Search Better with Evernote Premium

Today, we’re supercharging search for Evernote Premium and Evernote Business users with the addition of Document Search. Now any attached document, presentation and spreadsheet created using Microsoft Office and iWork will show up in your search results across almost every version of Evernote that you use.

Best part: If you’re a Premium or Business user, you don’t need to do anything. The feature is live and your existing documents have all been indexed. It’s important to keep in mind that when you add new documents, you’ll need to give us a few minutes to sync and index them before the results will appear.

This new feature comes in addition to the existing priority image recognition, and Premium PDF Search, which makes any scanned documents attached to notes searchable, for Premium users.

If you attach documents to your notes, scan PDFs and take photos containing text, you may want to consider upgrading to Evernote Premium. It’ll make finding your notes faster and easier than ever.

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Snippets on iPad

If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that our users love having options when viewing their notes. That’s why we’ve added Snippets to our iPad version. It’s a new note list mode that makes it easy to quickly scan your notes and jump to any month with a handy date scrubber along the right edge. To switch to Snippets, pull down from the top of the note list and tap on the icon.

When you’re viewing Snippets and you tap on a note, the note slides in from the right over part of the Snippets list. This design lets you view and edit the note, while also letting you scroll through the note list.

By default, Snippets contain the title, date, tags, an image, and some text from the note’s body. If you prefer seeing less information, simply tap on the gear icon in the lower right corner of the screen and choose what you want to see.

Improved PDFs

For this update, we’ve embedded a new PDF viewer that makes reading PDFs a much better experience.

• Multi-page: Jump to any page in your PDF by tapping on the page images along the bottom of the PDF or the grid icon in the top left corner.
• Search: Tap the magnifying glass to search within the PDF. Premium subscribers will also be able to search inside scanned PDFs.
• Landscape view: Turn your iPhone or iPad on its side to get a two-page view.
• Rotation lock: Tap the rotate icon in the top right corner to lock the PDF in place so it doesn’t move when you turn your device.

New Formatting Options

In past updates, we’ve given you the tools you need to add all sorts of text styling and formatting to your notes. In today’s update, we have two new options to strip unwanted formatting away. To access the options tap on the “A” above the keyboard on iPhone or the “no-formatting” icon above the keyboard on iPad when editing a note.

• Simplify Formatting is great for cleaning up any formatting issues that you may encounter in a note. This is particularly useful for cleaning up web clips.
• Plain Text removes all rich text, formatting and images from your note leaving behind only the text.

New Evernote Business Features

This update adds two great new features for our Evernote Business users.

Offline Notebook Support
Evernote Business users can now download any or all of their Business Notebooks to their device, allowing the notes to load instantly even without a network connection. Select the Business Notebooks you wish to take offline by going to the Business Premium view on the home screen, then tap “Offline Notebooks.”

View the Business Library on iPad
The Business Premium view also lets iPad users view your company’s Business Library. From there, you can see all of the Business Notebooks published by your colleagues and choose the ones that you’d like to sync to your account. Once you join and sync a Business Notebook to your Evernote account, it will appear in your notebook list.

The Evernote Trunk on iPad

There are thousands of amazing developers across the globe building integrations that extend the power of Evernote. Now, you can explore everything that our community has to offer right from the app. Tap on your user name in the top-left corner of the home screen and select the Trunk. When you see an iOS app that you like, you can install it right from the Trunk, no need to go searching in iTunes.

And More…

In addition to these great features, we’ve also improved our handling of large notes, fixed tons of bugs, and we now let you open PDFs and images in other apps. We hope you like the latest version of Evernote of iOS. Let us know what you think.

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Erin Souder loves to create and is the voice behind the daily DIY and home style blog, House of Earnest. Erin uses Evernote for all aspects of her blog; everything from capturing furniture inspiration to sharing unique DIY ideas. We’re excited to welcome her as our newest Evernote Design Ambassador. She’s written before about all the ways Evernote helps her manage her workflow and ideas for House of Earnest here, and today she’s sharing a few more.

Evernote for Organizing Creativity

My blog, House of Earnest, is where I share all things home-related that inspire me. I’ve been using Evernote for almost four years; I started using it to catalog pictures that I took and wanted to add some notes to. As my blog following grew, I got really busy and it’s helped manage all of my creative inspiration.

Above is a screenshot of my ‘homepage’ which shows my last several saved notes.  It’s laid out kind of like an email inbox, but each note shows a snippet of a photo, which is so helpful for finding something visual.  If I’m looking for “gold” things in a product round up, I can scan the thumbnails and easily pick out gold-hued items from all of the notes I’ve saved.

Remembering My Best Ideas
In addition to visually scanning notes, however, you can add information such as tags to make your notes (in my case they’re mostly photos) even easier to sort through. One photo might get ten different tags, but it helps me to recover the idea later on.  I use Evernote and the Web Clipper to capture inspiration wherever it strikes me, then later I can search by keyword to find exactly what I’m looking for.

Another amazing detail? The Web Clipper saves all of the URLs of clipped images and webpages for me. I love to give recommendations about unique pieces and fun products on the blog, and one of the hardest things for me (in life and in blogging) is remembering where I saw something. Now it’s easy for me to recall some of the more obscure finds that I may feature.

Connect with Erin and learn more about all our Evernote Ambassadors by checking out our Community page!

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Design Goals

Our goal with the redesign was simple: make all major functions accessible within two taps. Achieving this goal was easier said than done. Evernote is a powerful app that’s used for a huge variety of tasks. Our team of graphic and interface designers spent months developing an approach that fit the needs of our users. From quick note takers to hyper organizers, the new Evernote 5 has you covered.

The Home Screen

We started from scratch when thinking about the home screen. The objective was to let a person create a new note or browse to an existing one with equal speed. To make this possible, we divided the screen into two sections: Quick Notes and Views.

Quick Note Buttons

Along the top of the app, you’ll find the Quick Note buttons. These let you create a new text note, start a snapshot or digitize physical documents with Page Camera. We made the buttons large so that they’re easy to tap, and we eliminated several steps from the process, perfect when time is of the essence.

The Views

Below the Quick Note buttons you’ll find a list of Views. Each is designed to help you get to your notes in the way that works best for you. We never dictate how users should organize their information, which means that some people rely entirely tags, others on notebooks, and others don’t use either. With this new design, we’ve found an elegant way to cater to everyone’s needs. Tap or swipe the green bar of a View to expand it to full screen, do the same to return to the home screen.

All Notes Views
The default All Notes look is our newly designed cards layout. The cards beautifully highlight the content of the note, giving you a good amount of information before you tap. On iPhone, if you prefer a different layout, swipe down from the top of the list to expose the sorting and search options. You can choose the classic snippets layout, as well as a different sort order.

Beside the layout options, you’ll find the search bar. It’s always there at the top of the note list when you need it. As always, you can search your account by keywords and by text contained within photos and images.

Notebooks View
The redesigned notebook list is a huge improvement over previous versions of Evernote. First, it brings all of your notebooks and those shared with you by others into a single list. You can scroll the list to find notes relating to a school or work project managed by someone else just as quickly and easily as you would find your own content. If you want to only see your own notebooks, pull down from the top to show sorting options.

In addition to the unified list, this view also shows Notebook Stacks, displayed as a wrapped grouping of books. Notebook Stacks are now also available on iPad! Tap on a notebook stack to expand it, then tap on the individual notebook you’re looking for.

We also made it easier to add a new notebook. Just tap on the Edit button in the green bar, then tap on New Notebook.

Tag View
If you organize your notes with tags, then you’ll love the new Tag View. Your tags are displayed in a list sorted alphabetically or by note count. You can change the sort order by pulling down on the list to expose the sorting options. You can also search for tags by typing into the tag search bar.

Places View
Location is one of the most powerful ways to remember your experiences. Evernote 5 makes it easy to relive all those memories. If you have location enabled, then every note you create on your iPhone or iPad in Evernote, Evernote Food, and Evernote Hello include location info. Now, you can easily view all those notes on a map. Pinch and zoom to find the area that you’re interested in, then tap on the notes icon in the top right corner of the screen. When you tap the icon, the notes from the selected area will overlay on the screen, allowing you to see the memories associated with that place. To return to the map, simply tap on the pin icon.

Premium Feature View
Evernote is completely free, but for our more active users, we offer some great additional features as part of Evernote Premium. Now, Premium users can easily manage their Premium features from this View. These Premium features includes the ability to download notebooks for fast access any time, PIN lock and more. If you’re a Free user and would like to learn more about the Premium features, just tap on the View.

New on iPad: Recent Notes

The iPad’s larger screen allowed us to add a great element to the home screen: Recent Notes. This horizontally scrolling list shows you the last several notes that your viewed, edited and created on the iPad. Tapping on one jumps you to the note. Recent notes are great for taking notes in a meeting, then looking something else up, then quickly returning to the note you were editing.

Questions and Answers

We created several useful resources to help you get the most of the new Evernote.

• What’s New Page that outlines all of the new features and capabilities.
• Getting Start Guide to help you learn everything there is to know about the app.
• A beautiful new learning experience when signing into the app. If you’re an existing user, I recommend signing out once you upgrade just to see it.

And More…

Not only did we add a ton of great features and redesigns, we also made the app faster, more responsive and more reliable. On top of all that, the new Evernote 5 looks and works beautifully on the new iPad Mini. We hope you like the new look of the app. There’s lots more to come. All of you Evernote Mac users, stay tuned. The new Evernote 5 for Mac is coming very soon.

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Meet the Designers

If you’re interested in learning more about the thinking that went into this and other Evernote apps and products, then join us in San Francisco on November 15th for our Evernote Talks: Design event. Space is very limited. RSVP here.

• Name: Alex Karpman
• Profession: Entrepreneur
• Location: Los Angeles, CA
• Website: www.datevitation.com
• Facebook: http://facebook.com/datevitation
• Twitter: @datevitation, @alexkarpman

Bio:

Alex Karpman is the founder of Datevitation, a company on a mission to inspire couples to be more romantic and have fun together. His website hosts an abundance of date ideas, videos, and custom love coupons to help you be more creative with your special someone. Alex shares how Evernote and Skitch helped him with his business, and even helped him plan the perfect proposal to his fiancé, Olga.

I use Evernote, Everywhere

• Mac
• iPad
• iPhone

I use Evernote + Skitch for…

Planning the Perfect Proposal with Skitch

I first met Olga on a plane in 2005 and felt an instant connection, but we were both in relationships at the time. We stayed in touch, and when we found ourselves single last year, we reconnected and started a relationship. I quickly fell in love with Olga and her daughter Eva, and knew I wanted to make them a permanent part of my life. I started to cook up a plan to propose to Olga in a way that would include Eva, too, and make it a special day for all three of us. I finally settled on constructing a huge sand castle so Olga could be my queen and Eva could be my princess.

As you can imagine, this wasn’t a simple task and I needed to enlist the help of a sand sculptor to make the proposal perfect and a videographer to film the whole event. I initially set up set up a conference call to get the whole thing planned, but after a long and frustrating conversation I began to feel that I wouldn’t be able to pull it off. It was so tough to get my point across, and I knew that if anything in my plan was off, the magic of my proposal would be ruined. Then, I realized how much more simple Skitch would make the whole process. I searched images of the beach where I wanted to propose and marked them up with Skitch to show where I wanted to build the sand castle, how I wanted to approach it with Olga, and where I wanted the videographer to be positioned to catch the looks on Olga and Eva’s faces. It took no time at all to do this, and both the sculptor and videographer instantly understood exactly what I needed. I couldn’t have been more pleased with how my plans turned out, and both of my girls said yes! You can watch my proposal to Olga and Eva here and see firsthand how, with the help of Skitch, I was able to pull off this incredible proposal.

Evernote for Everything Else…

I used Evernote to clip ideas and do research when I was buying a rental property and doing renovations. Being able to save and search for every little detail is really handy when you have a lot of smaller things to keep track of.

I save places I want to visit in my Evernote account – when I get to take a vacation, I already have a lot of ideas and planning at my disposal. Getting away is so much easier when I’ve done the work in advance!

Whenever I want to make a bigger purchase or get a gift for Olga, I like to do a little research to make sure that I’m getting just the right thing. Evernote lets me keep all my ideas and information in one place so that I can make sure I’ve thought of everything when I finally make my decision. Check out my blog to see more about how I use Evernote for picking the perfect gift!

Making My Business More Efficient

I was a lawyer for 5 years before I decided to make a change and pursue a radically different career as an entrepreneur. Starting up a business requires a lot of organization – I was constantly communicating and sharing ideas with my designer and developer, and I needed tools to make sure we were always on the same page. Evernote and Skitch have helped me coordinate with all the various parties I’ve needed to work with to make my ideas into reality.

Gathering Inspiration

As I worked on fine-tuning my vision for how Datevitation would look and feel, I used the Evernote Web Clipper to save articles, designs, and ideas that inspired me and kept them in a notebook that I shared with my designer. This way we both could view all these resources anytime we needed to reference them for a part of the design process.

Skitch has taken a lot of the hassle out of giving feedback on projects. Before Skitch, I would spend hours crafting ridiculously long emails to my developer to describe exactly what I wanted. Usually, I wouldn’t be able to get my point across 100% correctly anyway. Now, I just snap quick screenshots and use arrows or circles to indicate exactly what I want moved or changed on the website. Having the ability to visualize what I’m trying to say is critical to communicating with my team, and it has saved me an incredible amount of time and money.