Comments on: Evernote 5 for Mac Beta is Here [Updated]

By: Theo

Theo — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:53:46 +0000

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)

By: Julia Landau

Julia Landau — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:12:02 +0000

Totally agree. I want the old version back. Nicer look, and “hierarchal view” that made me love EN in the first place! Argh why does this always happen??!

By: Jacob Landis

Jacob Landis — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:09:18 +0000

Yes – annoying that I had fixed mine up and preferences are all reset and standard now!

By: Jacob Landis

Jacob Landis — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:07:11 +0000

I agree with Peter on both counts. I like new functions and ease-of-use updates — but the new colors are just not nice. Evernote was so pretty before! It had the charm of a personal desktop but without the clutter. Now it looks like a layout design for a prison. Sadly, it reminds me of GMail’s annoying spacial and icon revamping. It had a neat design that I was comfortable using – then they replaced words with icons to make it “simpler” and show less information on the screen.
EN people, we liked it — that’s why it’s so popular! If you did a survey on the “new look,” I sure didn’t get it. I had just become a premium subscriber too…. not enjoying it as much.

By: Fix iTunes

Fix iTunes — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:36:19 +0000

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.

By: Jack Hirsch

Jack Hirsch — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:50:25 +0000

You can still list your Notebooks and Tags in the Sidebar. Just right-click Notebooks or Tags and click expand.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:49:49 +0000

Actually negate my above post! Right clicking on notebooks and selecting “Show notebook list” displays the notebooks in a tree.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 07:47:25 +0000

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.

By: Artur Bodera

Artur Bodera — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:32:57 +0000

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.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:33:45 +0000

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!