hello everyone and welcome back to the key productive youtube channel it's francesco here
today um i thought i'd do sort of something i do quite regularly a ceo update from evernote
in terms of just a review of of what was said in their sort of blog post give you an idea
of what they're planning for the future sometimes people tend to read these and but sometimes uh the
reason i do is because sometimes just people don't see them and naturally it might be useful if you
are an evernote user or you're considering it so they they tend to do this every six months ian has
been pretty regular at this and that's so good um to have that because before with the previous ceos
minus uh phil leben who's a legend let's get phil on uh the keep productive channel um you you
tended to get updates but you you didn't get with the last ceo so um what they do in this update
um primarily in the first part of it is they highlight the things that this year they've really
tried to enhance in particular the the product lineup and the home tasks and calendar experience
which in my opinion they've done really well on in terms of bringing it together they also state that
over the course of the year they also reintroduced features like quick switcher import folders better
link handling export options and added new capabilities to search assignable tasks
and the customize create button on mobile as well as launch the linux version which is all great for
stability and what they're sort of sharing a little bit more in this sort of second element
is what's coming next for evernote let's take a look so what they're stating in 2022
they're really aiming to do a few things um so what they're doing as part of their core
experiences is they're shipping long awaited screen widgets for android and ios which is
something that in my opinion i thought they'd have because they've always been quite close to apple
in terms of development they were always tended to be featured on the old stores so i thought they'd
always play into those new wwdc events they also state they'll over improve the overall application
upgrade experience making it faster and less disruptive it definitely has been better in the
last two months or so much faster to be able to search just improving that sort of speed
they'll also shrink the time it takes to load and display large notes in the editor as well
they also state that they'll improve support for the m1 chips on the mac desktop app which
is something that's becoming a lot more common with software especially with the new macs and
releasing m1 chips they're dramatically faster than intel based chips for mac as well and also
most importantly said over the course of the year they'll continue their multi-year journey to make
more reliable faster and more modern architecture for the backbone of evernote now they they have
honed in a little bit in this update that they're going to be really introducing some new and better
calendar experiences and i actually released a video fairly recently overviewing some of the
ways that the calendar can be better for meetings so they're also excited to announce updates in the
coming weeks they expect to launch notification support for connected google calendars
apparently validated by both users tests and internal evernote they'll give you a nudge when
it quickly opens or create notes for upcoming meetings so that you don't have that disconnect
between a meeting and your notes that are created and also for their existing calendar users
the feature will work automatically and you'll be able to fine-tune that within the widget
setting as well then they'll turn their attention over to extending the google calendar support
starting with managing schedules on office 365. so calendar seems to be a big focus it was the first
on their list here and the second focus is tasks so in their so the first release at release of
the year they introduced my tasks which i actually didn't see but i just saw recently on the sort of
update and apparently they want to start improving the task experience and beyond that they've told
us that recurring tasks is a killer feature that they're missing and they also want to expect to go
into beta in the first quarter of the year and to ship the capability to our professional personal
and team user plans and if you're apparently a personal professional team user you'll be able to
be one of the first to see it in recurring access uh recurring uh tasks inside of early access now
here's the sort of statement for evernote this year in 2022 they refine the application
of changing it sort of from remember everything to remember everything and accomplish anything
um and in 2022 they're aiming to build and promise continuing evernote across its dimension its
customers so apparently feedback is going to be key so they're dedicated to improving it in 2022.
and i think that's a quite an exciting update doesn't really give us in terms of heavy
big hitter features but they never do sort of tell you what the big heavy hits heavy hitter features
however i i'm definitely interested in sort of what ian's going to be planning for this next year
in my opinion i think that focus on task calendar and notes is actually a really good one because
it's actually moulding with the markets with the hub experiences that are much more common
with things like note plan um and and many more of those applications
uh that are growing uh like craft and things like that so very exciting um let's see what
evernote goes this year hopefully this is just a recap of what they're planning and give you an
idea of what evernote are doing in the background obviously um it'd be great to hear whether you're
excited for any of these specific things so feel free to comment play with your thoughts anyway a
big thanks to ian for keeping us updated uh as per normal uh keeping me uh busy and hopefully
over the next couple of weeks i'll have some new features to go through and talk through uh on
here on keep productive anyway folks a big thank you and i'll talk to you all very soon cheerio
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