Evernote 3.5 Beta keeps improving on its path to general availability. The latest release adds a number of new features, improves speed and stability, and gives you lots of things you’ve been asking for. Here’s a rundown.
Drag and drop
With this release, you can drag files onto the Evernote application icon to create new notes. Free users can drag images, audio and PDFs. Evernote Premium users can drop any file including Word docs and PowerPoint presentations. If you use a scanner with Evernote, set the scan destination to be Evernote.exe, and those scans will become notes automatically.
Pop-up control
If you’re like me, then you like seeing those informational sync and clip pop-up messages. Some of you…well…you hate them. Now you get to choose. Keep them on, or turn them off. It’s your call. Just go to Tools > Options > Synchronization to change the setting.
Tons of other improvements
- Significantly improved performance when switching between notebooks
- New global hot-key for searching Evernote (defaults to SHIFT+Windows+F)
- Improved search support for Asian characters
- Addressed PDF search issues
- Improved auto-import dialogs
- Improved copy/paste support
- Incorporated more standard keyboard short-cuts
- More configuration preferences preserved
- Improved task tray with easier access to clipping and short-cuts
Known problems
- Graphics and text can appear blurry in some monitor configurations
- Firefox clipper is currently not supported
To everyone that has tried the Beta. Thanks. Your feedback is helping us build a better Evernote.
Updates!
Evernote for Windows Beta keeps getting better:
- Evernote 3.5 Beta 4: read about it
- Evernote 3.5 is out of beta: read about it
78 Comments
Vik
May I suggest a few fetures:
- Evernote Mobile should be able to display the existing notes without the need to sign in
- Ability to only have an icon on the System Tray while the main window is maximised (like Winamp)
- The ability to create notes when right clicking on a tag name – so the new note will automatically contains that tag
Thank you, keep up the good work!
Bob
I was cruising with 3.5 for months and loving it, then all of a a sudden it started locking up on me (“not responding”). At first, it would only lock up on me when clipping from IE8. Eventually it got to where it locked up whenever I tried to sync. I have had to switch back to 3.1.
MTOBIN
Evernote no longer syncs. Been unable to sync for weeks on my PC since downloading 3.5. Removed and still an issue with 3.1 now. Mac works fine. It is useless to me know, since I use the PC at work and access on other computers and phone. Already looking to switch back to OneNote and use the mobile app that works on my iPhone to sync since it works.
vlangford
I like the look and feel of 3.5 so far, but I miss the old tag functionality. I would like to be able to have the tag tool back on the tool bar, so that I can just check the tags that apply to the note. Also, I notice that if I create a new tag and then file it under another tag, the database drops that tag from the note, but then counts it anyway.
Jeff Dobbing
Have only just discovered Evernote and it’s one of those things that now I’ve found it just makes sense! So very keen to see 3.5 work perfectly. So far I’ve found the following minor issues with Beta 3:
- Spell checking option (inc pressing F7) just doesn’t seem to do anything for me?
- I consistently find that attempting to either cut or copy an image from one note to another results in the image being cut from the source note and then unavailable to paste to the destination – end result the image is lost forever
- Clicking on the “Current Monthly Usage” report intermittently results in a hidden window being created, giving the impression the application has locked up. Task manager can be used to end the main application and then report window to fix things
I’m running Evernote 3.5 Beta 3 on Windows 7 Ultimate
vlangford
Further comments on the Tags. If you have tags filed under a tag, the top tag used to show the tag count of everything underneath it. It no longer does.
Also, I have found a similar issue with the spell check. You can use it, and choose “Ignore”, but the red line doesn’t go away.
Dan Murray
Aside from some basic instability with the new version (sometimes decides to fail and close) one other issue I’ve noticed is printing. When I print from 3.5 Beta 3 the font is too large and the output goes off the page. If I sync and print the same material from the web version….no problem.
Can’t wait till you get a clipper setup for the new version. Love it.
Wilmer
1) feels slower, (libxml probably is quite slow)
2) clipping, I would love the CTRL C back. I don’t always clip into Evernote.
3) memory footprint seems huge!! 95Megs? That’s crazy big!
I’m going back to 3.1
Roman
Where’s Time Band??? Bring Time Band back
Maybe it’s not useful for everyone but it is veeeeeery cool feature 
Itai
I gotta tell you – I’m an avid 3.1 user. I’m a big fan of Evernote – been using it since V2. I just installed 3.5, because I upgraded OS, and thought I’d give it a try. It’s terrible.
The very basic of Evernote – the fact that it’s a digital notebook, is gone. I can no longer see all notes that apply to a certain filtering (e.g. all unfinished todos) in one view. Sure I can use the thumbnail view – but why would I want to see notes in random sizes and fonts? It’s a working tool. All I want is to see all of my todos in one long view. That option is gone.
I uninstalled and ran back to 3.1 (and found out that Evernote uninstall leaves a pile of junk on my PC after uninstall. Thank god for REVO Uninstaller) .
I hope to god 3.5 would not be released like this, as it would mean the end of an era for me…
Vince
why not a version for symbian ?
Shawn Samuel
Unfortunately, not enjoying so far due to the removal of key features for me. Please bring back Control-F11 and Control-Shift-D – I use these all day long (to jump to tags and quickly edit tags) as part of my workflow (esp for tasks) and the lack of it is killing me. Are there equivalents that I’m missing?
John
Bullet formatting is not preserved. That is, when I visit a list previously created Evernote adds addition bulleted lines that are blank.
Also, I use mixed lists a lot (bullets and numbers), but there does not appear to be an easy way to do this. If I add a number 1 then a bullet how do I add a number 2. When I try it starts over at number 1.
Tom McQueeney
Please fix the bug in Evernote 3.5 beta that causes an infinite loop and locks the UI when editing a note and using Ctrl-Delete to delete a word.
This bug has persisted in all versions of 3.5 beta I have tried, and exists in Evernote_3.5.0.567.exe. It is a terrible, fatal bug that I can duplicate again and again. I can’t say it happens 100% of the time, but it happens frequently enough to cause great grief. I prefer the new Beta 3.5 interface over the older Evernote, so fixing this bug would make me a happy beta user.
Thanks.
-Tom
vlangford
I frequently open a note in a separate window so that I can see more of the note. When opened in a separate window, there are 2 inchs of screen real estate at the top of the note devoted to icons and tags. I don’t need to see these things when using a separate window. I was willing to put up with the slowness, the eratic nature of the web clipping functionality, and the poor tag management, but this is a real deal breaker for me. I am heading back to 3.1.
vlangford
One other thing I forgot to mention about opening a note in a separate window. In version 3.1 when you do this and then resize the window, Evernote remembers that size and the next time you open a note in a new window it is sized the same way you sized the last one. This is helpful if you want to open two notes in separate windows and have them sit side by side.
SergeMaroz
Please bring back Control-F11 and Control-Shift-D
Haakon Aasprong
Yes, please bring back Control-F11 and Control-Shift-D! This is a functionality I desperately miss.
And also the ability to drag tags straight onto the notes.
Rainer Geesken
I work with 3.5 beta2 and I tried drag & drop with a pdf a few times and it doesn’t work. My computer hangs and I need to restart. I am working on Wndows 7. Ok its a beta so there is still room for improvements
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Nauka Jazdy
Wish you would include printing from the screen capture function. Would save me about 4 clicks each time I want to save a picture and print it.
Thanks
Luis
I love Evernote, but I didn’t like version 3.5! Sorry guys, but I expected something better, not worse than the last version!
Apart from everything people are complaining about (specially the less-natural-interface and clipping), the main problem for me is that I use Evernote in a netbook, and this version is way too heavy!
It takes up too much memory and is sluggish… please don’t leave it like this, because right now it’s unusable!
And you also shouldn’t promote it in the downloads area, my brother gave up using Evernote in one week, because he said the program slows his computer down… and he installed the beta version!
PS: some news from the guys at Evernote? Are you listening to the feedback?
Bob
I Love Evernote! Thanks for developing this great tool!
MacPhd
I’ve been a happy user of Evernote on Mac and iPhone for over a year now and very pleased with it. I’m looking to take it to another level and would like to put all the hundreds of little notes I have stored in my old Palm into Evernote. Is there an easy way of importing that information from the Palm Desktop application?
User
I found out that pasting of text (from notepad for instance) works in about 10% of the cases. I have to press Ctrl-V about 10 times before it decides to paste the text. The simplest feature in the world, really wouldn’t expect this not to work in a Beta 3…
Dave Yuhas
Will linking between notes be put in? It was taken out in v3. I’ve never seen a rational explanation from EN as to why it was taken out in the first place, or why it can’t be put back in.
Tony
I don’t know if this is how I contact you to let you know about this. There is not very good information on the website as to how to report things like this, but here is the information. I am using version 3.5.0.862 (66658), and every time I put my computer into hybernate evernote crashes. When I open it back up, evernote just shows a black
screen and has to be killed from the task manager. This is very hard to work with as I use this on laptops & netbooks where I just put them in hybernate so that I can get a quick start up. It is not uncommon to want to open up a netbook quick and take a quick note. I know this is beta, but I thought you would like to know about it.
Thanks for your attention.
Tony
dhaval
Hi
I am using the latest version of Beta on Windows 7 64 bit.
The display of the whole application is quite fuzzy. Even the right click menu for the tray icon is just not right. Can you please fix this as soon as possible as it is strain on the eyes. I am not sure if anyone else has reported this.
Dhaval