Evernote
| File:Evernote logo.svg | |
| Developer(s) | Evernote Corporation |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.3.0.4368
/ April 12, 2011 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Android BlackBerry OS BlackBerry Tablet OS iOS WebOS Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 |
| Type | Notetaking software |
| License | Freemium |
| Website | evernote |
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services.
The Evernote web service launched into open beta on June 24, 2008[2] and has reached 11 million users.[3] In October 2010, the company raised a $20 million USD funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and DoCoMo Capital.[4] Since then, the company also has raised an additional USD $50 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital and Morganthaler Ventures.[5]
Evernote is available in a paid version or a more restricted, advertising-supported, "free" version. Use of the online server is free up to a certain monthly usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for paying subscribers.
Data storage and access
On supported operating systems, Evernote stores and edits the user's notes on their local machine.
Users with internet access and an Evernote account can also have their notes automatically synchronized with a master copy held on the Evernote server. This approach lets a user access and edit their data across multiple machines and operating system platforms, but still view, input and edit data when an internet connection is not available.
Where Evernote client software is not available, online account-holders can access their note archive via a web interface.
The Evernote software can be downloaded and used as "stand-alone" software without using the online portion of your Evernote account (online registration is required for initial setup, however), but will not be able to upload files to the Evernote server, or use the server to synchronize or share files between different Evernote installations. Also, no image or Image-PDF (Premium only) recognition and indexing will take place if you use the software entirely offline.
Data entry
As well as the keyboard entry of typed notes, Evernote supports image capture from cameras on supported devices, and the recording of voice notes. In some situations, text that appears in captured images can be recognized using OCR and annotated. Evernote also supports touch and tablet screens with handwriting recognition. Evernote web clipping plugins are available for the most popular internet browsers that allow marked sections of webpages to be captured and clipped to Evernote. If no section of a webpage has been highlighted, Evernote can clip the full page. Evernote also supports the ability to e-mail notes to the service, allowing for automated note entry via e-mail rules or filters.[6]
Where suitable hardware is available, Evernote can automatically add geolocation tags to notes.
The online service also allows selected files to be shared for viewing and editing by other users, and allows integration with Twitter for storing or forwarding "tweets". Users can also use the Twitter system to add notes to Evernote remotely, by sending tweets from any Twitter-capable device.
"Free" and "Premium" accounts
The free online service has monthly usage limitations (currently 60 MB/month), and displays a "usage" meter. A premium service is also available that currently costs $5 per month or $45 per year, and currently offers 1,000 MB/month usage.
As well as the larger per-month upload limit, the premium service features faster word recognition in images, greater security and text searching within PDF files.
The free service is supported by advertising, on both the web interface and in the application. The premium service allows the user to disable this advertising.[7]
Free service also does not allow files be available offline. Sometimes it does make them available from cache but that can cause conflicts when synced.
All Evernote accounts, both free and premium, have a maximum limit of 100,000 notes and 250 notebooks. [8]
Supported platforms
Evernote clients are available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and for Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7,[9] WebOS, Maemo, Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Google Wave,[10] Palm Pre/Palm Pixi[11] and iPad mobile platforms as well as a beta for Symbian S60 5th Edition. There are portable versions of Evernote available for flash drives and U3 drives.
There is substantial variation in supported features on different platforms: for example it is possible to edit rich text and sketches on Windows; on Mac it is possible to edit rich text, but only view sketches; and on the iPad only plain text could be edited prior to version 4.1.0 (August 2011).
There is currently no officially supported native application for Linux or BSD.
Web clipping support is installed by default on the Internet Explorer and Safari browsers when the Evernote software is installed under Windows or Mac OS X. Evernote web-clipping plugins are also available for the Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, but need to be downloaded and installed separately. Evernote email-clipper is automatically installed in Microsoft Office Outlook if the desktop version is installed on the same computer. There is a Thunderbird email plugin, but it too must be installed separately.
There are some third-party clients for Evernote:
- NeverNote. An open-source, cross-platform clone of Evernote written in Java, which runs on any OS with desktop as a Java virtual machine (Java SE) including Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, among other OSs. [12]
- People's Note. People's Note is a Windows Mobile note taking application with full-featured Evernote integration.[13] Supports offline notes storage.
- Ploze. Ploze lets you read, search and create Notes on your Windows Mobile phone whether or not you are connected to the internet.[14]
Similar products and services
Evernote's competitors include Memonic;[15] Springpad; Simplenote; Microsoft OneNote; Yojimbo; Journler; Circus Ponies NoteBook; Lognoter PIM version; Zotero; gnote; BasKet Note Pads; and Nevernote, an open source clone of Evernote.[16]
See also
References
- ^ "Alexa evernote.com traffic results". Alexa. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
- ^ Libin, Phil. Evernote Public Launch!, Evernote Blog, June 24, 2008. (Accessed July 18, 2011)
- ^ Little, Gary. Why Evernote Is Winning with the Soft Stuff Forbes, July 13, 2011. (Accessed July 18, 2011)
- ^ Reisinger, Don. Evernote Secures $20 Million in Investment Round. CNET News, October 19, 2010. (Accessed October 22, 2010)
- ^ Libin, Phil. Evernote Gets $50 Million in Funding. Evernote Blog, July 13, 2011. (Accessed July 18, 2011)
- ^ Westfall, Jonathan. Scan Directly from your Office to Evernote JonWestfall.com, September 28, 2010. (Accessed July 18, 2011)
- ^ Premium plan information Evernote.com
- ^ Evernote account limits [1]
- ^ Duffy, Jill (June 17,2011). "Evernote Unveils Windows Phone 7 App". Retrieved July 9,2011.
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- ^ http://www.evernote.com/about/download/palm.php
- ^ http://nevernote.sourceforge.net/
- ^ http://peoplesnote.org/
- ^ http://ploze.com/about
- ^ Memonic official website
- ^ Nevernote Nevernote on Sourceforge