Big Beta: New Evernote for Windows

Finally, we have finished work on the new Evernote client for Windows.

This is an important platform for Evernote. 46% of our users working with the service on a computer use the Windows version. For Mac, this figure is 38%. 16% use the web interface. But over the past few months, our Windows users have felt a little left out, especially amid the active work on other platforms.

However, at the same time, without any noise (although it didn’t turn out so quiet, considering how many people have already downloaded the alpha version), we completed the work of radically rewriting Evernote for Windows. The goal was to make the client faster, more elegant, more powerful and - most importantly - with the possibility of simpler improvements in the future. Now you can evaluate the result as a newEvernote for Windows 3.5 Beta . It seems to be very decent.

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Evernote for Windows 3.5 received dozens of both visible to the naked eye, and hidden improvements. If in a few words, you will get the opportunity to create notes faster, easier to find them, create larger databases and have more ways to work with notes. Further some changes:

Three note view modes

• thumbnails : created thumbnails show the contents of your notes, pictures and PDF files for easy navigation and filtering;
• Lists : notes are arranged in a list with the ability to sort by any of the columns;
• mixed mode : notes are presented in the form of thumbnails and short text;
• thumbnails can be scaled if you want to see the details;
• in thumbnail and mixed modes, notes can be grouped by date, size, source address or title.

Editing notes

• automatic substitution when entering label names and a simpler process for creating them;
• spelling check while typing;
• Improved support for complex markup
• the ability to create tables in notes;
• the ability to define a default font for text notes;
• improved processing of long text notes;
• Simplified creation of notes using handwriting, thanks to the new organization of the interface.

New features in the note editor

• detailed information about the note and its properties;
• sending notes by e-mail;
• printing notes.

Editing search filter options

• the ability to add and remove individual criteria for the current search filter;
• Saving the current search criteria as a saved query for future reuse.

And much more…

• Search and go through the words found in both directions (both inside the note and in all notes);
• Evernote client interfaces for Mac and Windows now have fewer differences;
• new icons and buttons;
• a friendlier folder import interface for automatically creating notes -
• suitable for scanners and other integration methods;
• the “View on map” button, which opens notes with geographic coordinates in Google Maps;
• multilingual spellcheck directly in the editor;
• quick access to information about your account on the Internet;
• improved copy function of the screen area, which now requires fewer steps and is accompanied by explanations;
• files can be added via the application menu without the need to drag and drop;
• advanced search by notes, allowing you to use the search modes "all criteria" or "any of the criteria";
• delete tags from notes with one click;
• more functional note editor based on Google Chrome;
• increased synchronization speed due to optimization of work with the network;
• Improving database productivity for faster searching and sorting notes;
• single distribution for all supported languages.

Why is this beta?

It seems to us that Evernote 3.5 is a significant step forward in terms of functionality, performance and stability, but this version contains so many changes that we want to offer people to work with it a couple of months before it becomes the official version. That is, we will not conduct auto-updates for current users yet. If you have never used Evernote for Windows, feel free to download and run beta 3.5. If you already have version 3.1 installed, then to migrate to the new version you need to take several steps:

1. export all local notebooks;
2. Close Evernote 3.1 completely (including the taskbar icon);
3. Install the beta version of Evernote 3.5;
4. let Evernote sync your notes from the server (this may take some time);
5. Import local notebooks.

When Evernote 3.5 is ready for its high point, we will offer everyone an automatic update. In the meantime, you can use both versions on the same machine or continue to work with version 3.1.

Windows versions

The beta version of Evernote 3.5 is based on modern Microsoft development technologies, so it works well on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. If you have Windows XP, especially on a fairly old computer, you may notice some graphical flaws. We are working to solve these problems, but if version 3.5 Beta does not work as it should with the configuration of your computer, it is better to return to 3.1.

What's next?

Now that we have significantly upgraded the Evernote code for Windows, we will be able to release updates much more often. So you can expect a lot of interesting features in the near future.

Many, just many thanks to the hundreds of people who took part in testing the alpha version!

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