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Updates to Evernote’s Privacy Policy

Your notes are more than information; they’re extensions of yourself. The billions of notes stored in Evernote contain your most important ideas, projects, and memories. Keeping them safe for you is a tremendous responsibility. Today, we’re introducing an updated privacy policy, taking effect on July 3, that gives us the ability to improve your Evernote experience while maintaining our three laws of data protection: Your data is yours Your data

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Find Critical Data Quickly with Evernote and Launchcloud

As a business owner, have you ever wanted a way to quickly find customer feedback, survey results, intake forms, and other data with Evernote? Try Launchcloud, an app that integrates with Evernote that makes finding and managing data in Evernote even easier. What is Launchcloud? Launchcloud is a paperless information-gathering and automation platform that allows you to collect information like sales lead data, documents, orders, and surveys by using pre-made

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Evernote Reaches the Cloud: Migration to Google Cloud Platform Complete

Back in September, we announced that Evernote would be migrating to a modern, cloud infrastructure. We lost no time in getting started. Just one month after the announcement, we were already moving data to the Google Cloud Platform. We’re excited to announce that Evernote has successfully migrated our service to the cloud, and accomplished this with minimal impact on our customers. Because this migration took place in the background, you

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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’s Future Is in the Cloud

When we marked Evernote’s 8th anniversary this summer, there was a lot to celebrate. We’re proud of what we’ve built: a place where all of your most productive notes and ideas can be collected, nurtured, and preserved. And we’re even more excited about the future, with many new features and enhancements under development. Paving the road for that future means taking a close look at how every part of Evernote

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Evernote’s Three Laws of Data Protection [Update]

There are certain things that matter to us, that we fight for, and that define virtually every decision that we make at Evernote. In 2011, we laid them out in our 3 Laws of Data Protection: Your Data is Yours Your Data is Protected Your Data is Portable Over the past few years, we’ve seen a welcome shift across our entire industry towards more transparency around data use, intent, and

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Protecting your data: the broken drives edition

In our blog post “Evernote’s Three Laws of Data Protection”, Phil touches on some of the measures we take to protect your data and our goal of being a trusted place for it. There is much more we do, so I wanted to talk a bit about an important aspect: what happens when hard drives fail? You have probably read stories of people buying previously owned computers and finding they

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So API Together: Evernote and Thrift

When we started to plan the Evernote service in 2007, we knew that we would need to support both “thin” clients (like web browsers) and “thick” synchronizing clients on the day that we launched. This forced us us to think about remote protocols and client APIs before we built any web GUI, rather than waiting a few months to staple an API onto an existing web service. Our application forced

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