As a basic or plus user, you will have access to three widgets. You’ll find one that will give you quick access to any recently added notes. You’ll also see the notes Evernote thinks you’ll want to go back to, even if you haven’t visited them in a while. The two other basic widgets act as a notepad where you can quickly write down lost thoughts and a place where Evernote will collect all of your recently saved web clips, images, documents, audio files and emails.
In the meantime, as a premium or corporate subscriber, you’ll find four additional widgets with more advanced functionality. In addition to a place for notes, you will find one dedicated to your notebooks. Like its counterpart, it will highlight your recent notebooks, as well as those that Evernote thinks you might want to revisit. You will also find a single pinned note. As Evernote points out, this is a practical way to maintain a continuous list of pending tasks. Two more widgets provide easy access to frequently used tags and shortcuts, making it easier to navigate the application.
In addition, premium and business users can customize the panel by rearranging and removing any of the included widgets, as well as resizing them as they see fit. They will also have the option of adding a custom background, either one that they themselves have loaded or chosen from one of the preloaded options.
Evernote plans to release the Home update for Mac, Windows and web users in the coming weeks. The feature will arrive on iOS and Android devices at a later date.