tobiAI
January 2, 20266 min read

Evernote's AI is "Coming Soon."
We Built It.

Evernote has been promising AI features for years. We got tired of waiting. So we built a productivity app with AI that actually works. Today. Right now.

We Were Evernote Power Users

Before we built Tobi, we were Evernote loyalists. Thousands of notes. Years of meeting documentation, project ideas, web clippings. Evernote was our second brain.

So when they announced AI features were coming, we were hyped. Finally, semantic search that understands what you mean, not just keyword matching. An AI assistant to help make sense of your own knowledge base.

That announcement was in 2023.

It's now 2026. Here's what Evernote's pricing page still says:

Evernote's AI Features (January 2026)

AI EditComing soon
AI Semantic SearchComing soon
AI AssistantComing soon
AI CleanupComing soon

Four AI features. All "coming soon." For $24.99/month on the Advanced plan.

Three years of "coming soon." At some point, that's not a roadmap—it's a broken promise.

So We Built It Ourselves

We stopped waiting. We took everything we wished Evernote had and built it from scratch. Not as a side project. Not as an experiment. As the AI-native productivity app we wanted to use every day.

Here's what we shipped—not "coming soon," but working right now:

Semantic Search That Actually Understands You

The difference between keyword search and semantic search:

Keyword Search

"budget conversation client"

47 results. None relevant.
Tobi AI Search

"that call where we discussed pricing with the agency"

Found it. First result. 2 seconds.

Our search understands that "that call where we discussed pricing with the agency" means the same thing as a note titled "Q3 Partner Call - Budget Review" even though they share almost no keywords.

This isn't magic. It's vector embeddings and semantic similarity. The technology has existed for years. Evernote just... didn't ship it.

An AI Assistant That Knows Your Life

We didn't just bolt a ChatGPT wrapper onto a notes app. We built an AI that understands your entire context:

Ask questions about your notes, tasks, and calendar
Create tasks from natural language instantly
Dump your chaotic thoughts and get organized tasks back
Get warned when you're overloading yourself

Ask: "What did I promise to deliver to the client by end of month?"

It scans your notes, tasks, calendar, and emails—then gives you a straight answer with links to the relevant items. No scrolling. No guessing. No "coming soon."

Brain Dump: Turn Chaos Into Clarity

This is the feature we're most proud of. We call it Brain Dump.

You know that feeling when you have 47 things swirling in your head and you can't think straight? Most apps make you manually sort that into tasks, set due dates, assign priorities. It's exhausting.

With Brain Dump, you just... dump. Stream of consciousness. Total chaos. Whatever's in your head:

need to call the accountant about Q4 taxes also my mom's birthday is coming up that proposal for the new client is due soon buy groceries feeling overwhelmed with everything honestly should probably exercise more reply to that email about the conference thing

Then AI takes over. It parses your chaos into organized, prioritized tasks:

Call accountant about Q4 taxes
TodayHigh
Order birthday gift for mom
This weekHigh
Complete new client proposal
This weekHigh
Buy groceries
TodayLow
Reply to conference email
This weekMedium

It even noticed "feeling overwhelmed" and flags your workload. That's not on Evernote's "coming soon" list. That's not on anyone's list. We invented it.

Oh, and We Charge Less

Evernote Advanced
$24.99/mo
AI "coming soon" (for 3 years)
Tobi Pro
$9/mo
AI working right now

64% less for the features they promised plus features they haven't even thought of yet. And we import your Evernote notes in about 3 minutes.

Stop Waiting. Start Doing.

Look, we respect what Evernote built. For a long time, it was the best option. But the world moved on. AI isn't a nice-to-have anymore—it's the foundation of how productivity tools should work.

Evernote had years to figure this out. They raised prices. They promised AI. They didn't deliver.

We got tired of waiting. So we built it ourselves.

Your move.

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