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After securing Evernote’s foundational technologies in 2023, we turned our attention to building a fast-paced and dynamic weekly release schedule packed with meaningful updates. We set an ambitious goal to ship one-hundred improvements this year (more or less two per week). As 2024 comes to a close, we counted them up and… we were right on target! 🎯

Below, you can find the ultimate list of all one-hundred improvements from the past year, plus a deep-dive into the latest changes.

Plus, here’s what we worked on most recently:

We’re always looking to keep our product roadmap well-balanced between essential fixes and major innovation. I’m happy to share that between October and December, we rolled out four game-changing updates: 

Accountless collaboration. Now, anyone with a link can view or edit the content of a note—even if they don’t have their own Evernote account. This update resolves a big hurdle for many people who were looking to collaborate with classmates, colleagues, and other contributors. 

Once the note link is shared, it opens in a browser window, where collaborators can see and even change the content of the note using our new “lite” editor (the level of permissions is set by the original note owner).

Mobile navbar customization. After making it possible to customize the Desktop sidebar earlier this year, we quickly worked to release a similar option for Mobile. Now, you can select which sections are displayed in your navbar, customizing it to reflect the unique way you use Evernote on your phone. Anything that’s removed from the main menu is still easily available in under ••• More. Check out this video for a step-by-step guide on how to edit your navbar. 

Spaces for individuals. For a long time, Spaces were a Teams-exclusive feature, but we figured everyone can benefit from another powerful organizational tool! With Spaces, you can group notes and notebooks on a per-topic or project basis, making it easy to stay organized for work, school, or life in general.

AI Transcribe (and other tools). We’re expanding the Evernote multiverse with standalone versions of some of our most-loved in-app tools. Currently, we offer AI Transcribe, PDF Converter, and PDF Editor—and we have ideas for many, many more!

At its core, Evernote is a note-editor. For this reason, refining the Editor experience is always one of our top priorities. Over the past several months, we introduced a range of changes designed to make note-taking easier, more intuitive, and more personalized.

Draggable paragraphs. Previously, only a select number of Evernote’s content blocks could be rearranged using drag-and-drop. Now, we’ve unlocked new ways to quickly rearrange your content. These include the power to drag a paragraph block anywhere within the note, the option to reposition an entire collapsed section at one time, and the ability to move a paragraph block directly into a collapsed section.

LaTeX editor block. With this newest addition to the list of Editor features, you can add complex formulas to your notes using the popular LaTeX notation form.

Remove the default note thumbnail. Evernote automatically selects the first image in a note and assigns it as the note thumbnail. We’ve introduced a new setting where you can remove the thumbnail outright…and we’re very close to unlocking the ability to choose a custom image. 🎉

In addition to these bigger updates, here are some other subtle Editor improvements that make it easier to…

Start a new paragraph: Simply click at the end of the existing text block (no need to press ‘Enter’ each time).

Create a new line in the same paragraph: Press SHIFT + ENTER together.

Exit a quote block:  Press ‘Enter’ at the end of a quote to revert back to normal text, or hit ‘Delete’ on an empty line to separate quotes into individual blocks.

Exit a collapsible section: Just press ENTER at the end of the section.

Select text in tables: One click places the cursor where you click; one click + drag highlights the text as you go, letter by letter. Two clicks highlights the word you’re on; double-clicking and dragging highlights the text as you go, word by word. Three clicks highlights the content of the entire cell.

Add attachment to your tables: Drop them in without worrying that you’ll mess up the existing layout.

Evernote’s sharing and collaboration experience has been another major area of focus for us over the past few months. Aside from accountless collaboration (which I already mentioned above), here are some other ways we made the overall process smoother:  

New sharing experience. We made it easier than ever to share your great ideas with others. By clicking, “Share note” you can instantly create and copy a shareable link. From there, head to the sharing menu to adjust permissions, or quickly unpublish the note with just one more click. 
👉By the way, this is one example of how we occasionally release something and then decide we can do it even better. Stay tuned for a new new experience in early 2025.

Filter out shared notes and notebooks. Earlier in the year, we introduced the ability to leave a shared note or notebook—but then we thought: what if you want to keep the content and just declutter your workspace instead? With this new filer option, you can keep access to the shared content and easily remove it from your personal notes and notebooks lists.

Automatic note & notebook acceptance. Previously, to access a newly shared note or notebook, you first had to click on an email notification or intentionally open the content in your Shared with Me section. Now, we’ve updated the process so that the content appears directly in your note or notebook list as soon as it’s shared. Not only does this create a smoother experience, but it addresses common sharing issues that were caused by these extra steps.

In addition to working on the big things, we’re always looking for small, yet impactful, ways to make Evernote a better note-taking platform. Here are some examples from the past few months:

Now, you can create a notebook from the ••• menu on Desktop, meaning you have one more intuitive way to quickly add a new notebook without missing a beat.

We’ve introduced user-friendly changes to navigation on Mobile, such as more intuitive notebook navigation and the option to use a swipe gesture to return to the previous screen.

We’ve also added a new Title view on Mobile, so you can see up to three times more content at a time in the Notes tab.

You can now individually sort each notebook in your account based on your unique content needs. Once set, your preferences are preserved between sessions and across devices.

In fact, now Evernote syncs all your sorting preferences across multiple devices (including the note list, notebooks, stacks, and templates).

Last but not least, the team continued to work on backend updates to boost speed in a variety of ways. In particular, recently we managed to…

Boost the note list loading time by 3x on Mobile by fine-tuning the way we manage important queries in Evernote’s backend—read more details here.

Make note and notebook creation is up to 10x faster in Teams accounts, thanks to one small change to how we count tags—read more details here.


If you’re curious to dive deeper into other improvements from earlier this year, check out our past summaries—January-March, April-June, July-September—or catch up on our monthly video recaps.

We’re beyond excited with what we’ve accomplished this year, but our work is far from done. Here’s a quick preview of our plans for 2025—keep in mind, this is just the beginning!

We’re already working on a handful of exciting updates that we hope to release soon. These include: 

The ability to add a custom note thumbnail 🎉

Beyond these initial projects, the Editor will remain one of our primary areas of focus, especially when it comes to the Mobile note-taking experience. We also want to introduce even more customization options at both the note and account level. We’re also deep diving into the search experience to make sure it’s always returning the results you’re looking for. And, finally, we’ll continue to work on performance across multiple touch points with speed-boosting backend improvements. 

If you’d like to keep up with Evernote's rapid pace of development, I encourage you to follow our progress on:

YouTube, where we’re sharing monthly updates and helpful tutorials

@evernote on X, where we’re sharing real-time updates as they roll-out

@fedesimio on X, where I preview new projects in the works and ask for community feedback

The Evernote bugfixer, where we share real-time updates on any larger-scale bugs we’re working on

…and hopefully even more platforms coming soon!

Before I sign off, I’d like to express my appreciation for the Evernote team and their incredible work over the past twelve months, my gratitude to the Evernote community for supporting us along the way, and my excitement for everything yet to come. 

This year, the Evernote team set an ambitious goal to ship one-hundred improvements. As 2024 comes to a close, we counted them up and… we were right on target! Product lead Federico Simionato summarizes the team’s accomplishments and previews what’s in store for 2025.

We released 100 Evernote improvements in 2024 🎉

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.

What's new at Evernote

What's new

We released 100 Evernote improvements in 2024 🎉

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