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Evernote App for ChromeBook Evernote for Android is a full-featured app that was designed for a wide variety devices, screens and form-factors. The decision to make one of the first native Chromebook Apps is just a natural extension of the product line. For Chrome OS, the Evernote team adapted the app to work with a keyboard and mouse. Get organized and productive with the leading note-taking app. Download Evernote for Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android and create your free account.

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Evernote's missionis to help individuals and groups remember everything, turn ideas intoaction, and work effortlessly together. Their Android app gives people the toolsthey need to get organized, take and save notes, and collaborate with others.

Whenever Evernote sees a major new platform on the horizon, they set a goal tomake sure Evernote is available from day one! Seeing the opportunity with GooglePlay available on Chrome OS, they decided to bring their app to the platform.

Want to save a new note to Evernote without using the Evernote Web Clipper? Perhaps you've thought of something you'd like to remember, or want to copy something from an app you have open in Chrome. Just set up this Zap, and you can type that text into Zapier's Chrome extension and have it saved as a new note in Evernote automatically. Evernote works as a freemium note-taking service compatible with many device form factors and operating systems, from availability on Windows, macOS, and Linux, to an app available on the App Store and the Google Play Store.

What they did

Evernote focuses on making one app available on multiple platforms and formfactors, so they used Chrome OS as an opportunity to improve the developmentprocesses for Evernote as a whole. They spent some time making their code moremodular to make the Evernote app not only great on mobile devices but also onlarger form factors. There were specific features that Evernote took advantageof on Chrome OS.

Evernote translates handwriting into text, and were very excited to use the newlow latency stylus API to quickly implement touchscreen handwriting.Google's API renders strokes very quickly by allowing apps to bypass parts ofthe OS and draw directly to the display. The user experiences no latency, so itfeels like they're actually drawing on paper. According to Evernote, peoplecan't stop drawing because it's so fast, natural and smooth. It even pushed theEvernote team to level up on what their handwriting feature could be capable ofdoing.

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Since the keyboard experience on Chrome OS is different than a mobile keyboardexperience, the team added keyboard shortcuts so people could quickly make anote. They also had to carefully consider how they wanted their toolbar to workon both mobile form factors and the larger Chromebook form factor, so they madesome adjustments to make it more modular going forward. Additionally, they madesure the navigation supported their app hierarchy without the presence of a Backbutton.

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Evernote also had fun thinking through the opportunity a touchscreen provided.May Allen, product manager of Evernote, commented:

“This was such an interesting project because it wasn't just about optimizingfor the keyboard, it was optimizing for the touchscreen. That is what is soawesome about Chromebook is it has both of those physical properties.”

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Evernote has received positive feedback from users about their Chrome OSexperience, and finds they're spending more time on the platform than theaverage app user. The average Evernote user is spending 3x more time on largescreen devices' and 4x more time when using the Google Pixelbook.

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