Windows Beta update: Evernote 3.5 Beta 4

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

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Evernote 3.5 Beta 4 is packed with major improvements and enhancements. Check for updates or download it now. Here’s the new stuff:

Firefox clipper

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Evernote’s Firefox clipper extension now supports Evernote 3.5, allowing you to clip webpages right into Evernote on your desktop. This single Firefox extension supports both versions of Evernote for Windows, Evernote for Mac, and, in the absence of those, it will send your clips to Evernote Web. That’s one smart clipper. Get the Firefox extension »

Emailing notes

Emailing notes gets a lot simpler in this release. Instead of relying on a desktop mail application, Evernote now sends your notes straight out of the web service. This is great for those that don’t have desktop email clients installed. It also means that we’re able to have a much more consistent look and feel for notes emailed from any version of Evernote you use. If you want a record of your email, simply check the “CC me” box. This will send a copy of your emailed note to the address we have on file for your account.

Looking good

The latest Beta introduces a ton of user interface enhancements. Among the numerous improvements, you will see a much cleaner Note Info panel (just tap the little chevrons to expose it), as well as a snazzier Mixed View.

Other improvements

Addressed PDF document search issues
Added new hot-keys for formatting notes and adding to-do items
Added an item to the Options window to auto-update to pre-release versions
Improved installer
Fixed ENScript support for searching for notes

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Updates!

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Ingo

Drag & Drop support seems to be one-way only. I can’t drag an attachment (PDF file) from Evernote into an Outlook Email compose window anymore, now it inserts a URL instead of the attachment.

That’s a key function for me, I had to go back to 3.1
Evgeny

I’m a new user and started from recommended 3.5 (3.5.0.862) beta version. Well, THAT blurry look of the GUI made my head aching in very short time. I see here many people complain about it. Well, I’ll give a chance to version 3.1, at least it doesn’t have this fuzzy look problem.

Please stop playing with fonts, learn from feature-reach Microsoft applications how they do very successful GUIs for Windows, looking neat and elegant.
Todd

I really like the new UI. Don’t mind the tape view being gone. I love the autofill for tags – that is the best new feature I have seen in here yet – huge timesaver for me!!!

I am running Windows 7 and also have been having the black screen issue others have mentioned. It does not happen all the time but often. I will try the workaround mentioned by Gleb R.

Keep up the great work
rich

It’s fuzzy

I miss being able to tag screen clips directly from the pop up notifier

Can we have more options for what we want to see/use (time band, thumbnails, 3.0 style, etc?)

The clipper is now much more visible. I sometimes used to lose it. But can we have the floating clipper tool back?
Thank you Evernote!
rich

oh yeah. you can’t resize the clipping area the way you could. Once you release the mouse button it’s too late
marinoz

Am I the only one who lacks the “Subject Date” in the Attributes?

I am a paying user but won’t be anymore if tha Beta Version does not pan out better and fuller than the current version.

Still a LOT of work to be done in general, judging from the comments.
Stop adding platforms and focus on improving the current ones please…..
Neville

When resuming from sleep on Windows 7, I also get the blank evernote screen problem.

Also, when editing notes, I find that if I select a few lines of text and then click the ‘To Do’ toolbar button, everything I selected is replaced by a single check-box. This is not intuitive or useful — what I was expecting is that each line gets a check-box, similar to how you can apply bullets to several lines of text in a word processor.
Phil

Hey guys, great app – been using it for a while now and find it most useful in dealing with customer enquiries and just those random thoughts I have to scribble down.

Sadly, I too fall firmly in the camp of “hate the new UI”. The continuous scroll (as someone up there put it well) is sorely missed. Making notes now feels clunkier somehow :/

If it can return as an option, that would be lovely thanks!

The only other thing I’d like to mention is to not neglect Evernote’s use as a standalone app – I almost never use web sync notebooks, for privacy. But the constant sync checks seem to mess the cursor location up as I’m writing.

It’s still great though.
http://supherb.posterous.com Herb

Like many others, we’re also getting the “black screen” — me under Vista and my wife under Win 7. Works fine for a while but seems, after an extended time of being open, all you get is a black screen when coming back to the app. Have to kill it using the task manager and restart. Very annoying!
Steve

Hey guys–I crapped all over earlier incarnations of this beta but you’ve addressed my concerns.

a) Load time and performance overall is much better.

b) When you minimize a window down to a sliver so you can take notes during a GoTo or other Web conference, Evernote plays nice, just like it used to.

I’m happy again. In terms of the UI complaints other folks have registered, I appreciate that with this release you guys are attempting a more uniform look and feel between your Windows and Mac versions. I’m in love again. Admittedly it’s a conditional love, but take it for what it is. Peace!

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