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Why You Should Write Things Down: Experience and Information

The Death of Socrates (Detail), Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Life boils down to just two things: experience and information. Experience is what happens in your brain. The slippery chill of diving into a swimming pool. The bittersweet taste of chocolate ice cream on your tongue. Those are experiences. Information is the breadcrumb trail left behind by experience. The photograph of you by the pool. The chocolate stain on your shirt. Information

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Evernote’s Action Plan for Privacy

Dear Evernote Community: Good businesses are built on trust and collaboration — not only within their own walls, but also between the people who build a product and the people who rely upon it. You place billions of your most important thoughts and ideas in Evernote; we must honor that trust by ensuring they remain private and confidential. Last week we announced changes to our privacy policy that fell short

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Evernote Revisits Privacy Policy Change in Response to Feedback

UPDATE: As a result of feedback from you, our customers, we have decided to withdraw the changes we announced in this post. In addition, Evernote is committed to being a leading advocate for Internet privacy and to set the bar for us and other companies that have the responsibility to protect your data. Read more about the steps we’re taking to exceed your expectations as we move forward. “Trust is

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5 Tips for Increasing Your Writing Productivity

Last month, thousands of writers around the world took the ultimate writing challenge: writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days as part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Participants wrote furiously, checking their online productivity statistics on the NaNoWriMo website. The writers tracked  the number of words people wrote, without worrying too much about quality. The task was to produce a certain number of words in a finite time.

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IFTTT: (If) You’d Like to Automate Evernote, (Then) You Should Try These

In a busy world, more apps and services often mean more clutter. Ideas get scattered across notes, files, social media posts, and emails. Contacts are in one app, photos in another. Moving information is a pain, if we remember to do it at all. That’s where IFTTT comes in. IFTTT (“If This, Then That,” pronounced “IF-tee”) makes it easy to connect your favorite apps by creating simple recipes known as

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Evernote Opens Engineering Office in San Diego

This week, Evernote has opened an office in San Diego focused on accelerating engineering efforts for upcoming products. Starting with a team of seven, Evernote will continue to hire additional engineering resources to join the new team in San Diego, as well as fill open roles at headquarters in Redwood City and in other regional offices including Austin. Already this year, Evernote has hired 35 engineering staff as the company

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Becoming More Human, One Dataset at a Time

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Giorgia Lupi, an award-winning information designer, has written volumes. While “big data” has become a buzzword for many of us, Giorgia’s goal is to make data ‘smaller’—breaking it into human-sized, contextual pieces, expressing those concepts visually, then wrapping them in meaningful stories. Her passion began in childhood. Without other siblings around to play with (or to pester), Giorgia often found herself

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Evernote on the Road: Talking Tech in Australia and Singapore

Bringing great ideas and inspiring stories to Evernote fans around the world is what Josh Zerkel does best. He’s the ambassador to the Evernote community, and if you’ve ever been to one of his live events, you know they’re always jam-packed with productivity enthusiasts from all walks of life, ready to soak up the latest tips and tricks from Josh and his hand-picked panelists of Evernote Certified Consultants. November saw

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Evernote at the Holidays: Making a List, Checking it Twice

It’s officially the start of the holiday season, so we checked in with Evernote’s holiday productivity expert Brian Tobin to learn some tips to help you become more productive over the next hectic month. But Brian, the technical program manager at Evernote, isn’t thinking about the holidays. He’s thinking about a teddy bear. Brian just made a recreation of his childhood teddy bear as a present for his mother. Not

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How Lore’s Aaron Mahnke Scared Up a Smash Hit with Evernote

In the past, we’ve highlighted some of the unique ways Evernote helps writers’ creative work—from researching to archiving ideas. We recently caught up with Aaron Mahnke, author and host of the wildly popular and frankly hair-raising podcast “Lore.” Aaron talked about how the power of storytelling and a dash of Evernote helped fuel his passion. Nothing beats a great story. Storytelling has helped create our connection to others as long

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