You know that amazing feeling you get when you cross the finish line after running a full marathon? Me neither, but I imagine it’s similar to what we’re feeling right now. After over a year of development and months of extensive beta testing, the new Evernote (version 3.5) for Windows is here, it’s out of beta, and it’s pretty awesome.

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We’re staggering the auto-update process. If you have been using the Windows 3.5 Beta and want to upgrade, go to Tools>Options>Upgrade to pre-releases. Evernote 3.1 users should download the new version.

Why this is huge

The new Evernote for Windows is…well…new. Completely new, in fact. We rewrote it from the ground up to make it faster, more reliable, and just plain better than Evernote for Windows has ever been. The first thing you’ll notice is its revamped interface. The new look, complete with thumbnails, is great for quickly browsing and searching through your notes. Once you start using it, you’ll notice improvements to text editing, tagging, screen clipping, digital ink support, and tons more. Our goal was to use everything we’ve learned since our launch to make a great Evernote experience on Windows.

Ideal for switchers

Lots of people move among multiple computers and devices as part of their daily routine. The last thing you want is a wildly different Evernote experience on each platform. A major consideration for us in developing this application was uniformity—making sure that you could go from using Evernote on your Windows machine to Evernote on your Mac and back again without thinking about it. Now you can.

Latest and greatest

This means that not only it is more functional and stable and works great on Windows Vista and Windows 7, but we’ll be able to roll out continuous improvements faster than ever.

So, so, so much more…

Here’s an (almost) complete list of all that’s new and better in Evernote for Windows version 3.5. If you’ve been following us through the beta process, then you may have seen some of these already.

Three different ways to view your notes

• Thumbnail view: Rendered thumbnails showing the contents of your notes, images, and PDFs for easy browsing and filtering
• List view: Multi-column “List View” with sorting on any column
• Mixed view: Mixed thumbnail + detail view
• Zoom thumbnails to see more detail
• Display thumbnail or mixed views in visual groupings by date, size, source URL domain, and start of title

Note editing

• Auto-complete tagging and easier tag creation
• Spell checking as you type
• Better support for advanced markup
• Create tables within notes
• Specify default font size for text in notes
• Better handling of longer text notes
• Creating ink notes in easier with the new canvas-like layout
• Detailed note information and attributes

Searching

• Editable and descriptive search filter
• Ability to add or remove individual criteria from current search filter
• Save the current search for use later as a Saved Search
• Extend note search capabilities with ANY or ALL search criteria
• Support for advanced search grammar in the search field

Other stuff

• Find and Find next/find previous (both within and across notes)
• Better consistency across the Mac and Windows versions of Evernote
• New icons and buttons
• More user-friendly “Folder Import” feature to automatically create notes from a watched folder–great for scanner and other integrations
• “View on Map” button opens geo-tagged notes in Google Maps
• Evernote for Windows introduction video included on launch
• Multi-lingual spell check included in application
• Quick access to your online account information
• Improved screen clipping requiring fewer steps, with on-screen explanations
• Menu options for attaching files to notes without requiring drag-and-drop
• Remove tags from notes with a single click
• Advanced note text editor based on Google Chrome
• Improved synchronization performance via networking optimizations
• Improved database performance for faster searching and sorting of notes
• Full multi-language support (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, more coming soon)
• Single binary for all supported languages
• Synchronization is improved, it is now both faster and more memory efficient
• Drag and drop files onto the application icon
• Informational popups alerting users to synchronization and clipping
• New, re-mappable global hot-keys
• Search support for Asian characters
• Improved auto-import dialogs
• Improved copy/paste support
• Incorporated more standard keyboard short-cuts
• Improved task tray with easier access to clipping and short-cuts
• Email notes via the Evernote Service to remove email client dependencies
• Configurable auto-update to pre-release versions
• Improved installer

And that’s just the beginning

You can expect to see tons of new features and enhancements soon. Stay tuned.

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UPDATE: Evernote 3.5.1 is out. This update introduces major improvements and enhancements. Read about it here »