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This is Your Brain on iPhone

Product updates | By Phil Libin
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Apple just launched the App Store for iPhone and it’s got a shiny new Evernote! Our iPhone app is the best Evernote experience on a mobile phone yet; it’ll let you capture image, voice and text notes and automagically zap them to your Evernote account. You can also find, browse and search your notes with full tag, attribute and keyword support. All this without having to futz around with email or the web browser.

Oh, and since your iPhone knows where you are, it’ll geo-tag anything you capture! Having location information in your notes is going to open up lots of new possibilities and future enhancements.

Of course, any self-respecting external brain is the same no matter what device you use to get at it, so the new iPhone version of Evernote automatically synchronizes with all of our other PC, Mac, Web and mobile versions.

Evernote for iPhone works on first generation iPhones (just download the iTunes 7.7 which came out today and upgrade to the 2.0 firmware), as well as the iPhone 3G that comes out tomorrow. To get it, go to the new Apple App Store, or visit our new iPhone download page. Like all of our clients, the new iPhone version is free to download and works with both free and premium Evernote accounts..

We’re really psyched about this new platform for Evernote and are already planning lots of additions and enhancements. Evernote for iPhone is just scratching the surface compared to what’s coming, but it’s a pretty nifty scratch. Check it out and let us know what you think!

[Update: Some people in the comments are reporting problems with notes lingering in the 'Pending' section of the app. This is partially caused by the slowness of the iPhone's EDGE network which has been hit particularly hard in these past few days. The phone will sometimes go to sleep while sending a note and it doesn't always wake up smoothly. Syncing works better over WiFi and 3G.  We've also submitted a new version of the Evernote client to Apple that improves syncing performance across all networks and has a few feature enhancements. You'll be able to auto-update as soon as Apple starts pushing out application changes to the App Store. We expect this to happen soon, but - since Apple has a lot on their hands today - we're not sure when.

Thanks again for helping us make Evernote the best it can be!]

  • Itouch user

    Works great on the Itouch. Very good application, ofc the geotagging doesnt work because the itouch doesnt have support for it.

  • ross

    Very excited about this app… downloaded to iPhone (not new G2). All notes created on iPhone are in PENDING file and have been for 18 hours. I’m on a high-bandwidth wi-fi network too.

    How about a status monitor for each pending item — x% uploaded, or even just an animated icon to indicate that in process? As an uninitiated user, I thought that PENDING meant I’m supposed to do something more with each item.

  • http://thefiveones.blogspot.com John E

    Discovered Evernote as I was browsing the App Store yesterday, and I have to say that, as a whole, Evernote is one of the best products to be coupled with the new iPhone software. Also extremely pleased to see that you’ve not only become aware of some of the (extremely minor) problems with the App, but that you’ve submitted a new build to Apple. Consider me sold (I have my eye on one of those t-shirts…), and keep up the awesome work!

  • Jb

    my ‘pending’ notes won’t even sync over a robust wifi.

    Does it have to reacquire a signal or something?

  • http://kaushikagrawal.blogspot.com Kaushik

    Evernote is unable to save notes during a call. I was noting down a number when a call was active (No Wi-fi. Was using edge), and when I tried to save, it gave me a nasty SQL error. I tried it a couple of times but the same thing. It could not save the note when a call was active. I understand that it cannot use Edge network when a call is active, but it would be nice if EverNote could at least put the note in the pending list. Then upload it to the server when the call is ended and Edge network becomes available.

  • Geraint Davies

    I’m surprised no one has pointed out how unfavourably the new app compares to the mobile safari client: no action menu (view on map, email), strips out newlines on entry and displays notes unreadably small.

    And still no editing or offline access.

  • Ryan H

    I love having evernote on the iPhone, although so far I prefer viewing the notes using the safari web browser. When I view the notes using the app, the text is way too small, so I have to zoom in and then I have to pan around a lot in order to read, whereas using safari, the text is nice and easy to read and wraps well.

    Am I missing a setting somewhere?

  • Chris Schopmeyer

    As for having notes locally on the iPhone and being able to edit notes on the iPhone, please consider this a strong plea to speed up development of this feature.

    For those that are asking about this, please check out their blog posting. It is in the works.
    http://blog.evernote.com/2008/03/02/evernote-on-mobile-devices/

  • Eliot

    +1 for BlackBerry version

  • Suzanne

    This is an awesome program! Kudos to Evernote! WOW!

    A request: editable notes for the iPhone App. Please? :)

    Thanks to everyone at Evernote for all your hard work!

    joy…

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