Comments on: Evernote for Windows Update

By: hate ads

hate ads — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:11:09 +0000

I just “upgraded” and see that you ruined Evernote by showing ads. I considered paying for a premium account, but when I saw the ridiculous $45/year price tag I bailed. $5/year and I would have bought it. Oh well, I’ll just find something else that doesn’t annoy me with ads.

By: Andrew Sinkov

Andrew Sinkov — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:48:49 +0000

John,
The standard Windows uninstall procedure should work: Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Evernote. If you are having problems, I recommend contacting our support team: http://s.evernote.com/support

By: John Q

John Q — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:42:10 +0000

Is it possible to uninstall 3.1 or do you have to do a full os reinstall

By: Luisa Lu

Luisa Lu — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:35:47 +0000

I was an early beta tester before there was image processing. I really needed image processing and was excited to hear that when it became available, though I didn’t have time to check it out then. Now I’m back, I’m very disappointed that local image processing is no longer available. As several people have already said, there are many file I would not be willing to upload to the cloud, such as receipts, one of the primary things I want processed. This is very unfortunate, as I would definitely be willing to pay for an offline version.

By: Neel

Neel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:29:53 +0000

I Love this program, but my main concern is that when i save an email from outlook using the evernote Icon I could just see the message but not the actual attachment this is very important for me please help

Thank you

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:02:25 +0000

I’ve used evernote for a couple of days now and I like it. However, If I was going to use it for personal/private stuff or at work, where I deal with other peoples information, It would have to be an offline only application (with offline image processing).

Thats something I would happily pay for.

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:13:10 +0000

I was going to try evernote out even though I was alittle dubious of the online nature of it.. I want a good desktop app for taking notes locally…

I read about the ads in the desktop version though and I’m completely turned off.. Sorry but i don’t want to look at ads all day.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:13:26 +0000

HERE is what you should do:

Two version. Let us buy one version (one time payment) that will be OFFLINE ONLY -with- local recognition.

Other version can be an ONLINE/OFFLINE -without- local recognition, and MONTHLY subscription.

Otherwise Evernote is doomed. Trust me.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:59:03 +0000

I just discovered Evernote and was excited to download and install it on my Windows box. I was slightly bummed by the ad box, but not a complete deal killer.

No local image processing, however, is a deal killer. I just can’t see uploading receipts and other potentially private data up to the cloud for processing.

Sadly uninstalling.

By: Garry

Garry — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:41:41 +0000

* Merged notes will now maintain any associated attributes
* Better indexing of tags and PDFs
* Improved handing of Outlook file attachments

I think this is great…

But I hate ads, they are really annoying..I will use for work definetely!

Thanks

By: Fenders

Fenders — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:50:01 +0000

As a new user, I’m really bummed about two things. First, in the Windows version, there’s no thumbnail option!!! This makes it completely bulky/unwieldy. Please fix. That should be easy!!

Second – in the iphone app, there’s no way to clip from websites. Please add a browser/search inside the evernote app to resolve this problem.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:25:44 +0000

Regarding the ads …

It seemed like the first version with ads made you close it every time you opened the application, which would have been annoying. Checking it out now, it looks like you only have to close it once. As far as I’m concerned, that’s as good as there being no ads. So now I turn them back on once in a while to make sure I’m not missing something.

By: Amaron

Amaron — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:58:05 +0000

Evernote has turned into FeedDemon.

I don’t like ads in sidebar.

By: LeMel

LeMel — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:24:41 +0000

Hi,

Love this product. But I have to tell you – I DEPEND on local recognition for several uses of Evernote – please bring that back in some form – even limited. I’d planned to add other family members and upgrade to premium, but without local recognition, I have no reason to now. My family project requires it.

Regards,

By: BAM

BAM — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:40:28 +0000

I used the offline image recognition regularly for receipts, which I keep as a local only notebook and don’t want making their way online.

Not so keen on the ad box either, but I guess everyones gotta make a buck.

I’ve gone back to 3.1.1034 for now, if I’m forced to upgrade and there is no local image recognition, I guess that will be it for me and evernote.

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:43:57 +0000

Now this is crazy!
You have comment moderation and yet didn’t moderate Mr. Frederic Ducros jibe at free users in his second comment – “What bunch of cheap b.st.rds”!

What’s the point in moderation then?!

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:38:45 +0000

I don’t mind the ads. But please retain the off-line image recognition option.

By: gbroiles

gbroiles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:01 +0000

Dropping local image processing makes me think Evernote isn’t going to work out for me after all.

I have been meaning to upgrade to Premium because I realize you guys need cash to stay alive – and I don’t mind paying for software.

However, I’m an attorney, and the documents I want to index contain other people’s information, and there’s no way in **** that I’m going to send that to your servers. I’m sure you’re nice people and everything, but there are too many ways something can go wrong.

I am disappointed. I may (or may not, depending on the alternatives I find) use Evernote for personal projects, but for work it just became useless.

It may be that I’m trying to use Evernote in a way that it wasn’t intended to be used – but I don’t see how it’s practical to have people uploading tens or hundreds of megabytes of images to your servers to be indexed. Computing power is cheap enough (and processing can be batched) so I see how that’s plausible, but given your current storage/transfer limits I think image processing locally is the only option for me, privacy/confidentiality issues aside.

By: Gio

Gio — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:50:42 +0000

Like many others have said: removing the local ocr is a big step backwards. I use Evernote only with local notebooks, and I don’t want to send around scans of my bills, receipts, invoices and letters. If you’ll do that I’ll stick with 3.1 and look for alternatives.

By: Matke

Matke — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:29:36 +0000

Throughout the week I struggled with the new EN “features” I was lured into. And all the time I really wanted to leave a post how annoyed I am. Only now, after I had read the comments on this blog entry, I realized how many people complain.

As to ads, your yearly fee for a premium account does not work for me either. Since I am mostly using EN for personal textual notes, I do not need any of the premium features. I am seriously considering going back to One Note. Please come up with a more diversified fee structure.

But the thing that upset me most was the updated merge command that now adds these gray boxes and other stuff. I typically clip paragraphs from the same webpage and merge them together. I cannot believe that you left out the option that controls note merging.

Disappointing.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:40:36 +0000

The fact that I’m a paying subscriber and I have to close the little ad window is awful. That was a really poor decision.

By: Cyber

Cyber — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:37:53 +0000

Ok I’ve been an Evernote user for a long time. I don’t mind you including an ad to support your software but right on top of the tags area??

It’s poorly placed and w/o warning!

Also Evernote has been getting SLOWER AND SLOWER.

It’s becoming more like crippleware lately. Is premium service supposed to be faster?

Also why do you keep dropping features that were common to prior versions? I am still missing 2x features thinking they would come back. I had to carry a thumb drive around back then but at least my notes were MY notes!

Ugh, I’ve had enough, going to look for other note taking software.

Former Evernotes Lover

By: Local Indexing Imperative

Local Indexing Imperative — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:24 +0000

ok, I can live with the ads. I love Evernote, the ad is small, and I’d upgrade if I was still employed.

But no local indexing? What in the world are you thinking?

I certainly won’t put my medical information, business receipts, income tax scans or other similarly sensitive images in the cloud.

Looks like I’m back to MS Onenote 2007.

Was thrilled to switch to Evernote so I could lessen the grip of Microsoft’s tentacles, but waddaya know, Evernote’s even more insidious.

And to bill it as an upgrade worth paying for!

Get a set of brains to match, whydoncha?

By: Matsya

Matsya — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:57:21 +0000

I’m very surprised of the aggressiveness of some people here. If I won’t pay nothing, I could understand that someone tell me to move along, but, it is really not the case. I repeat: I want to pay for a premium account, but I can’t with those ways.

Please, be cool. Everybody here want the succeed of Evernote and be happy to use it in general.

Thanks.

By: garmone

garmone — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:33:58 +0000

I’m also of the mind that the addition of ads to the desktop client is a big step backwards making this a much less appealing service. Granted, I’m speaking only from the standpoint of a user and I recognize that there has to be a way to make money if the service is to continue.

I am a convert from google notebook and will now have to seek out an alternative… too bad.