Evernote why premium

Say hello to a more organized life. Get all the benefits of Evernote Free, plus features designed to keep your home and family life running smoothly. Stay in sync across an unlimited number of computers and mobile devices. No wi-fi? No problem. Keep working offline and sync when you have a signal. Find your Evernote Whether you want to get organized, keep your personal life on track, or boost workplace productivity, Evernote has the right plan for you. Evernote has several advanced features that most other note-taking apps don't have.

The ability to search for text and find it in images, whether those images are snapshots of a page of typed text or contain handwritten text, is perhaps the most remarkable example. Microsoft OneNote can also do it, but few other note-taking apps can. When you take pictures of whiteboards, presentations, business cards, advertisements, recipes, or anything else you want to save, you can trust that Evernote will make all the text in the image searchable.

It's an incredible feature, although it's not percent foolproof. From time to time it misses something due to a glare on the image or some other problem. Search is a big deal. Because Evernote's search works as well as it does, you don't have to put as much effort into organizing your notes thoroughly. You can always search for text, whether it's typed or in an image. To narrow down a search, you can look in only select notebooks or stacks of notebooks or exclude notes that don't have a particular tag on them.

Premium and Business users also get a unique feature called Context. When enabled, Context analyses the content of your note, both text and metadata, and then suggests related notes and news articles. In practice, Context suggestions can be a distraction, but it all depends on how you work and what you do with Evernote. Plus, you can always disable them. Or you can customize suggestions so that they only come from certain sources. Another advanced feature, Work Chat, puts an instant messaging window right into your Evernote workspace.

It's available to all Evernote members, including free Basic members. You can invite anyone to chat with you while you're in Evernote, though they must sign up for an account to use the tool. I love the concept of being able to collaborate quickly and easily from the same window in which I'm working, although with the rise in popularity of team chat apps , many people already have a preferred method for getting in touch with colleagues and collaborators that's equally as convenient.

A personal favorite feature is the web clipper. It's a browser extension that lets you save a web page as an Evernote note. For example, if you see a news article that you want to read later or a recipe online that you want to save, you can clip it to turn it into a note and tell Evernote to save it to the notebook of your choice.

The web clipper has options to skip over advertisements on the page, clip only a selected portion of a page, and so forth. A feature called Conflicting Changes offers a much-needed service but has never worked as well as I would like it to. When Evernote detects something amiss in a note as a result of a syncing issue, it lets you know by saving copies of the note to a folder it creates called Conflicting Changes.

Conflicts occur if you edit a note offline without first syncing changes from a previous edit on a different device. User error can cause conflicts, but slow syncing or a device crash can be to blame as well. We've always wanted Evernote to show the conflicts in such a way that they make sense and can act on them, such as highlighting what's different between two versions. As it stands, you just get raw chunks of text or whatever the format of your notes, and a time and date stamp of the save.

There's no easy way to reconcile the two files without reading them word for word. It could be nothing more than an extra space or a punctuation mark on one version but not another. You'd never know that, though, because the differences are not visible. Evernote plays well with other apps, a huge advantage when integrating it into your personal or business life.

For example, every paying Evernote member gets a unique Evernote email address that they can use to forward messages into their Evernote account, turning emails into notes. The app can connect to Slack, too, so that you can type a command into Slack and have the post automatically show up as a note in Evernote. It works with other workplace collaboration tools , as well as personal apps, such as Instapaper and Pocket. Yes Record and play back audio notes. Annotate images and PDFs. Forward emails directly into your Evernote account.

Create and save your own custom note templates. Scan and digitize business cards to create a personal database of contacts. Yes Add reminders to your notes. Yes Filter search results and get suggestions as you type. Yes Save searches to grab results quickly for your most-used searches. Yes Create your own filing system with notebooks and keyword tags. Yes Connect your Gmail account to save important emails in Evernote.

Customize Home with more widgets and background images. Access notes offline on both mobile and desktop. Connect Google Drive to add files to your notes for quick access and editing. Search for text in images, handwriting, documents, and PDFs. See a version history of your notes and restore notes to older versions.

Quickly switch between different Evernote accounts. Yes Control permissions for others to view and edit notes and notebooks. Email a copy of your notes to anyone. Advanced PDF export controls. Connect Slack, Salesforce, and Microsoft Teams to save conversations and track decisions. Your upload limit is 10 GB per month, and your maximum file size is MB. The feature list for each of these options is slightly different. Which one you choose will depend on exactly how you want to use Evernote, and the kind of Evernote user you are.

Evernote's web clipper is a browser extension that allows you to clip and annotate sites and images you find around the web. These are then saved to your Evernote account. This is especially useful if you're researching a specific topic, or just want to make sure you don't lose the cool things you find online.

The clipper itself is actually available to free Evernote users. But if you use it a lot, you'll soon hit that 60 MB upload limit. If you find this limit stops you capturing important information, it may be worth upgrading. On the free account, you can only access notes on your mobile devices if you're online.

By upgrading to a paid plan however, you can choose which notebooks you want to store locally on mobile, so you can access them wherever you are. Accessing Evernote on two devices is enough for most people. Luckily, that is actually possible on the free account. But if you want to access your notes on three or more devices a computer, smartphone, and tablet, for instance , you'll need to upgrade to Evernote Plus.

This limitation doesn't apply to the Web version of Evernote, but relying on the Web version rather than the desktop app just so you can use Evernote on your tablet is far from ideal. Being able to quickly save important emails to your account for easy storage or offline access is an advanced Evernote feature many users won't use. But sometimes, you'll receive emails you want to save as a note so you can easily search for them later.

This can be a big time-saver. It's perfect for saving travel reservations and receipts. By upgrading then, you get your own Evernote email address.