Evernote 5 for Mac Beta is Here [Updated]

Product updates | 01 Nov 201201 Nov 12 | By Andrew Sinkov

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Last week we announced our completely redesigned Evernote 5 for Mac and showed you many of the new features on our What’s New page. Today, we’re excited to bring you the beta. Below you’ll find instructions on installing the Evernote 5 Beta. But first…

A note on Beta Software
BETA software is not final, which means that using it comes with some risks. These can range from corruption of your notes to data loss. If you’re not comfortable using beta software, we recommend waiting a bit for the general update to go live.

Installing the Beta

First, launch Evernote for Mac and go to Preferences in the Evernote menu and click on the Software Update tab. If you see a checkbox labeled “Update to Beta versions when available”, then check it. Close the Preferences window and click on Check for Updates in the Evernote menu. You’re all set.

If you do not see the beta checkbox, then you have a Mac App Store version of Evernote and cannot update to the beta prior to the official public release.

Office Hours: We’re Here to Help

Evernote 5 is a major new version of our application, so we expect that you will have some questions. We’re here to help. Our team will devote several hours today to answer as many of your questions about Evernote 5 as possible. Ask your questions and let us know what you think in the comments.

Also, be sure to also check out our helpful Getting Started Guide.

rocknrollme

To the guys not seeing the update tab, you can download the beta DMG up on Softpedia : http://mac.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=33189&t=0&i=2

Just install the DMG manually and it works just fine.
Lenny

Can we get an update on when the new Mac version officially comes out? It’s torture to tempt us with it and then not give it to us!
Artur Bodera

Beta 2: more stable but the syncing UI locks up.

Usually when the app starts up it tries to sync and progress bar hangs at “syncing” 50% times.
Sometimes syncing hangs when editing notes (i.e. editing text).
Bottom left corner – syncing and progress bar is frozen (does not move).

Sometimes it takes 1 or 2 minutes for it to go away, no idea if it worked or failed.

Feature request: notebook specific sorting – when browsing all notes I tend to browse them by date created. When I enter a specific notebook (i.e. “IDEAS”) then I’d like to see notes sorted by title/name. Currently the sorting persists on all notebooks and I have to clickety clack a lot to make it right each time.
Alex

I’m a paying evernote customer and I’m very frustrated with the removal of hierarchical notebook display on the left pane. While all the new features may be pretty, I don’t understand why this basic functionality was tossed out. For someone with a large number of notebooks, removing this display pretty much renders evernote useless.
- Alex
  
  Actually negate my above post! Right clicking on notebooks and selecting “Show notebook list” displays the notebooks in a tree.
- http://www.evernote.com Jack Hirsch
  
  You can still list your Notebooks and Tags in the Sidebar. Just right-click Notebooks or Tags and click expand.
http://www.itunessongfixer.com/ Fix iTunes

I’m happy to say that this update, Evernote 5.0 is excellent. As far as looks go it’s perfect I think. I was using 2.0 and now I have jumped right to this 5.0 update as I felt it was needed.

The only thing is it’s taking such a long time syncing not sure why? What is it doing as I don’t know. I’ve tred quitting and it wont. It’s been 4/5 hours now but I suppose I can force quit this but I don’t want to lose anything. Any suggestions as to what I should do? Is this just a long process? I didn’t realize just updating software would take this long? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
http://www.vandersluijs.nl Theo

I hope a version 5 will come out soon for windows!

(at home it works great on my macs, but at work I’ve got Windows 8)

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