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Evernote Adds Reminders To Help Users With To-Do’s, Tasks & Projects

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For those who use Evernote as a to-do list application, the service just became more useful today with the launch of a much-requested feature: reminders. Available to both Evernote and Evernote Business users on Mac, iOS and web (to start), the option now appears as an alarm clock icon at the top-right of the note on Mac and web, and the bottom of the note on mobile (iPhone and iPad). Though a… → Read More

May 17th, 2013

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog

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One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based company behind the now just four-week-old service, has already caught the attention of local investors, as well as Evernote, who met with the team to discuss possible… → Read More

May 2nd, 2013

Evernote Partners With South Korean Messaging Giant KakaoTalk

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Evernote is going after KakaoTalk’s 90 million registered users by inking a partnership deal with the South Korean messaging giant that would bring Evernote integration to KakaoTalk’s mobile app. Despite boasting nearly 4 million users here in the United States, chances are you’ve never heard of KakaoTalk. The messaging app is mostly used by Korean Americans (such as myself), to… → Read More

April 28th, 2013

Squirrel Evernote Hack Creates A Personalised Newsletter From The Cool Stuff You’ve Saved To Read Later

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Another simple but neat Evernote hack that came out of the 24-hour Disrupt NY Hackathon earlier today was Squirrel. Created by coder duo Zainab Ebrahimi and Jabari Bell, the hack turns articles Evernote readers have saved for reading later into a personalised newsletter. So, unlike the average email newsletter, Squirrel is populated with content the user actually wants to read. → Read More

April 16th, 2013

Evernote Hones Its Platform Ambitions, Teams Up With Docomo And Honda For A New Accelerator

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Productivity app Evernote today is announcing that it is teaming up with Honda and the Japanese carrier Docomo to launch the Evernote Accelerator, a month-long mentorship program based at Evernote’s HQ in Redwood City for developers and small startups from around the world that are making apps using Evernote’s APIs. The move is a step ahead for Evernote in its strategy to build out its business… → Read More

March 25th, 2013

Evernote 5 Lands On Android With Updated Camera, UI Tweaks

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Evernote has just updated its Android app to version 5.0, the same update that recently hit both iOS and Mac OS X. The update brings with it an updated UI, as well as a number of new features such as a Shortcuts page which pops up when you swipe left, and an updated camera.

Page Camera mode, in particular, should be a blessing to those of us who use Evernote to capture pictures of notes more… → Read More

March 25th, 2013

Evernote Looks For Int’l Growth, Inks Strategic Partnership With Deutsche Telekom, Starting With 1-Year Premium Accounts In Germany

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Evernote, the popular note taking and personal organizer app, today took another step in its strategy to ramp up its international presence, with news that it has inked a strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom, the German carrier that also owns T-Mobile. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed — we are asking — but for now the first part of the deal will mean that all DT customers in… → Read More

March 20th, 2013

Google’s Keep Could Take On Both Pinterest And Evernote, If It Gets The Google+ Social Plumbing

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Google finally released its personal note-taking app Keep today, after it “accidentally” saw the light of day last week. The product is as expected, a place to save notes, lists or photos on the fly, for safe…keeping. One of the things that jumped out at me after giving it a quick try is that you can switch to a layout that’s very similar to Pinterest, another app that… → Read More

March 20th, 2013

Google’s Keep Note-Taking Web And Android App Gets Its Official Public Launch

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After a brief early appearance, Google Keep, the note-taking app from the search giant, is now live. Google has officially unveiled Keep via a blog post, complete with a video detailing how it works, and there’s an Android app too, available through Google Play for devices running Android 4.0 and up. → Read More

March 19th, 2013

Evernote Food Update Brings OpenTable And Foursquare Integration, Recipe Sharing & More

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Evernote Food, the now over a year old mobile app offering recipe search and a restaurant locator function, is today getting an update which adds support for OpenTable reservations, Foursquare ratings, and recipe sharing, among other things. → Read More

March 2nd, 2013

Evernote Saw First Signs Of Hacking On Feb. 28: Emails, Passwords And Usernames Accessed But Not Your Data Or Payment Details

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Evernote is requiring its nearly 50 million users to reset their passwords after the popular personal note-taking app became the latest high-profile victim of wide-scale hacking attempts. The breach follows malicious activity at Twitter, Facebook and others in recent weeks. → Read More

February 7th, 2013

Evernote, Now With Its First COO, Takes Its Premium Evernote Business App To 26 New Markets

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Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app, is taking another step today in building out its premium service offerings: its enterprise app, Evernote Business, which formally launched in seven markets in December 2012, has now been switched on throughout the European Union, Norway and Iceland, with Australia and New Zealand coming online next week. In keeping with the company’s… → Read More

January 22nd, 2013

UberConference Adds File Sharing To Conference Calls With New Box And Evernote Integrations

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Firespotter Labs‘ visual conference calling solution UberConference is rolling out several new features today, including international phone numbers and integrations with online file sharing services Box and Evernote. The company previously worked with Evernote to offer optional call summaries, but the new features are an expansion on that, allowing users to share their online files with other… → Read More

January 8th, 2013

Customer Service Platform Zendesk Signs Up Evernote As Its 25,000th Business

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Zendesk says that it closed out 2012 by crossing the 25,000 customer milestone. It’s a big-name company, too — note-taking app Evernote announced that it will be using Zendesk to deliver customer service.

“When we develop Evernote, we strive for ease-of-use, scalability and availability across multiple platforms,” said Vice President of Customer Satisfaction Philip Dean in a press release. → Read More

January 7th, 2013

Clipboard, The Evernote-Meets-Pinterest Clipping Service With 1.7M Clips To Date, Targets Education Sector With Strategic Investment From Scientia

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Clipboard – the web clipping service that is a little like a cross between Evernote and Pinterest, racking up 1.7 million clips since opening for private beta in October 2011 – has taken a strategic investment from ed-tech company Scientia — backing that will result in joint product development between the two to target the education market with online collaboration tools. → Read More

December 19th, 2012

Evernote Supersizes Its iOS Food App: Adds iPad Support; Punchfork Recipes And Foursquare Restaurant Search; And Upgraded Meal Archives

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About a year ago, Evernote branched out from its core mission of being the place to record your life by launching apps tailored to specific purposes, focusing first on Food and contacts management (Hello). Today, the company is releasing a major update for Food on iOS that will take the app to the next level of usefulness: users will now be able to search recipe archives and look up and map… → Read More

December 19th, 2012

With Platform Ambitions In Mind, Evernote Updates Its iOS And Android SDKs, Including China And Business Support On iOS

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In the last couple of weeks, personal data app Evernote – now 45 million users strong — announced another $85 million in financing led by an international investor; and the full launch of its new Evernote Business product. Today, the company is releasing updated SDKs for iOS and Android to capitalize on those opportunities and more, in a bid to become more of a central hub for your personal… → Read More

November 29th, 2012

Catch Up With Some Of Last Year’s Big Crunchies Winners, More Tickets Available NOW

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A year is a long time, especially in the technology world. I can’t even remember what I was doing at this particular time last year without looking at my foursquare check-in history…sad, I know. I do know where I was in January, though — at The Crunchies. I wasn’t a part of TechCrunch yet. I attended as a guest while working for The Next Web. I wasn’t sure what it was all about, so I definitely… → Read More

November 15th, 2012

Evernote 5 For Mac Update Revamps Interface And Streamlines Navigation

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Evernote has just released a major update to its desktop software dubbed Evernote 5 for Mac, “with over 100 new features.”

It’s a pretty drastic redesign, and one that focuses intently to navigation. Evernote already has many of the features that were re-crafted today, like multiple Notebooks (both shared and private), tag search, and a left-hand organization bar. → Read More

October 29th, 2012

Livescribe Sky WiFi Review: The Perfect Pen To Take Notes When You Can’t Use A Laptop

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Short version: Livescribe is refining its smartpen once again. The two major changes are the addition of WiFi and Evernote integration. Now, the pen uses and depends on Evernote for syncing and archiving notes. → Read More

October 25th, 2012

Record Your Brilliant Ideas In Style For Either Public Or Private Consumption With Squarespace Note

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Squarespace introduced a new mobile app for iPhone today, but it has little to do with the company’s website creation platform. Instead, it’s a simplified note-taking application that can publish to your Squarespace account, but doesn’t have to, since it also offers cross-syncing to Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote and Facebook. → Read More

October 9th, 2012

Web Clipping Service Clipboard Targets Evernote: Adds Note Creation, File Uploads

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Web-clipping service Clipboard, which recently underwent a major redesign, is tweaking things yet again. While previously, the company focused only on serving as an outlet where users could clip web content, organize it, and share it with others, today’s update now allows users to import local content, specifically images and text files, and create rich text notes online. → Read More

September 28th, 2012

Evernote Listens To Unhappy Skitch 2.0 Users: Brings Back Some Old Features And Version 1.0

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Earlier this month, Evernote launched version 2.0 of Skitch, the popular screenshot tool the company acquired in 2011. Sadly, Skitch 2.0 didn’t just do away with Skitch’s idiosyncratic but highly functional user interface, but it also dropped a number of features in the process. Version 2.0 currently has a 1.5-star rating in the Mac App Store and almost 600 1-star reviews. Today, Evernote is… → Read More

September 19th, 2012

When Updates Make Things Worse: Evernote’s Skitch 2.0

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The popular screenshot tool Skitch is launching on the iPhone today and Evernote, which bought the tool about a year ago, also just released version 2.0 for Mac and iPad. With this update, Skitch is also paring down Skitch’s smart but idiosyncratic user interface down to its bare minimum, leaving a lot of functionality that the application’s users always loved behind in the process. Skitch used to… → Read More

September 19th, 2012

Evernote Pares Down, Soups Up Image Annotation App Skitch, Extends It To iPhone, iPod

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Last week it was revealed that personal data management app Evernote would be integrating Skitch – the image-editing app it acquired last year that has now seen 10 million downloads — further into its service, grandfathering Skitch.com in the process. Today, the company showed off what that will mean, with the launch of Skitch 2.o, with new features like pixelation, instant integration with… → Read More

August 24th, 2012

Evernote Declares A ‘Cease-Fire’ In Its War With Paper, Partners With Moleskine For Smart Notebooks

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Evernote CEO Phil Libin said today that he doesn’t spend a lot of time thinking about competition, but he admits that there has been one “age-old rivalry” — with pen-and-paper. Hearing about people who still take notes on paper is “infuriating,” Libin said, in part because he still does it himself.

“This is a fight that many people in the technology space have been fighting,” Libin said. → Read More

August 24th, 2012

Evernote Announces Evernote Business With Company-Wide Sharing And Phone Support

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Evernote CEO Phil Libin just announced a new product aimed at small- and medium-sized companies (or small- and medium-sized teams within large enterprises) — appropriately, it’s called Evernote Business.

Libin describes Evernote as your “external brain”, and he says Evernote Business should serve as the external brain for your company. He says the product was built with four big principles in… → Read More

August 23rd, 2012

1DollarScan Integrates With Evernote To Add Your Scanned Books To Evernote’s Data Store [Updated]

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A couple of months ago, I interviewed Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, about what might come next for the note-taking, image-collecting, audio-recording app, and one answer he gave me had to do with books. “I think books are like food. Memories are formed while reading books, articles and periodicals, and that is not being adequately represented and captured at this point. I’d love to do something… → Read More

July 15th, 2012

Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview]

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Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the more consistently useful services out there for smartphone consumers. The growing number of users is a testament to that. In June, at the LeWeb conference in London, CEO Phil Libin noted that → Read More

June 19th, 2012

Evernote By The Numbers: 34M Users, 1.4M Paying, And The Relative Merits Of Different Platforms

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Phil Libin, the CEO of note taking app Evernote, is sitting on a $1 billion valuation and plans for an IPO, and while it may be a while yet before it follows through on going public , today at LeWeb in London he revealed new numbers for just how much the service is getting used, and how much money different platforms are bringing into the pot.

He said that the company now has 34 million users… → Read More