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
Patrick
Great job. Thanks for the update. Evernote is my trusted personal information organizer!
Emily
Awesome. Thanks especially for filling the sync only over WiFi request!
mdotbb
Well-done! And your post was so good it made me come to the blog to give you a shout.
Caprica
Huzzah!!!! – finally local storage of notes is on its way
btw. If you are looking for a kick ass feature to add, how about back end server conversion of documents, like word documents, pdf documents, power points etc to evernote notes. that way I could take any material with me and read it where ever I am and I would not suffer from the perils of the apaling pdf reader in my itouch or the lack of a word / ppt reader. (I know this is probably too much to wish for – but it has to be almost as useful as a flashlight feature you have promised us)
Dan
Any updates for Windows Mobile?
Evan
My heros.
Judi Sohn
Was the new version pulled? Am I the only one who is still seeing version 1.0.1/July 15, 2008 as the latest in the App Store?
maique
great, thanks for the update…
Graham
Awesome
But just really want the local storage and perhaps a view of all the notebooks, instead of all notes
Robert
Fantastic work! I can now use Evernote as my note synchroniser
flo
but editing notes on iphone isn’t full featured?
it says that i can’t edit note, cause there are images and or formatations in the note. when will that be fixed?
I’m an administrator and i would like to use evernote on my mac and iphone as a ticket, task AND knowhow library. specially for tasks and my little knowhow articles i would like to add screenshots and so on.
if i have a note with an image in it i can’t edit it on my iphone, i’m just able to add text, but can’t see the old text in the note
cheers, flo.
Vinod
Thank you!
Please consider adding offline storage of ALL the synced notes on the iPhone – perhaps in the future updates.
Thanks again.
Ricardo Figueira
Great brilliant job!!! The “sync only over wi-fi” made you my heros! When you get the local storage of notes working I’ll commend you for a Nobel!
Blake
I wish there was a way to make task lists on the iPhone with Evernote (with check boxes)
nesman89
how about better editing on the windows mobile platform. it’s a bit clunky to say the least. I do loves me some evernote though
Ziru
Sync is good, and I especially like the sync-only-over-wifi support. However, as Vonod pointed out, missing offline storage definitely prevents me from using it. I bet I will be very frustrated by no access to my notes when the wireless network is not good or even not available. In brief, I will wait until the next release drops.
Thanks.
Henry
This is just great. I still need the notes to be slightly magnified, and line breaks converted to paragraph, or br tags when in the desktop or web app (so it displays as I entered it on the iPhone).
Otherwise, thanks for getting to these things so fast!
Marinucci
Really, really need to have a notebook view so that I can see all my notes arranged in each notebook instead of all of them just appearing in a single view.
Christian
Fantastic!!! Evernote is progressing at wonderful pace! Keep up the great work and I look forward to having local storage on my iPhone!
avrum68
Wow!
One suggestion – allow us to edit “to do” list functions on iPhone.
X2 for: “Please consider adding offline storage of ALL the synced notes on the iPhone – perhaps in the future updates.”
Joe
Great features. When are the rest of us with Windows Mobile gonna see these features? I use evernote heavily and these features are what I would love to see.
Capo
Sweet indeed. Evernote rocks my tiny little touchscreen world!
Jeff
I think the only reason why local caching/storage of notes wasn’t added is that images (which would comprise a huge percentage of people’s notes, I would think…) could add up to a crazy amount of MBs. Still, I would really prefer for Evernote to take the place of OmniFocus on my iPhone
Mike Puchol
One more vote for offline storage – I need to be able to access my notes quickly, and over EDGE or GPRS, this can take forever. When this is added, I will buy a subscription. Otherwise, keep going, you rock!
Walt Basil
Great update folks! A bunch of welcome changes. Like others have said too, great post! Came here just to comment after reading about it over Twitter and NetNewsWire. But also like others, I still can’t use it as my main note-taker until I see that local storage like the Mac version.
I’m really looking forward to the next version! Keep up the great work.
John
Another vote for offline storage! This is sespecially important for iPod Touch users who don’t have always on networks!
Ryan Imel
Loving the update. Upping the audio limit to 5 minutes is awesome, I’m loving that. I’d ask if you had plans for transcribing audio in the future, but I’m sure you do
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I look forward to future updates. Thanks for updating and explaining things on this blog, as well as the hints at where you’re going next. Much appreciated.
Tim McCarthy
It would be very nice if in addition to offering to append plain text to a rich text note, it would offer to just strip out the formatting and convert the note wholesale.
Add that, let me make the font a wee bit bigger, and add offline storage and the iPhone version will be perfect.
Thanks!
Ken
A suggestion if not included, it’ll be excellent if the notes can be emailed to someone.
Also, this has been suggested but offline note storage will be great.
Ken
Sorry – to be clear email existing notes from iphone.
Mar
great! nearly time to “poof” apples notes.app. but first evernote needs local storage (perhaps for text notes only). and to choose list-view instead of thumbnail-view. keep on!
physio
Thanks for the great update. Evernote kicks butt!
I use the Jott integration but even so I would like to see Evernote convert my iPhone voice notes to text. Is this in the works?
Charlie Uniman
As of 8/13/08 I haven’t had the update appear on my 3g iPhone. What do I do to obtain the update?
Kevin
Thanks for the updates. I love your program and I love it even more that I can access it from my iPhone.
Peter
Great stuff – a quick fix to make the iPhone version wonderful. Thanks guys
Shyam
This app is cool. I use it on my 3G iPhone. One great feature would be the ability to email notes from the Evernotes iPhone application. Hope we see it in one of the future releases.
nesman89
notebooks would be awesome
Beth
Adding to my wish list:
editing to dos so I can check the danged things off when I’m on the go AND offline storage so I can see them when I’m in places without WiFi (say, the local hospital, which surprisingly has no WiFi).
ridim
please include screen rotation in the next update
PLEASE!
thanks for a great product
avrum68
“editing to dos so I can check the danged things off”
So, so important.
Henning
Evernote for the iPhone has now become useful! Great stuff.
Henning
BTW, to all of you that use more than one notebook: why? Tags are much more powerful than notebooks. The only reason I’d use one is to keep some notes on a machine instead of on the Evernote server. I moved all my notes into one notebook and started using tags exclusively, and the experience is much better.
Dave Tavener
Echoing the sentiment on offline storage. I didn’t realize it didn’t exist until I tried to read my grocery list in the store and my touch couldn’t connect to anything! At the very least, please let us tag notes to be stored locally. Just text notes would be fine with me, but probably not everyone.
Thanks!
Vilalao
I sure would like to see 2 things on the iphone client:
- having my notes locally on the iphone everytime (so i could see and edit while without net access);
- a pause button on the voice recording, so i can pause and then resume recording.
That would be really a major improvement on the client.
But hey it’s looking good !!!
Cheers
V.
Nizam
1. For those who have the 500 mb/monthly limit, is it possible to increase the 5 min recording time? Perhaps like 1 hour or something (having the option to control audio quality, lower quality = longer recording time).
2. Local storage would be AMAZING. I’m so happy you guys are working on that.
3. Indexing Audio Notes (is that even possible?)
4. Having Columns within the notes. (Left for notes, right for tasks or something).
5. TELL APPLE TO MAKE AN IPHONE BLUETOOTH KEYBOARD…that would be amazing, LOL.
I love evernote, awesome program.
Nizam
Chris Mahon
and…..another vote for offline storage. Yes, our notes databases might be big, but guess what, I’ve got an eight gigabyte iPhone! (and I don’t think my notes are much over 2MB)
Tim Jeffries
Great update, thanks!
I too would love offline storage. Our 3G coverage can be pretty poor at times so accessing notes at those moments is a problem.
Thanks again.
ridim
please put in screen rotation in the app and also local storage would be AWESOME..
great work guys!
Rich
Wow, you can edit text? And the web clipping WAY out-complicates making a bookmark. Will wonders ever cease?
Really, what am I missing here?
Jason Kelly
Hey best app ever made! One thing I wish would be made and the one thing keeping me from buying a full account is the ability to save notes to iphone. Many times I do not have wifi but need to remember a note. Or I am out of coverage and wanted to check something. I realize that saving all the notes would take up a whole lot of space. But if you could select which ones you would like to save to memory that would be so useful!