Evernote for Windows update

Product updates | 18 Jan 201118 Jan 11 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Today, we updated Evernote for Windows with a slew of great improvements, fixes and some much-requested features. Here are some of the highlights of version 4.2:

Greater control over clips

If you use the Evernote Web Clippers for Internet Explorer or Firefox, then this is for you. In Evernote, you can now specify certain clipping preferences to give you the optimal experience when capturing webpages. Choose which notebook clips are sent to, how the clip should be formatted and whether the clipping popup should appear.

These settings only apply to IE and Firefox because these clippers send clips directly into the desktop version of Evernote. Don’t forget, we also have a great extension available for Google Chrome.

Improved note editing and viewing

In this release, we’ve significantly updated our note editor to make the experience much more robust and reliable. Here are a few of the improvements:

Improved font handling
Improved reliability when creating and pasting numbered, bulleted and multi-leveled lists
Better control over displaying encrypted text
Improved support for cut, copy and paste shortcuts
Date stamp shortcut (CTRL+;) works more reliably

Auto URLs

We’ve received a lot of requests for this one… Whenever you type or paste a URL, it’ll automatically become a link. Clean and simple.

Many more improvements

Improved proxy support. This is particularly useful for Evernote users in corporate environments
Enabled background sync from the task tray
Improved ink note support
Improved printing options
Improved file drag and drop, including adding text files
Improved localization
Added support for Polish, Dutch and Danish

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Glenn Webster

Glad to see another update! Still need to have checkboxes coied instead of turning into images. I have been using copied checklists for a couple of years, and having that functionality broken is a issue for me
- Glenn Webster
  
  The check boxes are fixed with the latest revision. Yes! Fantastic!
Hector

I use a combination of remember the milk and evernote. For reminders and notes. It will be perfect if both applications were together.
http://technicalities.mu.nu Teresa

I am new to Evernote and so far I love it. I use it primarily on my Mac. I have a Windows machine where I have installed it, but other than that have not really used it on that one as yet.

I saw this post about the update and decided to go ahead and run it since I’ve only just started using the service (no problems with features changing for me). When I opened Evernote I didn’t look too closely and started the update while it was still syncing. Mistake!

The update completed fine. No issues. However, the syncing was incomplete, missing nearly half the notes I have on the server. Doing a sync again did nothing to bring in the notes that were missing.

I was able to solve this by stopping Evernote, renaming the database files (the .exb files) and restarting. Once I did that, I got everything in the online database. Then I deleted the renamed files.

Just wanted to let people know – look carefully – let Evernote completely sync first. Then do any software updates. It will save you some time and searching to figure out how to fix it.
http://quiltinggallery.com/ Mishka

Thank you so much for fixing the URLs … that was driving me partially insane. I see you also fixed the checkboxes too.

Very pleased!
Michele
cp

How about adding just printing the note title plus tags as a printing option (without note body). Would make Evernote a way better and still not overcomplex list manager. Also good for getting notebooks TOCs.
Myself

Do we know when “Notebook Stacks” are going to come to the Window’s version? Very much looking forward to that.

I use EverNote as a sort of “commonplace book” / personal reference library / archive of interesting, useful, or helpful information / archive of insightful, interesting, or thought-provoking writing that I come across / research notebook / well you get the idea. I love it!

The promised “Notebook Stacks” feature is something that would vastly improve it’s usefulness to me. (Fortunately, the tags are hierarchical, so I’m able to get by without the “stacks” for the time being).

Editing of clipped web-pages is still weird. If the clipped portion of the website included any sort of table, then trying to edit it has very counter-intuitive results. Are there any plans to do anything about this?
- Andrew Sinkov
  
  Notebook Stacks are available in this update.
  - Myself
    
    Excellent! I was looking for that in the list of included features and didn’t see it. Guess it’s time to do the download and install. Thanks!
chadebrown

Release notes and this blog post do not adequately explain what the changes were. “Improved font handling” for example. Are there MORE font types? Is the range of sizes changed? Or is something else different? Why was this change made now? What was wrong with the fonts before? Why was this not done “right” the first time? How does the change impact notes that pre-date the change? What will look different? Just because the developers call it an “improvement” does not mean it cannot create problems for some users. Is this a case where what was a simple tool becomes bloated? (For example Microsoft probably thought they were making an “improvement” each time they added yet another way to accomplish something leading to software that is way too complex because it has too many features. That little dog that popped up and wagged its tail for example.
savagemike

On the install – just ask outright for all users or just the single current user profile. Don’t hide this behind an ‘advanced’ button.
On my recent update to a multi-profile vista machine clicking the ‘advanced’ button just hung long enough that I just set sod-it (thinking all that was behind it was the ability to customize directories anyway – as is quite normal for ‘customized’ or ‘advanced’ options of installs.
So I just hit ‘next’ and carried on.
Hour and a half later I finally figured out why evernote had disappeared from all other profiles on the computer.
Twenty minutes after trying to install it on an admin account and it telling me a 3.5 version was installed and needed to be removed (which I could not find at all), I realized it was probably talking about the 4.2 version I had installed on the other non-admin profile. I had to go into that profile and manually delete that install, then go back to admin account and install 4.2 again for all users.

So… 2 hours later, evernote was updated.
I honestly often don’t even recommend your mostly great product to friends and family because every update seems to bring some kind of running around like this and I don’t want to spend days and days on the phone walking people through trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
Kess

I tried to update my Evernote today. After the download finished, it prompted me to restart my PC. And so I did. But after the reboot, I lost Evernote 3.5 and there’s no Evernote 4.2 installed either. What should I do? After the reboot, no dialog box appeared to prompt me if my update was successful. A little help will be appreciated. Thanks!
http://grzglo.jogger.pl Grzegorz

Thank You for new release, especially for polish translation!

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