The first thing you notice when you arrive at The Workshop is the cold. You expect it to be dark; it’s pretty far north, and it gets dark earlier the further north you go. My host points out a sudden glow of green light in the sky. The Northern Lights pulsate and glisten and turn the snow a reflective green so that the whole place looks, for a moment, like
Some things just go together. Peanut butter and jelly. Time and tide. Abbott and Costello. Web Clipper and Evernote. Adding the Web Clipper extension to your browser makes Evernote a more powerful and essential part of your day. Here’s why: 1) So quick, it’s kinda like cheating – If I think an article or piece of inspiration will come in handy one day, Web Clipper lets me make it mine.
Flexibility. Freedom. Engagement. Respect. Earning potential. Work-life balance. These are just a few of the factors that have influenced the growing crop of freelancers in the United States and beyond. Today, more than 55 million people in the United States identify as freelancers, workers who have an earning potential of more than $1 trillion. Representing all sorts of professions like designers, marketers, analysts, and writers, the number of freelancers has
Google recently announced the Google Pixelbook, a high-performance Chromebook, and a new stylus, the Google Pixelbook Pen. Google’s new low-latency API allows for faster response time, which represents a significant speed improvement over previous models. Of course, this means we’ve been hard at work to make sure that Evernote is ready for you to take full advantage of these new features. From the moment you start using your Pixelbook to
Evernote is more than an app or a service; it’s also an outstanding team of dedicated individuals, and we’d like to share their stories with you. Mansi Shah is an Engineer on Evernote’s iOS team. She has been with the company for a year and a half. How did you get into engineering? My love for computers and design led me to become an engineer. The ability to whip up
Evernote is more than an app or a service; it’s also an outstanding team of dedicated individuals, and we’d like to share their stories with you. Ammar Khaku is a Senior Software Engineer on Evernote’s service backend team. He has been with the company since 2012. Tell us about your background. I did my undergrad at Tufts University in the Boston area. My primary focus was actually in mechanical engineering,
What does it take to release your full potential at work? Jay Acunzo, an award-winning podcaster and dynamic keynote speaker, has a surprising answer: Intuition. Before creating the popular podcast show Unthinkable, Jay was a digital media strategist at Google and later head of content at HubSpot. But realized he was unhappy, and that this highly sought-after path was simply not for him. This experience sparked an interest in intuition
Inspiration can strike at the most unlikely times. Paul McCartney woke up one morning with “Yesterday” playing in his mind; Sir Isaac Newton (allegedly) developed his theory of gravity after an apple landed on his head. History is filled with stories like these, but how many great ideas were lost because there was no way of capturing them in the moment? Now, with the launch of Apple’s iOS 11, it’s
By 2016, the developers of Evernote for iOS were struggling to add new features to the app, keep it working with new versions of iOS, and untangle technical debt in the code. To fix this, we began an effort that ultimately produced an app with a new design, a new user interface, and a new software architecture—all delivered by a mostly new team. Why rebuild? The previous version of Evernote
We’ve all been encouraged to feel more grateful. But in today’s fast-paced life, we can find ourselves perpetually focusing on what’s next at the expense of recognizing the beauty around us. The rise of the smartphone means that we could always theoretically be responding to work emails. When we scroll through our Facebook timelines, it’s easy to compare ourselves to other people’s highlight reels and feel we aren’t enough. But