Evernote is complicating Calendars? [April 2024 Update]
Evernote rolled out an update today — with the ability to create calendar events.
That’s not bad.
But the caveat is, it will be only stored inside Evernote. In other words, Evernote will get a built-in calendar that will not sync with your Google or Microsoft Calendar.
So, you’ll get an Evernote Calendar. You can create an event inside it. But you can’t create an event on your Google Calendar (or Microsoft Calendar).
Why?
If I can’t sync calendars between two platforms, what is the purpose of it?
It has 1 good purpose.
Now I can create notes and attach them to the calendar.
To do that, I need to create an event. And I don’t want this event to be reflected in my scheduling calendar (Google Calendar).
Here comes the new Evernote Calendar to the rescue.
Check the below two screenshots.
Now I can pin a note in the Calendar. (time block). This will give me more context.
This makes Evernote 1 step more powerful and 1 step more complicated.
Why still I couldn’t edit events (from my Google Calendar) inside Evernote?
Why can’t I still create an event in Google Calendar through Evernote?
I hope this will be possible in future.
For now, Evernote added a layer of complication to a normal/average user. For advanced users (1% ?), this could be a powerful future.
For journaling, the created time is already there in the note.
This could help if someone is using ‘time blocking’ inside Evernote.
This will also help connect notes with time (instead of ‘tags’) and make it visible in the calendar.
Does this have any other use case?
