14 DAY TRIAL // Evernote sure has made progress lately. The developers have revamped the user interface, added dozens of improvements, as well as the option to subscribe for a $5 a month user plan that increases your monthly transfer from 40 MB to 500 MB, SSL for all data and more. Evernote is now in Open Beta.
With the newly-included opportunity to opt for a $5 a month premium user plan, you also get priority access to the text-recognition queues and tier 1 customer support. After one year of using Evernote (for subscribers only) you get a stylish Evernote launch T-shirt (while supplies last).
Since not everyone knows what Evernote is, or does, this program brings up everything you might have once stored for safe keeping using tags and text recognition. All you have to do is just search for an inside Evernote just like you remember it. The text recognition technology allows you to search for text within images (even handwritten text), but you can also search by tags, or short notes added to the item stored for safe keeping.
For example, if you have a picture such as the one on the left, you can search for it either by what you can remember was written inside (Strong, force, Yoda or cat, in this case, I searched for "force"), by the words you think you could have added to it as a small description, or by tags. Either way, if there's but one thing you can remember about a certain item, you'll most likely get to it as Evernote is an expert at narrowing down a search. Best of all, the service is available for all your devices, Mac, PC and mobile phone, as long as you can connect to the internet with them.
A native iPhone client for Evernote has also been confirmed to ship shortly after the App Store is a go. The app will include one-button publishing and location tagging for every item created from the phone, TUAW reveals. Evernote will also include more granular controls on publishing and sharing soon, the site notes, with a revamped Windows client, audio notes and a client for Blackberry users.
The first public release of the Evernote API should occur this summer. This will allow developers to customize or add their own features to Evernote. Sounds pretty exciting! At the time Evernote's private beta ended (before the Open Beta commenced) the company's servers included photos, notes and music files from over 125,000 users, the company has confirmed on the Evernote Blog:
"We're excited (and a bit scared) about abandoning the relative shelter of the private beta for the open waters ahead, but if we're really going to expand everyone's memory, we've got to let everyone in. As always, let us know how we can improve. We'll be keeping up the rapid pace of new development throughout the open beta. Thanks to the 125,000. Wish us luck!"
Softpedia sure wishes the team at Evernote as much luck as they can get. Evernote is one a one-of-a-kind remembering tool that grows its powers steadily with every version release. It expands not just everyone's memory, but their horizons as well, which gives it a pretty good chance to rise as a premium Mac app.
Evernote for Mac is available HERE (free download).
