Evernote for Mac just got a lot better!
May 11th, 2008
Evernote for Mac version 1.1 just came out, and it’s full of the most requested features and improvements.
PDF Support
You asked for it and now it’s here: Evernote supports PDF files! You can now drag a PDF into an open note, onto the dock icon, or into a notebook. You can also combine multiple PDFs, text, and images in a single note. Notes with PDFs will get synced like any other notes (unless you specifically put them into a local-only notebook, of course), so you can access them from any computer or device capable of viewing a PDF. The Mac version will even search the text within PDF notes.
You can also “print” right into Evernote from any Mac application, just go to the File>Print menu, push the PDF button, and select “Save PDF to Evernote.” A fully-formatted copy of your web page or document will automatically be added to Evernote. This works great with Safari, Firefox, iWork, MS Office, whatever. Try it with this blog post!
Our image-recognition technology won’t work on images within PDFs yet, and the Windows and Web clients will currently display PDFs as attachments, and will not automatically search within them. We’re working on it…
Spotlight
Evernote is now fully integrated with Spotlight. Now, you can search through all of your files and all of your memories in one place. You can also make Finder “smart folders” that include Evernote content. Just set the “kind” drop down to “other” and type “Evernote” into the field that opens up. Neat!
New “Mixed View” Mode
Evernote for the Mac now has three views: List, Mixed, and Thumbnail. The new “mixed view” mode shows you a single column of small thumbnails and metadata for each note. Now there’s a view that’s perfect for any set of notes, monitor sizes, and user styles. Try them out and find the one the works best for you.
Vertical Preview Pane
The Mixed and and Thumbnail views now offer a resizable and collapsable vertical preview pane on the right.
The currently selected note is displayed in the preview pane and is fully editable, scrollable, and shows live search results. If you have the screen real estate, try opening the preview pane to a generous size and you’ll never need to leave your favorite viewing mode again. Hitting “New Note” in Thumbnail or Mixed view will no longer force you into List view. You can still open a note in a separate window by double clicking on it. Of course, if the preview pane is taking up too much room, just drag it closed and it’ll stay that way.
The List mode keeps the preview pane on the bottom of the screen to accommodate more horizontal columns in the list.
Encryption
Ok, technically we rolled this out in the last build, but for some reason the announcement fell through the cracks, so let’s pretend that encryption is a brand new feature. Just select any portion of text in a note, right-click on it, and select “Encrypt Selected Text.” If you haven’t selected a password yet, you’ll be prompted to do so. To decrypt text, just click on it. Notes with encrypted text can be synced just like any other notes, and are fully interoperable between the Mac and Windows clients; you can encrypt stuff on a PC at work and decrypt it on your Mac at home, or vice-versa.
There’s currently no way to decrypt stuff on our web or mobile versions. You’ll see that a note has encrypted information, and you’ll be able to see any unencrypted content, but you won’t be able to decrypt it yet. We do this because we don’t ever want you to transmit your password over the network and we never want to see it on our servers. There are ways we could work around this restriction, but they’re not trivial to implement so we just haven’t had the time to work on them. We’ll get to it sooner or later, but in the meantime just keep your secret spy stuff to the Mac and Windows versions.
Don’t forget your encryption password! We never see it or store it anywhere on the service, so if you lose it, you won’t be able to decrypt your secrets. Seriously.
Bug Fixes
Version 1.1 also has many bug fixes and stability improvements: you can now drag-n-drop images, text, html, and supported audio into a note, thumbnails look better, and everything is just a bit smoother. Of course, this is still beta software, so if you find any bugs or issues, please send them to us.
If you’re already using the Mac client, just select “Check for Upgrades” from the “Evernote” menu to upgrade to version 1.1. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can always get the latest version here. If you need an Evernote account, just sign up.
Thanks to everyone who’s tested our Mac client. It may be the newest addition to the Evernote software lineup, but it’s really starting to look pretty good. Keep the comments coming!
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Love the Ninja Warrior reference!
May 13th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Would be interested in trying this out…
May 14th, 2008 at 5:39 am
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May 15th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I I have versio 2.2.1 386 and just discovered the encryption ability, and the useful way it re-encrypts in the current session after decryption. I thought Evernote was one of my most useful programs before, and now I consider it to be number one in daily use. I use it every day, and I think it should be standard software on all computers. Any plans for a Linux version? Thank you. BR
May 15th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Wow, great new features. Thanks for the PDF support. May I suggest two new features: More formating options like bullet points etc. and support for attachments in general. e.g. drag an excel file into a note and it get attached to this note.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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
May 17th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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.
May 17th, 2008 at 2:02 am
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?
May 19th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:39 am
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?
May 21st, 2008 at 3:02 am
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.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:29 am
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.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 am
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May 22nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
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…
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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).
May 30th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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!
May 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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.
June 1st, 2008 at 5:21 am
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 am
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.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 am
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?
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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June 5th, 2008 at 1:47 am
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!
June 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
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…
June 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
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.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:58 am