Coming Soon: Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Product updates | 02 Nov 201202 Nov 12 | By Andrew Sinkov

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As if our Evernote 5 for Mac preview wasn’t exciting enough, we have another surprise up our sleeves. While our Mac team was hard at work building their new version, our iOS team was working on some major updates of their own.

Today, we give you a preview of our upcoming Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Oh, and it works great on the new iPad Mini.

We’ve learned a lot over the years about how people use Evernote on mobile devices. It’s all about speed. Whether you’re creating a note or browsing to one, everything needs to happen fast. Also, you want the app to easily support your preferred organization scheme. If you’re a tagger, then tags must be front-and-center. If you put everything into notebooks, then those need to be quickly accessible.

And, everything needs to be one or two taps away.

This thinking led us to completely redesign the app. We introduced Views for Notes, Notebooks, Tags, and Places. We added Quick Note buttons to let you easily create a note with a single click, and, on iPad we added a Recent Notes list to make multi-tasking easier.

To learn more about Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, take a look at our What’s New Page.

This update is coming very soon. Let us know what you think.

Adam

Yet another redesign. Again. Will it ever be good enough to leave it alone for a while and, oh, I don’t know…fix the crashing?

I have had an iPhone of one model or another for 3 years, and have had Evernote of one version or another the entire time, and in all these years, I have NEVER been able to use the Evernote app without it crashing at least 1/3 of the time. Just yesterday I made a new note from my camera roll, and when I went to add tags to it, the app crashed. When I opened the app again, it said there were “conflicting changes” on the note. I hadn’t even finished adding or uploading it yet!

You can make it as pretty and “intuitive” as you possibly can, but if it crashes, I cannot depend on it. If it crashes, I am constantly frustrated by it. If it crashes, I WILL NOT USE it.

And the other issue is speed. If I need to add a note quickly, but it takes 15-20 seconds for the app to load and actually let me tap on a button, it’s pointless. I can pull out my pocket notebook and write on paper before Evernote can accept keyboard input. Or I can take a photo with the iPhone Camera app before Evernote can even “open the shutter.”

I don’t like being negative, but I am being honest here: as far as iOS goes, Evernote has its priorities messed up.
I. Warner

Stop teasing me & release the updates already!! Lol!
Gabriel

I am extremely happy to see the new features in Evernote 5! Wonderful job coming from the developers! Keep the good work coming and we will gladly continue to use and prefer your software above others!
Mark

Looks awesome! I use Evernote every day, several times a day. WHEN will it be available?
Stuart

I really hope there is an option to allow you to always open the Evernote app with a new note sitting there ready for you to type into with no other interaction necessary. This is the one reason why I don’t currently use the Evernote app as my default note taking app (even though I’m generally a big Evernote fan). This is something apps like Drafts gets just right – open it up, note is ready to type and that’s it. Perfect.

Of course, someone will now tell me there is a way to set this up already

Stu
Kohaku

P.S. I also find adding tags cumbersome, I don’t understand why there isn’t a button in addition to the camera, audio, info and share buttons at the top of a note when editing that you can use to directly add a tag instead of going through the info button route.
Adam

I agree with Kohaku: tagging is vital–it’s part of what makes Evernote Evernote–but it takes way too much tapping and typing and backspacing and scrolling to apply just 3 or 4 tags to a note. Sometimes I feel like it takes less time and effort to add a note via email and put the tags in the subject line.
http://www.tlcsd.org Rev. Brian Henderson

Is there anything in the works for incorporating inknotes/handwritten notes in Evernote for iPad? For years, I used Evernote on a Windows Tablet computer and learned to value that portion of the program.

I realize that I can (and I have) use 3rd party applications, but the need to email a note into Evernote just doesn’t make sense, when you folks already have done that for the Tablet program.

I look forward to hearing from you.
Dave

Love the new version. I have my whole life in Evernote but unfortunately I have my whole life in note organized very well, with all my notes in a single folder. I really miss the A-Z scrolling that was on the right side. Search alone doesn’t work well for me.

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