Evernote - Notes Organizer

Fifteen years after I began using it in 2009, Evernote is still a game-changer! I've now added over 30,000 notes of interesting items I've come across during those years, a massive digital Scrapbox that's completely searchable and organized by dozens of tags I've created. The ability to quickly email items into Evernote with preassigned tags in the subject line (using #hashtags) is the critical tool I use the most. Anything with a Share button on iOS or laptop that can be emailed, can get quickly filed away in Evernote (use Safari "reader view" to include the text and photos of webpages). I find this email adding of items to be quicker than sharing with the Evernote app. So my suggestions would be to make the multiple-tags process faster when sharing with the native app. And second, to add a much more broad, Visual Overview perspective that shows many more saved items in a single view than is currently possible-- this requires shrinking down the visual icon size in order to see 100 or more note icons on a single screen, with mouse-over pop-ups that show the text title of each note (and other "data visualization" techniques that are available). This would make it much easier to SEE broad patterns and timescales across large quantities of notes, and get a much clearer understanding of all the info stored in a personal library. It would be like a "Global View" of the data, like "zooming out" from Google Earth or other mapping apps. Thanks Evernote, just keep innovating and this will remain an essential and long-enduring app for millions of people!

Granted, the last update fixed issues where images would not properly attach to a document, note saving would miss the last changes you made, the app would keep interrupting your writing by closing the keyboard and scrolling off the place you were typing in, and occasionally not allowing you to exit a note when these two other bugs occurred, which meant I could only close the app and sadly lose my work. The issue that still concerns me though is that you can type into a note, and quickly swipe away to see your notebook, and while that note has a little green icon that indicates there are changes to be saved, accessing it doesn’t show you them! You can exit the note again, wait for the saving to be done and see the changes only after that, and as a general experience, it makes me feel like I can only write content on Evernote’s iOS app if I’m slow and careful about how I flip between views. The green note edits icon I talk about also used to come with a spinning wheel on the top of your note list, which at least gave you a visual clue that the changes *were* being sent to save, but because it’s gone, I either let it sit there and hope it saves (it takes a lot longer than I remember, for simple text notes too, on decent Wifi!), or pull down the notes list to cause that list refresh, which makes things save quicker. Evernote, please have a look at these issues—the app used to feel simple and reliable when it came to this and now it gives me apprehension.

I just don’t understand some of negative reviews of Evernote’s latest update, which is fantastic. I have been using the app for years and am thrilled to see the innovation that the new leadership team is bringing about a year in. It looks like it took about a year to stabilize, and now new features are a’comin’. Tasks is game changing, and Gmail and Google calendar sync has boosted my productivity tremendously. I have been mainly using the web app but earlier this week updated my iPhone to this version. Immediately following the update I was having all sorts of issues getting my notes to load in the app. So I sent a support ticket to Evernote, called it a day, and accidentally left the app running overnight on my iPhone. To my delight I awakened to see a notification in the app that I had been successfully upgraded to then latest personal version. All of my notes suddenly appeared, and I have had a phenomenal experience with the app ever since. IMO nothing comes close to Evernote. I love Google, but Drive is where notes go to die. Evernote is where they flourish. I cannot say enough good things about this app and what I’m seeing from the company. It is extremely difficult to satisfy all existing customers while innovating and expanding the base. As a longtime user, however, I personally feel that the team is doing a tremendous job. Kudos!