Evernote Gets Sharing

      by Wyatt Walter

Everyone’s favorite note-taking and syncing application has finally gotten their first implementation of sharing out the door. I’d have to say, that was my biggest issue with Evernote. Otherwise, the app is awesome. It’s a great way to get things off the brain and into the computer so you can come back to them later and not worry about them now. For people with a memory like mine, that’s a wonderful thing. Now, you can share those notes with others selectively as public notebooks have been available for some time.

This is being called “Phase 1″ of sharing by Evernote and the sharing does have a few restrictions in its current implementation. First, the shared notebooks are not available in the desktop client. One does have to log into the web client to see any shared notebooks or manage their shares. Second, sharing is only available to paid subscribers. The subscription price is a measly $5 per month. Not bad for a service that lets you take notes, clip web pages, and pictures and make them available to your Mac, Windows PC, iPhone, Blackberry and a few others via the web interface. It even parses the images for text to make your pictures of docs searchable. I would expect a lot of the killer features of Evernote to become pay-only features, since, well they’ve gotta eat too.

What’s to come with Evernote? They’ve let us know that sharing from the desktop and mobile clients is on its way. Other than that, they’ve left it up to the user community for some new features :)

Filed under News : Comments (0) : Jun 26th, 2009