Evernote CEO sets out hardware ambitions

Note taking app maker Evernote has designs on launching its own branded devices, the company's CEO Phil Libin has revealed.

The company's app allows users to sync and share notes across multiple devices including PCs, smartphones and tablets via the cloud.

During an interview with the IDG News Service, Libin stopped short of explaining what kind of device or hardware the firm is planning to bring to market.

Instead, he said the company's aim is to develop hardware that is "new and magical" and won't necessarily fit into an existing product category.

He also said the firm has no plans to follow Microsoft's lead and manufacture the devices in-house just yet.

"We won't actually do the manufacturing, but we'll do the co-design [with our partners] together," he said.

"Eventually, in a few years three, four, five I think we'll be ready to do something ourselves," he added.

Libin also shed some light on the work Evernote has been doing to assure its 50 million-strong user base in the wake of last month's hack.

In a blog post at the time, the company insisted no data had been accessed, changed or lost as a result of the attack, although the perpetrators did gain access to some usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords.

As a result, the company is planning to introduce two-factor authentication to its login procedures in the near future, as well as some other unspecified security features in a bid to win back users who may have deserted the platform as a result.

"People who were regular users all just came right back in, but people who maybe hadn't logged in a few months, some of those haven't come back in yet," he explained.