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Evernote for iPhone Hits 2.0

April 1st, 2009

Evernote for iPhone gets its first major update in a few months, and it was well worth the wait. The latest release (version 2.0) introduces landscape support, thumbnail view, Favorites sorting, speed improvements, and lots of other enhancements. Update/install the latest from the App Store.

Landscaping

Evernote now supports landscape orientation for many of its application screens. This is particularly useful when creating or editing a note, as it brings up the spacious landscape keyboard.

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Thumbnail view

Turn your iPhone on its side when in Notes View to launch thumbnails. This side-scrolling view is great for quickly scanning through your notes. Tap on a note to access it, or hold your finger on a note to get a quick zoom.

thumbnail view

Sort your favorites

Evernote for iPhone now lets you change the order of your favorites. Go to Favorites, tap Edit, then press on the three horizontal lines on the right side of the note. When you do this, the note pops out, letting you move it to any position you like.

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Embedded browser

There’s now an embedded browser within the app. Whenever you click on a link in a note, the browser will launch right inside of Evernote. This makes viewing web pages, and returning to your notes when you’re done, a whole lot faster and easier.

Lots of other improvements

In addition to the big things, we’ve also made a number of smaller (but no less important) enhancements

The application loads quicker
A nip here, a tuck there and the UI just became much more polished
Attaching a photo to a note is way speedier
Note geo-tagging is much more accurate
Improved support for favorites, including access to attached files

As always, we recommend giving you’re iPhone a cleansing reboot after upgrading to the new version of Evernote. Call us superstitious, but that just seems to make it work much smoother.

iPhone 3.0

Like many of you iPhone fans out there, we’re very excited about the recent iPhone 3.0 news. We have lots of ideas for ways to take full advantage of all the new capabilities. Stay tuned.

87 Comments

DaNy
April 7, 2009
2:40 am

Thank you guys. Great app for my iphone.

Ross
April 7, 2009
1:13 pm

Does anyone know of an app like Evernote that works on 3.0 beta? I hate to switch, but I need something that works on the beta

Maggy
April 8, 2009
4:40 am

This is awesome I love evernote on my iPhone

Maggy

marnix
April 9, 2009
1:39 am

makes me want to buy a iPhone and throw away my blackberry

Sam
April 9, 2009
12:32 pm

How do I open Individual Notes for Viewing…this is frustrating me…

Shirley
April 9, 2009
8:41 pm

This just sounds so neat it almost makes me cry! The reason for that is that my phone is Sprint’s Instinct (which I like fine … but iPhone gets all the goodies). I needed to go with Sprint because it’s the only carrier that has a decent signal where I live.

I’ve been an Evernote addict for several years and can’t live without it. If only I had a really practical way to use it on my phone, my life would be complete.

Noel99
April 11, 2009
11:46 am

Is the a linux version? Thanks

Andrewsteave
April 13, 2009
4:58 am

Thank you evernote, its really awesome, it seems really nice, and the landscape orientation and the embedded browsers are some of good features. Evernote is the best applications for i-phones.

Fischer-Price Rainforest Jumperoo
April 13, 2009
6:33 am

Oh man – and yet another reason to get an iPhone…

Scott B.
April 14, 2009
8:32 am

Thanks for the update! Like the landscape function. Have some friends who would like it on the BB.

Bakersfield Bankruptcy Attorney
April 14, 2009
1:43 pm

Man this thing gets better and better. I agree, the landscape is just sick. the whole unit is just SLEEK. lovin it

Arthur
April 14, 2009
2:47 pm

This application is fantastic, thank you for the update.

Is there any way to set favorites from the desktop or web apps? That would be really useful.

krabbe
April 15, 2009
2:39 am

I love evernote, but there are still some problems with syncing to iPhone.
The single-view of notes I created on my mac doesn’t work for me. Only headline and a blank white page come up after sync on iPhone.
I’m on iPhone OSX 2.2 with jailbreak…

Kris
April 16, 2009
1:58 pm

Where is our BlackBerry client? We have a larger install base than the iPhone, dammit!

Mickey
April 22, 2009
9:42 am

I would love to see Evernote as a Blackberry App. Several of my friends have iPhones and use Evernote. I just cannot give up my Blackberry.

Larry
April 24, 2009
8:41 am

I am also having the blank note problem on my iPhone evernote client. Notes sync across my Macs, syncing in Evernote on the phone updates the thumbnails but EVERY note is blank when I open them.

Not very useful in this mode. Appears to be a looking problem, any word from Dev?

Prescott Hardcastle
April 27, 2009
8:21 pm

I love Evernote for the PC. I am glad to see it will replace several apps that I am currently using each day

doug hemphill
April 27, 2009
10:21 pm

Oh, I would love this new iphone. I wish it wasn’t exclusive to ATT.

Jared
April 28, 2009
12:02 pm

Awesome Thanks for the info

Sean
April 29, 2009
2:38 pm

This is nice!! Now if we can get it for the Blackberry too!!

altrenda
April 30, 2009
10:25 am

Still waiting for the Android client. I have stopped using evernote and have found other solutions, but miss some evernote features.

jshoreman
April 30, 2009
11:40 am

The iphone has almost become as useful as a computer, with the range of apps you can get and the growing number of websites you can visit on an iphone.

AJ
May 6, 2009
1:32 pm

Love this app.
Would LOVE to be able to add TO DO list items on the iphone.

Michael Morgan
May 8, 2009
11:20 am

+1 for Blackberry!

Alex
May 9, 2009
8:34 pm

The landscape orientation is a really great improvement.

Michael G
May 11, 2009
3:12 pm

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!

Alan
May 11, 2009
8:01 pm

Yes, Evernote is a great app. My biggest wish is that it has the option to keep the notes on the iPhone — cached — instead of requiring a live connection. I’ve tried using “favorites” but it’s 1) cumbersome because each note must be edited, and 2) it doesn’t always work in offline mode.

Recently, I needed a note while flying and, later, at a location without cell service. So I was SOL.

Thanks.

Negro
May 12, 2009
7:22 am

Sounds great… thanks guys!!!

Todd
May 12, 2009
1:23 pm

I too would love for the notes to be saved locally to my iPhone, so I can access them without a cell/wifi connection.

Any update on this? Is this possible to do now?

Thanks

Maskus
May 12, 2009
9:23 pm

Good job!

Just a little idea: It will be great if you include a bookmarklet for Safari in Iphone, so we can save pages or text while we are surfing with the iPhone.

The current version of Evernote for iphone it’s useful only to check what i saved while i was surfing with my desktop.

Greets

Evan
May 12, 2009
10:15 pm

Don’t take programming time away from your great product to support Blackberry. Evernote is just perfect on iPhone. A blackberry version of your good software will simply prolong the death spiral of the legacy Blackberry platform, and will encourage Blackberry users to annoy their IT departments with further requests to support RIM’s crappy Enterprise Server software. The sooner that thing dies, the better. No apps = cut off Blackberry’s air supply.

Meanwhile, I love Evernote. I tell everyone about it, except the benighted who do not have an iPhone yet

Warai
May 14, 2009
7:32 pm

Having the same problem as several other users. The thumbnails update listing all of my notes but I cannot view any of them. After opening them it merely displays a blank white page. Any clue why this would be happening?

Warai
May 14, 2009
7:38 pm

If you are having troubles with notes just being blank when you open them try what I did. Uninstall Evernote, turn your iPhone/iPod Touch off and then on again (don’t just respring) and then reinstall the app. It is now working perfectly for me. Amazing app.

Mike
May 15, 2009
5:36 am

First of all congratulations on a great product suite. I do think you guys may be missing out on a revenue opportunity though. I can’t imagine I’ll need enough bandwidth to justify paying for a premium account (never say never though!). I would, however, pay for a much, much better iPhone app. That would mean the ability to cache all or some of my notebooks to my iPhone. There are plenty of occasions when i have no or limited connectivity and where this is essential. Security on the iPhone needs to be improved too. The regular logon is a little cumbersome on such a small device and again, doesn’t work at all if there is no connectivity. Much better to have an iPhone pin in place. Styling could be improved too.

Robert
May 30, 2009
10:44 pm

Evernote is such a wonderful idea/program. However, I am having a problem integrating the “saving” function into my use of it on my iphone. By that, I mean that I use evernote on my iphone exclusively for quick voice notes (because I am very verbal and also trying to type a note into the iphone is like trying to get in your car with a coat hanger–big fingers maybe). And when I am holding on to a thought I appear to be too preoccupied to be able save the notes through the illogical steps the Evernote program requires(stop>save>save(again for naming). Is there any way to bypass this (i.e. simply through a “preference” option) such that when I hit “stop” it saves the note . . period. For this I would pay $100, without it for me Evernote is more than useless as I am losing valuable information. Can this be done through any current settings? I pray so!!!

Andrew Sinkov
May 31, 2009
10:54 am

@Robert We’ll be improving that functionality. Stay tuned.

Stephen
September 20, 2009
1:36 pm

Painfully Slow then Crash then slow then crash the slow then FAIL

Adding a camera roll note does not allow for tile or tagging it just dumps straight into sync and then painfully Slow then Crash then slow then crash the slow then FAIL

Am I the only one? Am I missing something?

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