We just released a new version of Evernote for Mac (version 1.3), brimming with more-features-and-less-bugs goodness. Here are the highlights:
New Safari Clipper
Evernote for Mac now has a speedy clipper built right into Safari 3 and 4. Activate it from the “Clipping” tab in the Evernote preferences window and you’ll see a handsome new elephant button in your Safari toolbar. You can do three things with the Safari clipper:
- Select a portion of a website (text and images), then click the elephant to make a new note with your selected text and images.
- Click the elephant with nothing selected to clip the full contents of the web page.
- Shift-click the elephant with nothing selected to make a nicely-formatted PDF of the current web page and send it to Evernote. Use this option if you want to preserve the formatting on a complex page.
You can also configure the Safari clipper to show your new note, allowing you to quickly tag and edit, or just let it run inconspicuously in the background, so you can go on browsing and clipping uninterrupted.
Quick tip: you can easily find all your web clips by browsing to “Attributes->Source->Web page” in the left-hand navigation panel.
Safari 4 Support
Apple’s new Safari 4 beta browser is pretty sweet, unfortunately installing it caused some problems in Evernote, including a number of note editing issues and intermittent cursor jumpiness when searching through notes. This should all be fixed now. However, Safari 4 is still in beta, so other issues may crop up in the future. As always, please let our sleep-deprived support team know about any problems.
Growl Notifications
Evernote now ships with Growl, which lets you configure background notifications for several types of events like clipping, synchronization and file attachments. You’ll also be notified when new images have been fully indexed. Your Evernote situational awareness has never been better!
Merge Notes
You can now select two or more notes from any view, right-click, and select “Merge Notes” from the menu. Guess what happens?! Your selected notes get combined into one longer note. This is great for tying a bunch of stray thoughts into a coherent narrative, or putting someone’s business card right under their picture. Your original notes will automatically go into the Trash, so you can fish them out if you made a mistake.
Promo Box
Keep your eye on the box in the lower left-hand corner. We’ll display tips, messages from Evernote and (eventually) promotions. We’ll try to make this useful to everyone, but Premium subscribers can always turn it off.
More Configurable Preferences
The Evernote Preferences window has been expanded and improved to give you more customization options to make Evernote conform to your every whim. Total whim conformation not guaranteed.
Many Bug Fixes and Usability Tweaks
Evernote for the Mac is now faster, more stable and just plain better.
We hope you enjoy it. Lots of other improvements are coming soon. Thanks for helping us improve Evernote!
128 Comments
Andre
How do I remove Evernote and Growl, it’s usability sucks and Growl is choking my internet connection?
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
cnicolaou
Hi,
I just want to remove the clipper in Safari 4, i tried deleting the keys in safari plist, what else can i do? nothing seems to work
Andrew Sinkov
@cnicolaou Open Evernote preferences and uncheck the “Use Safari clipper” option.
AndreP
Good product, ruined by a silly, intrusive parody of ‘marketing’. Deinstalled from three machines here.
Goodbye!
xo0r
please remove the ad!!!!!!!
Jay
Wow. Seriously. One little ad in the lower, left-hand corner and you’re complaining? I mean, I see more ridiculous ads browsing the web then I do with Evernote.
It’s FREE software. FREE. Someone had to design this, develop it and run the servers to keep all your content available. If you don’t like the service that Evernote provides, just don’t use it. Complaining about how they are trying to KEEP this FREE SERVICE running is just rude.
Safari 4 with Leopard doesn’t fix the clipping issue, just FYI.
PeterVk
I downloaded Evernote, played with it for a bit – and then deleted it. Now I cannot get the elephant out of the toolbar. What’s going on here? I customize toolbar, right click and remove item – nothing works. Feel like Safari’s been hacked. Not cool.
niklas
I have nothing more to say than this:
I love Evernote. Love it.
It has totally changed the way i work with text and ideas.
Thanks man.
Maxwell
I’ve been searching Evernote.com (and the web) for specific instructions of how to uninstall the complete Evernote package for Mac OS X 10.5 (the Desktop app, the browser clippers, and whatever else it may install). Evernote support has not responded and I’ve found only bits and pieces elsewhere. If anyone here can help I would be grateful for a complete set of instructions. Thanks.
Maxwell
Never got an answer here but did find this:
http://www.otanistudio.com/journal/2009/11/13/uninstalling-evernote-os-x-snow-leopard/
Joel McIntosh
I wish you guys would figure out a way that the Safari clipper wouldn’t kill 1Password. Surely, you and Agile Solutions could get together and resolve this.
Josh Freeman
I agree. I use Evernote and 1Password and love both of them. Can’t they get along?
Stan James
Also cannot figure out how to remove Evernote from Safari. It puts it’s fingers into everything with no way to clean up the mess.
nikulis
i installed the update but now everytime i try and open it it gives me an evernote quit unexpectedly window. help!!!!!!
Andrew Sinkov
@nikulis Please contact our support team with your issue: http://s.evernote.com/support
ATA
Hello, is it possible to use Evernote with Safari for Windows? can’t find the clipper download anywhere. Thanks
Quiknote
@ATA
Yes, there is a bookmarklet that you can drag to Safari’s Bookmarks Bar. I have it, but I’ve never used it, so I can’t say offhand how well it works. I use the bookmarklet mainly with Opera, and I’ve never had any problems there. It’s rather a nice feature.
http://www.addtoany.com/services/evernote_button
Since Safari now supports extensions, I don’t see why there isn’t an Evernote clipper for Safari for Windows. Then again, extension support for SW is nonexistent. Most developers seem to assume that people with Windows wouldn’t want Safari; that it’s mainly a Mac browser.
Although I don’t agree with that. I love SW to death.
Paul
I find the product just a bit too invasive compared to other things I own.
I think it’s pretty audacious to invade Safari an icon without asking my permission,
and only asking when I explicitly launched Evernote.
And to the guy who’s defending the ads – the ads suck. It’s FREE software, … THAT”S the justification? Hey, if I like something enough I’ll buy it. The more ads, the less I want it. I run from pushy spammy software where people are trying too hard to coerce or business out of me.
Andrew Sinkov
Paul, you can remove the Safari extension by unchecking the option in the Evernote for Mac preferences.
About 98% of the ads that you see promote either features within Evernote that users may not be aware of or complementary products that enhance your Evernote experience. I would hardly call that pushy or spammy.
paul d
Crashed firefox all the time, couldn’t get the swing of it. Wanted to love it.
; )
jimbob
February 2011. Evernote Clipper still bumps other toolbar buttons from Safari, now in version 5. Nearly 1-1/2 years after this bug was reported. The main victim? My 1Password button. Guess which one I want most, and which software I’ll be uninstalling? (Hint: Starts with an ‘E’.) Learn to listen to your feedback, dudes.
shaitana7
I liked the Evernote interface, but the inability to edit some notes (rich text) is a no-go for me. Too bad, seems to be a pretty good programa and service, otherwise.
Joe Woelich
Is there any possible way to prevent the Safari Evernote clipper button from hopping positions every dang time I start up the browser? I have 4 extensions installed, 3 of which have buttons; 1password, evernote, adblock plus and flashblock. Evernote is the -only- one that does this. I see all sorts of entries in console log about inserting itself, yet I see no other entries for other extensions. What gives?
emma
How exactly do I get the evernote button on there in the first place?