Evernote is known for its flexible suite of note taking cloud software, but now the company is looking to hardware as its next evolution. CEO Phil Libin told IDG that his company won’t create hardware internally at first, but with partners.

Evernote partnered with Moleskin earlier this year to create the “Smart Notebook,” so the California-based company’s certainly no stranger to working with other companies.

My only concern is do we need a separate piece of hardware just to take notes, when we have Samsung producing tablets and phablets with S-Pen and Evernote? Then we also have all the Evernote apps on ipad and iPhones and all other tech equipment. Seems shortsighted too me, but I could be wrong.