I’ve made it known how much I like using Evernote. It’s fitting that just a short while after showing why I like using Evernote the company let me know that a new version 3.5 has entered a public beta for Windows. It’s available today but they let me have access to it a couple of days early and I loaded it up on the ThinkPad x200. Let me tell you, I love this new version. It looks and works better, making using it more productive and dare I say it, fun. Rather than tell you the long list of improvements, here’s what the Evernote folks say about it:
Visible improvements
Three different ways to view your notes:
- Thumbnail view: Rendered thumbnails showing the contents of your notes, images, and PDFs for easy browsing and filtering
- Can zoom thumbnails to see more detail
- List view: Multi-column “List View” with sorting on any column
- Mixed view: Mixed thumbnail + detail view
- Can display thumbnail or mixed views in visual groupings by date, size, source URL domain, and start of title
- Auto-zoom feature for thumbnail view allows you to see more notes at once
- Faster viewing of single notes
Note editing:
- Auto-complete tagging and easier tag creation
- Spell checking as you type
- Better support for advanced markup
- Can now create tables within notes
- Can specify default font size for text in notes
- Better handling of longer text notes
- Creating ink notes in easier with new canvas-like layout
- Find and Find next/find previous (both within and across notes)
- Better consistency across the Mac and Windows versions of Evernote
- New icons and buttons
- More user-friendly “Folder Import” feature to automatically create notes from a watched folder–great for scanner and other integrations
- More functions available in single-note editor window:
- Detailed note information and attributes
- Emailing notes
- Printing notes
- Editable description of the search filter
- Ability to add or remove individual criteria from current search filter
- Can save the current search for use later as a Saved Search
- “View on Map” button opens geo-tagged notes in Google Maps
- Evernote for Windows introduction video included on launch
- Multi-lingual spell check included in application
- Quick access to your online account information
- Improved screen clipping requiring fewer steps, with on-screen explanations
- Menu options for attaching files to notes without requiring drag-and-drop
- Extend note search capabilities with ANY or ALL search criteria
- Remove tags from notes with a single click
Under the hood
- Advanced note text editor based on Google Chrome
- Improved synchronization performance via networking optimizations
- Improved database performance for faster searching and sorting of notes
- Single binary for all supported languages
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