As some of you may already know, Evernote is changing their pricing policies for the Basic account. Come August, if you’re an existing Basic account user, your notes will only be synced on 2 devices unless you upgrade to their Plus and Premium accounts. Here’s an excerpt from their email which I received a couple of weeks back.
At Evernote, we are committed not only to making you as productive as you can be, but also to running our business in as transparent a way as possible. We’re making a change to our Basic service, and it’s important that you know about it.
In the coming weeks, Evernote Basic accounts will be limited to two devices, such as a computer and phone, two computers, or a phone and a tablet. You are currently over this limit, but will have at least 30 days to adjust. Plus and Premium accounts will continue to support access from an unlimited number of devices.
Being a long time light Evernote user, I’ve always managed to kept myself well within the Basic account constraints (upload limit etc), but it appears that they’re really pushing basic users like us to start paying for their service. One workaround that I’ve discovered is that you’re still able to Share entire notebooks with another user with no penalty on the device syncing counter.
While I used to sync my notes between my work and personal laptops with a single account, I’ve now signed up for an Evernote account using my work email and shared my notebook with this account instead. Everything still works like it should with the exception that you’ll need to click “Refresh” note if it detects that the notes are out of sync. Updates on this note will also be synced upstream to your original note.
It probably won’t be long before Evernote decides that notes sharing should also be part of the paid tier pricing, but for now this works just fine for me.