After five years of incremental updates, Evernote has unveiled version 11—a comprehensive overhaul that positions the veteran productivity platform at the forefront of AI-powered note-taking. The release introduces three intelligent features designed to revolutionize how millions of users capture, organize, and retrieve information in their digital workspace.
A Strategic Evolution in Productivity Software
Evernote v11 represents the culmination of two years of intensive development under Bending Spoons’ ownership. Since acquiring the platform in 2024, the company has shipped over 250 feature updates and improvements, with particular emphasis on synchronization speed and system reliability. This major release signals Evernote’s commitment to remaining competitive in an increasingly crowded productivity app market where AI integration has become essential.
The development process centered on user experience research, incorporating insights from hundreds of customer interviews and collaborative workshops. This user-centric approach ensures the new AI capabilities align with real-world workflows rather than adding complexity for complexity’s sake.
“Evernote has been part of people’s lives for years, often decades,” said Federico Simionato, product lead at Evernote. “We designed v11’s AI features to make people’s everyday needs of capturing, organizing and retrieving information in Evernote more intuitive and efficient than ever.”
Three AI Features Reshaping Note-Taking Workflows
AI Assistant: Conversational Intelligence for Your Digital Workspace
Developed in partnership with OpenAI, the AI Assistant introduces a chat-based interface that transforms how users interact with their notes, tasks, and calendar. Rather than manually searching through archives, users can now ask natural-language questions to summarize content, surface relevant information, or even search the web for supplementary insights. This feature streamlines research and knowledge management workflows significantly.
Semantic Search: Finding Information the Way You Think
One of the most requested enhancements, Semantic Search eliminates the frustration of keyword-dependent searches. Using advanced natural language processing, this feature understands the intent behind queries, retrieving relevant notes and details even when exact phrases don’t match. For users managing extensive note libraries, this represents a fundamental improvement in information accessibility and productivity optimization.
AI Meeting Notes: Automated Documentation for Collaborative Work
AI Meeting Notes addresses one of modern work’s most time-consuming tasks: capturing meeting details. The feature records, transcribes, and summarizes both in-person and virtual meetings directly within Evernote, with multi-speaker recognition capabilities. By automatically generating summaries with actionable items, it allows participants to remain present during discussions while ensuring nothing important slips through the cracks.
Customization and Platform Availability
Recognizing that AI integration should be optional, Evernote v11 allows users to enable or disable individual AI features through updated settings. At launch, AI Assistant functions on Desktop and Web platforms only, while Semantic Search and AI Meeting Notes are accessible across Desktop, Web, and Mobile applications.
Beyond AI: Core Improvements and Brand Refresh
Version 11 extends beyond artificial intelligence features, delivering enhancements to fundamental functions including note editing, content capture, and navigation. The update also introduces a refreshed brand identity with an updated logo and modernized visual language that honors Evernote’s heritage while reflecting its contemporary evolution.
Ready to Experience Smarter Note-Taking?
Evernote v11 is now available to all users. Discover how AI-powered productivity tools can transform your workflow at evernote.com and explore the full capabilities of these innovative features.
About Evernote
Evernote is the leading productivity app designed to help people capture, organize, and act on their ideas. Used by millions worldwide, Evernote brings notes, tasks, documents, and schedules together in one flexible workspace, making it easier to stay focused and productive across devices.
Learn more at evernote.com.
About Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons acquires and transforms digital businesses. It owns Brightcove, Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, StreamYard, WeTransfer, Vimeo and many others. The company’s products have served more than a billion people, with over 400 million monthly active users and 10 million paying customers, including most Fortune 500 enterprises. Learn more at bendingspoons.com.
