Evernote meets iPhone
April 29th, 2008
We are huge (HUGE) fans of the Apple iPhone. While the current Evernote mobile web interface works well on iPhones, it’s just not the same as having an application that’s tailored to the device.
Today, we’re unveiling the new Evernote iPhone web interface at:
http://www.evernote.com/iphone
We’re still testing and improving it, but we didn’t want to wait to give you access
In creating the Evernote iPhone web interface, we were able to rethink our mobile user experience. Whereas
our standard mobile web application allows users to find notes by performing text searches, the iPhone version adds the ability quickly filter notes by navigating through lists of tags, notebooks, and note attributes to construct complex searches without typing. We think users are really going to like the ability to search and filter on their phone just as they can on the web or desktop applications.
One challenge we faced when designing the iPhone web interface was how to deal with large, complex notes. We decided that although the iPhone UI makes it easy to zoom and pan a web page, for Evernote the best experience should be more like reading email. Also, as in the standard mobile web version, we scale all the images on our servers, so you don’t have to download your 12MP images to your phone’s small screen. In addition to being able to email and delete notes, you can also zoom into a note, which will open it up in a separate browser tab with the full size images.
We know you’re going to ask, so here are the answers to some questions:
- Yes, we will begin auto-detecting iPhones soon. For now, iPhone users will need to go to the URL above
- You can use the two-finger gesture to pan around large images
Posted by Philip Constantinou at 3:15 pm in Product updates
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Why why why? Okay, so the iPhone may be pretty good, but, Pocket PC’s have had big touch screens for years and this design (if it weren’t quite so AJAX) would work amazing (and be a massive improvement interface-wise) for the millions of people who have and love their PPCs….please say you’re gonna make a custom Pocket PC version to take advantage of the big touch screens on these devices
June 17th, 2008 at 1:13 am
I would like to edit my (plain text) notes on the iPhone as well.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I WILL BUY NEW VERSION OF iphone only because of EVERNOTE THAT i use to enjoy for years
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 am
You have GOT to get notes editing on the iphone app. Really a deal-killer. the local copy kind of kills it too. cant a brother edit a text document on an airplane that’s synced somewhere else?
July 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I agree, please introduce notes editing on the iPhone. This should be one of the core capabilities of the app!
July 20th, 2008 at 9:54 pm