Will Evernote Add Backlinks in 2021?

Roam, Obsidian and Notion all have backlink abilities…

This last month, I spoke with now Evernote CEO Ian Small — this turned out to be a super interesting conversation about how Evernote aims to chase back up to the pack in their own unique way.

📺 You can watch this full conversation here:

One of the biggest things on my mind was around when Evernote will be releasing new features. Cutting a long story short, Evernote’s Ian shared that they aim to add a major new feature every quarter, so with my excellent maths skills that makes 4 major features a year.

Ian called them “boulders” — which is an Evernote team’s internal name for a major release — that he thinks will change the way people view Evernote.

Apparently, this will not included features smaller, like coloured highlights, essentially his rule of thumb is anything press worthy are boulders.

Roadblocks

• Evernote have been quiet for 18 months due to re-building
• These new efforts included major overhaul of their platform architecture
• Revised approaches to their cloud accessibility
• Most importantly this has paused Evernote’s feature releases
• With their only major release being a new look for iOS editions
• Bug fixes will be easier, fix it once, fix it everywhere

🗞 What’s coming?

Ian didn’t allude to what’s coming officially, but he did state a few things:

• Evernote are aware that they’ve not been innovating
• They haven’t shipped things for personal Evernote users
• A few years ago the personal productivity space was tired
• They don’t want to chase after Roam or Notion in terms of features
• Evernote want to become the…