Let’s just cut to the chase. You asked, and we made it happen:
- I want to edit notes right on the iPhone: DONE
- Give me more audio recording time: YOU GOT IT
- Make image and audio uploads faster: IT’S 4X FASTER NOW
- Let me choose to have notes sync only over WiFi: OKIE DOKIE
- Ugh, the first line of my text notes gets cut off: FIXED
- Integrate a flashlight application: UM, NO
Get Evernote for iPhone version 1.2 or check for updates on your iPhone / iPod Touch.
Editing existing notes
With the latest Evernote for iPhone release, you can edit existing plain text notes; append text to notes that contain images, audio, or other rich content; and change tags or notebooks for existing notes –all directly on the iPhone.
To edit a note, open it and click on the new Edit Note icon in the lower right corner.
Shiny new audio recorder
The audio recorder is completely redesigned, making it significantly more user friendly and intuitive. We increased the maximum recording time to 5 minutes, added a level meter, gave it some nice thumb-friendly buttons, and made the whole thing a lot easier to use.
Note upload options
We learned that some of our users pay a hefty price for cellular data transfers. Since we’re in the business of improving your memory, not emptying your wallet, we’ve added the option to choose whether notes are sync’d over cellular networks or only when connected to WiFi. This setting is located in the Account screen.
Faster uploads
We’ve significantly improved our image and audio compression, which translates into uploads that are nearly 4X faster than in previous versions.
Other improvements and fixes
- Take a call or quit the application without losing your work
- Note list automatically displays any newly created notes
- Fixed a bunch of “Pending note” issues
Thanks everyone for the great feedback. Please keep the ideas and suggestions coming. Now that we’ve got the 1.2 release out, we’re rolling up our sleeves and getting started on the biggest task: letting you have local storage of notes right on your iPhone. Stay tuned.
83 Comments
Willem
I’m loving this! Thing I love most is that it doesn’t have a flashlight application. Great job!
judd
Love it. but please– oh please — give us local storage of notes
Craig
I’m loving this program so far. I’m not going to love it so much when I’m out of a service area. Note storage on the iPhone would make this app absolutely perfect.
Keep up the amazing work.
crinau
I am not alone in requesting this – please consider adding offline storage of ALL the synced notes on the iPhone we don’t have 3G/data access in my area and can only use WIFI at home.
Brian Pirie
This looks promising!
The biggest things that are holding me back are:
1. It doesn’t remember notes for when I’m away from a network (I have an iPod Touch), which is much of the time. If I can’t see my notes, it’s rather pointless.
2. As soon as a note has any formatting, it’s existing content cannot be edited again. In the worst case, even if there were a way to discard the formatting to be able to edit it, that would at least make it usable.
Once those basics are taken care of, the next enhancement I’d suggest is the ability to quickly sketch ink notes on the touch screen. If you could have ink notes on the Mac client also, then we’d have a killer app here!
BKNY
I have to second the following feature request:
Please consider adding offline storage of ALL the synced notes on the iPhone
I can’t comprehend why the ability to simply edit and snyc notes and have synced notes available for edit COMPLETELY OFFLINE WITHOUT ANY TYPE OF INTERNET CONNECTION WHATSOEVER is not #1 on the list of features to implement. What if I’m in Europe and I don’t have an edge/wifi connection available? The application will be unusable in that case to look up my stored notes. The only notes solution I can currently use is putting notes in Things for Iphone.
If this feature was implemented, this would be a brilliant app and I would pay for it.
Thanks
BKNY
Somehow I missed that you were already working on local storage of synced notes so my previous post just doesn’t apply.
Maureen
wish list:
local storage!
web capture on iphone safari! (or has anyone found a work-around?)
Platron
Adding my vote: Offline access please.
chris
offline storage.(A Button) Sow i can choose witch Notes evernote downloads to my Iphone…
Stephen Skarlatos
Offline selective note store would make this a killer app, until then the networks make a fine application unreliable to count on.
Shaun
Just like the last few comments – need offline storage. Thought I had found the perfect app but realised it is useless to me without offline storage capacity.
Rafi
Really looking for offline storage to download notes from the cloud. I had difficulty to access online note when I was in the overseas. It would need me to roam my cellular data which I prefer not to.
Rich note editor and to do list with check box will be a great feature to add…
great job guys..
Jeremy
Evernote for the iPhone is a great start but it won’t be complete until you add offline/ local storage. I need to be able to access my notes even if I don’t have network access. Thanks for making great software.
newtdark
local storage on iphone/ipodtouch would be great, that’s all i have to say for now. evernote = a lovely app tho
might start using it over journler sometime soon.
Fred Stefanowicz
Is there a way to add a “to-do” checkbox directly from the iPhone? I know how to do it from the desktop, but can’t find the functionality in the iPhone App. Thenks
Jaime Cham
And yet another vote for offline access. To me the very point of creating these notes (as opposed to surfing the web for them or accessing one’s email account) is to be able to access them when out of range or roaming.
Would be nice to hear something back from Evernote on this (such as “we’re working on it”, “never” or “in version X”).
Oleg R
One more vote for offline access! and this iPhone note taking application will be absolutely perfect.
You don’t always get reception/wifi/etc plus maybe will want to work with notes on the airplane or abroad…
Have notes cashed/pre-loaded into the internal memory will make it perfect.
As an example – before going abroad i places all the places i want to visit into Evernote… and did not get roaming data (was not supported) – all the notes got locked on your servers and I had to run around to look for internet cafe…
DBinSD
Local note storage is a must – I have an iPod Touch, and currently I can’t access my notes unless I’m on WiFi. Your program is totally worth paying for with local storage, really not worth having on my device at all without it. For me (and hell, this *is* all about me) Evernote does what Notes on the Touch *should* do – sync notes between my Touch and the rest of my machines. But without local storage, I’m can only access the information when I have WiFi – which means I’m at work or home…which means I can use the machines that have the information on them in the first place to get the information, instead of looking at it on a tiny screen.
That said, I’m willing to bet $100 Apple is preventing Evernote from having local storage because that would “duplicate the functionality of the Notes feature,” (although it doesn’t). I’m willing to bet another $100 that Evernote isn’t even allowed to say that because the developer agreement prevents them from explaining to all of us that Apple is jerking them around.
I love my iPod Touch, but I loathe Apple.
Tsunami78
First and foremost, GREAT APP. Thank you for all of the hard work you guys have already put in. This is by far the best note app to date on the iPhone. That said, below are a few things I think would even further enhance the application:
1) Another vote for offline storage/editing/creation
2) Email Notes (as attachments)
3) A Pause button for audio recording.
4) Improved text recognition. I try to use it a often, but it’s just not there yet.
5) Speech recognition for voicenotes.
6) To-Do lists
Overall, this is a GREAT application. With the addition of the features above, I don’t see why anyone would want another note application for the iphone. That said, I would like to see some additional features built into the Mac client for evernote, but that’s beyond the scope of this article.
Thanks again for the excellent application.
Tsunami78
Quick followup to my previous post.
I don’t know if this is currently in place, but I really would like the ability to encrypt notes transmitted from the iphone.
Moore
I’d like to second Fred Stefanowicz.
Creating to-do-lists on the fly is really important so it would be great to see this function on the i-phone app. Cheers
Nechama
I’m probably missing something. The other day, I entered a long list into a new note on my iphone. I switched to my calendar for a moment, planning to resume work on my list after switching back to Evernote. However, I hadn’t saved the new note. When I switched back, the new note I had been working on was gone, along with all the information I had entered. Is there any way to temporarily save the contents on the iphone as one types, and before one saves the note to the website? Many apps save information even when one is using another app (map saves my location, many games save my progress in the game, etc.). Thanks.
Andrew Sinkov
@Nechama Notes that are created on the iPhone can be edited from the iPhone later. So, we recommend that you save the note, exit Evernote, then open and edit that same note later.
Jerry
Can I use evernote to transfer inotes from my iphone to a new iphone 3g. I want to transfer existing notes in the notes of the iphone. Can I copy them into evernote? It looks like you have to start with evernote, and that it will not copy notes from the iphone that are pre-existing.
ad
I would like to record 60 minute lectures with evernote. Voicenote seems to have 5 min limit. Am i correct?
Also it seems possible to record a voice note in airplane mode but not possible to play it back (because internet connection is needed). that true?
Micah
I need functionality like MS OneNote’s or Apple iNotes’ voice lecture recording that matches the point in the recorded lecture to the part of the notes that correspond to that part.
This would be incredible.
~Micah
Albert
Please explain how to edit and add new notes to my Iphone
Jonathan Dueck
Ink notes on the iPhone, please! This would be a _major_ boon. (And editable ink notes on the Mac.)
Al
I have sent an Email to my Evernote email address from my iPhone and in fact the email shows up in my Evernote on the iPhone
but
the email has Word Document attached and after trying a bunch of things I cannot find a way to View the attached document in EVERNOTE
Any tips or guidence greatly appreciatted
Ken
Al: I’ve been having the same problem with Word Docs. I think you can only upload Word Docs if you have a premium account.
Andrew Sinkov
That’s correct. Free users can attached text, images, audio, and PDFs. Premium users can attach any file type.
John Tanner
Hi,
I know this blog is about iPhone but I have Evernote on an Android and I can’t see how to Edit a note.
Any help would be most welcome as I want to suggest this product to two companies I’m working with but need to make sure anyone in the group can access and edit a note. Preferably add an audio message to a note.
John