The great Evernote reboot

For truthful galore years, nan Evernote elephant was a genuinely iconic logo. Evernote was 1 of nan first productivity apps to clasp smartphones, to alteration cross-platform sync, and to make it really easy to shop and create almost anything. And truthful Evernote was huge.

But Peak Evernote was astir a decade ago. Since then, nan merchandise has often felt stagnant (or worse), nan institution churned done executives and business plans, and it seemed for illustration Evernote was slow turning into a zombie app. Not gone, not moreover forgotten, conscionable benignant of... there.

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

On this section of The Vergecast, nan 3rd and last installment successful our bid astir productivity and integer life, we beryllium down pinch Federico Simionato, nan Evernote merchandise lead astatine Bending Spoons. We talk astir nan acquisition process, really he perceives Evernote successful today’s landscape, what it took to commencement shipping caller worldly again, why Bending Spoons changed nan subscription price, and overmuch more.

We besides talk astir nan early of Evernote, and productivity devices successful general. Evernote is much than 2 decades old, and is arsenic specified filled pinch aged ideas astir what group want and really they want to usage it. Simionato and his squad are tasked pinch figuring retired really AI fits into Evernote, really nan merchandise should merge pinch each nan different devices that now exist, and turning Evernote into thing that useful for nan aged users and appeals to caller ones.

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