category at $2.99/month.
That to me is the most valuable feature that they’ve taken away from the Basic users,
is the ability to forward email in it, something that I use every day and most of the people
that I teach to use Evernote, that’s one of the features that they use the most.
Sending all your receipts and invoices, any documents that you want to save that would
appear an email, being able to fire them directly into Evernote is a boon as far as your productivity
and your organizational structure is concern.
That now is going to cost you to the tune $2.99/month or $28/year, $29/year if you’re
in Canada.
The other features now is you can access all of your notes offline with the Plus service.
You can have a passcode lock on your mobile apps, which means that you can lockdown your
Evernote account on your smartphone to create an additional level of security.
You can then obviously save the emails to Evernote, which I’ve just talked about.
And that is really it for the Plus service.
I think a lot of people that were in Basic are going to step up and use the Plus service,
certainly anybody that’s been using Evernote quite a bit.
Stepping up to the Premium service, there are a lot of additional features.
There’s now a link where you can actually search your Microsoft Office Online documents
and attachments within Evernote.
You can convert your notes into presentations using the Evernote Presentation Manager.
A big feature here is the ability to annotate PDFs that you’ve attached to your documents.
So you can mark-up PDF documents and search on those documents and PDFs so far more robust
PDF support in the premium version.
You can scan and digitize business cards right within Evernote, which is a big deal if you’re
an Android user.
It’s not such a big deal if you’re a Mac or an iOS user because Scannable, the app
Scannable, does such a phenomenal job of linking into Evernote and scanning in our business
cards that I actually use that instead of the Evernote app anyways.
But that is available to the Premium users.
You can view old versions of your notes so you basically have a note history of your
notes.
So if you make changes to notes and you want to revisit history, you have access to that.
See they also have something called Evernote Context where as you’re pulling up your
notes, it’s searching on the web for related information, for related web content just
from certain trusted sources that might relate to whatever that you are working with.
I haven’t found that to be particularly valuable but it is a feature that the Premium
users have.
So that’s it for in the US $2.99/month and Canadian up to $59 or close to $60 a year.
You now have three tiers of Evernote that you could choose.
I wonder which one you’re going to choose.
Please comment below in our commentary here and let us know what you think about the new
Evernote pricing structure.
Personally, I rely on Evernote so much I want to make sure that they’re profitable and
that they are a healthy business moving ahead because I’ve invested a lot in storing content
in Evernote.
So it’s a valuable service for me.
I want them to be healthy moving ahead so if this is the pricing structure that’s
going to work for them, I’m happy to pay the small amount that it costs me every year
to have those access to those services.
But do you think the same?
Let us know in the comment.
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Till next time, I am Steve Dotto.
Have fun storming the castle.