Like many Apple fans, we were excited about the release of the latest Mac operating system, OS X Lion. Not only is it a major update with lots of new concepts and functionality, but it also represents an interesting move by Apple to bring its mobile and desktop operating systems closer together.
In many ways, Apple’s direction inspired today’s Evernote for Mac update.
Get Evernote for Mac Lion from the Mac App Store or from our site
The Lion-ification of Evernote
We’ve made a number of interesting changes designed specifically for the new operating system. If you’re on an older version of Mac OS, then you will get some under-the-hood improvements, but not any of the visual or functional updates mentioned below.
A Whole New Look
When you update, the first thing you’ll notice is that Evernote has a significantly redesigned interface. We’ve embraced the new look and feel of Lion, giving the app a much more polished appearance.
Full Screen Mode
Tap on the Full Screen button in the top right corner of the app and Evernote will take over your entire screen. This will launch our completely new Full Screen Mode. If you updated Evernote on your iPad today, this may look familiar. Just as Apple is unifying their Mac and iOS operating systems, we are making our applications more alike. The Full Screen Mode on Mac is nearly identical to the new All Notes View on iPad. Scroll vertically through your Snippets, just as you would on your tablet.
We’re always looking for ways to bring good ideas from one version of Evernote into another. Thanks to the Lion changes, we’re even able to reuse parts of our iOS codebase, so you’ll be seeing lots of concept-exchange between our apps in the future.
Simplify Your Display
Many of our users have told us they would like to de-clutter the Evernote display. Now you can. You can hide the left panel by clicking on the Hide Button. When used together with the Favorites Bar, discussed below, this gives you the best way to customize the layout to your liking.
Favorites Bar
The new Favorites Bar, located just beneath the Menu Bar, allows you to quickly jump to categories of notes or to specific notebooks and tags. When you hide the left panel, use the Favorites Bar options to sort through your notes.
We’ve added a few interesting options into the Favorites Bar. With one click, you can now find all your web clips, all notes that you created using a mobile device and all notes containing files. That last one in particular is a major timesaver.
In addition, you can drag individual notes, notebooks, tags, and Saved Searches directly onto the Favorites Bar for quick access to those items at any time.
The Future of Evernote for Mac
We’re very excited about what Lion has to offer. If you want to get all of the latest and greatest features that Evernote has to offer, we highly recommend updating to the latest Mac operating system. We have lots of new stuff planned. Stay tuned.
Get Evernote for Mac Lion from the Mac App Store or from our site
118 Comments
James Abbott
I have gotten so spoiled using the spacebar to preview items in Finder. It works great. If I was full-screen in Evernote and could use the spacebar to preview the currently selected item, then THAT would really be something. (hint hint)
Besides that, I’m also getting lots of weird screen-drawing artifacts when in full-screen view as some others have mentioned. This feels too “beta” to me right now. I’ve never had that feeling using evernote before. (And I don’t feel that way on the iPad. Great job on that one.)
PlaysTheThing
Can we please get a fully-functioning snippet view in full screen mode? What may work for the iPad just isn’t practically on a macbook.
BFlyVi
AMEN! I’d love to keep this open full screen, but the view is unusable to me.
Sherbourne
+1
Would like to use Full Screen, but can’t stand this view.
NativesGroup
Agreed! Snippet view would be much appreciated in full screen mode.
Ken Riise
Totally agree. Seems barmy not to choose your own preferred view in full screen
Oh – and can we have notifications in the iPhone app please. Would make shared folders really useful
Dave Gullett
Agreed, the current full screen view is useless…made more aggravating because it keeps me running Evernote as a full screen app which would be convenient using Mission Control.
brad mcgilligan
Definitely agree with this one. Full screen is more of a pain at this point especially when I drag and drop a lot of items in Evernote.
bmab
I’m a SL user – downloaded the 3.0 now expecting to get some new but no! same ol’ evernote! I don’t wanna change to lion! why is everybody tryin to force lion on me!
coventry
i can say that after a month, it’s been worth the $30 for me. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, Evernote on the ipad and Macbook Pro. Great product for financial planning research and documents.
Will Jessop
Pleeeeese can you add the colour back into the UI? Pretty please?
Walter Moreira
I’m missing the advanced way of searching that there was in the previous version. Now, the only way is to write explicityl the operators tag:, any:, etc., in the search box. Is that a deprecated feature?
There isn’t also a way to see what a “saved search” matches, for example which tags matches and which ones doesn’t (or to edit it a saved search). I’m worried…
Dan Nielsen
+1
This is a major issue for us using evernote as our GTD system.
Get to fixin this soon!
jbignert
Safari Extension Beta is available here:
http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=29146
Raz
Hi guys, the notes are just way too buggy… can’t even scroll down on them!!
Are you working on fixing it now? (this is for the mac version)
Good job on the iPad and iPhone btw!
MJ
I love this! But I’d love it more if I were able to use more than one option on the favorites bar to filter notes – namely both a notebook and a tag – the same way I currently can with the left panel.
Elzie
I very much like this new lion so far it’s awsome. I like how convenit it is and how ease of use it is thanks ElzieJackson
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Vaibhav
Can you also please add table editing to notes for Mac in your upcoming release?
Tracey
The share feature is fantastic, but I wish that there was a shortcut for the “email note” feature. I use it all the time when I’m taking notes or wanting to send them to others.
John
I love the update for the iPhone, and really like the update to the iPad (the speed is outstanding), but I am really confused with the update for the Mac (and Lion). The interface as become less productive and I am now fighting against it to get things done where before, it just worked. With Lion, I was hopeful that the full screen interface would give more real estate and make note viewing, reading, editing more of a priority. But “no”, instead I get an interface that has a fixed sized thumbnail view of my notes, and when I open a note, I am limited to a view of the note that only leverages two thirds of the the screen. Wow? The iPad allows for resizing of the thumb nails, which would be a nice improvement, but that alone would not be enough for me to use full screen mode. It would be a much better design if you just allowed the standard screen mode functionality in full screen mode. Why not? And why limit the thumb nail full screen mode to just full screen?
The other feature that I find myself missing immediately is the “x” marker to remove a tag (or other) search item. The new method of searching on tags is quick to get into the search, but very un-natural and awkward to get out of or modify.
I love Evernote, but this most disappointing update to date. I am looking forward to the next release, soon.
Thanks!
Mike Korner
+1
Nick P
+1
Andrew
+1 – I find it very strange full screen mode doesn’t let you view notes without having to open them
Joe Hardy
+1
Andreas
The new fullscreen mode for Lion is buggy. It is not possible to change the view like in other views. The default view for fullscreen mode is very basic and not useable from a practical point of view.
Please fix these bugs asap.
anna a
Where can I download the older version for Mac? Thank you.
Nik
Lion is required to get features such as a favorites bar? That’s kind of disappointing, I jumped for joy a little when I first read about that feature.
I’m curious if Snow Leopard/Leopard users will get no further visual enhancements/features in future updates? Due to the bajillion local dev environments + modifications I have configured on this machine, I don’t think I’ll be updating anytime in the near future.
anyway, evernote still rules. first world problems, etc.
Alex
I love full-screen view but all my notes are text files, and the thumbnail view just doesn’t make sense for that. Any way to preserve my view preference in full-screen would be ace.
Thomas Dobner
Looks very well. Good designed!
Tom
I would really like to be able to download the version of Evernote that is compatible with Mac OS 10.5.8
I do not have 10.6x or 7 on my macbook
Please let me know where I can find this.
Thanks
Lionel
@Tom — you can get back versions on filhippo
http://www.filehippo.com/download_evernote/
Kaishin
I agree with the comments above stating that the fullscreen view is very limited in terms of functionality and is irritatingly buggy. What bugs me the most are the visual bugs associated with the scroll bounce.
Leo
The scroll bounce that messes up the Notes list is the most irritating bug ever! The update to 3.0.1 did not fix it. Please fix it soon!
François Paris, France
It’s not possible yet to rotate the picture left or right in order to better read them. When are you going to give that possibility ?
Andrew Sinkov
To rotate an image, I suggest right clicking on it and opening the image in Preview. Rotating there and then saving. The orientation will update in Evernote.
Julia
Unfortunately 3.0.2 didn’t fix the graphics bug in snippet view, it’s still there. It started with 2.2.1 which I had to install when I upgraded to Lion.
Ying
I don’t get how great the favoriate bar is. what it can do that saved search can’t ?
Please put the old “search explanation bar” back, that’s my favoriate !
crack
is there any quick and easy way to include link to file/folder? so far by dragging it brings file/folder as zip inside note. or did i missed some trick or something? im about to write applescript for finder.
ps.
anyway evernote rocks the house. it wasnt so cool 2 years ago after switching from pc onenote to mac, but now it is amazing.
Rania
Please help.
I want to install Evernote on my Mac – but I have the MAC OS 10.5.8 and it does not support Evernote
Is there a version of Evernote that I could download?
Thanks!
Kasey Fleisher Hickey
Rania, if you’re using version 10.5.8, you’ll need to upgrade to at least Snow Leopard.
Jason
Does anyone know if .ENEX files from older releases are compatible with those created by version 3? Are version 2 ENEX the same as version 3 ENEX?
thanks
jane
would like a reliable link to evernote for mac 10.5.8. Lionel (above) directed a previous inquirer to philhippo but this is only for windows evernote – anybody??? desperately seeking for a mac user that can not move to Lion due to laptop not being able to run it. Thanks
Ty
Like the new version too. One think I would really like to see, is a Tag column in the notes section, like the windows version has. Also can we get a way to export mail items from Mac Mail to Evernote.
Thanks!
Tommy Denton
Please allow us to have all the views we have in “windowed” mode when in full screen mode?
I don’t know what world people use the thumbnails exclusive but not my world.
Please trust me to format and consume data the best way for me, not decided upon by you.