Big Evernote for Mac Update

Product updates | 10 Mar 200910 Mar 09 | By Phil Libin

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We just released a new version of Evernote for Mac (version 1.3), brimming with more-features-and-less-bugs goodness. Here are the highlights:

New Safari Clipper

Evernote for Mac now has a speedy clipper built right into Safari 3 and 4. Activate it from the “Clipping” tab in the Evernote preferences window and you’ll see a handsome new elephant button in your Safari toolbar. You can do three things with the Safari clipper:

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Select a portion of a website (text and images), then click the elephant to make a new note with your selected text and images.
Click the elephant with nothing selected to clip the full contents of the web page.
Shift-click the elephant with nothing selected to make a nicely-formatted PDF of the current web page and send it to Evernote. Use this option if you want to preserve the formatting on a complex page.

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You can also configure the Safari clipper to show your new note, allowing you to quickly tag and edit, or just let it run inconspicuously in the background, so you can go on browsing and clipping uninterrupted.

Quick tip: you can easily find all your web clips by browsing to “Attributes->Source->Web page” in the left-hand navigation panel.

Safari 4 Support

Apple’s new Safari 4 beta browser is pretty sweet, unfortunately installing it caused some problems in Evernote, including a number of note editing issues and intermittent cursor jumpiness when searching through notes. This should all be fixed now. However, Safari 4 is still in beta, so other issues may crop up in the future. As always, please let our sleep-deprived support team know about any problems.

Growl Notifications

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Evernote now ships with Growl, which lets you configure background notifications for several types of events like clipping, synchronization and file attachments. You’ll also be notified when new images have been fully indexed. Your Evernote situational awareness has never been better!

Merge Notes

You can now select two or more notes from any view, right-click, and select “Merge Notes” from the menu. Guess what happens?! Your selected notes get combined into one longer note. This is great for tying a bunch of stray thoughts into a coherent narrative, or putting someone’s business card right under their picture. Your original notes will automatically go into the Trash, so you can fish them out if you made a mistake.

Promo Box

Keep your eye on the box in the lower left-hand corner. We’ll display tips, messages from Evernote and (eventually) promotions. We’ll try to make this useful to everyone, but Premium subscribers can always turn it off.

More Configurable Preferences

The Evernote Preferences window has been expanded and improved to give you more customization options to make Evernote conform to your every whim. Total whim conformation not guaranteed.

Many Bug Fixes and Usability Tweaks

Evernote for the Mac is now faster, more stable and just plain better.

We hope you enjoy it. Lots of other improvements are coming soon. Thanks for helping us improve Evernote!

http://wanderingstan.com/ Stan James

Also cannot figure out how to remove Evernote from Safari. It puts it’s fingers into everything with no way to clean up the mess.
nikulis

i installed the update but now everytime i try and open it it gives me an evernote quit unexpectedly window. help!!!!!!
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  @nikulis Please contact our support team with your issue: http://s.evernote.com/support
ATA

Hello, is it possible to use Evernote with Safari for Windows? can’t find the clipper download anywhere. Thanks
- Quiknote
  
  @ATA
  
  Yes, there is a bookmarklet that you can drag to Safari’s Bookmarks Bar. I have it, but I’ve never used it, so I can’t say offhand how well it works. I use the bookmarklet mainly with Opera, and I’ve never had any problems there. It’s rather a nice feature.
  
  http://www.addtoany.com/services/evernote_button
  
  Since Safari now supports extensions, I don’t see why there isn’t an Evernote clipper for Safari for Windows. Then again, extension support for SW is nonexistent. Most developers seem to assume that people with Windows wouldn’t want Safari; that it’s mainly a Mac browser.
  
  Although I don’t agree with that. I love SW to death.
Paul

I find the product just a bit too invasive compared to other things I own.
I think it’s pretty audacious to invade Safari an icon without asking my permission,
and only asking when I explicitly launched Evernote.

And to the guy who’s defending the ads – the ads suck. It’s FREE software, … THAT”S the justification? Hey, if I like something enough I’ll buy it. The more ads, the less I want it. I run from pushy spammy software where people are trying too hard to coerce or business out of me.
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Paul, you can remove the Safari extension by unchecking the option in the Evernote for Mac preferences.
  
  About 98% of the ads that you see promote either features within Evernote that users may not be aware of or complementary products that enhance your Evernote experience. I would hardly call that pushy or spammy.
paul d

Crashed firefox all the time, couldn’t get the swing of it. Wanted to love it.

; )
jimbob

February 2011. Evernote Clipper still bumps other toolbar buttons from Safari, now in version 5. Nearly 1-1/2 years after this bug was reported. The main victim? My 1Password button. Guess which one I want most, and which software I’ll be uninstalling? (Hint: Starts with an ‘E’.) Learn to listen to your feedback, dudes.
shaitana7

I liked the Evernote interface, but the inability to edit some notes (rich text) is a no-go for me. Too bad, seems to be a pretty good programa and service, otherwise.
Joe Woelich

Is there any possible way to prevent the Safari Evernote clipper button from hopping positions every dang time I start up the browser? I have 4 extensions installed, 3 of which have buttons; 1password, evernote, adblock plus and flashblock. Evernote is the -only- one that does this. I see all sorts of entries in console log about inserting itself, yet I see no other entries for other extensions. What gives?
emma

How exactly do I get the evernote button on there in the first place?

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