Comments on: Evernote for Windows 8 Is Here

By: Jack Thorogood

Jack Thorogood — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:48:00 +0000

I’d love to be able to use Evernote on my Surface RT; indeed its the closest thing that might make the otherwise worthless device useful but…. it crashes all the time. Despite removing and reinstalling evernote a few times it is to no avail. I’ve never got past the initial sync process.
Surely evernote you can sort this out? Please?

By: Tobias W.

Tobias W. — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:09:00 +0000

Hi, I am a premium user and I’m using Evernote on my Mac, my iPhone, my Windows 8 PC and now also on my Windows RT Surface device. The only native Evernote client for the Surface is this new Windows 8 app. While I welcome this additional client as it shows commitment to every platform, the implementation lacks.

Actually, let me rephrase this: the implementation sucks.

The grid layout for this app wastes a lot of screen real estate. Only a handful of notes fit the screen at a time and note titles are truncated because of the square format of the notes in the grid. This is useless. You already know how to create an app with little screen real estate: the iOS app works perfectly fine, why screw up the user experience on a device so much when you have so much screen real estate on a Surface?!

Also, the app is instable. It crashes ALL THE TIME on my Surface. You probably didn’t test the app very much before releasing it. In its current state, it’s useless just because it’s so unstable. I cannot even write a plain text note with more than a couple of sentences and the app crashes.

Other reasons the app is mostly useless is the lack of features. It only allows to put it clear text notes without any extras. Windows 8 is a powerful platform and runs on PCs and a Surface tablet that is more PC than tablet by design. Why don’t you use it that way?

At this point, you need to do two things:

1. Throw away the current Windows 8 app. The design choices cannot be salvaged, it has to be redone. Start from scratch and do it right the next time.

2. Make the Desktop application available as a build for ARM so it runs on the Surface.

Just one thing to consider: Evernote is not the only note taking application in the cloud on Windows 8. Microsoft has been improving OneNote and it’s available on more than just Windows now. If Evernote doesn’t manage to improve its support of Windows 8, it will lose customers to OneNote pretty fast. I’d rather stay with Evernote, so please invest in Windows 8. Many thanks!

By: ovdb

ovdb — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Aa a Premium regular user I’m looking forward for rich editing functionalities for Evernote with Windows 8 RT.

For business reasons i switch daily from iOS to Android, to Windows 8 RT and even if I really appreciate Evernote to be available on Windows 8 RT it is still a very poor version compare to the others…

Please give us more details about the “More to Come”, It’s Chrismast time…

By: Harshit Singhal

Harshit Singhal — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:15:21 +0000

I have been using Evernote for my everyday tasks for a while now and it helps me greatly in keeping my work organized. There are very few alternatives to it, if any, in my opinion.

By: Drew Anderson

Drew Anderson — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:07:54 +0000

I was able to install evernote on the windows 8 desktop. Ignore my last comment.

By: Drew Anderson

Drew Anderson — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:56:28 +0000

I am frustrated with the Metro app on my PC. Maybe it’s better with a touch screen. PLEASE add the capability to install a desktop version of the app on windows 8. I use windows 8 as my admin computer and rely on evernote constantly. So for now I have to use evernote on a windows 7 virtual machine.

By: John

John — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:30:00 +0000

Unless I’m missing something, the most important functionality for me is completely missing from the Win 8 app…SHARING. For Pete’s sake why is there no way to share the notes I’ve created? Ever heard of something called “collaboration”? This basically reduces the app to a repository. Now I’m forced to have the web version open alongside the app just so I can share a note I created. Which begs the question: Why even use the app?!

Can someone please tell me how this was overlooked? I sometimes wonder if the developers even USE the app they are developing. wth.

By: Suhayb Hafiz

Suhayb Hafiz — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:06:38 +0000

I hope you guys are planning on integrating wacom pen capabilities into the windows 8 app. That would be awesome.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:56:49 +0000

Will a nice looking Evernote desktop client ever be available for PC? I’ll probably never buy a Win 8 tablet and, based on my experience with Win 8′s “metro,” it’ll be years before that’s well-integrated into a PC desktop environment. Will development continue on the Windows desktop client?

I’m a daily, heavy Evernote user and am (for better or worse) now dependent upon Evernote for my daily work. Nonetheless, the desktop client needs more work in both interface design and functionality. It’s important for me to know if the Evernote desktop client will continue to be developed.

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By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:28:23 +0000

I like the way the new Evernote for Windows 8 looks, but I’m going to remove it anyway – it’s just not user friendly (without a touchscreen). Like: I can’t get the menu to show and moving from the titel to the tekst with the TAB key doesn’t seem to work – and I don’t like to use my mouse for every action.