Jeff510

First off, loving version 2 for Android, It looks great.

 

I like that Evernote is keeping with some of the Android conventions, like revealing the navigation or app menu items to the left by swiping the screen over. Some of my other favorite apps, like Rdio and Pocketcasts are doing this, and it's a very natural and consistent way to get to the options and app selections. And Evernote Food is continuing with this design element, which is nice. The only difference, it seems, is that Food requires you to make the swipe from the very left edge of the screen.

 

Now, I'm mostly using a Nexus 7 that has a slipover leather(ish) case. This creates a raised border around the screen. So when you swipe in from an edge, you kind of have to push your finger into the crease between the screen and the leather border so that the device recognizes that you are swiping in from the edge. I often have to redo swipes that don't get picked up.

 

The solution to this would be to make the area that you can touch to swipe the screen over larger. Really, I don't think there should be any limited target area. If I touch the center of the screen, and swipe to the right, that should reveal the left pane. But you really need to start all the way over at the edge with Food. The main Evernote app doesn't seem to require that, and the other apps I mentioned don't either. A swipe over works wherever you start, and it doesn't cause any issues.

 

So that's a simple thing that I'd love to see improved.

 

Thanks.

 

 

I'm having a weird problem with the Android app. My wife clipped a bunch of notes from the desktop Windows program using the screen capture function. When these notes get synced to the mobile app, and viewed in the note grid, there are 2 out of about 9 or 10 that have no thumbnail, just a white square. All the others have a thumbnail. I can't figure out why. I've tried clearing the cache and data, but it happens on all my Android devices, tablet and phone. And it's just those two stubborn notes. I tried opening them in the desktop, changing something in the note and resaving, but those two notes won't generate a thumbnail.

Anybody got a clue what might prevent a thumbnail image from getting made?

This would be great for Evernote mobile apps in general, but since I'm primarily an Android user, it goes in the Android subforum.

And I know this is a pie-in-the-sky wish, but when I saw this video, my very first thought was how incredible this would be in Evernote where I have scanned or photographed documents that I frequently read on a small device.

It takes photos of documents, and recognizes the characters so that when you zoom in so you can read, it reflows the text to the screen. Brilliant! As shown here, it's being developed by Fujifilm. I don't know if there are any existing products or technologies that do this, but it would certainly be awesome if Evernote could buy/license/develop something like this. Add this to my "dream features" list.