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

Product updates | 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 »]

  • john

    Please let us search our notes when offline as well as an option to have all notes saved for offline use if toggled! pretty pretty please! :) I would love to upgrade to premium, but as a touch user (there are a lot of us you know :) i cant justify upgrading until the heart and soul of your great product is actually available to me when offline (searching and reading my notes that is :) thanks for the great work so far, its an excellent product.

    John

  • Simon

    Yes, offline syncing is the only missing feature for me. After coming from PalmOS I find this missing feature hard to live with.

  • Ed

    should be able to tag notes as Favorites on the web and via the normal client.

  • Mike

    I just went to Europe for 2 weeks and turned data roaming off on my iPhone so as to avoid the ridiculous $20/mb fees from ATT&T. Several months ago I selected all of my notes in Evernote as favorites (a tedious process) so as to access them offline. However, upon arriving in Europe I discovered that I could not view ANY of my notes. Apparently an upgrade at some point in the last couple months wiped out my favorites list.

    Why won’t Evernote fix this problem by making ALL notes automatically accessible–for both viewing and editing–offline? What is the big issue? When one is offline one can view and edit all of ones notes (as many times as one wishes). And then when a data connection becomes available, the notes would sync up. Until this issue is resolved, I’m afraid I can’t use Evernote. I can’t take the risk of not being able to access my notes offline.

  • henken

    Yes, with “Favorites” I can see existing contents of my note even off-line, but it is not able to edit the existing contents in off-line situation. It is weak point of Evernote. I really hope improvement of this point in next ver. up.

  • hh

    Another request here for full offline capabilities, would make things so much better, even when there is a data connection but it is slow.
    Thanks!!

  • Thorsten

    And I thought Evernote was a great app…
    I can’t believe there are no offline notes. What are those guys thinking? Do they never actually *use* the stuff. I mean, ok, it’s free – but flawed free apps there are aplenty…

  • Jaime

    I have a premium account in Evernote and sadly realize that I can’t search my notes offline on my iPhone. There is no excuse for an app like that. Or Evernote evolves soon to include offline search or I have to move to another platform and lose the money I invest in a premium account.

  • Axel

    It took so long to transfer all my notes from another App to Evernote… and now I can’t work with them offline!?!

  • Chuck

    Even as implemented, there seem to be some bugs. I just tagged a note as favorite, closed evernote, turned on airplane mode, opened evernote, opened the “favorite” note.

    The title is there, the blue star is filled in, but the content is not visible. I was just looking at the note, so it must have been cached. (Even the little thumbnail shows the content)

    I’m trying to use the notes for an upcoming trip to Japan, so syncing won’t be easy if there is a problem with them.

    It’s a bummer as I love Evernote in many other ways, but I’d rather have plain text notes that sync reliably.

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