As a tool for productivity, Penultimate aspires to be a critical part of your creative and note-taking workflow. Penultimate 3.3 is a huge update that adds high-quality integration with popular services Dropbox and Evernote, as well as new features to help you move your data around your iPad more easily. 

Dropbox is a popular free service that facilitates the sharing, syncing, and backup of files across your computers and devices, storing your data safely in the cloud. Penultimate now lets you send notebooks and pages up to your Dropbox, so you can share with collaborators, store for later, or anything else. You can import (copy) from Dropbox any notebook file you have access to. But that’s not all! We’ve also added a dead-simple optional automatic backup system: if you don’t back up your individual notebooks regularly, simply switch it on, and always have a full set of your notebooks and papers saved in your Dropbox in case disaster strikes. 

Evernote is another free service that keeps your data in the cloud, but with a very different focus: Evernote is great for collecting and searching through lots of data from different sources. And here’s what makes it really great: Evernote is really good at handwriting recognition. So when you send notebooks and pages to Evernote, you can go to Evernote’s web site or iPad app, and search through your handwritten notes! This is very powerful, and a really natural fit for Penultimate users. It’s so natural that we built a super-simple way to sign up for Evernote right into the app so you can give it a try. Just push the “Link With Evernote Account” button in settings, and tap “Create Account”. They have a snazzy iPad app, too for viewing and searching, too; check it out.

We’re extremely proud of these two integrations. It’s all very easy to use with a high quality user interface, and designed for your workflow: if you send revisions of the same notebook to either service, you’ll even be offered the chance to replace the one that’s already there with the new version. 

There are a few more new features that can help you shuttle your data around. Penultimate now supports the iPad-wide “Open In” function, so you can open your Penultimate notebooks and pages (as PDFs and PNGs, respectively) in other iPad apps that support them. You can also use the system-wide clipboard to copy images into Penultimate (like from Safari), and paste Penultimate ink into other apps.

Finally, 안녕하세요 and 您好! Penultimate is now fully localized into Korean and (simplified) Chinese, so we welcome those users.

Happy New Year everyone, and enjoy!

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