I’ve been a long-time user of Evernote who started using it less and less as it got older and more clunky without any serious investment in keeping it current. But, since its acquisition by Bending Spoons its been on an upward arc of constant improvement. Today it is faster, more flexible, more formattable, more user-friendly, and it is integrating AI in very useful ways. If you are looking for a note app you can sync across all of your devices and is not yet part of the Google or Microsoft ecosystems, you really owe it to yourself to check out the new Evernote. Honestly, I’m quite curious to see how they will continue to grow this app.

Evernote is an old friend…but, getting old. I get that they have had a hard time monetizing it forever. I still keep renewing it and use it for notes and ideation just cuz that’s what I have always done. Notion is too much of a learning curve and functions less like a word processor - so I have not yet made that move. I would love to see a huge refresh of Evernote but I feel I am always at the ready to back everything up and move away as I am never sure if they are going to make it.

I use Evernote for all of my documentation needs. I like the Table of Contents and style features. I use the Stacks to collect notebooks of similar topics. Much better than using a word processor and the file system to track content and location of material. Easy searching and I use the simple web page snapshot feature from Safari on my Mac. Works seamlessly between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Linux (using browser version).

I use Evernote for everything - note taking, records management, task management, project organization and sharing. Its my go to way to organize and work.

I love Evernote and have been using it for more than a decade. However, I am struggling with Tasks. Why oh why can I not take a note and convert it to a task and have it keep the embedded links? For me, this is critical functionality and it makes no sense that it’s not included. Please please please add embedded links to Tasks.

If you are reading OLD REVIEWS about Evernote, ignore them. The recent changes to Evernote make every review prior to the start of 2024 worthless! New owner Bending Spoons continues the magic of their behind the scenes work, and amazing updates continue to be released. If you gave up on Evernote, you are missing out. It is worth every penny for the professional plan, and the new features are just going to keep coming. I use Evernote primarily for work (I manage more projects than I can count!) but also for personal. If I listed everything I love about the new updates, I would write a two-page review. I can't wait to see what is coming next!

Evernote is a great app for note-taking and as a personal knowledge-base. I appreciate the energy that Bending Spoons has put into improving and stabilizing Evernote.

Have been a user for many, many years. Sadly, the app nows seems like ignored bloatware. The App will not open on my completely up to date iMac. I can’t get thru to Support and my Tickets keep bouncing back unanswered.

I have been using Evernote from the very beginning. It was a game changer when it game out. It had a few years where it was on autopilot, then Notion came out which is a very intuitive tool and people started migrating. Then Evernote got some really smart people to start going back to basics and finding out how people were using Evernote and how it could be improved. Instead of looking at it from a that’s too complicated or following one productivity (ie. GTD) or information processing (PARA) they went to individuals and found common best practices and gave people access to them. I now use Evernote more then ever and I love when they update because they keep finding ways to improve me productivity and user experience. Well done and very happy.

Firstly, I write this review myself - no ChatGPT needed.. (someday I hope to not have to write that disclaimer!). To those who are unaware, Evernote went from hero to zero over the course of about 10 years.. I used to drive by their San Mateo Headquarters all the time and wondered why they couldn’t at least *fix* the app. This is the OG of note apps, and goes wayyy back before Notion. In fact, had the company done a great job of just staying on top of bug fixes, there wouldn’t likely be a Notion today; it’s questionable even if Asana would have had a good IPO, etc. But the former management team would ramble on about how de-sharding their database was taking time (and narrating internal dev problems that - as a user - doesn’t help me get through my day). I’ve been a *continuous* user of Evernote for well over a decade - maybe longer - I was one of the early users. I’d co-use other systems when things were getting worse, but I never really liked jumping between interfaces. Enter in Bending Spoons; this Italian firm has radically focused this product now to a *customer-centered* application that frankly is going to be VERY hard to beat with any other workflow in terms of efficiency. They’ve embraced AI but done so without flamboyancy (it’s more like Apple’s AI adoption than it was other creatures who over-did-it there). They focused on bugs, on things that the users were saying in comments on the Youtube videos of updates, and I honestly cannot believe how good this application is now. It stays open on my desktop/laptop/phone 24x7 - it’s my 2nd brain, and it’s where I basically have my entire life. There are some neat reasons to use web-based tools like MyMind if you are a creative, but for a narrow use case (color swatching). Or, if you are really lazy and can’t do a single page website by yourself, I suppose Notion is valuable there. But between the product-focused interface (not user or customer-focused!) it’s gotten to be spaghetti. Furthermore, I HIGHLY recommend trying Evernote if you haven’t done so. If you left (like I almost did) because of some “issues” please come back - it’s 10x better and in my opinion THE BEST APP in the AppStore. It’s actually required on every device once you begin using it; you’ll never go back to another “2nd mind” tool or however you use it. It’s all here and they keep making it better. GREAT JOB!! And I write this without any need to. If anything, I rarely review anything, including apps.. but this one deserves a few minutes of my time to give them a special shout-out. It’s just a great app to store your PDFs, do dynamic searches for everything from recipes to code and to keep everything from your notes to your to-do list in one place. It does more, but need I say more?