Windows Beta update: Evernote 3.5 Beta 3

Product updates | 03 Nov 200903 Nov 09 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Evernote 3.5 Beta keeps improving on its path to general availability. The latest release adds a number of new features, improves speed and stability, and gives you lots of things you’ve been asking for. Here’s a rundown.

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Drag and drop

With this release, you can drag files onto the Evernote application icon to create new notes. Free users can drag images, audio and PDFs. Evernote Premium users can drop any file including Word docs and PowerPoint presentations. If you use a scanner with Evernote, set the scan destination to be Evernote.exe, and those scans will become notes automatically.

Pop-up control

If you’re like me, then you like seeing those informational sync and clip pop-up messages. Some of you…well…you hate them. Now you get to choose. Keep them on, or turn them off. It’s your call. Just go to Tools > Options > Synchronization to change the setting.

Tons of other improvements

Significantly improved performance when switching between notebooks
New global hot-key for searching Evernote (defaults to SHIFT+Windows+F)
Improved search support for Asian characters
Addressed PDF search issues
Improved auto-import dialogs
Improved copy/paste support
Incorporated more standard keyboard short-cuts
More configuration preferences preserved
Improved task tray with easier access to clipping and short-cuts

Known problems

Graphics and text can appear blurry in some monitor configurations
Firefox clipper is currently not supported

To everyone that has tried the Beta. Thanks. Your feedback is helping us build a better Evernote.

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Updates!

Evernote for Windows Beta keeps getting better:

Evernote 3.5 Beta 4: read about it
Evernote 3.5 is out of beta: read about it

Vik

May I suggest a few fetures:
- Evernote Mobile should be able to display the existing notes without the need to sign in
- Ability to only have an icon on the System Tray while the main window is maximised (like Winamp)
- The ability to create notes when right clicking on a tag name – so the new note will automatically contains that tag

Thank you, keep up the good work!
Bob

I was cruising with 3.5 for months and loving it, then all of a a sudden it started locking up on me (“not responding”). At first, it would only lock up on me when clipping from IE8. Eventually it got to where it locked up whenever I tried to sync. I have had to switch back to 3.1.
MTOBIN

Evernote no longer syncs. Been unable to sync for weeks on my PC since downloading 3.5. Removed and still an issue with 3.1 now. Mac works fine. It is useless to me know, since I use the PC at work and access on other computers and phone. Already looking to switch back to OneNote and use the mobile app that works on my iPhone to sync since it works.
vlangford

I like the look and feel of 3.5 so far, but I miss the old tag functionality. I would like to be able to have the tag tool back on the tool bar, so that I can just check the tags that apply to the note. Also, I notice that if I create a new tag and then file it under another tag, the database drops that tag from the note, but then counts it anyway.
Jeff Dobbing

Have only just discovered Evernote and it’s one of those things that now I’ve found it just makes sense! So very keen to see 3.5 work perfectly. So far I’ve found the following minor issues with Beta 3:
- Spell checking option (inc pressing F7) just doesn’t seem to do anything for me?
- I consistently find that attempting to either cut or copy an image from one note to another results in the image being cut from the source note and then unavailable to paste to the destination – end result the image is lost forever
- Clicking on the “Current Monthly Usage” report intermittently results in a hidden window being created, giving the impression the application has locked up. Task manager can be used to end the main application and then report window to fix things

I’m running Evernote 3.5 Beta 3 on Windows 7 Ultimate
vlangford

Further comments on the Tags. If you have tags filed under a tag, the top tag used to show the tag count of everything underneath it. It no longer does.

Also, I have found a similar issue with the spell check. You can use it, and choose “Ignore”, but the red line doesn’t go away.
http://www.thedatarevolution.com Dan Murray

Aside from some basic instability with the new version (sometimes decides to fail and close) one other issue I’ve noticed is printing. When I print from 3.5 Beta 3 the font is too large and the output goes off the page. If I sync and print the same material from the web version….no problem.

Can’t wait till you get a clipper setup for the new version. Love it.
Wilmer

1) feels slower, (libxml probably is quite slow)
2) clipping, I would love the CTRL C back. I don’t always clip into Evernote.
3) memory footprint seems huge!! 95Megs? That’s crazy big!

I’m going back to 3.1
Roman

Where’s Time Band??? Bring Time Band back Maybe it’s not useful for everyone but it is veeeeeery cool feature
Itai

I gotta tell you – I’m an avid 3.1 user. I’m a big fan of Evernote – been using it since V2. I just installed 3.5, because I upgraded OS, and thought I’d give it a try. It’s terrible.

The very basic of Evernote – the fact that it’s a digital notebook, is gone. I can no longer see all notes that apply to a certain filtering (e.g. all unfinished todos) in one view. Sure I can use the thumbnail view – but why would I want to see notes in random sizes and fonts? It’s a working tool. All I want is to see all of my todos in one long view. That option is gone.

I uninstalled and ran back to 3.1 (and found out that Evernote uninstall leaves a pile of junk on my PC after uninstall. Thank god for REVO Uninstaller) .
I hope to god 3.5 would not be released like this, as it would mean the end of an era for me…

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