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Evernote for Mac Update: Supercharged Shortcuts

April 6th, 2009

Attention power users: The latest Evernote for Mac release (version 1.4) introduces a number of usability improvements that make interacting with Evernote significantly faster. In addition to better menus, we’ve also added lots of new keyboard shortcuts for everything from searching to creating new notes to making checkboxes.

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Create a new note any time

Struck by a great idea while in the middle of another program? Just hit the new global New Note shortcut any time and a new note window pops up ready to capture your inspiration.

Global New Note shortcut: CMD+CTRL+N (can be changed in Evernote preferences)

New and improved search shortcuts

Bring up the main Evernote window and place the cursor into global search bar: CMD+Option+F
Perform in-note search: CMD+F
Find next/previous search results: CMD+G/CMD+Shift+G. This will even work for notes containing a mix of recognized text in images and regular text.

searchbar

Other enhancements

New Search menu consolidates all search operations
Increased number of operations that have shortcuts

38 Comments

How To Self Motivate
April 7, 2009
5:18 am

Hope you could develop linux version.I ain’t found out any note-taking application in linux could compare with evernote.
Regards.

Robert
April 7, 2009
6:11 am

A short cut to start new notes – brilliant! All it needs now is to write the notes as I think about them and it’ll be near perfect!

Anant
April 7, 2009
11:51 am

the global new note shortcut is a killer feature! thanks for this! the conversation’s gonna get wild on Friendfeed

Seb
April 7, 2009
11:56 am

The Windows binary runs well using Wine under Linux. Just a few display problems and the Firefox web clipper doesn’t detect Evernote as installed on the computer.

Robert
April 7, 2009
12:25 pm

Wow… very impressed. Especially about adding in note search! Add this on Windows too and you are golden!

Garden Shed
April 7, 2009
5:22 pm

The new note shortcut is brilliant thank you very much I have been doing some research for my Garden Shed blog and evernote saves me hours of time.

Carl
April 8, 2009
5:36 am

This is awesome. Downloading now. Feels like I’ve been living under a rock not knowing about Evernote. Can only imagine how this is going to help with my research.

grog40a
April 10, 2009
8:53 pm

Evernote is awesome!

Phil
April 12, 2009
4:53 pm

More great improvements – thanks! Promise – as an agitator who has been vocal about the advertising in the free version, I promise that once you have a fully functioning app for the Symbian OS I will upgrade to the premium version so that I can extend my usage beyond my iMac and iBook.

Phil – a user since the start

Danny
April 13, 2009
8:18 am

Evernote is awesome downloading now

brock
April 13, 2009
10:54 pm

love the updates and the fact that you’re keeping us low end users in the loop with the ad support.

Leapfrog Explorer Smart Globe
April 14, 2009
6:08 am

Thanks so much for your commitment to developing for us Mac users!

Courtney
April 14, 2009
6:56 am

will the desktop Evernote client ever support Mac OS X 1.4? I tried downloading before realizing that it was only for OS X 1.5 and up, which was pretty devastating!

Thanks for the consideration.

Omega Seamaster Center
April 14, 2009
9:57 am

Awesome. The new note shortcut is extremely handy and I’m planning on using it for my new site Seamaster 300m. Thanks for the great app.

John
April 15, 2009
12:44 pm

I really love the ability to create a new note at any time with the global new note shortcut!

Shirley
April 16, 2009
6:08 am

I downloaded Evernote to my iPhone, only to find that I can’t download the desktop companion version because I only have the Tiger version of Mac OSX (10.4.11). Is there any way to get a desktop version that will work with Tiger?

lareservedesarts
April 18, 2009
10:28 am

soooooooo great !
there is many things to do more but this soft is SOOOOOOO great ! thanks for all

Karen
April 18, 2009
2:17 pm

I had no idea that it was compatible with the Iphone. Thanks for letting me know that.

Emma
April 19, 2009
12:20 am

Awesome information especially since I just got a new Mac yesterday. Look forward to getting used to it and using evernote.

David
April 20, 2009
4:25 am

I am getting ready to get a new Mac because my PC is having problems; this information will come in handy.

Marie
April 20, 2009
6:53 am

New to Evernote; However after reading this post I am going to download right now. Thanks

Chuck
April 20, 2009
8:50 am

Thanks for the download link; I have been searching for this site all morning and just found it.

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April 20, 2009
2:21 pm

Thanks for keeping the Mac users in mind! We’re your early adopters, you know…

fitness for sports
April 21, 2009
2:57 am

Glad that it finally came to mac, but I agree with the first comment. I hope there will be a linux version as well.

Peter Andrew
April 26, 2009
10:50 pm

Amazing, Its very impressive. Thanks for the download link. An awesome information.

Oliver of www.Royalty free Music.com
April 27, 2009
7:29 pm

This service just gets better and better. I’m using it with my mac for my business and the quick button to a new note has saved time. I love finding applications that make the process tighter!
Cheers!

Michael Kettunen
May 4, 2009
7:16 am

Thank you, this is extremely handy!

Mike Kirby
May 7, 2009
12:46 am

No 10.4 support? Sorry, not paying $129 for Leopard for this one app. Tiger isn’t *that* old…. you’re not interested in supporting me, then I’m not interested in supporting you. I’m off to your competitors.

Hollywood Fl Bankruptcy Attorney
May 29, 2009
7:01 am

wonderful tool keep up the great work. I love mac short cuts.

Alan Vallis
June 20, 2009
11:17 am

Evernote is the best thing since sliced bread – unfortunately there can be opportunity costs.

I’ve been migrating from Windows to Linux. The lack of support for a Linux local Evernote client has caused me so much unbearable pain and suffering that I’ve switched my allegiance to Apple instead.

So Evernote has just cost me the price of a new Macbook and a second hand G5.

I’ll need to hide the Visa statement from the Social Secretary next month.

In case anyone is wondering, using Evernote with Wine is too buggy. After using a local client with Windows, using the web client doesn’t cut it.

After 12 hours of using a Mac for the first time I now regret that I didn’t dump M$ years ago.

)

hoyla
July 25, 2009
9:08 pm

Anyone else find that the new note shortcut does not bring the note window to the front if Evernote is located in a different “Space” in OSX? What happens with me is Evernote is activated, but it fails to shift focus to the Space on which the application resides. If I then move to that Space, the new note window is located behind the main Evernote window…

brock
July 28, 2009
12:51 pm

@hoyla
i have the same issue. Evernote and Word 2008 both activate but fail to switch the space to the one that they are assigned to.

Mary Lee
September 18, 2009
12:33 pm

I am with a lot of others here. I will not upgrade to 10.5 as it cripples some of my major, very expensive, software. No support for 10.4.11 is not very smart. A LOT of people who pay attention are not doing the upgrade due to all the programs it broke, which require new purchase of new updated software. That is just crazy.

coopertino
October 11, 2009
3:36 pm

I started using Evernote about 1 month ago, and I’m a fan. It is the missing piece of s/w that I’d been looking for a long time. One thing which I’m missing the most is keyboard shortcuts while editing a note (think wiki markup), for ex, the one I miss the most is ability to add a TODO little square in front of a line.
Also it would be nice to add the ability to create template notes with pre-defined fields – for example, I started keeping my contacts in there as well, but in free form notes, I wish I could have something with fields that I an just fill in.
Bu you get the point – once you offer templates, the sky becomes the limit
Thanks for an excellent product.
Tino

coopertino
October 11, 2009
3:53 pm

… oh , and one more thing :
Do you publish any API, SDK, etc. that one can use to write plugins ? Or do you have that in the works ?
I’d volunteer to write some cool ones and share with the world.
Tino

Andrew Sinkov
October 12, 2009
10:42 am

@coopertino We have an API. The documentation is available here: http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/

Tonia
October 24, 2009
3:53 pm

I too, am disappointed in Evernote not supporting older versions of the Mac OS. Tiger is not that old. And I just will not upgrade to Leopard in order to get Evernote because it does not support Tiger 10.4 — very, very disappointing. Especially in this economy, I have no need to upgrade to Leopard (which would make me have to upgrade all of my graphics programs as well) and I know I’m not the only one.

Why can’t Evernote step down to the Tiger level?

marilyn nolt
November 12, 2009
5:07 am

is there a version for 10.4?

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Evernote for Mac Update: Supercharged Shortcuts

April 6th, 2009

Create a new note any time

New and improved search shortcuts

Other enhancements

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