Evernote

Evernote is a software and web application that supports the collection, sorting and finding of notes, documents and photos in different formats. It is a competitor to Microsoft OneNote, Apple's iCloud, barebones software Yojimbo, Journler, and Circus Ponies NoteBook.

The company was founded in 2007 /08 from the native Azerbaijanis Stepan Patschikow (* 1950). The web service launched in June 2008 and reached after 3 years already 11 million users. Current CEO Phil Libin is.

History

The Evernote web service was launched as an open beta on June 24, 2008 and recorded in June 2012, 34 million users, of which 1.4 million paying premium users.

In October 2010, the Company received an investment of 20 million U.S. dollars from Sequoia Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and DoCoMo Capital. Since then, the company received an additional 50 million U.S. dollars by Sequoia Capital and Morgenthaler Ventures. In May 2012, the company secured a further investment of 70 million U.S. dollars (about 53 million euros ) by the investors Meritech Capital and CBC Capital, whereby the value of the company will be around 1 billion U.S. dollars. The goal of the company it claims to be, to exist in 100 years.

On February 28, 2013 Evernote has been hacked. The company began as a response back all the passwords of the 50 million user accounts. According to information of the service user name, e-mail addresses and passwords could be read, but the attackers had no access to the stored data of the users. Published in the official blog of the company message with information about the incident was sent to all users by e -mail. As a result of the incident, Evernote has launched a two-factor authentication, with which the account can additionally secure.

Understanding and Using

Evernote is a web-based note service with which you can capture notes on the computer and on the go. In addition to the web editor that runs in the browser, there are apps for some operating systems. Through plug-ins, the software can be used in Web browsers and e -mail programs out. The user can save notes, graphics or documents from different sources (PC, Internet, e -mail). Evernote sorts the objects and presents them to the user in various sorts, for example, chronologically, by tags or titles, to get ready. In addition, all objects are indexed for search functions. About an OCR that can detect handwriting to a certain degree, be recognized text content from scanned or photographed objects detected, can be so sought after figurative captured text content. Evernote offers the possibility to manipulate objects to send as e- mail and share it with other users.

Evernote can also be used as a to-do list by offering the creation of abhakbaren lists and can be defined whole notes as tasks. With a memory function, you can be reminded of a certain date in a note.

The notes are saved in a proprietary format that can be exported from the desktop software out as a file. For example, the notes can be saved in HTML, among others, and thus transferred to an open format.

Variants

Evernote is distributed in the freemium model, therefore the use of a basic account is free. A notice may thereby have a maximum of 25 megabytes and the monthly upload limit is 60 megabytes. The premium account costs $ 5 a month or $ 45 per year. Evernote Premium offers, among other things, a monthly upload limit of one gigabyte, more options for the exchange of information, a full-text search in PDF documents and a presentation mode, the latter but is currently available only for Mac.

Since the end of 2012 also stands Evernote business available to the create several user profiles centrally and manage. This type of account includes a central repository that can be shared by multiple sub-accounts. In addition to notes can also be arbitrary files to put in the so-called corporate database and annotate.

Software

Evernote offers native apps for several operating systems, including Windows and Mac OS as well as Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone smartphones. In addition, the notes can view and edit over the web editor in the browser.

In addition, Evernote offers other software programs that work together with the note service and complement it:

  • Skitch, a software to edit images and annotate
  • Evernote Hello, an app with which you can remember people
  • Evernote Food, an app for storing recipes
  • Evernote Clearly, a browser extension for better readability of web pages
  • Evernote Peek, an App for learning knowledge
  • Penultimate, a tablet app to make handwritten notes on the iPad

For Linux there is the open-source variant Never touch that is now being developed under the name Nixnote.

Evernote Market

In September 2013, the Evernote Market was launched. This Evernote, together with partner companies on products that complement the work with Evernote, approximately scanner with Evernote interface, Moleskine notebooks or special adhesive paper.

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