Evernote for Android: It's here!

Evernote for Android: It’s here!

Product updates | 16 Dec 200916 Dec 09 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Say hello to the newest member of the Evernote family: Evernote for Android. After months and months of development, we’re incredibly excited to unveil this shiny new version of Evernote. As you would expect, Evernote for Android is free and available in the Android Market.

Capture everything

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Evernote for Android allows you to create text notes, snap photos, and record audio. In addition, you can easily attached files to your notes. Free subscribers can add PDFs, text, audio, or image files. Premium subscribers can attach any file they like, as long as the total note size is under 25MB.

When creating your notes, Evernote for Android lets you specify titles, tags, and destination notebooks.

Find all your notes, any time

Evernote for Android comes equipped with native note browsing, which means that you can easily browse and search through all of your notes. Thanks to Evernote’s synchronization features, all the notes you make in the desktop or web versions of Evernote are instantly accessible from your Android phone—and vice versa.

There’s also Evernote’s image recognition, which automatically recognizes text contained within snapshots—this is great for everything from business cards to wine labels to whiteboards.

Different views

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When viewing your notes, Evernote for Android lets you choose between a fancy thumbnail view or a simpler list view. If you’re on a speedy network, then opt for the thumbnail view. If you’re on a slower network, or one that charges based on data use, you can go with the slimmed-down list view. Your choice.

Check the menu

To maximize the amount of visible space, we placed a bunch of functionality into the Android menu. Click your phone’s Menu button, and you’ll be able to browse notes, set location awareness, view Saved Searches, and more.

Where you at?

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Evernote for Android captures your location whenever you create a note. It then lets you find that note by proximity to your current location. To activate this feature, go to the Settings menu and make sure that the location settings are enabled. Once a connection is made, the “Notes Near Location” option will appear in the main Evernote menu.

And much more…

This is only the beginning. We have big plans for Android in 2010, so stay tuned.

We also want to give a special thanks to all of the people that helped us iron out the kinks during the beta period. You rock!

Speaking of which, if you were a Beta tester, then you need to uninstall Evernote and reinstall it from the Market.

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Henry

Great app, I keep finding more ways to take advantage of it. Any plans on adding the capability of barcode scanning?
Clive

Please make the app available outside of the market too. I have serious problems with the market not showing stuff for my phone model (HTC Tattoo running droid 1.6) – Evernote is not found. Even if I use the QR Code directly off the evernote website. Please also just add a link to the .apk file directly, I’d love to try this.

Thank you
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Clive, point your Android browser at: http://s.evernote.com/androidbeta
oxsun

I’m expecting the offline version for my HTC desire also;
and if it supports hand draw on android it would be great also.
Kevin

Thanks for bringing Evernote over to Android. It just made the switch from iPhone to Android and Evernote was the first program I downloaded. I have one question I’m hoping you can answer. I have several notes that contain pics. On my iPhone the notes would open with the pics small enough to fit on the display entirely and I could pinch to zoom in/out. On my Droid X they are much larger and I have to scroll around to see the entire picture (I’m viewing them scaled). The only solution I’ve found so far is to resize the pictures in the web app. Is this something you can fix? I’ve noticed this issue with other Android apps, and I’m curious if it’s just a limitation of the OS? I also have two requests. Could you add an option to have the app default to existing notes? I reference my notes more often than creating them. The other request is offline notes. Thanks!
Nini

Hi,
the Android version is a good start. Offline functionality will be the biggest improvement.
What I miss too: To sort the notes by notepad. Its a pain in the a** to go through 100+ notes to find what you’re looking for.
Michael

Agreed with Nini — not being able to view my notes on my Android by Notebook is a serious deficiency. With many notes, it means that the app is really only useful for *submitting*, not *reading* notes.
- Adam
  
  If you type the name of the notebook into the search bar of the android version it allows you to just view notes from that notebook, same with tags.
  
  Does that solve your problem?
- Bob
  
  It’s helpful to know that typing the Notebook “name” will bring up the items in that nobebook. But, typically I want to scan the Notebooks, not the individual items and often I do not recall the names of my 30 notebooks.
- pep
  
  I agree with that, i think this is a serious must.
  
  Typing the Notebook name is not a solution at all, think i have more than 20 notebooks, have i to know how are the called?¿
helloqidi

waiting for the offline mode
Greg

Hi,

I miss offline mode too and I find it too complicated to access to its notes, I would expect seeing on start page the last notes I used.

Thanks!
Aaron

Would love to have full zoom in/out functionality for pics. I often take a pic of a page so I can reference it any time, but I cannot fully zoom in/out to get around and see it up close…
http://tactoth.weebly.com tactoth

Is the notes list integrated into the app or need to be read in web browser? To be frank I’m really disappointed when I saw evernote for BB, it’s nothing more than a text editor that can upload.

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