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Huge Evernote for iPhone Update: Offline notebooks and more!

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
 

Talk about a holiday gift! The Apple AppStore elves work in mysterious ways and they just approved the biggest Evernote for iPhone (version 3.2) in months! What’s new? Offline notebooks! Speed improvements! Better note editing! Longer audio recording! And, as if that wasn’t enough, you can now go Premium from within the app. Get Evernote for iPhone now from the App Store »

As always, please reboot your phone after installing a new application.

Local note caching

All notes that you create or view on the iPhone will be cached locally, so you can view them again even without a network connection. This feature is available to all users.

Premium feature: Offline notebooks


Premium users can now choose to be fully downloaded any and all of their notebooks to the device, making them instantly accessible even when offline (or on a plane). Tap on the new Sync tab and choose Offline Notebooks to configure this feature.

The larger the notebook the longer it will take to fully sync, but the plus side is you only have to do this once. For fastest results, we recommend doing this over Wi-Fi. Please note that the app will not be able to download all your notes if you select more notebooks than the available space left on your device.

[Important: There's a small bug that inaccurately displays notebook sizes for premium users if you upgrade from the previous version of the app. Deleting the app from your phone and reinstalling fixes this.]

In-app purchase of Evernote Premium


Want to go Premium to take advantage of the new features? Now you can. You’ll be able to buy a month or year of Evernote Premium right from the new Sync tab in the app.

Double the talkity talk

This latest version doubles the length of Audio Note recordings, to a nice 20 minutes.

Local searching

Searching now works offline, so you can search through your Favorites, cached notes and offline notebooks. If you have a network connection, the app will automatically search through both the notes on your phone and on the server.

Editing rich-text notes


If you try to edit a note that contains formatting, pictures or attachments, you’ll be given the option to append the new text (as before) or make an editable plain-text copy of the note. If you chose to strip out the formatting, a copy of the original note will be moved into the trash so you can recover it later.

New “Sync” tab


All of the Sync and Account features are now consolidated into one tab with real-time status of all sync operations.

Ability to search while synchronizing

The dreaded “already communicating with the server” message is gone for good. So long. Good bye.

Easily see all your notes


A new “All Notes” button when searching or filtering makes it easy to get back to all your notes with one click.

Zippy

Every aspect of Evernote for iPhone is much faster: launching the app, searching, syncing, making new notes, browsing, etc. Our goal is to let you use Evernote without ever having to even notice the speed and this version is another big step in that direction.

Additional languages

Evernote for iPhone is now available in English, French, German and Russian with limited (but quickly growing) support for Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese and Chinese.

  • steve

    congrats,

    one slight question: after upgrading to premium is it possible to downgrade to free again?

    best,

  • Mark Hawkins

    My notes wont sync after Aug 2009, and any new notes wont upload, giving me the message “error communicating with Evenote servers.”
    Is there a sync log like in the desktop clients to check if a certain file is gumming up the works?

  • Jon Gorman

    Great updates!!! This is now my most use iPhone app and convinced me to sign up for premium.

    I agree on an easier selection of a folder, and the cancel button on the rich text edit.

    Is there a plan to do rich text editing on the iPhone? The editor that’s in there is great, but a rich text editor would make this soooo much more helpful to be able to actually work and produce docs on Evernote/iPhone.

    Great job guys, love the product and the iPhone app!

    Jon

  • http://www.chariotsolutions.com Ken Rimple

    Love Evernote but lately the new iPhone app is giving me error u11 when it tries to sync. Makes it unusable for creating notes on the phone. Bad.

  • Paul

    Love it! I evernote on my ipod touch and it’s incredible. Offline access to my notes makes it complete.

    But please, please, please… pay some attention to the blackberry app. It’s just a shortcut to the website and extremely limited. Some of us still have to use blackberrys due to limited ATT coverage. If you could make my blackberry app as cool as the iphone app I could die with my life complete.

  • Johnny Dera

    Offline viewing for Windows Mobile is long over due.

  • http://www.neartheatmosphere.com Mike

    Ever since the upgrade, the iPhone app adds a blank line between each line when I edit notes.

    Is anybody else having this problem?

  • Steve D

    Downloaded upgrade for iPhone but am having trouble with the app crashing each time I try to open it. Thoughts?

    • Andrew Sinkov

      @Steve D If you’re having crashing issues, try uninstalling and re-installing the app. That usually fixes the problem.

  • Jeff

    1) I would like Reminders so that notes can be conveniently emailed or texted to me at pre-programmed times.

    Not sure where these fit in but here goes:

    2) Please add the ability to record voice messages from the Windows Desktop app. I mean, why is voice recording only for mobile? Many times I could use it while at my desk.

    3) Voice-To-Text conversion…if that can be done, Evernote will be the coolest and most useful application EVER.

  • http://espressodoppio-blog.de Christian

    I agree: Offline Support for Windows-Mobile is very important for me!

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