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Evernote for Windows Update: Tag and Notebook Searching, Favorites Bar and More

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
 

Today, we’re adding a new feature to Evernote for Windows (version 4.5.2), which has been a part of Evernote for Mac for a little while: the Favorites Bar.

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This little bar, which runs just above the note list, does some incredibly useful things. First, it lets you jump to parts of your account that you want to quickly access. For example, click on Web Clips and only web clips show up in the list. Or, click on Tags and choose a tag to filter your note list.

Searching through Notebooks and Tags

Speaking of tags, the Favorites Bar is a tagger’s best friend. Sometimes, finding the tag you want in a long list can be daunting. Not so with the Favorites Bar. Click on Tags and you can quickly filter your tag list by typing it into the text field. You can do the same for Notebooks, which is great if you have lots of them.

Pinning to the Favorites Bar

There’s one more powerful feature of the Favorites Bar: you can pin things to it. Have a note that you access a lot? Drag it to the Favorites Bar. Have a Saved Search that you run frequently? Drag it in. The same goes for notebooks, tags and just about anything else.

Try out the Favorites Bar, and let us know what you think. This update also includes lots of bug fixes, improvements to to-do items, new language support (Turkish, Thai and Malay), and more.

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  • sc

    What would really be great is an “advanced search” window that easily allows one to create sophisticated searches instead of having to wade through the API document to find the syntax for complex searches.

  • Ben

    I love the new feature. Just one question…

    How do I delete things off of the favorite bar? The only way I’ve found is restoring to default. Also, the web clips, mobile and files are something I don’t really need. Can they be deleted?

    Thanks for the great update!

  • Maxa

    You guys just keep making it better and better!

    Many thanks!

  • R Hamill

    Favourites bar is just perfection!!!!!!

  • http://www.drewvogel.com Drew Vogel

    How do I remove a tag or note I’ve dragged to the favorites bar?

    • http://2anyone.blogspot.com anyone

      I think it’s kind of bug of the evernote fav bar, they must tended drag out to remove, but somehow it bugy. you have to carefully drag out the tag or note you want to remove, try sway up and down you will find it disappeared in some point. now release your mouse for done. :)

      hopefully they can figure it out on next release.

  • tom brakke

    With the upgrade to the new version for Windows, new notes that are clipped from sites now open automatically in a new window (which they hadn’t before). How do I stop that from happening?

    • tom brakke

      It would be great to get an answer to this question.

  • Chris

    Hi,

    I am looking to uupgrade to premuium account but cant find the information I am looking for. It is shocking that the site doesn’t offer any channel of communication between the users and the business. The community seems available only to premium users.

    I’ve been using evernote for years now and I love it. I just realized I have accidently erased a part of a file in Jan this year. Will be able to retrieve the earlier file from history if I upgrade to premium account? Please answer, this is important for me. Thanks.

    • Kasey Fleisher Hickey

      Chris, Note History will go back to around 3 months prior to when we announced the feature – so January of this year should be covered. Anyone can file a written support request, free or Premium, and everyone receives a response.

  • Dave

    The previous (windows) version allowed me to right-click on a file in a directory and use the “send-to” option to send it to Evernote. That seems to be no longer available… Too bad, that was a handy shortcut.

  • satoshi

    I have been using the newest version, 4.5.2, but it just now became not to run. Why?

  • Bill

    The new software does not install a favorite toolbar for IE9 on my system. How does the toolbar get installed?

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