Curious about what's happening at Evernote? Check out the articles below to see all the exciting things we're working on.

In spite of the summer season, the team was firing on all cylinders! Between July and September, we continued to release improvements at a fast pace, balancing small changes with major product developments. The highlights include a powerful image-to-text AI transcription feature, the complete roll-out of our new metadata sync engine, two-way Calendar sync, and sidebar customization. You can find the complete list below. 

Prefer to watch our updates? I cover the newest improvements every month. Here’s our latest video.

What's new at Evernote? 💜 September 2024

Whenever we speak with our customers, it’s immediately clear that everyone uses Evernote in a slightly different way. Not surprisingly, many have requested a way to personalize their Evernote layout in a way that matches their unique case. So we introduced the customizable sidebar—you can now go into your Settings to choose what’s included in your sidebar for a highly personalized Evernote experience.

We've received a lot of positive feedback for this feature, including some from this familiar face! 💟

In August, we completed the rollout of our new sync engine (RENT). With RENT, key Evernote operations, such as device-to-device syncing, app startup, and note-sharing, are now up to 3x faster. By replacing the legacy metadata sync process, we were able to unify all sync-related tasks in one system. Going forward, this will make it easier and faster for the team to introduce product-wide improvements. Learn more about RENT.

Everyone loved our AI-powered video and audio transcription feature. So, we decided to double-down and launch a version that transcribes text in any image you upload to Evernote. This feature is especially ideal for transferring handwritten content into a digital format. And yes, it even works with virtually illegible handwriting (like your typical doctors’ notes).

At the moment, the feature supports the following image formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, .webp, .heic, and .heif (while not all of these formats can be previewed in Evernote, you can still transcribe them!). 

In September, we finalized the highly requested two-way calendar synchronization feature. Now you can create, edit, and delete events in your connected Google or Outlook calendars directly from Evernote.

⬆️ Higher limits for note size, attachments, uploads for Free users

Also as of September, we increased the maximum note, attachment, and upload allotment for all Free users: 

The maximum note size is now 200 MB (up from 25 MB)

The maximum attachment size is now 200 MB (up from 25 MB)

The monthly upload limit is now 250 MB (up from 60 MB)

With this change, Free users can store more important content within Evernote in their preferred format (like PDFs, documents, images, videos, or audio recordings). It also gives Free users more opportunities to try our powerful new AI video-, audio-, and image-to-text features.

Collaboration was a main focus area for the product team over the past few months, and we plan to introduce even more improvements soon. The latest collaboration-enhancing updates include the following:

Link unification and simplification. Before, Evernote users could share their notes with others via two distinct links (an app link and a web link). This often created some confusion, especially if the person opening the link didn’t have the Evernote desktop or mobile app installed. Now, we've unified two into a single "note link." With this single link, you can share notes with anyone, and they open seamlessly on any Evernote application.

Up to 1,000x faster access to shared content. Joining a shared Evernote note, notebook, or workspace is now significantly faster, especially when it comes to the time between accepting a share invitation and receiving the content in your account. You’ll see the greatest difference for especially large notebooks or workspaces.

Ability to leave a shared note or notebook. Until now, there was no way to remove a shared note or notebook you no longer needed in your account. We’ve introduced a new action in the ··· menu so that you can easily remove irrelevant content.

To date, we've had a Desktop-first approach to new feature development. This means that we typically build the initial feature for Evernote Desktop/Web first. If we see that our customers enjoy and use the feature, we prioritize adding it to the Evernote Mobile apps as well. Between July and September, we introduced the following features to Mobile:

Event creation. Now that Evernote has its own native calendar, you can create new events from anywhere in the app using the new ‘Event’ button.

Multiple calendar views. In addition to the Summary view, you can now toggle between calendar views to see your whole week and month at-a-glance.

Notifications on Mobile. Get news about product changes and improvements directly in your Evernote account. Down the line, we plan to include additional notifications for tasks, reminders, shared documents, and more!

👁️‍🗨️ Evernote Mobile UI & UX

The summer months also brought significant progress in our efforts to improve the Mobile interface, with the following updates:

Improved note readability in Mobile. Previously, note content wouldn’t automatically resize to align with custom device settings—it does now. This means that, based on the text size you've set on your phone, you may see note content in larger formats. You can also set your desired note content size directly in Evernote, regardless of your phone settings. This is helpful if, for instance, you prefer a standard size for your phone but want a larger font size when reading your notes.

New Notebook button. Quickly create new notebooks directly from the Mobile home page.

Floating buttons: Use the convenient, thumb-adjacent floating buttons to swiftly add notes, notebooks, tasks, events, and tags to your account.

We've also been working hard to keep pace with the evolution of the iPhone operating system to ensure Evernote can fully leverage the latest capabilities. With the release of iOS18 in September, we implemented the following integrations:

Control Center and Lock Screen. Perform quick actions in Evernote directly from the Control Center and Lock Screen to make your note-taking process even faster.

Siri and the Shortcuts app. You can now use Siri and the Shortcuts app to create notes, tasks, and more in Evernote. Set up voice commands or custom shortcuts for a more seamless workflow.

Spotlight. When you create notes or tasks, iOS will learn from your habits and suggest actions based on time, location, and frequency, making it easier to stay organized.

Widget and app icon. Evernote widgets are now fully adapted to iOS18 for both the Home and Lock Screens. You can also enlarge the Evernote app icon to quickly convert it into a widget. We've also refreshed the Evernote app icon to ensure full compatibility with iOS 18, supporting Light, Dark, and Tinted Modes.

Sometimes the (seemingly) smallest improvements can make the biggest differences. That’s why our quality-of-life track has remained a constant and essential component of the overall product roadmap. Since July, we’ve released several such improvements—here’s a selection of the top ones:

Auto-updating table-of-contents. Now, any table of contents in your notes will update automatically whenever you add, edit, or reformat a heading. 

Filter and sort by reminders (reintroduced). You can once again sort and filter your notes by Reminders, both in your Notes list and in each individual notebook.   

Mark notifications as read. Select “Mark all as read” to remove the notification badge on Desktop and Mobile.

[Calendar] Outlook connection issues & improved synchronization performance. Customers were reporting problems connecting their Outlook Calendar accounts and syncing their existing events in Evernote. After a thorough investigation into the underlying problems, we've made significant progress in resolving them.

[Calendar] Improved navigation. We've streamlined the Desktop experience by removing the Calendar Modal and redirecting all actions to the full-size Calendar view.

General UI improvements on Desktop and Mobile. Since we unveiled Evernote’s new design in January, we’ve been systematically cleaning up outstanding inconsistencies to create an overall more polished and beautiful interface.

[Desktop only] Open link in a new window. For better multitasking, open your note links in a new Evernote window by holding CMD and clicking on the linked note, or by clicking on the ··· menu and selecting Open in New Window.

[Mobile only] Setting popup menu revamp. We separated out important items like My Widgets and Trash to be easily visible and immediately accessible and moved everything else to its own sub-menu.


CAPTCHA improvements. CAPTCHA is an essential part of keeping Evernote accounts secure from bots and human bad actors. But we’re the first to admit it can be a bit annoying to fill out endless puzzles when you are, in fact, human. Taking your feedback to heart, we implemented several UX changes to make your login experience smoother, without compromising your account’s security. You can read more about the changes here.

Bugfix tracker. When it came to fixing bugs, we noticed that not knowing when something would be addressed was frustrating for customers. This meant that tackling problems as fast as possible was only half the battle. The other half was to make the process more transparent for our customers. And so, the Evernote bugfix tracker was born. This simple document is updated regularly to give you a clear view of what the Reliability team is working on at the moment. I encourage you to check it whenever you encounter an issue—we may already be working on a fix!


Want to get real-time updates about changes to Evernote? Make sure to follow us on X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube. We’re posting monthly videos explaining all the changes we’ve released in that specific month and we’re announcing new features on X on a weekly basis (plus, I often post sneak-peeks of exciting new prototypes). Head to the comments in either channel to share your thoughts—the team and I are always happy to hear from you.

Product lead Federico Simionato recaps everything the team introduced between July and September 2024. Top changes include a powerful image transcription feature, the rollout of our new sync engine, two-way Calendar sync, and much more.

Twenty-five new product improvements you might have missed

We’re excited to announce the release of a significant update to Evernote’s infrastructure: RENT—an all-new metadata sync process. We’ll explain later what RENT is and how it works, but for now let’s dive straight into the most important information.


Prefer to watch? Product lead Federico Simionato shares an overview of how our new metadata sync process improves your Evernote experience. 

Evernote sync is now 3x faster!

Here’s how your Evernote experience will improve going forward

With RENT, key operations are executed up to three times faster. These include:

Device-to-device syncing. Important account-based changes made on Desktop will show up on Mobile right away (and vice versa).

Note sharing. You’ll see shared notes appear in your account almost instantly.

App startup time. The launch experience on all your devices will be smoother and quicker than ever.

Product development will accelerate. By replacing the legacy metadata sync process, we’re able to unify all sync-related tasks under one system. This makes developing and releasing new product improvements much more straightforward, leading to an overall faster development pace.

The Evernote database on your device is now up to 70% smaller and 20% faster. While this isn’t something you immediately notice when you use Evernote, it can go a long way toward improving the app’s overall efficiency.

RENT metadata sync is a direct counterpart to the work we did in 2023, when we introduced real-time note editing and instantaneous content syncing across different devices and accounts. While these past improvements focused on the content within your notes, the process powering RENT—which stands for Remaining ENTities—focuses on syncing other important information within your account, such as notes, notebooks, workspaces, tags, profiles, sharing permissions, and so on. Or, as we like to call it, your metadata. ✨ 

Here are just a of the important ways metadata is integrated into your account:

Do you have a note in your account? (yes, it’s that basic!)

Did you delete a note, or move it to another notebook?

When was the note or notebook last edited, and by who?

Who has access to a particular note or notebook?

Syncing all this information over multiple sessions and across different devices is essential to keeping your account up-to-date and working properly. Previously, devices worked on a “polling” system, receiving updates from Evernote at predetermined intervals. This created a lag in showing changes across different accounts and devices. Thanks to our new metadata sync process, Evernote’s backend is now constantly sharing updates with the clients, making sure each change is reflected right away.


RENT is another huge step towards better platform reliability

Since early 2023, we’ve given the highest priority to increasing Evernote's reliability and stability. One of the most important initiatives in this work stream has been switching key parts of the product’s code away from the Evernote Monolith to faster and leaner micro-services. (For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Monolith, it’s a rather large and clunky part of Evernote’s legacy codebase that has the tendency to cause our developers quite a few headaches.)

With RENT, we can finally align all of Evernote’s sync processes under one unified system, which helps us further reduce our dependence on the Monolith and significantly reduces product complexity. This, in turn, reduces the possibility of introducing bugs during development and—ultimately—improves reliability— a positive chain reaction that will benefit developers and customers alike. 

While we've done our best to keep your Evernote experience exactly the same (just faster!), it's possible some of your workflows may change as a result of our new sync structure. Please contact our team if you have any questions or experience any problems.

RENT is currently available for all Evernote accounts using version 10.101 and up. Have you noticed that syncing, sharing, or app start-ups are faster? Let us know! Tag @evernote on all social media.

Thanks to our new sync engine, you'll instantly unlock a much snappier Evernote experience.

Evernote sync is now 3x faster on all devices!

This blog post was updated on September 17, 2024 to reflect that note size, upload, and attachment limits were increased.

We’re introducing some updates to the Evernote Free experience, starting with a new device limit. From August 6, 2024, new and existing Free users will be able to use Evernote on only one device at a time. 

Shortly thereafter, we’ll be introducing the following improvements to empower Free users to store even more important content within Evernote. If you’re a Free user, you’ll soon have access to:

Larger notes. We're expanding the maximum size of the notes you can create.

Bigger attachments. You’ll be able to upload larger files.

More monthly uploads. You’ll also be able to upload more files each month.

When deciding how to distribute Evernote’s many features and perks across our various subscription plans, we always look to strike a balance between making Evernote a comprehensive tool for Free users while reserving the product’s most powerful capabilities for our paying subscribers. These latest changes are another step in this process, following a series of other adjustments we’ve introduced over the past year:

Making Tasks, Calendar, and Home personalization available to all users

Unlocking 14 features such as offline notes, advanced search, and PDF annotation to make them available to everyone

Setting virtually unlimited note and notebook creation as a paid benefit

Let’s take a closer look at the newest changes below.

Free accounts will be limited to 1 connected device at a time

From August 6, Free users will be able to use Evernote on one device (Desktop, Mobile, or Web) at a time. Those with Personal, Professional, and Teams accounts can continue connecting unlimited devices.

If you’re a Free user and have more than one device connected to your account, you’ll receive a pop-up the next time you open Evernote prompting you to disconnect your other devices to continue using the tool for free. If you’re not interested in upgrading to a paid account, you can follow the instructions in the pop-up to choose which devices to disconnect. Once you do so, you’ll automatically be logged out of your Evernote account on all except your chosen device. 

Going forward, you can switch devices by simply logging out of Evernote on one device and logging back in on another. 

Free users can create larger notes, attach larger files, and upload more monthly content

On September 17, 2024, we increased note size, attachment, and monthly upload limits for all Free accounts. 

The maximum note size is now 200 MB (up from 25MB)

The maximum attachment size is now 200 MB (up from 25MB)

The monthly upload limit is now 250MB (up from 60MB)

With these changes, we aim to empower our Free users to explore Evernote as a secure platform for storing and accessing important content in any format, including PDFs, documents, images, videos, and audio recordings. Additionally, with the increased allowances, Free subscribers will be able to fully experience the benefits of the latest AI-powered functionalities: audio, video, and image transcription.

See how Evernote Free compares to our Personal and Professional plans.

Not sure about committing to Evernote yet? Here are just some examples of how Evernote has improved over the past year:

Immediate note content synchronization across devices with Real-Time Editing

Major improvements in overall stability thanks to large-scale migrations from the Evernote Monolith backend to independent microservices and other client-side changes

A noticeable increase in speed across all clients as an aggregate of countless small improvements made in the codebase

Dozens of new Editor features to elevate Evernote’s core note-taking experience—including slash commands, tables of content, and collapsible sections

A complete overhaul of Evernote Tasks and the introduction of helpful new ways to organize and prioritize your to-dos

A new, more user-friendly Evernote interface on Desktop and Mobile

A huge expansion of Calendar capabilities, such as new integrations, a full-screen Calendar view, and native event creation

The release of powerful and intuitive new AI features, such as AI Edit, AI-Powered Search, and Voice-to-text

A lightning-fast initial downsync for Evernote Web after aligning our clients to a single storage system

Reinforced security with an updated two-factor authentication process

Looking at just the next few months, we’re excited to bring even more updates to Evernote, including: 

Simpler, more effective, and more flexible sharing and collaboration tools

Improvements like these are key to making Evernote a faster, more reliable, and more robust tool for everyone. And they’re made possible thanks to our paying users’ continued support.

Want to stay in the loop about the latest developments? Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube! 💚

Starting August 6, 2024, we’re introducing changes to the Evernote Free experience. Free account holders can expect a new device usage limit and more generous allowances for note size, attachments, and monthly uploads.

Update: Evernote Free accounts can connect 1 device, create larger notes, and upload more content

After releasing twenty important improvements in the first months of 2024, the team doubled-down on pushing quick and impactful changes. As a result, in the past three months we’ve succeeded in releasing over thirty meaningful improvements to Evernote (33% more than in the previous period!). In particular, we accelerated our work on Editor, Calendar and Tasks, and the overall Evernote Mobile experience. Check out the full list below!


Prefer to watch our updates? I’m covering the newest improvements every month. Here’s our latest video from June.

What's new at Evernote? 💙 June 2024

Evernote is, first and foremost, a note-taking tool. This is why the team has dedicated significant time to understanding and implementing the most impactful new features, all with the goal of bringing you a smoother and easier note-taking experience. 

Table of contents and linked headers. These two go hand in hand! In order to add an interactive table of contents to a note, we first needed to make headers linkable. The result? Two new Editor features that make it easier than ever to navigate your notes.

5 new slash commands. We’ve been consistently making slash commands more powerful since they were introduced in March. Now you can add headings, checklists, bullet lists, numbered lists, and the current date and time simply by typing “/” in a new line of your note.

@ command. In addition to the slash command, we’ve also included the ability to type “@” in any new line and immediately add a link to an existing note in your account.

Quote blocks. This new formatting option helps you highlight key points and insights within your notes.

Advanced code blocks. Our revamped code blocks now feature syntax highlighting for a large range of coding languages.

Pinned notes in notebooks. You can now pin your most important notes directly to the top of your notebooks for easy access any time.


This quarter, we set out to make the whole Mobile experience simpler and more intuitive. The biggest change was the introduction of the new Mobile Home page. We also brought many of the most loved new Desktop features to Mobile.

New Mobile Home and navbar. During our frequent conversations with customers, we understood that one of the most important reasons our customers access Evernote on their mobile devices is to quickly capture information while on-the-go. The new Evernote Mobile Home page makes the process of creating new items, like notes and tasks, much faster. Learn more about the how we arrived at the new design: How we designed the new Evernote Home on Mobile 🏡

Personalized experience. After we released the new Mobile experience, one of the most common requests from the community was for more personalization options. In response, we introduced two new ways to customize your Evernote app. First, you can choose between Notebooks and Shortcuts in your bottom navigation bar. Then, you can choose the default screen when you launch Evernote. Options include Create, Notes, Shortcuts/Notebooks (based on your preference in the navbar), Tasks, and Calendar.

5 top features on Mobile. In the past few months, we’ve brought five much-loved new Desktop features to Mobile: table of contents and linked headers, collapsible sections, new tasks metadata (descriptions and priorities), tasks in Calendar, pinned notes in Notebooks.

💫 Universal access to Evernote Tasks, Calendar, and Home

Historically, Evernote Tasks, Calendar, and Home customization were only available with Evernote Personal, Professional, and Teams subscriptions. However, as we’re rolling out several exciting changes and improvements to these features (many of which you can see below!), we want to give everyone the opportunity to explore them for free. Read more here.

In the first part of the year, we focused on bringing Calendar out of the shadows by giving it its own spot on the side bar. Over the past few months, we’ve invested heavily in making it a powerful, standalone tool: 

Calendar on Mobile. The Calendar is now easily accessible on all your Evernote-connected devices.

Native event creation. You no longer have to link a Google or Microsoft Outlook account to take advantage of the Evernote Calendar. Create new events directly in Evernote to easily track your work and create event-related notes with one click.

Event create button. Following the introduction of the native Evernote calendar, you can now create new events from anywhere in the app using the new ‘Create’ button.

Monthly & weekly calendar views. In addition to the daily Summary, you can now toggle between calendar views to see your whole week and month at-a-glance.

Custom week start date. No matter how you structure your week (be it starting on Sunday, Monday, or even Thursday), you can now set your Evernote Calendar to match.

Plus, we’re a couple weeks away from releasing two more great features: two-way calendar sync and iCloud Calendar integration. Stay tuned for more details coming soon!


These months, we’ve also focused intently on improving Evernote Tasks to help you manage all your to-dos in the way that works best for you. Check out this recent deep dive for more details!

New Tasks section. The new full-screen Tasks view gives your important to-dos the real estate they deserve with multiple views to personalize the way you track your work. Learn all about Evernote’s new Tasks section in this video.

Task descriptions. This new field gives you the opportunity to add helpful information or additional details to the task beyond what’s included in your notes.

Task priority. Our second new field lets you set the priority of the task to help you better organize your day.

Sort by priority. Thanks to the new priority field, we were also able to introduce a new sorting option. Now, you can view your tasks by priority in any of your preferred views.

Tasks in Calendar. We combined two of Evernote’s most powerful tools. Now, your tasks automatically appear in your calendar according to their due date and time.


During user research, the team gleaned an important insight: many users rely on Evernote as a filing cabinet to store important documents, scans, images, and more. Up until recently, these files could only be uploaded and viewed within a note. With the new Files feature, users can see all of their attachments in one place, with helpful links back to the relevant note.

Diligent note-taking is a matter of practice. To help our customers build these life-long good habits, we’ve introduced a new Daily Note feature. Choose from one of three templates—Agenda, To-do list, or Journal—and see a new entry appear in your Evernote account every day.

Evernote’s latest Voice-to-text feature leverages AI to instantly and accurately transform audio and video files into clear written transcriptions. You can use it for native or uploaded recordings for a wide range of file types (mp3, mp4, mpeg, mpga, m4a, wav, webm, and aac) and over fifty languages.


More notes and notebooks in Personal and Professional accounts. In June we hit a huge milestone when several Evernote customers hit their note limit (yes, 100,000 notes!). To celebrate, we increased the limits for all Personal and Professional customers. Now, you can add up to 150,000 notes and 2,000 notebooks in your paid individual account.

Integrated imports. Previously, any type of file you uploaded to Evernote (aside from .enex ones) would be added to your as an attachment in a new note. We redesigned the whole import experience to turn any DOCX, HTML, TXT, or Markdown files into their own, editable notes.

Improved sharing modal. Sharing your great ideas got simpler (and more secure) with a redesigned Sharing interface.

More control over your Settings. We’ve added several new settings to give you maximum control over new features like slash commands, collapsible sections, note blocks and more.


Metadata sync is 3x faster. We’re currently rolling out a new metadata sync process (a.k.a. RENT) to all Evernote accounts. Once enabled, you’ll see huge improvements in the time it takes to execute key operations, like device-to-device syncing, note sharing, and app startups. Plus, the new process dramatically reduces our dependence on legacy parts of the Evernote code base, which, in the long run, will have a positive effect on overall app stability and our rate of product development. This is a huge achievement, and I look forward to sharing a lot more details about the whole effort very soon.

New authentication flow. We redesigned the entire authentication process to be smoother, more consistent, and more secure. 

Easier access to Support. The Help and Learning login experience is now identical to the new authentication flow mentioned above. This means that if you’re already logged in on Evernote Web, you don’t need to enter your credentials again to access our Help & Learning articles or contact Support. We also made it possible to immediately submit a support ticket in case you’re having problems with logging into your account.

Want to get real-time updates about changes to Evernote? Make sure to follow us on X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube. We’re posting monthly videos explaining all the changes that we release in that specific month and we’re actively announcing new features on X on a weekly basis (plus, I often post sneak-peeks of exciting new prototypes). Head to the comments in either channel to share your thoughts—the team and I are always happy to hear from you.

Product lead Federico Simionato shares how the team introduced drastic improvements to Evernote’s Editor, Calendar, Tasks, Mobile experience, and more between April-June 2024.

What's new at Evernote

What's new

Twenty-five new product improvements you might have missed

Evernote sync is now 3x faster on all devices!

Update: Evernote Free accounts can connect 1 device, create larger notes, and upload more content

Thirty more exciting improvements in Evernote