so this week Evernote introduced some interesting updates in terms of stability Ai and pricing today
we're going to overview everything that you need to know about that update giving you a breakdown
of all of those announcements including some holistic announcements as a company for bending
spoons and also my personal opinion on where I think this is heading in the future this video
will be have all the time stamps below but if you are lucky enough or you want to really dig deeper
into the seven note Journey we've actually been able to secure a text interview with them which
you can find links below exclusively over on tool finder so you can find that Linked In description
below as well as if you find near the end of this video you're like stressed out if you want
some alternatives to Evernote there will be tool finder to help you find alternative note-taking
apps so welcome my name is francescolesio let's dive into a little bit of an introduction to
get things going so Evernote introduced this announcement and what was most interesting
is it was actually run by Federico who's one of the product designers over at Evernote and
it was more of a retrospective look at what's coming with Evernote the pricing changes and
what they're actively doing to improve stability now this is a really interesting update because
more importantly it's bending spoon's first ever announcement as part of being acquiring Evernote
so it's a really important one because it sets the tone for what is going to be coming in the future
and I love these updates aren't necessarily long distance away actually a lot of them are
short based short-term based which is going to be really interesting for where you're heading
with Evernote if you're using it so let's start by talking about the reliability and stability
aspects and the core fabric of Evernote so according to bending spoons they're in a
rapid development phase in terms of improving the infrastructure and product development as well as
being able to ship a lot faster now this has been one of evernote's biggest issues in the last five
years but more recently in the last two to three years they've really improved the core groundings
of the application making it more stable replacing the induction code base which is very much a big
job and now that spending spoons have got hold of this they are aiming to improve at the performance
and reliability in particular they're looking to improve the important structural changes
when it comes to syncing notes which has been a problem for a lot of users in the past and what
they want to do is make that smoother in terms of how it syncs on different devices according to
Evernote on May the 5th which may or may not be of released by the time we publish this video they're
expecting all Evernote users to see the frequency of same note conflict X dramatically reduce and
in most cases could be completely eliminated so this is great news for those who have had those
stability issues ever since they've moved to the electron based application which runs the core
structure of Evernote but at the same time is something that a lot of people have wanted to
see for some time they're also looking soon after to improve the release of further changes to make
new notes synchronize across devices way faster so in terms of looking at the core elements of
Evernote they're actually improving that major issue that people have with syncing starting May
5th which is a great update to give you something immediate that they're improving from the platform
so interestingly there are a lot of new features coming to Evernote and two of them correlate to Ai
and one of them is something that I believe envelope have been working on for some time
let's start with that feature that first feature is something called real-time editing and you're
probably wondering I've seen this in Google Docs and other experiences like that and of
course you have it's very much a common part of a productivity application in most of the sort of
team-based ones well essentially from the 5th of May real-time editing will be rolled out to users
and this will allow users to essentially start typing on their phone and see the live visual
updates on their laptop so that you can see their note being synchronized in real time this is sort
of leading on from the reliability and stability improvements from note conflicts because they've
been able to match up real time to that stability and reliability side of stuff so it's really great
to see an update like this but it also allows people to do real-time updates and editing and
see what other people are doing in real time allowing you to see and work with other people
updating the notes elements and improving that and actually seeing the curses and interactions
in real time so this actual update is actually a lot more expansive for teams and those who are
using it in groups so this is definitely something that could be quite exciting for evernote's future
leading on from that they have announced the fact that they've got two AI features coming
but they have stated that the AI elements are something that users can opt into if they find it
suitable now actually in part of the statement of these features they're basically saying that they
will give this access to users for one month but after that it will likely become a subscriber only
access which naturally Falls to their strengths in the artificial intelligence area now apparently in
May it doesn't State what day they're introducing the Evernote AI cleanup and this is actually takes
a note and it basically spring cleans it it form it formats it gives it structure and makes it
more noteworthy I guess something that would look and make sense to somebody that you share
externally with so this is great for students who are compiling notes and just shoving stuff in and
want to be able to reorganize it in a a much more formulated fashion or those who are potentially
taking loads of meeting notes and quickly want to restructure the note so this feature is
apparently coming in May and to be honest it's actually not a bad one something that a lot of
other note-take applications I haven't seen do and it's a very unique one when it comes to AI
especially when you might have a lot of previous Evernote notes and you want to be able to re-ai
clean them up in the past and you want to be able to make them make sense which I definitely
have from my student days the next AI feature is something they haven't actually given a date to
but they do state it's going to become in the latter stages of this year which I thought to
be a little bit further away than I thought but it's essentially taking at search which has been
something that a lot of users love and know very well because of the OCR Sky handwriting scanning
and just general ability to search really really well they're taking that and adding AI which means
you can add more natural language searching whilst trying to find this particular note
this is really interesting and really helpful for users but I would expect it to come a lot
sooner but of course Evernote have been focusing a lot on that reliability and stability changes
and remember I keep forgetting we're already in May so maybe it will come in September we
will see so now is the point to dive into pricing now Evernote have made pretty drastic changes to
their pricing in the last couple of weeks and they do state it's the first pricing change in
seven years since 2016 and they give it a little bit of a use case of how Evernote
has changed since 2016 and what it offers as a total experience and to be honest I'm a little
bit on their side here naturally when you've got an application that's evolved so much in the last
couple of years pricing does have to evolve and change to that and because costs are going up and
naturally experience are becoming is more stable and improved it definitely should be noted that
that's something that will change over time but it I think it's the dramatic increase in price that a
lot of people find very stressful the personal plans will be priced at 14.99 and professional
plans priced at 17.99 us and that is quite a big and vast improve in increase in pricing but as you
know bending spoons is a pretty AI focused company so I think people will be paying playing for the
subscriptions for AI based functions and at the moment there's no drastic changes in what the
pricing will be for the free plans naturally at zero bucks now to be honest I am looking
at this in a whole global view of the market envelope is more of an all-round application
and something that is pretty well grounded in a lot of people's systems but it definitely if you
compare it to apps like reflect notes capacities in Rome the new pricing isn't hideously far away
from that for example that pricing is around the 12 to 15 dollars per month Mark and that
offers considerably less features if you look at it from an all-round perspective so when you look
at what's happening in the market obviously this isn't naturally a huge distance away from that
but if you look at it from where Evernote has come from it's a drastic increase so apparently
there are introducing this smooth pricing from May 1st 2023. now to summarize I want to talk
about the bending spoons overall now for those who didn't know bending spoons is an italian-based app
developer and they have been making applications for some time now actually acquiring over 500
million users and that's not including Evernote apparently for all of their applications on all
of their devices which is pretty impressive and they are one of the leading European app
development companies that are making pretty distant and Progressive movements in the space
and whilst Evernote is their biggest acquisition to date they actually acquired an app from GoPro
in 2018 called splice and there you make a case in this article about how splice has gone from
being a sort of simplistic application to being very AI driven and being priced at 89.99 per year
so they have a hundred million users on that application and a lot of them paying happily
for the application that gives them better photo editing and improvements like that now bending
spoons has been a company that has laid off 129 of their Evernote staffers in February 2023 but they
are probably going to be leaning up focusing more in AI which is their specialist area and really
trying to advance Evernote in the next couple of years and I do appreciate small things like their
team leaving their personal email inside of the thread obviously don't everyone email them all
at once but it's great news that sort of level of transparency is being able to offer to be able to
provide feedback to their team now to my opinions as an overall experience now I'm a little bit
biased because the founders called Francesco one of their team members one of their founding team
has a last name for Ferrari you know all of this I'm just kidding I don't have any biases
Evernote have found a lot of issues in the last um sort of five to six to seven years since Phil
libben has left there's been a lot of difficulties in terms of positioning and dropping a lot of the
audience and one of the things I think Evernote might struggle with is whilst they are adding a
lot of AI advancements this is only helpful if you've got a vast amount of no data and some
people do but some people it between 2016 or 2018 and now have dropped Evernote so that's five years
of not having that useful insight and useful data and that's probably why they're doing some initial
improvements on the no cleanup function because that's almost an immediate feature that you can
start using with AI but in terms of the ability to utilize notes and make it more um present on
things like home pages that's something that they might find a bit more difficult because users have
naturally not been adding notes for many years but I do have faith in bending spoons they are
probably one of the world's leading experts when it comes to developing AI based applications and
Ford would have seen of the market I'm impressed with what they've offered and how they've done
it so I think it's been probably the perfect acquisition for Evernote and we do have to
remember that Evernote might not be the hardcore productivity app it was in the past but naturally
something that becomes a first timer application for those who are finding a productivity and
note-taking application I think that's probably where Their audience is going to be in the future
maybe not so much the hardcore note takers at least for the next couple of years so that was
my thoughts opinions and everything you need to know about Evernote in the last couple of weeks
if you are interested again we've got an interview with Evernote you can find a link in description
below and naturally you can find it on tool finder but if you're looking for lots of Alternatives or
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