Evernote 3.5 for Windows Public Beta Now Available
Posted on 24 September 2009, at 10:45 am, by Dan Cohen
A beta of Evernote’s Windows application version 3.5 is now available to the public. It is a huge update and the first for the Windows application in quite some time.
The new version offers an interface quite similar to the Mac desktop. It will display thumbnails and three different formats for viewing notebooks. Best of all it is fully compatible with Windows 7 and [offers even better support for] supports inking if you have a Tablet PC. (Wow, good timing seeing as my Fujitsu P1630 is almost here!). In fact, the inked notes are fully searchable.
It is available HERE.
A screenshot, details and further instructions for installing the Beta follow…
Before installing 3.5
* If you have any local notebooks, export them by right clicking on the notebook and selecting the ‘Export notebook’ option
* Completely quit Evernote 3.1 (and the toolbar clipper) when running Evernote 3.5
* Optionally, you can uninstall any older versions of Evernote you have installed. This is not required. Evernote 3.5 can run in parallel with other versions of Evernote.
What happens on first load
* Because this is a beta, we want to make sure not to touch any existing Evernote databases on your computer. For this reason, your first use will begin with a full down-sync from our servers.
* Next, Evernote will generate thumbnails for all your notes. This process may take several minutes depending on the size of your database.
* Import any local notebooks that you have exported
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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September 24th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Those all sound like really great enhancements. I’ve been hoping for an improved text editor for a while now and am about to give this a try. Thanks for the update.