Evernote sure has made progress lately. The developers have revamped the user interface, added dozens of improvements, as well as the option to subscribe for a $5 a month user plan that increases your monthly transfer from 40 MB to 500 MB, SSL for all data and more. Evernote is now in Open Beta.
With the newly-included opportunity to opt for a $5 a month premium user plan, you also get priority access to the text-recognition queues and tier 1 customer support. After one year of using Evernote (for subscribers only) you get a stylish Evernote launch T-shirt (while supplies last).
And stay tuned: We’ll be rolling out the new Evernote on Windows, Mac, and Android soon, laying the groundwork for new features and faster innovation in the future. For more information about how we’re making Evernote more useful, more consistent, and more reliable across platforms, see today’s blog post from CEO Ian Small. Evernote has released a beta version of the newest application: Evernote 5 for Mac. Here's how you can download it today to get a first look. Capture ideas when inspiration strikes. Find information fast. Share notes with anyone. From meetings and projects to web pages and to-do lists—with Evernote, everything’s in one place. Evernote syncs to all your devices, so you can tackle action items on the go. Express yourself clearly with easy.
Since not everyone knows what Evernote is, or does, this program brings up everything you might have once stored for safe keeping using tags and text recognition. All you have to do is just search for an inside Evernote just like you remember it. The text recognition technology allows you to search for text within images (even handwritten text), but you can also search by tags, or short notes added to the item stored for safe keeping.
For example, if you have a picture such as the one on the left, you can search for it either by what you can remember was written inside (Strong, force, Yoda or cat, in this case, I searched for 'force'), by the words you think you could have added to it as a small description, or by tags. Either way, if there's but one thing you can remember about a certain item, you'll most likely get to it as Evernote is an expert at narrowing down a search. Best of all, the service is available for all your devices, Mac, PC and mobile phone, as long as you can connect to the internet with them.
A native iPhone client for Evernote has also been confirmed to ship shortly after the App Store is a go. The app will include one-button publishing and location tagging for every item created from the phone, TUAW reveals. Evernote will also include more granular controls on publishing and sharing soon, the site notes, with a revamped Windows client, audio notes and a client for Blackberry users.
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The first public release of the Evernote API should occur this summer. This will allow developers to customize or add their own features to Evernote. Sounds pretty exciting! At the time Evernote's private beta ended (before the Open Beta commenced) the company's servers included photos, notes and music files from over 125,000 users, the company has confirmed on the Evernote Blog:
'We're excited (and a bit scared) about abandoning the relative shelter of the private beta for the open waters ahead, but if we're really going to expand everyone's memory, we've got to let everyone in. As always, let us know how we can improve. We'll be keeping up the rapid pace of new development throughout the open beta.Thanks to the 125,000.Wish us luck!'
Softpedia sure wishes the team at Evernote as much luck as they can get. Evernote is one a one-of-a-kind remembering tool that grows its powers steadily with every version release. It expands not just everyone's memory, but their horizons as well, which gives it a pretty good chance to rise as a premium Mac app.
Evernote for Mac is available HERE (free download).
Taking notes and making lists is something almost everyone does, and lists can become almost compulsive. For the task you need a good tool. Preferably one that works everywhere -- yes, paper covers that, but this is the technology era.
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Evernote is one of the most popular alternatives to paper, as it runs on just about any platform, be it a computer or mobile device. While it all works well together -- create a shopping list on your PC, have it appear on your phone while you're in the store -- the company wanted to clean things up and modernize a bit. It has been working on an update and it's now ready for beta testing by Windows and Mac users.
'Evernote’s core text editing experience was designed around a framework that was optimized for the platform you were typing on; the Windows editor was purpose-built for Windows, the Mac editor for the Mac platform, and so on. We had an early vision of mobile’s implications on productivity, and highly platform-specific development was the fastest way to address that mobile future, which arrived quicker than we’d even imagined. In the face of rapidly interconnected devices, this framework generally held together well, but it wasn’t completely seamless', the company explains.
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With that in mind, Evernote set out to completely rebuild, eliminating the old problems with things like formatting across systems. Also addressed are many user suggestions such as bulleted lists, the handling of images and tables and basic markdown.
Evernote promises that 'With each iteration, we’ll improve the note editing experience and won’t rest until we are the best way to type words into a computer or phone'.
You can sign up for beta by visiting this site.
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