Mystery Solved: Evernote’s Pricing Model

The Evernote blog has an article up about quotas – thus, I can finally stop guessing about how pricing for the next Evernote version might work.

The main point: Monthly Upload allowance of 40 MB.

Each month, you get another 40MB. And note: deleting items doesn’t reclaim any space. However, for many users that amount of space will go a long ways:

You’d be surprised how much 40MB gets you in Evernote terms. Here’s a rough estimate:

Typed notes: 20,000

Ink notes: 10,000

Web clips: 2,750

Mobile snapshots: 400

Audio notes: 40

Details to come later about premium subscription pricing. You can always check where you’re at from the Evernote clients. For instance, using the Windows client just go to File –> Account Properties:

Wonder which is the typo: The blog post says up to 2,750 web clips. That dialog says 270.

I suspect I’ll be staying in the free range for the near term. I mainly use Evernote for text notes and blog related research. I’d use it for much more, but I’m still wrestling with the lack of checkbox manipulation via the web interface. I gotta have my checkboxes!

I’m almost exactly one year into my “GTD with OneNote” process. I was thinking that this new version of Evernote might help me migrate from OneNote, but so far it hasn’t clicked for me for that sort of usage. (and while writing that last sentence I just had a lightbulb go off… ). That being said, if I was to switch to Linux or Mac, I’d make it work for me somehow.

Side note: I have 7 Evernote beta invites if you’d like to try it out. Just leave a comment and use your real email address (no need to put it in the comment, I’ll find it).

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