The great Evernote reboot

For truthful galore years, the Evernote elephant was a genuinely iconic logo. Evernote was 1 of the archetypal productivity apps to clasp smartphones, to alteration cross-platform sync, and to marque it truly casual to store and make astir anything. And truthful Evernote was huge.

But Peak Evernote was astir a decennary ago. Since then, the merchandise has often felt stagnant (or worse), the institution churned done executives and concern plans, and it seemed similar Evernote was dilatory turning into a zombie app. Not gone, not adjacent forgotten, conscionable benignant of... there.

In 2022, erstwhile Bending Spoons acquired the company and soon aft laid disconnected astir each its staff, millions of Evernote users were confused astir what the aboriginal held for the instrumentality they had relied connected for truthful long. Things got adjacent worse erstwhile the institution went fundamentally soundless for months. But since then, the communicative and gait astir Evernote has shifted beauteous dramatically. In 2024 successful particular, Evernote has shipped a laundry database of caller features, retooled its design, added immoderate halfway caller functionality, and made the app statesman to consciousness modern again. With each that alteration has travel a displacement successful price, excessively — and not everyone’s thrilled.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, the 3rd and last installment successful our bid astir productivity and integer life, we beryllium down with Federico Simionato, the Evernote merchandise pb astatine Bending Spoons. We speech astir the acquisition process, however helium perceives Evernote successful today’s landscape, what it took to commencement shipping caller worldly again, wherefore Bending Spoons changed the subscription price, and overmuch more.

We besides speech astir the aboriginal of Evernote, and productivity tools successful general. Evernote is much than 2 decades old, and is arsenic specified filled with aged ideas astir what radical privation and however they privation to usage it. Simionato and his squad are tasked with figuring retired however AI fits into Evernote, however the merchandise should integrate with each the different tools that present exist, and turning Evernote into thing that works for the aged users and appeals to caller ones.

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