Evernote for Mac: Subtly Sweeter

Product updates | 05 May 200905 May 09 | By Andrew Sinkov

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The latest Evernote for Mac update introduces some great user interface enhancements, as well as a number of behind-the-scenes fixes and improvements.

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Best thumbnails ever

We designed Evernote for Mac to be a visual memory aide, and easy-to-scan thumbnails are a big part of the fun. We’ve completely redesigned the thumbnails in this release to make them easier to use and prettier to look at. The thumbnails now have different shapes based on the content of your notes; adding a new dimension to your visual memory. They now also sport badges to quickly indicate and identify file attachments. These new thumbnails are available in both Thumbnail and Mixed views.

Other visual enhancements

Visual update to left-hand navigation
Improved the search explanation menu alignment
Improved Mixed View thumbnails and text layout
Updated look for the Monthly Usage meter

There are also a bunch of bug fixes, as well as support for the “audio/amr” file type for both free and premium accounts. If you already have Evernote for Mac installed, just check for updates and grab the new version. You can also download it from here.

For all of you Evernote for Windows users out there, do not fear. There are some exciting updates coming your way soon.

Jesse

Honestly…why have to separate client applications? Wouldn’t it be easier to be working off a consolidated cross platform code base so that you support the same feature set for both Mac & Windows based users?

Why? It doesn’t make any sense from a business or consumer stand point.
Benji

I really love Evernote (use it on my iPhone + Mac + my home Vista PC) and I am a paying customer.
I am thinking of using it for recording business meetings but I understand that the max recording time is 5 minutes. I would like to this to be configurable. So if I need to record a 60 minute meeting I could do this without having to manually restart recording. I suppose if you insist you could just create an auto-restart of the 5 minute recording of a new note up to a certain number of auto-recorded notes. Either way you get my drift.
Thank you for a GREAT product.
Bartek Bargiel

hi,

great update. Please add the Quick Look support for Leopard users – it would work great with files not supported internally (i.e. Pages or Numbers documents which I’m storing inside Evernote as the Premium user). It’s not difficult to implement, too.

thanks,

BB
Bruno

Please do not even consider a cross platform client, I am asking as a premium user.
Phil Libin

Jesse,

While cross-platform frameworks have matured nicely in the past couple of years, we feel that they still have a long way to go before they can match the native experience of a rich app like Evernote. We figure that if you’re going to bother installing downloadable software, we might as well give you “best of breed” not “lowest common denominator”. After all, we already have a full cross-platform solution with the web client.

Having said that, we do have a MAJOR overhaul of the Windows client in the works which will (a) make it really nice, and (b) speed up future development to keep parity with the Mac client.
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It is still disappointing that Evernote does not support the Mac’s built-in right-to-left language support. Languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and many others are all supported by Mac but Evernote is still mainly supports languages whose alphabet is Latin and are left-to-right.
- Danny
  
  I agree. I would move from Onenote to Evernote in a New York second if it supported Hebrew
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This is a good upgrade but you will have more access to features if you buy premium. Go premium and it’s all worth it.
http://www.tonycaselli.com Tony

I like the upgrades quite a bit! Thank you!

I have to say, though, that the best news I’ve heard is the comment Phil made above, which says the iPhone editing will be getting an improvement. Right now it’s a nightmare and the biggest thing keeping me from using this program to anywhere near maximum potential! Now THAT is an exciting Evernote announcement!
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love the upgrades, will have to check the premium as it seems highly recommended.
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Evernote started out as a Windows app, but in version 3.0, currently in private beta, it has become a web service along with a sharp looking native Mac OS X client app. A custom iPhone version is planned as well, although the web interface already provides some level of access to iPhone and iPod touch users. Using both the native client and the web interface, users can upload all kinds of data clippings into the system and retrieve items from their brain dumps with a quick search.

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