[UPDATE: Evernote for iPhone 3.2 adds expanded support for offline notes and notebooks. Read all about it »]
The latest release of Evernote for iPhone, version 1.4, introduces our most (MOST) requested feature: offline notes. We call them Favorites, and here’s how they work.
When viewing a note on the iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll see a little gray star in left corner of the note title. Once the note is fully loaded, tap the star and that note instantly becomes a favorite. It’s now quickly accessible any time, even offline. To view your favorites, click on “Favorites” in the tab bar along the bottom of the application.
Great for the iPod Touch
This feature is particularly useful for iPod Touch users. Now you will be able to view selected notes even when outside WiFi range.
Planes, trains, and automobiles
With Favorites, you can access selected notes any time you like, no matter where you find yourself. So, whether you’re heading to the corner deli or to New Delhi, the information you need is always close at hand.
Tips
To help you get the most out of Evernote, we’ve added a little “Tips” tab into the bottom of the New Note screen. New tips will show up all the time, so be sure to check back.
And whole lot faster, too
In addition to the server-side tweaks that we mentioned in the last blog post, we also put significant effort into speeding up the application. So this version of Evernote for iPhone is faster than ever.
Make sure your iPhone is upgraded to the latest firmware from Apple and, as always, it’s a good idea to restart your iPhone after upgrading an app, especially if you have a lot of other apps installed.
Get the latest version of Evernote for iPhone now.
[UPDATE: Evernote for iPhone 3.2 adds expanded support for offline notes and notebooks. Read all about it »]
117 Comments
Joe
Great first step toward a full iPhone client!
This has put Evernote back on my radar for note taking.
As of version 1.4 the app feels like a quick, slick, downloadable web-interface to Evernote, not a standalone client like on windows or mac. For many users, an offline note taking app that happens to sync with Evernote is much more useful than a web-interface with a native UI and a little bit of caching. The optimum interface, at least for me, would be a completely offline app with access to, editing, searching, tagging, etc. on all my notes. Users with larger note collections than I should be able to have the same, as well as to automatically sync certain notebooks from their evernote account to the device.
Can’t wait for 1.5! Keep up the good work
nathan colquhoun
need this for the blackberry.
Brian Pirie
It’s great to see that you’re devoted to making this work for us iPod Touch users. I’ve been trying to use it for about a week now.
The biggest limitation that’s limiting the usefullness of it at this point us that once you edit a note offline, you cannot edit it a second time. What happens is that until it has uploaded your changes to the evernote server, the app on the device still only let’s you loo at the previous version of the note.
James
I also get a bug when using 3G connection on the iphone, that when I try to download some notes, it will come up with a message saying “error communicating with evernote servers” and either only download part of the message or none at all. At first I thought this was just a momentary thing where I may of lost reception, but if I refresh, It wont work! Nothing will work unless I get a wifi connection.
I am a UK user. Any progress made on this fix?
Thanks!
Mark McKay
I like that you can add favorites with the latest version, but what would really make this app killer is if you could edit these favorites offline. Like others have said, I want to be able to continue working on my note offline, not just read them.
Also it would be nice if we could change the color of the screen. I find the yellow of Notes or the black of Text Guru easier on the eyes then the dull grey screen.
Keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see whats next.
Nancy
Pretty please, Blackberry app! Perhaps in the new upcoming Blackberry download store?
João Coutinho
This is the moust important update you could add to the amazing evernote!
John
I second the need for a feature that allows Favorites to be created en masse, and/or via the web interface, and/or via the Mac app. I’ve got many hundreds of notes, and it’s painful to go through them on the iPhone, one by one. In fact, it’s proving almost impossible, as the app quits spontaneously and randomly before I get even halfway through my collection…
Still, Favorites is a good feature… just needs some tweaking.
Stan Scott
Thanks for the new features! Evernote is just great on my iPhone, and this makes it even better. Because I use a PC at work, a Mac at home, and an iPhone everywhere, Evernote is just perfect for keeping all of my information close at hand. Keep up the good work!
David Brake
As a Touch user you’ve only begun to the offline problem. As others have said I would like to be able to specify that all notes are to be available offline. I would also like to be able to sync when I connect my iPod cable to my Mac rather than having to use wireless and I would like to be able to search my notes without being online.
PS A minor point – when I go to edit a favorite which contains no body text I am told “you can’t edit this text on the iPhone because it contains images [etc]…”. Then if I tap anyway I can enter text fine.
Brudnod
I had been using the Treo for some years and the Palm software (that I had used since 1996) was just not keeping up with technology. I upgraded to the iPhone since I use AT&T. Finding Evernote was essential to the transition since no other APP was capable of taking all of my valuable memos from Palm and inputting them to iPhone. Then to find that Evernote is such a robust APP was nothing short of wonderful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Oliver Thylmann
am I missing something? I marked notes that only have a pdf attached as favorite and I still have to lead the pdf each time.
David Brake
When you create a new note while offline it should appear in the list of notes and of favorites automatically so you don’t have to look in the “pending” queue each time to make sure you didn’t miss something. Also, you must be able to edit notes in the “pending” queue!
Roll on software version 1.5…
b
Step in the right direction. For the next update, I suggest an option to have all the notes saved locally on the iphone.
Peter Norman
Offline mode for notes on iPhone is a significant new feature for me. Thank-you!
The OneNote 2007 Import Wizard in the Windows version of Evernote is also an important feature as it allowed me to migrate all my Windows-based OneNote data to my Mac (using Evernote’s premium service to provide sufficient upload/download limits so I could do the Windows-to-EvernoteServer and then the Evernote-Server-to-Mac sync). That really rocks! Hard!
Are there plans to incorporate a landscape keyboard mode into Evernote for iPhone for text entry?
Thanks again!
Gary
Sorry, am I missing something, or are there only certain document formats that will allow off line viewing using “favorites”? I cannot read ANY of my PDF formats off line, and some documents appear fine when viewed on my laptop or iMac, but will not open on mu iPhone…please help to clarify of there are only CERTAIN formats which will permit off-line viewing on the iPhone
Thanks
Gary
Sorry, those “other” documents I referred to above are PNG and JPG documents that open appear fine on my computer but won’t open on the iPhone even though there is a thumb nail image that does appear.
Thx
Titch
Even after the update to 1.5 I can still only view my notes as thumbnails on my iPhone. The only exception to this is Web clipped notes. This is such a promising app and the Desktop application is streets ahead of any other note app, but I’m becoming increasingly frustrated that it’s next to useless on my phone. I am sure I must be missing something obvious. HELP
Phil Libin
Titch,
Looks like a few of our European iPhone users are seeing this problem. It has something to do with the networks there. We’re working on a fix now.
Gary
Based on Titch’s observation above, I used the clipping function in Evernote and the resulting document is available to me via “favorites”in off-line use. This is the only method of document capture that I have found that consistently delivers documents off-line on my domestic 1st generation iPhone.
ACG
Hi,
The application would be good if when you are off-line you can also use the finder. Now when you go to favorites to see the notes off-line you can not search (by tag, words…) as when you are in the notes tap. Is there any way to do so?
Thanks,
Titch
A massive thanks to all at Evernote. The latest update seems to have cured all european iPhone problems I’ve been experiencing.
I love it when a plan comes together!
Jon
would also love to see Evernote on Blackberry. Especially now on my new BB Storm. Wow, would that ever look great! Any possibility of this happening?
haider_up32
We want evernote for the linux and the symbian
daniel
i want all my notes on my iphone – not just a selection. the main feature of this program to me is, that i can look trough al my notes when searching for something. i mean what use is it to know that you have a note and then go “aaahhhhh, i didn’t flag it as a favorite”
Martine
The “Favorites” solution for offline viewing was working perfectly for me until very recently. Now I can’t see my favorite notes when my iPhone is offline. I think this coincided with my installing the latest version of the Evernote Desktop client for the Mac (1.2.1/41192). My iPhone is running the latest version as well (1.5.1)
Any idea how I can fix this? Evernote is useless for me if I can’t access my notes when I’m offline.
toby
Blackberry user sadly pass by
Paul
Yep just another shout out to say Evernote would be perfect for me if i could have all my notes offline and sync’d onto my windows mobile device.
failing that being able to add note on my windows mobile device offline and then sync with my account when i’m back in wifi coverage.
pleeeeeeese.
thanks very much for a great app.
ivana
I don’t know if it’s a bug or it was done intentionally, but I discovered that I cannot see starred note when I go offline if I didn’t reopen it (obviously while still online) after checking the star. Maybe my discovery will suit somebody, as relaying on a note you think you have, just to discover that you don’t can be really annoying.
Vickie
It is difficult to write a new note and view it when not connected to the internet. It has to be uploaded then it can be saved as a favorite. If you could please allow pending to be seen.
NickM
Is there a Blackberry client in the works? I love the Evernote program and have this installed on all of my computers and my Ipod Touch
The mobile page is nice and can be used from the Blackberry, but an actual client would be awesome…
Sherry
I cannot sync between iPhone, Mac and the Evernote website. My Mac and the Evernote website sync just fine, but anything that originates on the iPhone won’t sync with the other two. Help!
snoopbaron
There needs to be a way to make entire notebooks available offline or all notes available offline we want, my iTouch isn’t always online.
Alex
Offline search?
I’m dealing with the fact that I can’t make multiple notes (or simply a notebook?) offline favorites for whatever reason. But I don’t know whether the servers happen to be congested while I try to access it or a bug, but it seems that almost every time I try to do a search (on an otherwise healthy wifi network or over Edge) it just hangs.
Evernote’s a big reason why I gave up my Treo 650 for an iPhone, though every day I teeter between upgrading to premium and finding a more useful solution. Can you please make this more useful as an offline application? Thanks.
melaos
Hi there,
great work so far, and i second that to have this on windows mobile too!!!
plus can you make it editable like the normal windows version? it would be very convenient if we have that too, and you can just sync it back when we go online. that would truly make the evernote mobile awesome!!
thanks!
Michael
Is it possible to make ALL notes Offline by default within he iPhone app, perhaps via the iPhone Preferences? Or can this be done via the Mac OS X version of Evernote?
Thanks!
Brian Miller
Great program. You guys have a great thing going. For this feature, please introduce some automatic feature that by default favorites all of my notes. I use this feature everyday on my touch and forget on occasion to favorite notes. Thanks,
Brian
Abhijeet Pathak
Guys, the Windows Mobile version is useless unless it can store notes offline too… Please add this feature…!!!
Paul Nancarrow
Here’s one more Windows Mobile user begging, *begging* for offline capability for the WM Evernote app. I’ve been trying to use calendar entries and task notes and all sorts of weird things to get notes cross-platform and in the cloud. I thought Evernote would solve that. But without offline note access on my phone, it’s a worse option than my previous kludges.
Daniel Jeon
I need usable Windows Mobile version for offline environment Today, I wanna this~!!
Ashish
Evernote is crashing on update to 1.4.4 version. How can it be fixed? Any help is appreciated.
yo
I want to manage many favorites from desktop application.
It’s a real hassle to have to tap the star of many notes!
Kai
Another voice for Windows Mobile users, we need the offline notes function! I have been a user of evernote for years & even paid for a license for version 2.2. I just felt that WM users are being treated as second class users that we have to beg a simple implementation that was on Iphone for months! I am really fed up…
Benne
Sadly I belog to these people with the “error communicating with the Evernote servers: NSURLErrorDomain (-1003)” problem. Please fix this issue.
I use a german iPhone
Benne
onehali
I just downloaded Evernote for iphone 3gs and I keep getting error communicating with the sever when I try to sign in….any help will be appriciated.
khlrqa
this is stupid,
please allow offline access for ALL notes.
nunca
Why did you disable offline reading of even the favorites? Evernote is useless like that
Steve
Offline print screens that were made on the touch and then selected as favorites do not work offline. Help!!
Lou
I have the latest version of evernote on my iphone and my MBP, yet I cannot read any “favorite” notes offline…am I doing something wrong?
Achim Bursian
PLEASE offer this for WinMobile. It’s by far the most needed capability for me and a lot of colleages. Please!