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Evernote for Mac Update: Redesigned Note Panel, Better Tables, Easier Checklists, and More.

Product updates | By Andrew Sinkov
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Today’s Evernote for Mac update (3.0.6) comes with a bunch of nice enhancements to checklists, tables and more. Plus, we’ve included a beautiful redesign of our note panel. Let’s take a look.

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Redesigned note panel

In this update, we completely redesigned the note panel. The goals of the redesign were clarity and simplification. You’ll notice that the new layout is much more space-efficient. For example, we moved information about the note into the “i” button. We also made note sharing options much more prominent with the new, big share arrow.

In addition to saving space, the new layout is also easier to understand and use. The icons have all been updated, and we now treat dropdowns in a new, cleaner way.

Additionally, we added some intelligence into the headers. When you’re browsing through your notes, we show the date created and updated in the note header area. As soon as you start editing the note, the date fades away and becomes the formatting bar. If you want to edit the date, click on the “i.”

Easier checklists

Creating checklists has never been easier. Now, the app will continue your checklist when you move to a new line. Start your checklist by clicking the checkbox icon in the format bar or by pressing CMD+SHIFT+T. After typing in your first item, hit return. The next line will also contain a checkbox. Hit return again without entering any text and the checkbox will disappear.

View multiple notes when in fullscreen mode

When you’re in full screen mode on OS X Lion, you can now double click on as many notes as you like and view each in its own window, all while Evernote remains in full screen in the background.

Better tables

Tables also get an upgrade in this release. Now you can add or remove rows and columns in existing tables. To do this, right click on the table and select Tables from the menu.

And lots more

As always, in addition to the things you see, there are a ton of improvements under the hood. We have lots more to come. Enjoy.

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  • Darren

    I miss the Elephant clipper of the original, Pre-Lion version. It was just so simple and fast, even logged in the URL. Awesome. Then Lion comes in and it’s gone! Will it ever come back?

  • Amr Khalifa

    Thank you for the gorgeous update!
    Easily the best & most beautiful note-taking app ever! Definitely one of my favorite Mac apps of all time. :)

  • 2E20

    Version 3.0.6 triggers the switch to the discrete graphics, even when in list view. This didn’t happen with the previous versions.

  • http://Jarvisslacks.com Jarvis Slacks

    Thank you so much for this update. The move to the Lion OS changed things about Evernote that I loved. I’m glad you were able to fix them with this update, especially opening notes in multiple windows. It makes a huge difference. Thanks again.

  • Henry Strauch

    The update looks great and i was excited to start using evernote again along with “Peek” for the iPad. Overall, Evernote is a good program and keeps improving, but there are a lot of things still present that made me originally stray away from Evernote as my go-to program.
    I am a college student at a UC (one of the good ones) and use my computer to take notes on a daily basis. I also constantly look for a program that will help me organize and keep track of everything across my mac and iOS platforms. Unfortunately, no program thus far has been able to this.
    Evernote has come the closest, but it still is not efficient to have to create a new note, and title it for every different topic during a class lecture. When I take notes (along with every other student I know) they are organized by lecture. All the notes are then organized by class, not by the topics that are covered through the whole lecture! Now, this would be fine if Evernote allowed for more than just a 2 step hierarchy. At this stage, what really makes Evernote any different from every other word processor and dropbox combination? Furthermore, in the mac version there is no easy way to subscript or superscript text; another reason i still use programs such as word or pages.
    Now onto integration with “Peek.” When using a program like “Peek” or another flashcard/study program, I do not need the title of a long document as a “hint” with the rest of the document as my answer and the only way to change this is to break every document into differently titled notes. This is very inefficient and in no way better than making flashcards on my free iPad app, or on flashcards themselves. Peek needs to either allow you to make your own flashcards or to easily separate parts of my document into subfolders. Or maybe even a feature in ever note when you simply highlight the text u want as a clue and the text you want as the answer. If something like this were to be implemented, i would not regret being a premium member.

  • Majid

    Please take a look at this review:

    http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=89232&expand=false

    Hope everything gets improved and best wishes!!

  • SA

    I really, really dislike the new note headers. They are a huge waste of space – when 3/4ths of a line is empty, and there’s no way for me to hide that line if I’m not using it, what is it doing other than taking up screen real estate? Really awful.

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