Comments on: Evernote for Mac just got a lot better!

By: Dave Fox

Dave Fox — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:54:13 +0000

I’ll switch when I can import my Yojimbo library AND encrypt entire notes as I can in Yojimbo.

Accessing encrypted notes from mobile/web would be nice but not considered essential for me. But i’m not used to using mobile/web currently (as a Yojibo user) so I guess I might want this once i’m used to using Evernote.

I, like many other I imagine, have passwords, card numbers and whatnot in Yojimbo and find that useful and would not give it up for the way that Evernote handles this. To my mind, not being able to encrypt a whole note, and show the note as encrypted with a lock symbol against it in the list, makes Evernote an inferior product.

I’ll check back here and await the good news.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:31:13 +0000

As a recent convert to Mac, a colleague recommended EverNote as a replacement for OneNote. I have to tell you that, for the most part, I’m very impressed!

I will second comments from Milko D. Georgiev, though. The ability to annotate notes is of high value. Please consider highlights, comments, whatever for future versions.

By: reubenontherock

reubenontherock — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:31:26 +0000

Looking forward to your developing a MAC version for Tiger. Hope it’s soon!

By: blade444

blade444 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:55:53 +0000

Encryption and decryption on the Web and Iphone platforms are essential. Since one of the main utilizations of this program concept is the ability to have access to all your information that requires access, in different and mobile locations, this severly restricts this goal. This program is superb, but how can it be taken seriously if one’s sensitive, financial, password or other private information is not accessible across all the platforms. Please make this a priority.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:58:07 +0000

I really like Evernote! Add encryption and the ability to import my considerable Yojimbo database, and I’m there. The iPhone / desktop / web syncing is the killer feature in Evernote for me. However, without the import I can’t switch. Without the encryption I won’t switch.

By: kati42

kati42 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:44:30 +0000

I’m a windows user (I need a tablet and am not interested in hacks)… I absolutely need PDF support in my notetaking. I’m an academic and when researching (or reviewing papers) want to full-text-search my PDF files. Right now I have to use two different programs, one to take notes about the file and the other to search full-text. I’m afraid If Evernote supported PDF full-text search for Windows, I’d buy it immediately…

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:33:20 +0000

Mixed view modes do not work for me at all. Nothing ever quite fits when there are 3 panes visible in a window. Please revert to the way it was before!

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By: anaglyph

anaglyph — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:22:26 +0000

I just installed Evernote on my Mac under the latest flavour of Leopard and I notice immediately two things that don’t appear to work – Evernote (the app) fails to load as a Login item (ie, I have to load it manually – it won’t boot automatically at startup) and I don’t see any ‘Clipper’ icon in my menu bar, even though I have ‘Show Evernote Clipper in the Menu Bar’ checked in the prefs.

Do you have a place for reporting bugs with the beta?

By: marcus krueger

marcus krueger — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:46:04 +0000

Hi there,

I like the idea of having ONE place for all my notes very much. The greatest weakness of Evernote is getting stuff into the app. I want to clip from any application and anything I can select, i.e images, selected objects, text snippets, and entire documents. And still the source of my clipping has to be recorded automatically. If I select a text snippet from NettNewsWire, the clipping should have the info of the URL of the blog entry or the URL of the site I was clipping from. Date et al. would be nice, too
So far Yojimbo is my main repository for collecting notes and images and I am not convinced of switching.

By: a.Shustov

a.Shustov — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:11:00 +0000

Good but what about Windows client?

By: Marko

Marko — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:21:51 +0000

Sounds like Tara’s having a bad day. Personally I like Evernote a lot.

I agree with those who have asked for the ability to make bulleted/numbered lists, and I would love to be able to create tables in notes.

And for some reason Evernote refuses to remember my password.

Keep up the good work! I look forward to further refinements in Evernote.

By: Tara

Tara — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:00:18 +0000

You have got to be kidding me. These clowns are seriously touting Evernote as a potentially credible, cross-platform clip manager and they can’t even scrounge together a cross-platform Firefox add-on!? Now I’ve seen it all.

Evernote for Mac is incredibly terrible at the moment. I have no idea why the Evernote gang touts this as an actual OS X beta when 90% of the time hardly anything worth mentioning works. A beta should not be this inconsistent.

Yet another case of crud-ware stemming from cross-platform development. Evernote, Jack (clipper) of all trades (platforms) and master of none. Mac apps that are also developed for Windows are almost always grade-A digital sludge. Developers end up glazing the tool with lowest common denominators of all sorts.

This has to be the shoddiest software snow-job I’ve seen in quite some time. Evernote, Yikes!

By: Ian Bacon

Ian Bacon — Sat, 31 May 2008 05:24:11 +0000

First, thanks for the improvements, much like the new .pdf support. One feature request for pdf—an option to decrease the size of of the pdf as part of the import process. My thinking is that my storage quota will quickly fill and syncing will take some time if I start to import a sizeable number of pdfs in their full size.

One more suggestion, I have used NoteTaker in the past, one feature I enjoyed was the option to have ‘ruled lines’ across the page. This would be nice in EN.

On the topic of clippers, I am using 10.5.2 on my macbook, and am having no trouble with either the Safari clipper or the menu bar clipper (which I use often).

By: Leafcar

Leafcar — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:01:20 +0000

Hi I was wondering if you still have EverNote invites. If you do can you please send me one. I have been looking all over the internet for one. I would really appreciate it.

By: torsten

torsten — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:54:25 +0000

As some of the commenters did mention, I welcome the new ability to integrate pdf´s, but I still experience problems when I use your syncing services:
I work on two macs, but anyone has aother notes stored, despite of the activated sync.
And yes, I´m using the same account…

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:50:05 +0000

Yeah it would be great it it actually worked all the time I have yet to see it show in the menu bar. It has the potential to be a google notebook killer. Just focus on getting it to work properly before releasing it. The update never fixed any of the problems either.

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By: Katerina

Katerina — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:52:05 +0000

Please, pretty please, can you make the next version work on Tiger, not just Leopard. The web version’s great, but I would use it soooo much more if it was a program running on my computer.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:29:06 +0000

Thanks for new features, but can we get some improvements on the basic functionality of the app first, namely getting stuff into Evernote? More specifically, when can we expect a decent clipper for the Mac version? The current Evernote clipper doesn’t work 90% of the time (it rarely shows up in the menu bar despite having the feature activated, and right now it doesn’t even do anything at all), and the part that bugs me the most: it doesn’t copy the semantic HTML or images along with the text. The new PDF feature is only useful if I need a full page. The bookmarklet is not a viable alternative because it’s too slow to fit in a decent work flow. Evernote on Windows works a lot better than the Mac version thanks to the Mozilla clipper, which I think is an unfortunate state of affairs since clipping *is* a major part of Evernote, right? I’d love to get some feedback on that.

By: naor

naor — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:02:54 +0000

great up, and i’ve started to use it regularly. one thing I miss is the ability to annotate images. When i’m working on a web site, or other graphical item the easiest workflow for me is to annotate the screen capture, add my remarks and save it as a note.
Any chance it’ll be supported?

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:39:09 +0000

Great update. Especially printing directly into evernote. Use that a lot for receipts and saving to-read articles from the web.

One feature I’d like is to set the distance between thumbnails in the thumbnail view. If one had only a few pixels distance between them, more information would fit on the screen.

By: Det Ansinn

Det Ansinn — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:29:34 +0000

As a long time Evernote user, I find the lack of a timeband in the MacOS version very frustrating. Will this feature be incorporated in the future?

By: Gabriele

Gabriele — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:02:07 +0000

Hi guys,

Great features! Can I suggest one enhancement on the encryption part: It would be great to encrypt entire notes, especially for encrypting entire PDFs. I realize that I wouldn’t be able to see them in the web-version of evernote but it would bring Evernote quite a bit nearer to replace my Yojimbo!

Cheers,
g.

By: Milko D. Georgiev

Milko D. Georgiev — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:40:56 +0000

As a recent Mac user I’m still looking for a good replacement of Microsoft OneNote. I find your Evernote a good candidate. However, I critically miss the ability to annotate objects in your software – highlight, underline, draw, arrows, etc. – which I find extremely useful in OneNote. Please, take it in consideration as part of the wish list for next releases.
And another thing – it’s good to make server-located notes to be accessible to specific users, not only to be publicly shared. It could be a good collaboration tool too