Evernote Becoming A “Global Platform For Human Memory”

The company is making tech news today for a $20 million round of venture funding from Sequoia Capital. Evernote has earned 5 million users worldwide in less than two and a half years (up from 4 million mid-August 2010). They still have over $9 million raised last year, and promise:

We’ll build more features, fix more bugs, add more devices, expand into more countries, and make Evernote indispensable to more types of users (including corporate and educational folk).

I was an Evernote subscriber from the start. Early on I didn’t really get it. Preoccupied with the photo-to-text transcription feature, audio notes and snapshot notes, I initially missed the simplicity of notes in notebooks. Slowly I became an avid fan and today may be a power user. I swear by it!

The ad supported feemium model is beyond adequate for most users. It allows you to upload 40 megabytes a month and attach a limited number of file types to notes. I never hit the limit in over a year of heavy use. I upgraded early this year to the premium version. It costs $5 a month, or $45 a year, and increases the quota to 500 megabytes monthly, removes the ads, allows attaching any file type, and adds other features.

An introduction to The New Evernote from an Evernote YouTube channel: