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August 27, 2026
Work over here, life over there
Harbor now has workspaces: group notebooks into views, flip between them, and the sidebar, search, tasks, tags and trash all follow. It’s a filter over what you see — and we’re clear about what it isn’t.
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August 25, 2026
Is Evernote still worth it in 2026? An honest review
Evernote in 2026 is a good product with a hard commercial edge: the entry plan caps you at 1,000 notes, and the uncapped one is $249.99 a year. We counted 500 recent reviews to find out who is still happy with it — and who is not.
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August 24, 2026
Fold it
Collapsible outlines are in Harbor: fold a bullet, fold a heading, hide the section you’re not working on. The fold lives in the note, so it follows you to every device.
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August 19, 2026
What Bending Spoons did to Evernote: a timeline, with data
A dated, sourced timeline of everything Bending Spoons has done to Evernote since 2022, and an analysis of the 500 most recent App Store reviews that shows what users are actually angry about. It is not what most people assume.
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August 17, 2026
We timed a 1,158-note migration into Harbor
How long an Evernote-format import into Harbor actually takes, measured twice with a stopwatch: what came across, what did not, and why an attachment-heavy library behaves completely differently from a text-heavy one.
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August 11, 2026
Evernote pricing in 2026: every plan, and ten years of price increases
Evernote costs $99 or $249.99 a year, and the $99 plan stops at 1,000 notes. Here’s what every plan limits, which one you’d actually need, and every price change back to 2016.
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August 11, 2026
How to export your Evernote notes: the complete guide
A complete, tested guide to getting your notes out of Evernote: the export steps, the 100-note limit and its workarounds, the free CLI that exports everything at once, and an honest list of what ENEX does not carry.
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August 10, 2026
Thank you, teachers — Harbor is $35 a year
A thank-you to teachers, and a standing offer to go with it: Harbor Unlimited for $35 a year, good for five years. Email us from your school address and we’ll send a code. Students get the same price, a year at a time.
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August 6, 2026
A second brain and a second set of hands
How and where you use your notes is your call. Here’s what that looks like when your coding agent can both write to your second brain and read from it.
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August 1, 2026
Harbor is here
The doors are open. Harbor launches on Mac, Windows, the web, and the Web Clipper — private by design, exportable forever, and never held hostage. Here’s everything that’s live today.
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July 11, 2026
Our price promise
The Harbor price promise, written down in public: $9.99 a month or $99 a year, locked for three years, capped after that, never held hostage.
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July 4, 2026
Bring your own AI
Why Harbor ships no built-in AI, and how the open API, the harbor CLI, an agent skill, and MCP let the AI you already trust work your notes.
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