No Network? No Problem. Offline Notes on iPhone and iPod.

Product updates | 28 Oct 200828 Oct 08 | By Andrew Sinkov

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[UPDATE: Evernote for iPhone 3.2 adds expanded support for offline notes and notebooks. Read all about it »]

The latest release of Evernote for iPhone, version 1.4, introduces our most (MOST) requested feature: offline notes. We call them Favorites, and here’s how they work.

When viewing a note on the iPhone or iPod Touch, you’ll see a little gray star in left corner of the note title. Once the note is fully loaded, tap the star and that note instantly becomes a favorite. It’s now quickly accessible any time, even offline. To view your favorites, click on “Favorites” in the tab bar along the bottom of the application.

Great for the iPod Touch

This feature is particularly useful for iPod Touch users. Now you will be able to view selected notes even when outside WiFi range.

Planes, trains, and automobiles

With Favorites, you can access selected notes any time you like, no matter where you find yourself. So, whether you’re heading to the corner deli or to New Delhi, the information you need is always close at hand.

Tips

To help you get the most out of Evernote, we’ve added a little “Tips” tab into the bottom of the New Note screen. New tips will show up all the time, so be sure to check back.

And whole lot faster, too

In addition to the server-side tweaks that we mentioned in the last blog post, we also put significant effort into speeding up the application. So this version of Evernote for iPhone is faster than ever.

Make sure your iPhone is upgraded to the latest firmware from Apple and, as always, it’s a good idea to restart your iPhone after upgrading an app, especially if you have a lot of other apps installed.

Get the latest version of Evernote for iPhone now.

[UPDATE: Evernote for iPhone 3.2 adds expanded support for offline notes and notebooks. Read all about it »]

Dave

I would be ready to go premium if I could view all of my notes offline on my iPhone. This lack of feature in inexcusable on a device as powerful as the iPhone 3GS. Cannot edit the notes while offline, fine no problem, but let us be able to at least view them all! Please. Not everyone needs a data plan, wi-fi is just fine.

P.S. – Evernote in Windows is fantastic!
John

Really disappointed that I cannot create, edit, and search notes offline with the iphone app. I need this as I travel and am often not online (airplane mode, data roaming too expensive, or even no service). This is a great app rendered useless by this limitation. All notes need to be favorites all the time!
steve

same deal. evernote: android: FAIL. we all wish we had wireless and EVDO EVERYWHERE, but if that were true, then this would be perfect. but we end up in places where there isn’t internet. and these notes won’t load. Evernote. *sigh. sad. i bet their own employees quit using their app a long time ago or else someone would have said something.
John

The notes designated as “favorites” appear to be readable offline, but I cannot edit them if they were originated from a PC vis the Evernote web page. But if I am online, then editing works. Worse, if your iPhone Evernote gets logged out and then loses internet access, Evernote will not allow you to get past the login page to get to your notes. You need to wait until you can get online again. Not a user friendly tool that I can depend on to be there when I need it.
Roger

There is a way to get round this for all off us the meantime. Awsome notes – an iphone app has a download / upload link to all Evernote notes .

It is actually AWESOME and solves all the problems you are describing with ease. It has a trial app as well to try before buying.

It really IS what Evernote should be on the iphone client!
Me

So, after reading a lot about Evernote, I decided to start using it on my PC and Windows Mobile phone. I installed the clients, then realized that there is no offline mode for Windows Mobile…..HUH?! I refuse to pay $30+ for a data plan, so if I’m not near wi-fi, it’s useless. Too bad – looks like a great program.
Rohit Jain

I tried Evernote more than a year ago. I found its inability to work in offline mode (when not connected to Internet) too restrictive and went back to basic note taking ability in my WinMo phone. Evernote is a very well done application, so I know device-server synch is not a technical challenge for your team. So what is it?

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