You can automatically build a table of contents for folders to access content quickly. I rarely have to search, because I can drill into and find what I am looking for quickly. If you plan and use a well thought out hierarchy with folders and/or tags, it gets even easier. I’ve already mentioned the great search capability. If you are not familiar with Zapier and IFTTT, you need to be.Īnd finding stuff is just as easy. All emails from my banks, stockbrokers, IRA, and 401K accounts are automatically forward to Evernote and stored in the proper folders. The email function may not seem like much, but it is if you take it to the next level. I have tried all the competition and will continue to do so, but I haven’t found a single product that does all of these. Saving a file into a dedicated folder which automatically stores it in Evernote.How do I get all that stuff in Evernote? This is another prominent feature of Evernote that few offer or do successfully. I have very few pieces of paper in my office anymore. I started going paperless many years ago, thanks to Evernote. Tax records, investment and stock portfolios, business documents, recipes, book lists, PDFs, spreadsheets, plans, important emails, articles, and yes, random notes. Can’t email notes directly to Evernote (This is a problem for me, although Notion also doesn’t have this)Įverything.No offline access on mobile devices (Maybe a problem depending on where you use it).Maximum note size of 25Mb vs 200Mb (Not a deal-breaker depending on your use cases).(I only use a fraction of my 10Gb, but 60Mb isn’t enough) You can only upload 60Mb of data a month, vs 10Gb with Premium.

You can only log two devices in at a time (I will discuss two ways to work around this.).

You can find plan comparisons on their site, but the main restrictions on the free plan are: Even though I have been using it for ten years and have well over 10,000 notes in it, I could get by with the free plan, but I choose not to. When you sign up for Evernote, you will probably choose the free plan.

I have found nothing better that does all the things that I do in Evernote. Not a very sexy name, but that’s what it does, and it does it well. I like to think of Evernote as a document and data storage and retrieval system. So, let’s talk about the literal elephant in the room.

What is evernote and how does it work