Evernote launches into open beta, introduces premium accounts

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Evernote launches into open beta, introduces premium accounts

by Jay Hathaway Jun 24th 2008

If you're not one of the 125,000 people who got a chance to try out the cross-platform note capture app Evernote during its private beta, don't despair. Evernote has launched an open beta, so now everyone can give it a try. If you were already in the beta, does this change anything for you? Yes, indeed it does: there are now two types of Evernote accounts, free and premium.

Free users keep all the features of the closed beta, with the caveat that you're now limited to 40mb a month of uploaded notes. If you're a power-user, or someone who's really sold on the Evernote lifestyle, go premium for 5 bucks a month or $45/year and get rid of that cap. Premium also comes with the option of SSL for all your uploads (for all those pictures of the enemy base, we guess) and priority access to the queue for Evernote's text-recognition features.

Tags: capture, Evernote, GTD, mobile, note, OS X, OsX, public beta, PublicBeta, Windows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

CoffeeDaze said 9:24PM on 6-24-2008

The Mozilla plugin they offer on their website works fine in FF3. I'm using right now.

LeeH said 10:40PM on 6-24-2008

And still no plug-in for Firefox 3? I found it modestly useful but I can't be bothered if it doesn't work with my browser.

michel said 10:42PM on 6-24-2008

works fine in firefox 3.

TylerM said 3:45PM on 6-25-2008

Is that 45 megs upload bandwidth, space used, or amount you've stored total even after deleting the notes?

Jay Hathaway said 4:01PM on 6-25-2008

According to the Evernote blog:
Every time something new is added to your account on the Evernote web service, it counts towards your monthly upload allowance. So, if you have 10MB remaining for a given month and you add a note containing a 1MB image, that will leave you with 9MB for the month. One important thing to keep in mind, you cannot add to your monthly allowance by deleting a note. So, deleting that 1MB note will not bring you back up to 10MB. Notes kept in local notebooks are not sent to the web service and therefore do not count towards your monthly upload allowance.

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