Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel today
I will be diving into Evernote and we'll be talking firstly about their latest update
So folks evident have put out a announcement and updates
I wanted to pick a few things out of it highlight them that in small their CEO
shared with the community and the main reason behind this is because they give a few insights into what Evernote is working on now and
Also naturally fill in a few gaps that you may be missing
So the first little statement has said is we've always had a distributor team in which they have with people across
Seven offices in the United States and around the world now
although they have their main office and they obviously have many different departments and
You know regional areas to ian's state
but we've had to transform into a hundred percent work from home company virtually overnight and he goes on to talk about
how many other companies been doing this and obviously the virus and the impact and sending his love - and thoughts to everyone then he
States the good news and is that we've made substantial progress on the foundations of Evernote?
Stating that and while the apps themselves are taking much longer to deliver than we expected
We are making material progress towards release with each passing week all with a goal of bringing you a more consistent
Coherent Evernote now, I think what he's talking about mainly and he alludes this in a moment is the preview now
This is currently being released on iOS Android Windows and Mac. Here's what he says about it. We're currently
distributing preview releases on iOS Android Windows and Mac every two weeks to a population of
20,000
Volunteer testers in six languages with more on the way now. They do make this clear
The preview is actually something before the beta which I actually didn't know and I originally made a video with showing you all of it
but actually I shouldn't have
Technically can't share it as a tester and because I'm in ECL and Evernote community leader still
Which means that I've taken the right courses to talk about Evernote or at least teach Evernote
And it was a program that they offered like an ambassadorship sort of thing
But I'm obviously free to share all of my own opinions Ian also states as preview releases
These apps will still fill have gaps in functionality design or performance. But every two weeks they get better
It's incredibly difficult to renovate a service with
This much scale and complexity from the ground up making progress only gets harder and missed a global pandemic
But know that we have not lost our focus
So the article touches on a few of the other aspects of Evernote and how they haven't necessarily
Stopped their mission of sorting the foundations and making people fall in love with Evernote again
now, of course I am, you know, totally
Aware that Evernote is going to be on that mission of making it sort of stable again, and I think it's a good mission
I think it's a like obviously I don't I think Evernote have passed the point now where they shouldn't be necessarily fighting towards notion
Talked a lot about it
Like it should probably probably try and compete but now I think that they could just be a great legacy app
In the same way that people think about Google Drive
in that capacity in
The fact that you go into Google Drive it works and you can share document to other people and it gets slightly better every year
Slightly more stable slightly more faster, but nothing, you know, like nothing that people go
Wow, about anymore. People don't go WOW about Google Docs people go WOW about coda
But not go out Google Docs because it's you know, very stable
Static service. So I think Evernote will become that sort of service. I think people will change the way they use it
I see a lot of people heading towards a filing cabinet use versus a note-taker
I think the note-taking days of Evernote. I think we've talked about it before world's best
Note-taker should be replaced with world's best filing cabinet because the aeneas one is like document access points
that isn't necessarily Google Drive, but not necessarily notion at the same time my
Thing now is that I'm really past ever know even trying to catch up with notion or any of the others
I think there's a new rail
Rome
notion
many of the others obsidian and
you know even Dinah list if they you know,
Come up with something. Obviously Bob City and is a
Subsidiary of Dinah list, but I think that these apps are workflow me. Sorry workflowy. I think that these apps are really passed
You know, they're in a different sort of experience for a lot of people. I think that Evernote is definitely a legacy app
Now, I think that's a sort of
Consistent that I've really come to terms with I'm still using I really like using it now because it's a lot faster and a lot
Smoother but I think when Ian mentions at the end like we're waiting for people to fall in love with Evernote again
It's hard to see at the moment but if they added more and more I think that's that's sort of where they're going
I think it's almost the issue. I sorry Ferranti
I feel like it's sort of the issue that to do is to having will they had about a year ago?
When they were talking a lot about today's foundations people were like mm. Hm
Hmm, like one in you add more features and once they've got their foundations, right?
They're sort of framework now
They're able to add more features like the upcoming and the subtasks and also
soon-to-be the boards
and so I do think there's a lot of credit in these applications like
Reframing themselves and designing it from the ground up but I think to do is to end about it a lot
Faster and say evernote evernote. I feel handle loads of
big company problems that sort of slowed them down
So I think and obviously being such a big company for a fair while selenium down what to do. This is much more nimble
So folks hopefully enjoyed my opinion on this as I said it to be interesting to see how this plays out
But I'll be keeping you updated and in the loop as we go along. Anyway, folks a big. Thank you
I'll talk to you all very soon
And thank June first, but I've been doing some of these shorter features. Anyway, so talk to you very soon. Cheers folks. Bye
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