Evernote AI Transcription limit increase + excluding space notes from search

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The transcription feature is one of Evernote's most popular. Lots of folk use it and its very good, but since it was introduced the size limit on files has been around 30MB which works out at around 30 minutes of audio.

This limit has now been increased.

You can now transcribe up to 1 hour / 100MB of audio and video in one go which will certainly help if you're transcribing meeting. For longer meetings maybe record externally and split.

This means the audio or video must be a maximum of 100MB and no longer than 1 hour.

If the audio or video file is over 100MB the transcribe button won't show and if it’s over an hour, you'll see an error when you try and transcribe.

These are the current file formats that work with the transcription feature:

Audio: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, MPGA, WEBM

Video: MP4, MOV, MPEG

Images: JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP (Max image resolution on mobile is 9216 pixels)

You can read the official announcement here.

Excluding notes in an Evernote space from search

This isn't new but it's not well documented and could be useful to some folk.

You can use space:spacename in the search box to perform advanced searches.

I can't see this search being used a lot as when you click on a space and perform a search it defaults to that space but, we can use -space:spacename to exclude anything in a space.

We can also use -space:* to exclude notes in any space from the search.

This makes it a bit more useful especially if you use a space as some sort of archive or collection area.

I have a Collection Space where I keep notebooks related to receipts, expenses and other day to day archive information.

If I run a search for Evernote then I see all the notes in the receipt’s notebook that's in the space which are notes I may not want to see.

I could run the search as Evernote -space:* and then all the receipts would not be included in the search results.

This may be useful for filtering out the noise.

Another quick tip. You can also exclude notes in a space from the main Notes list by using the sorting option at the top.

And one more quick one. When you view all Notebooks you can also exclude any notebooks in a space from the view.

Do use exclude spaces or notebooks from searches? Let me know in the comments.

Taming the Trunk Live Calls

Every month paid subscribers can jump on a live call and we held the first one last week.

We recapped what has happened in the Evernote world over the last month and looked forward to what’s happening soon.

The only issue was that I don't pay Google enough to record meetings which I found out once the meeting had started. So unfortunately, no recording this month.

Next month I'm switching to Zoho Meeting which I pay for and have been using for years. The meeting link will be sent to paid subscribers a few days before the session.

I've also created an iCal file for all the meeting which is available to paid subscribers on the Live Calls page.

As always, let me know if you have any questions.

Have a great weekend

All the best

Jon