In general, I think the system works best with completed materials (a PDF explaining best practices to new-hires, for example) or notes/materials that the notebook owner is changing and editing. One of the benefits of sharing via Evernote is what you get with the application: easily edited, easily browsed, and ubiquitous access to content. What are other organizations doing? Is Evernote used for more than casual or simple notebook sharing applications? Ideally, I'd like to be able to create a group and share access at the stack level. If we add another person do I have to then re-share all 300 notebooks? One suggested workaround is to abandon the stack level of organization, have very few notebooks, and use tags to organize the notes. With a few hundred notebooks in 3-4 stacks, this verges on unmanageable. From another post I learned that I cannot share the whole stack, but need to share each notebook separately and enter the email address for each person. I'd like to organize notebooks into stacks and share these notebooks with a small group of 4-5 people. What concerns me is what I think is Evernote's limited ability to manage sharing for many notebooks and multiple users.
“It’s really seen as an opportunity to see what’s it’s like to be a part of everything here.How practical is it for a small business to use Evernote as a document sharing platform? We're using dropbox now for much of this, but I can see many advantages of using the front end features of the Mac client of Evernote to create documents. “We are trying to play to startups outside of Silicon Valley,” he said. The idea, says Needleman, is to tap people from as far afield as they can, with hackathons held in Tokyo, Singapore, Zurich, and Mexico City as some of the feeders and then to use a taste of life in the tech mecca as another way to reel them in. While accelerators have become quite ubiquitous in the world of startups, what’s unique about this one is how Evernote proposes to source candidates. These will result in specific prizes in mobile and transport. The API for Honda’s in-car system will also be in the mix, and the Docomo influence will mean that there will be a strong mobile element too. While Needleman said Evernote was open about what possibilities there could be for potential apps to run on the Evernote platform, he also directed attention to the two co-sponsors of the accelerator. Then there will be a Silicon Valley-style demo day in November. The curriculum, it says, will begin in October 2013 with mentorship and development. Participants will be chosen from among the winners of the 2013 Evernote Devcup, a multi-regional event Evernote holds to encourage more people to use its APIs. Evernote eventually bought the IP to create the service we know today. “We expect great Evernote products and that will make this a success for our users.” He does add, though, that part of the advantage of startups or independent developers coming into the Evernote ecosystem could also involve making introductions to others who might become backers.īut even if there may not be direct VC-style investment on the part of Evernote, there may be investment in another form: Evernote Food, one of the company’s standalone apps, was first developed during one of Evernote’s hackathons, Needleman points out. We don’t need to take a financial stake for them to be a success,” said Rafe Needleman, the ex-tech journalist who moved to Evernote as a platform advocate last year and is helping run the accelerator. The best possible outcome is a successful Evernote product. “At the moment we don’t see the need to fund them. The move is a step ahead for Evernote in its strategy to build out its business beyond its own-branded products and into a wider platform for others developing productivity services: the company today already sees 6 billion API calls per day, but most of those come from Evernote apps themselves.Įvernote, Honda Silicon Valley Lab and Docomo Innovation Ventures will be providing participants with workspace, living space, mentorship from Evernote engineers, marketing and a living stipend, but the program will stop short of investing directly. Productivity app Evernote today is announcing that it is teaming up with Honda and the Japanese mobile carrier Docomo to launch the Evernote Accelerator, a month-long mentorship program based at Evernote’s HQ in Redwood City for developers and small startups from around the world that are making apps using Evernote’s APIs.