Over the past several months, we’ve released major updates to our four most popular versions: Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android. Today, we’re excited to unveil the fifth newly redesigned member of the Evernote family, Evernote Web.
All of our recent redesigns have had several key ideas in common:
- Improving the user experience
- Optimizing performance
- Getting the most out of each platform’s native capabilities
- Incorporating as much user feedback as possible
Each one of these core concepts played a critical role in our decisions around the new Evernote Web. Take a look for yourself.
Consistent, easy-to-use interface
The most obvious change you’ll notice in Evernote Web is the entirely new interface. For those of you that use our desktop versions, the new three-panel interface will look pretty familiar. From left to right: the left panel shows your notebooks and tags, the note list can be found in the middle and single note view on the right allows you to view and edit your notes. We moved Search into a more convenient location, just above the note list.
Here are some additional notable features and capabilities:
- Notebooks Stacks: Visually group your notebooks into Stacks by either dragging one notebook onto another or by clicking on the arrow that shows up when you mouse over a notebook and choosing Add to Stack.
- Snippet view: The note list Snippet View allows you to get a lot more useful information about your note without needing to open it–perfect for quick browsing.
- Saved Searches: Perform any searches that you’ve saved using a desktop version of Evernote by clicking into the Search bar. Saved searches will appear in a drop down list.
- Multi-selecting and dragging: The new Evernote Web allows you to select multiple notes by holding down the CMD key on Mac or the CTRL key on Windows as you click. Once you’ve selected the desired notes, you can drag these notes into a new notebook, tag or into the trash.
- Auto-save: When creating or editing a note you can now select whether you want Evernote to autosave your note as you write, or to save it manually. Choose your preferred mode by clicking on the Autosave switch above the note editor.
Quickly share individual notes over Facebook, email and more!
Our focus is on your memory–helping you save and find all of your ideas, projects and inspirations wherever you may be. As you add more and more stuff into Evernote, you’ll likely want to share bits and pieces with family, friends and colleagues. That’s why we’re excited to announce a major expansion of our sharing capabilities to include quick sharing of individual notes through Facebook, email and your instant messenger.
Now, you have two great options for sharing your notes. If you’re working with a team on a project, then share a whole notebook. Or, if you want to share an individual note with friends, you can do that too. In the web interface, we’ve placed both sharing options into a new Share button located at the top of each note. Click the button to beginning sharing. It’s quick and easy. If at some point you decide that you no longer want to share a note, you can simply click on the word “Shared” that appears in the Note details to deactivate sharing.
Here’s an example of a shared note from my account. It’s a list of restaurants in San Francisco that I want to try. By the way, shared notes look great on mobile devices too.
We’re launching this feature as part of our Evernote Web redesign and will be adding it to other versions of Evernote shortly. You will also soon be able to share your notes to Twitter and other social sites.
To view notebooks that other Evernote users have shared with you, click on “Linked Notebooks” below your notebook list.
Work in progress
There are several features that we have not yet implemented in the new Evernote Web. These include: filtering by note attributes, viewing your note history, attaching files, printing your note, and creating saved searches. This functionality is coming. If you’re looking for any of these features, or just want to take your time diving into the new layout, you can go to the old Evernote Web interface by clicking the link at the top of the Evernote Web screen.
The new Evernote Web is not just visually different, it’s also completely rewritten to make the underlying architecture faster, more responsive and more modern. All of this means that Evernote Web will be better for you today, and that we’ll be able to add more great features in the future. Stay tuned.
What do you think of the new Evernote Web? Let us know in the comments.
153 Comments
Mike
As someone who uses the web interface almost daily to access notes in various places, I love the new look. I’m definitely appreciating the consistent look across platforms, and it seemed to load a bit faster. Plus, having the most recent note open already saves me a click.
Thanks for your hard work guys! Keep it up!
Tekacs
How utterly excellent!
Linda Vich
Looks and works great! Now when I edit a note in Chrome, auto-save actually works for me and I can continue working in Evernote instead of having to exit and re-login.
Myself
Ohh, Nice!!!
I’m so glad to see the stacks and tag hierarchies on the web interface. Very, very nice.
The snippit thing is MUCH more useful here than on the iPhone app! (I had to delete the mobile app, because it downloaded over a gig of snippits and image thumbnails to my device. And since it’s an iTouch and only attaches to the internet when there’s a hot-spot, the app wasn’t doing me much good. That’s a lot of disk space for an “index” that doesn’t connect to anything most of the time! Any plans to have an option to choose which notebooks the mobile app grabs snippits and thumbnails for?)
I do notice when I view the web interface via my iTouch browser, I can’t see the left side-bar AT ALL. There’s just the ad, no scroll-bar, no notebooks, no stacks, no tags. Just the ad (because there’s not enough vertical space for anything else). Any plans to put the ad *inside* the scroll-frame rather than *below* it for the mobile version of the site? Relatively minor issue, because as I said, the iTouch isn’t usually connected to the net, anyway. Usually I use the web app through a laptop computer which plenty of space above the ad for the sidebar.
But the new web app looks great! Features I’ve been eagerly awaiting to see in the web app have arrived. Two thumbs up ;^).
Hugo
Evernote is really my external brain, and it could improve if… it can annotate on pictures and have a basic spreadsheet (it already has tables, just add the sum function).
Innog
Nice job on the “New Evernote”.
But I am missing a few things on the Web interface. I can no longer view my tags on a note. I have to edit to see my tags. Hope you will find a way to display these again.
Andrew Sinkov
Tags are there. You need to click the Show Detail link.
fbergonzo
Hi,
Cant see “Show Detail” unless you actually “open” the note (ie unclip it). however, there was room for that in the header section, below the title. would be useful.
Phil
As a Linux user can I say thanks for finally giving us a usable client app! There are obviously a few things still to be added, but couple of things in what is done so far..
- Chrome spell checker does not work
- Anyway to set/change the default font for new notes?
Flexabull
So far so good! Much improved!
Sergei
Would love to see inline PDF rendering similar to what Google have implemented on their Docs website. Also linked notebooks today open a new tab/browser window. Is it possible to have an option to have linked notebooks at the same root level as my own notebooks? This will make collaboration much easier.
Thank you.
frossie
Big improvement! But it would be nice if the “linked” notebooks are properly exposed, like regular notebooks, instead of under a drop-down menu. Also, tags are way too hidden. Unless I am missing something obvious, you have to edit a note to even see what tags it has *and* you have to have “Show details” toggled on.
Perhaps I do more notebook sharing and tagging than the average user, but still…
Andrew Sinkov
Great suggestions. Thanks!
Ted W
Absolutely fantastic. I use Touch/iPad/Windows versions as well as Web. Touch (iPhone) is great now, too. But I hated the Web interface … until this morning.
One suggestion: Could you offer a plain-text option (the way GMail does) in notes? Most of the time I don’t want any formatting in my notes, so I have to strip it out if I am cutting and pasting. Or offer a plain-text pasting option, as WordPress does?
Now all I need is a link to the best explanation of how to organize notebooks and tags. Mine are too helter-skelter; I need discipline.
Jason
FYI, Apparently this is supposed to be a good resource on Evernote, though it costs money: http://nerdgap.com/landing/evernote-essentials/ I have yet to purchase it, though I just stumbled across it this morning.
hari
liked that! still quite long to load up, still work ok with IE7 (so I access my note from work).
genevieve wong
Love it! Looks great guys!
Astrid
On the new web version of Evernote I miss the Attributes menu that was in the old version, particularly “Contains” and “Source”. Are you planning to add that back in, just as you said you would do with the saved searches function?
Astrid
Ricardo
Many kudos to you for the unique URLs for sharing! You’ve just added tremendous value to me for using Evernote in combination with my GTD tasks. Thanx! Looking forward to seeing that feature added to Windows desktop version as well.
John
Thank you, I use Evernote almost everyday and my use will probably increase in the future. I use Evernote Web and bookmarklet a lot so I appreciate the update.
Vin D'Amico
Love the new web interface. It looks much more like the desktop interface. Easier to navigate and faster. What’s not to like?
Mark T
This is really fantastic news. The old web interface looked like.. it wasn’t great.
I’m also very happy that auto-save has been added. My fiance lost a good deal of work in Evernote web over a coffee-shop WiFi connection, and she had assumed Evernote auto-saved like Google Docs. Boy, I spent a lot of time defending the other amazing aspects of Evernote!
Yay!
Tony
Congratulations on the new interface. But for some reason I am now unable to decrypt a note containing encrypted text using the Web interface (Mac and Kubuntu). It works OK on iPad. Any pointers?
david
I have the same problem with decrypting notes on Windows. I’ve tried Chrome and Firefox. Any help would be appreciated.
Tony
It appears that decryption is not available in the new web version. You will need to revert to the old version where it work fine. –Tony
Derek Reece McCoy
Thank you! I love the update!
JDR
Much prefer the layout of OLD Evernote. I hope it will remain an option. Much easier to spot files quickly. Easier visually.
Marcel
Very good and clean interface.
Just one suggestion: Please remember the last selected notebook after logging off or even better: Always start with the standard-notebook after logging on (and not with all notes).
The Reason:
I use evernote web for access from my business computer which I sometimes share with others. So it is not a good idea to see all my private pictures immediately after logging in
Thanks.
Andrew
+1 Marcel. Same issue. I have a mixed content account, and when I am at work I don’t want them seeing the last job I clipped that morning at home when signing in or some note from a private client….
Pawel
Fantastic
David Harrison
I love the new web interface. On my account it defaults to a title, date and potted summary in the note list to the left of screen. This is much better than having illegible thumbnails of text-only notes, or losing half the vertical space if I want a true text-only list,as in the current Windows desktop version.
Is there any way to replicate that exact view in the desktop version? If not, please take this as a feature request!
Wizzo
When selecting text to edit font etc, the format bar often disappears. Otherwise an improvement.
Steve UK
In the main, great job EN!
Quick couple of questions:
1) How can I see larger thumbnails of my notes as with the previous version of EN Web? I’m kinda looking for a maximise middle column button to fill the screen on the right (or “View large thumbnails” under ‘View Options’ dropdown)
2) If I can’t see large thumbnails (as in point 1 above) I’ve got a problem… the small thumbnails do not show ink notes created using the Windows client (or Windows Mobile for that matter). This is especially inconvenient as unless the note is titled I cannot, at a glance, see what exactly the note is.
I hope I am missing something here because I really like the look of the new version, but for the moment I will have to continue using the old version which I really don’t want to have to do cos this looks ace!
Andrew Sinkov
Thanks for you feedback.
Cliff Wilson
Really great work guys – looks cool! I think evernote would be absolutely perfect for me if you could add some form of “to-do” list note, or something like that. Something more than “checkboxes” but not too over complicated. I badly need a way to synch to-dos between my iPhone and my Desktop (running Lotus NOTES). Clearly such a facility would also include the ability to edit “rich text” notes on the iPhone Client – in order to update the to-do list from the mobile client end.
Rich Beales
Fantastic, just what I’ve been waiting for as a Linux user. Now the web version and the android (beta) version are equally fast and shiny.
Well done EN.
DJ
LOVE the new web version! THANK YOU!!
mimifred
Very nice so far !
Just one question : what’s the font you are using in the screenshots above ? why does it look so crapy on my screen and your screenshots look so cool (speaking of the font).
But nice work, Evernote is helping me in my work everyday !!!
Vinh
-Are you going to included the sum function in the table to have it works as in excel?
-The new interface is great just like shows similar like on phone device. But it is not flexible like scale it in sizes. Able to adjust the size of new note bigger or smaller. If this can be implement in the future then it will be great. Love to have it flexible.
Jim
Tried to login today but all I get is a white screen from the Evernote.action URL. Bottom of the browser (FF 3.6) has a red exclamation point that says this site has unauthenticated content. Didn’t used to do this…:(
Cusanelly
amaizing work guys!, i just take a 5 second look to the new interface and put a smile in my face, it’s really awesome what you have done! seriously, amaizing work!!
Dave Heidke
I like Evernote and I’m starting to use it as a creative and collaborative tool.
What would be nice, is that for shared notebooks if you would set up a notification. Like if a note is changed, you would click “notify” and it would automatically email the people you share the notebook with to tell them there is a change.
Or perhaps putting this option on each note? That way a person could opt for notification if a note or notebook had any activity.
latraviata
I like the polished look of the new web interface but I miss the functionality of the old version. I use Evernote for to-do management, so most of the time I was using the list view, which neatly showed the title, tags, date created and date updated. The new interface with fixed narrow list view and wide note view is making this very difficult now. It also seems to display fewer details, for example tags seem to be hidden unless I select “edit”. Are you planning to add these (or similar) options back in? Because in its current state the web version is unfortunately not very useful for me.
David Zimet
I share the same concerns. Seems I have lost a lot flexibility.
Alex Friedman
While the new interface is quite attractive, I too share these concerns.
I really do not need the snippets to identify the note I need — generally, I repeatedly refer to about ten list-like notes that are continually updated, and occasionally refer to others from my much larger collection. I would prefer a full-width note window (I like wide notes) with a full-width list window above it — or at least a narrower list column, with text-wrap on the titles and no snippets. Likewise on the iPhone, I do not find the snippets to be a plus. [I realize that I can click the icon on the upper right to view a note "by itself" - but would rather have to do that only occasionally.]
Also, since I make tables, I’d like a monospaced font.
I am _very_ glad to see the option of sorting notes alphabetically, since that makes it possible to put the frequently accessed notes at the top of the list, by judicious use of asterisks and spaces in the titles.
leMel
What a treat to open Evernote today and see this new speedy interface. Great work again. Thanks for asking for feedback – I do have some…!
It would be cool if there were more view options for the preview pane – right now it’s too big/wide for my taste. A list-only view? Ability to drag-size the width of that pane as well? Ability to move it to top or to bottom?
Also, “Show Details” in side panel takes up so much screen HxW area, most of it empty, compared to displaying it along the top. Would rather just have the option to set it to always-on and along the top of the note.
I guess all-in-all, side pane-ing is eating up display I want for my notes.
Just some ideas. At this point, with the frequency of releases and breadth of improvement on each one, I have every confidence you’ll keep quickly moving forward.
Another humble evangelist,
Andrew Sinkov
Thanks for the feedback. We’re looking into adding more view options.
Sterling Zumbrunn
Very impressive update. At first glance, this is light years ahead of the previous version.
Petter
Looks great!
Two important bugs/problems (I`m using Google Chrome)
1. When I open one of my notes with audionotes attached, the audiofile gets auto downloaded. I don`t want this to happen, especially when I use a public/work computer. That`s the reason I`m using the web version in the first place.
2. I just tried to make a new note both with autosave and without autosave. I can`t open other notes when I`m finished, it is stuck on the note which I just made. I did push “done” or whatever name the “exit” button had. When I finally did a relogin I noticed I had 7 copies of the same note….
Martin Jensen
Do you have any plans on making short urls – something like evernote.ly/agfsdfv?
Lars
The new Web-layout looks very promising but is far from complete in my opinion. I´m missing List view, Creating a new note in a separate window (work around: Close and save new note and then you can open and edit it in a separate window).
Am I wrong or to harsh to say that the new web-layout is in Beta stage?
I hope you´ll leave the possibility to switch between old an new layout as long as all the possibilities in the old layout isn´t implemented in the new one.
But no matter what, thank you very much for your great service.
Andrew Sinkov
Lars, you can edit a note in its own windows. Click on the little window pop-out icon on the right of the note title.
Yes, we are exploring more view options. As we said in the post, we still have a number of features to implement in the new design. Those will be coming very soon.
Maneesh Chhabra
Hello Evernote Team,
I must acknowledge the move to new Evernote has quite a few benefits, ….however this mail box type interface is a bit of setback for me.
I have a very visual orientation perhaps because of my attention deficit disorder. For me Evernote had appeal because of the visual depiction of my notes in Thumbnail format. A mailbox or outlook type organization is very daunting for a person like me.
I am visualizing an iPhone like organization of my notes is very much like the apps on the iPhone and folders are visually unique as well. Basically, I look upon Evernote to help me be more structured and organized, but written down lists are just a little bit harder for me.
Carly
agree agree agree – I miss the ‘at a glance’ aspect of the old interface.
Lance
MAJOR improvement – thank you so much!
Sai Ram
what happened to the detail of the email from where the note was sent. it is missing. Now i dont know which note came from where. truly disappointing for my work style.
klickreflex
Very nice update, the old web interface was really not much fun using. But: please implement file attachments as soon as possible, I really miss that.
Justin Matthews
This new interface is a vast improvement so well done moving the UI forward and becoming consistent with the native apps however – once huge lack appears to be the inability to now attach files to the note via the web interface – unless this feature is restored this new UI is useless to me and I will be sticking with the older edition
Matt Scofield
Where do you sign out at in this new interface? there is no sign out/log out link!
Andrew Sinkov
There’s a sign out link in the very top right corner of the screen.
Benj
Great improvement, but where is the option to attach a file/ image when editing a note now?
I’m on chrome. When I edit a note, and then try to open another one, the autosaving feature starts, and It won’t let me access to the other notes If I don’t refresh the whole page.
Andrew Sinkov
We’re still adding features to the new interface. If you need to attach a file, you can still do it in the old interface, which is accessible via the link at the top of Evernote Web.
Kristin
I agree that the loss of “attaching files” is a big deterrent to switching over to new Evernote. I know Evernote cautioned users that it was a feature yet to come, but that seems a bit counterintuitive, as I don’t think users anticipated that upgrading to the new version would mean loss of an existing feature.
Vlad
Awesomness at its best ! I love this new web interface, keep it up Evernote guys !
v5point0
I like how there is some conformity with Evernote desktop. Auto saving now works when I create a note on Google Chrome but there appears to be a bug when I hit done because the note gets duplicated multiple times but the web interface freezes.
I hope in time the bugs get ironed out and Evernote Web could be used as one of the main sources for note input and not just note reviewing.
J. Alan Doak
I love the new layout, and new speeds are impressive. The only missing now is a Linux desktop version!