Evernote is an app designed for note taking, organizing, task management, and archiving.[6] It is developed by the Evernote Corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The app allows users to create notes, which can be text, drawings, photographs, or saved web content. Notes are stored in notebooks and can be tagged, annotated, edited, searched, given attachments, and exported.
Evernote is cross-platform, for Android, iOS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. It is free to use with monthly usage limits, and offers paid plans for expanded or lifted limits.
After being founded in 2000 by Russian-American computer entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov,[6] EverNote Corporation ('EverNote' stylized with a capital 'N' by then) started marketing software for Windows desktop PCs, Tablet PCs and handheld devices like the handwriting recognition software ritePen and the notetaking and web clipping application EverNote (also with a capital 'N'), a Windows application which stored notes on an 'infinite roll of paper'.[11] Under the new CEO Phil Libin, the company shifted its focus to the Web, smartphones and also the Apple Mac, starting with Evernote (now with lower-case 'n') 3.0 in 2008. The Evernote Web service launched into open beta on June 24, 2008[12] and reached 11 million users in July 2011.[13] In October 2010, the company raised a US$20 million funding round led by DoCoMo Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and Sequoia Capital.[14] Since then, the company raised an additional $50 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital and Morgenthaler Ventures,[15] and another $70 million in funding led by Meritech Capital and CBC Capital.[16] On November 30, 2012, Evernote raised another $85 million in funding led by AGC Equity Partners/m8 Capital and Valiant Capital Partners.[17] On November 9, 2014, Evernote raised an additional $20 million in funding from Nikkei, Inc.[18]
On May 7, 2013, TechCrunch reported that Evernote launched Yinxiang Biji Business into the Chinese market at the Global Mobile Internet Conference.[19]
Linda Kozlowski was named the Chief Operating Officer of Evernote in June 2015, after more than two years with the company, but left before the end of the year.[20][21]
Libin stepped down as CEO in July 2015 and was replaced by former Google Glass executive Chris O'Neill, but remained Executive Chairman.[22] In October 2015, the Evernote Corp. announced that the company was laying off 18 percent of its workforce and would be closing three out of 10 global offices.[23] In September 2016, Libin stepped down as Executive Chairman to focus on other business ventures.[24] In February 2017, CEO O'Neill stated in a blog post that the business was now cash-flow positive.[6] Sequoia Capital, one of Evernote's equity owners, said, "It's great when a company starts to raise non-dilutive capital every day, which is called revenue."[6]
In August 2018, Chief Technical Officer Anirban Kundu, Chief Financial Officer Vincent Toolan, Chief Product Officer Erik Wrobel, and head of HR Michelle Wagner left the company.[25] Wrobel and Wagner both joined in 2016.[26] On September 18, 2018, 54 employees—about 15 percent of the workforce—were laid off.[27] In a blog post, O'Neill said, "After a successful 2017, I set incredibly aggressive goals for Evernote in 2018. Though we have steadily grown, we committed too many resources too quickly. We built up areas of our business in ways that have proven to be inefficient. Going forward, we are streamlining certain functions, like sales, so we can continue to speed up and scale others, like product development and engineering."[28]
On October 29, 2018, Evernote announced that Ian Small, former CEO of TokBox, would replace O'Neill as CEO of Evernote.[29][30]
Evernote Corporation's [headquarters](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters>) in [Redwood City, California](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City,_California>) (2016).
[Phil Libin](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Libin>), co-founder, former [CEO](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_executive_officer>), and former executive [chairman](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman>) of the Evernote Corporation.
In 2010, the programming language used to write Evernote's software was changed from C# for version 3.5 to C++ in version 4.0 to improve performance.[31]
As well as the keyboard entry of typed notes, Evernote supports image capture from cameras on supported devices, and the recording of voice notes. In some situations, text that appears in captured images can be recognized using OCR and annotated. Evernote also supports touch and tablet screens with handwriting recognition. Evernote web-clipping plugins are available for the most popular Internet browsers that allow marked sections of webpages to be captured and clipped to Evernote. If no section of a webpage has been highlighted, Evernote can clip the full page. Evernote also supports the ability to e-mail notes to the service, allowing for automated note entry via e-mail rules or filters.[32]
Where suitable hardware is available, Evernote can automatically add geolocation tags to notes.
As of November 2018, Evernote Pro integrates directly with Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack, and Evernote Pro adds an integration with Salesforce.[33] All versions of Evernote also support integrations through IFTTT[34] and Zapier.[35] In 2013, Evernote deprecated its direct integration with Twitter[36] in favor of these third-party services.[37]
[Information model](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_model>) for Evernote