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Hi everyone,

We just released version 5.0 and couldn't be more excited! It incorporates a lot of changes that you, our community, suggested and we hope that you enjoy it.

Before I get to the release notes, I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your feedback and support during the beta period. It means a tremendous amount to us at Evernote to have such passionate and engaged users. The EN Mac community has been incredibly helpful in shaping what v5 is today. Keep in mind, what we shipped today is by no means final and we will keep working tirelessly to improve it for you. You are our motivation, so thank you!

Without further ado, here are the updates since the last public beta:

  • Note sort order preferences are remembered
  • More applescript fixes
  • Fixed the notebook sharing dialog for smaller screens
  • Fixed multi-select note view alignment
  • Fixed some copy/paste whitespace issues
  • Reduced overall memory consumption
  • Improved stability dramatically
  • You can now drop files onto the note list
  • New App Store to Direct Download version migrator

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JMichaelTX

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I am surprised that some of the features that have been asked for for several years like click order merge and the infamous vertical list view didn't make it in.

I am very disappointed. Unfortunately, I am not surprised.

Evernote continues to have an arrogant attitude that they always know better than their users.

They also don't seem to understand the age old design best practice that form follows function.

They don't seem to have learned anything from the Skitch debacle, where they removed many of the standard features that many, many users relied upon, and used daily.

Evernote, I am a huge fan of your concept, and your general approach of making notes readily available on almost any device. But your UI design on both Mac and iOS (particularly iPad) leaves a lot to be desired.

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Dave DeLong

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Dave DeLong

- re: tags moving slowly - did you know when you click the big tags icon, you can just start typing and it'll filter your tags. Sorry your machine is slowing down. Sounds like you may be indexing at the same time. I'd recommend just letting it load once. It shouldn't have to do it more than once.

I would, except that nothing ever stops beach balling. The app is unusable. I can drive to your office and show you, if you want.

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I, for the most part, like Evernote 5.

But it absolutely angers me that I am still forced to look at the nasty activity stream icon in the final release. I do not need to know what changes the one guy I share a notebook with make of updates to his notes. So besides being clutter, it steals focus by constantly delivering irrelevant information.

Please. It seems like a simple thing to be able to just remove it.

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Dave DeLong

- re: tags moving slowly - did you know when you click the big tags icon, you can just start typing and it'll filter your tags. Sorry your machine is slowing down. Sounds like you may be indexing at the same time. I'd recommend just letting it load once. It shouldn't have to do it more than once.

I would, except that nothing ever stops beach balling. The app is unusable. I can drive to your office and show you, if you want.

Maybe you could make a short movie clip and post it to Dropbox.

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Hello! I updated to Evernote 5 few minutes ago and i can't find, where can i change location (geotag) of my note? I use Evernote to plan my journeys and create one note per one place i'm going to visit. Now i can't specify location for created note!

It's under the information tab, but for some reason can't edit it either. I can only click the compass icon.

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So when will backward/forward buttons come back? Version 6.0?

Forgive my sarcastic attitude. I'm really disappointed by 5.0.

I don't think the change is bad, but I really don't know why did you remove so many useful features.

I need indent/outdent a lot, but I'll switch back to 3.x.

5.0 totally don't go with my workflow. Thanks a lot.

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Would anyone mind a quick run-down of the new location ("Atlas") features? Mainly, how to turn it off? I just upgraded to Evernote 5 and I'm using OS X 10.7.5, if that helps. Basically, when creating a new note, I clicked things way too fast and seemed to have accidentally turned on locations for notes. The result being all my notes are now on a map in the Atlas feature. While aesthetically pleasing, I'm personally not really a fan of this, and can't seem to figure out how to turn it off. Any suggestions? There is a good chance I'm just overlooking some option somewhere in the app. Thanks!

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BUG

Connecting...

- It looks like my old friend "Connecting..." is back. Everything synced yesterday. Nothing is syncing now. I just have this message in the bottom left-hand corner. Pressing the sync seems to remove it. Could I be getting this error because I am set to sync manually? If so, why am I getting it now, but didn't get it in the previous version?

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When a topic is pinned, it looks like the little box, such as MAC, is overlayed with the word PINNED, and so since the title of this thread does nogt contain the word MAC, it is not eviden t that this is a AC thread.

The title needs to have MAC added, for now, and the forun software needs to be corrected. Thanks!

Or maybe all the windows people need to read this, and it was intentioinal?

Woops, the forum software is ok on other posts. Liiks like the MAC was left off this thread intentionally, or by mistake.

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Would anyone mind a quick run-down of the new location ("Atlas") features? Mainly, how to turn it off? I just upgraded to Evernote 5 and I'm using OS X 10.7.5, if that helps. Basically, when creating a new note, I clicked things way too fast and seemed to have accidentally turned on locations for notes. The result being all my notes are now on a map in the Atlas feature. While aesthetically pleasing, I'm personally not really a fan of this, and can't seem to figure out how to turn it off. Any suggestions? There is a good chance I'm just overlooking some option somewhere in the app. Thanks!

Hi. Here you go.

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Software is now a required part of life, and has become essential. We need developers to be more careful!

I changed my post to remove a couple of words about needing new laws. The original wording is what is being responded to below.

I chickened, I guess. You know, be nice. Political correctness. Didn't mean to hijack the thread.

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No way to delete a notebook and no customizable toolbar. Need these capabilities back.

Hi. I merged your topic with this one, because you had the same title, and putting it here means that it is more likely to be read by the developers.

You can delete notebooks. Click the notebook "nab" in the left panel, and in your list of notebooks, right-click on the one you want to delete.

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BUG:

Also, this new eyesore has appeared. The text is no longer aligned in the middle. Not sure if this applies to other translations as well:

skitch.png

No image :(

Blame it on Skitch. It's there.

Edit: Or rather: Blame it on the forum software; the image link works just fine everywhere else ...

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No way to delete a notebook and no customizable toolbar. Need these capabilities back.

Hi. I merged your topic with this one, because you had the same title, and putting it here means that it is more likely to be read by the developers.

You can delete notebooks. Click the notebook "nab" in the left panel, and in your list of notebooks, right-click on the one you want to delete.

You can NOT delete notebooks. When you right click you get 2 options..."Share Notebooks or Notebook Settings". Neither option allows you to delete the notebook.

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Dave DeLong

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Dave DeLong

- re: tags moving slowly - did you know when you click the big tags icon, you can just start typing and it'll filter your tags. Sorry your machine is slowing down. Sounds like you may be indexing at the same time. I'd recommend just letting it load once. It shouldn't have to do it more than once.

I would, except that nothing ever stops beach balling. The app is unusable. I can drive to your office and show you, if you want.

Maybe you could make a short movie clip and post it to Dropbox.

I included a link to a 4:32 movie running at 8x speed in the support ticket I filed. It does not show it, but the cursor was beachballing the entire time. I never had an opportunity to switch to a different part of the UI.

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I fixed the thread title and will send Jack a rude email about his slovenly thread creation process.

As for laws, well Evernote is a private company so the only control you have is whether you choose to use the software that they produce or not. When they finally go to IPO you could buy shares and if you can afford enough you can try and make some impact that way.

Otherwise, choose to use open source software and contribute some code yourself.

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Hi,

I love the new evernote!!

But I just wanna make a suggestion/feedback. Is it possible to make the titles of your notes bigger or more prominent? Id like to have that option, or to make the titles bigger for all notes.

Just my 2 cents!

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Dave DeLong

- re: tags moving slowly - did you know when you click the big tags icon, you can just start typing and it'll filter your tags. Sorry your machine is slowing down. Sounds like you may be indexing at the same time. I'd recommend just letting it load once. It shouldn't have to do it more than once.

I would, except that nothing ever stops beach balling. The app is unusable. I can drive to your office and show you, if you want.

Maybe you could make a short movie clip and post it to Dropbox.

I included a link to a 4:32 movie running at 8x speed in the support ticket I filed. It does not show it, but the cursor was beachballing the entire time. I never had an opportunity to switch to a different part of the UI.

Could you post the ticket number here and check back with us after you hear from support? The number will help Evernote staff track it down if they want to investigate further, and the report will help users who encounter similar problems in the future. Thanks!

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Could you post the ticket number here and check back with us after you hear from support? The number will help Evernote staff track it down if they want to investigate further, and the report will help users who encounter similar problems in the future. Thanks!

Bug: Evernote 5 will take me about 4 days to launch.

...

I've filed a support request, if anyone who works for the company is listening: 16051-185239.

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Now, as it has been a couple of weeks since I "upgraded" to v5.0., can anyone remember what the most recent version was on the Mac before the v5 upgrade? I have v3.0.6 here, but if I can find a later version, but pre v5, I'll install that.

Now if only I could do the same with the iPhone and particularly the iPad versions - but I can't find the previous versions to use to downgrade :(

Evernote for Mac: I haven't upgraded to v5 yet (for the very same reasons you and everyone else have mentioned), so I'm running the latest pre-v5 release for Mac: "Version 3.3.0 (300201)"

Evernote for iPhone: When you upgrade an app, iTunes throws the old version in your Trash the next time you sync the phone. (Unless you did the upgrade while connected to iTunes, in which case it puts it in the Trash then.) I've never had to downgrade Evernote for iPhone, but I have succesfully done it with several other apps by following these steps:

  1. If you haven't emptied your Trash since the day you upgraded, go there and dig the oldest version out. (There may be multiple versions... You want the one with the number closest to the current version.) It'll be a self-titled ".ipa" file. (If you have emptied your Trash, you'll need to find another copy somewhere else. Try Google.)
  2. With iTunes off and the phone not connected, swap that file out with the new/active app version. (Usually located in: ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications).
  3. Manually remove the app (the newer version) from your phone, then connect and sync. iTunes should load the old app version, which is now in the active location.

Over the years I've learned to retain/pull-out old iPhone app files before emptying the Trash -- as a "just in case." It's come in handy at least 5-6 times.

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One thing I liked before but haven't figured out since the update is how to navigate the left side bar with the keyboard, pressing up and down arrows or left and right arrows to expand and contract nested tags. Same for the tag view pane. Am I missing something? Thanks

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@Metrodon I think ever111 has raised an interesting point and one that I suspect will become reality to a limited extent within the next 5 years.

Increasingly we are living in a world where you buy something because you like the way it looks and works etc...and then a manufacturer updates the interface and we have to lump it. This applies to set top boxes, TVs, phones, games consoles etc.

I don't want to inhibit innovation, but there needs to be a balance.

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You can NOT delete notebooks. When you right click you get 2 options..."Share Notebooks or Notebook Settings". Neither option allows you to delete the notebook.

You can delete notebooks — just not from the sidebar. Click on the Notebooks tab with the little icon in the sidebar. This brings you to the Notebooks pane in the main part of the screen. You can delete from there by right clicking.

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Is anybody else missing the ability to select multiple tags in the side bar? I know this can be done in the new tag window (which I like in some ways) but when you're searching multiple tags in particular notebooks (which I do dozens of times a day) it was far easier to do in the old side bar. Am I missing something here? Why has it been disabled in 5?

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v5 is aesthetically wonderful, but it's a step backwards in functionality. It's a triumph in terms of form over function. It now takes 2x 3x as many steps to do simple tasks, but they look so nice. This is not progress.

- The toolbar can't be customized so I have to go to the menus

- In the List view, I can't drag a notebook onto an existing stack.

- I can't create a new notebook with a right click on a stack, I have to change my view so I can see the notebooks (a total waste of screen real estate), create the notebook, drag it to the appropriate stack, and then go back to the Notes view.

- v5 is not ready for release, I'd like to be able to go back to v4!

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@ever111 Interesting concept! What sort of restrictions are you thinking of? Developer council?

I fixed the thread title and will send Jack a rude email about his slovenly thread creation process.

As for laws, well Evernote is a private company so the only control you have is whether you choose to use the software that they produce or not. When they finally go to IPO you could buy shares and if you can afford enough you can try and make some impact that way.

Otherwise, choose to use open source software and contribute some code yourself.

Well we don't seem to have a problem trying to control public utilities, airlines, railroads, trucking and some aspects of vehicles, do we? Software systems are becomming a utility, no? I'm thinking there are advertised and implied uses. What if Microsoft just decided to shut down Windows, and disallow its use? Think anybody would have a problem with it? What we are into now with software vendors is unprecedented. We are on the verge of new regulations, I would bet. I'm expecting something to happen when Windows 8 is in the face of huge businesses.

By the way, banks now have data safety and privacy rules, even if private, yet they run vendor software. It has to follow the rules. Just a matter of time.

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Tags browser has some "features" which should be bugs.

  • Selecting multiple tags is tedious. I need to cmd+click or shift+click each tag I want to select.
    • Suggestions:
      • click one tag, shift+click a tag will select all tags between those 2
      • click+drag in "free" space (like in finder)

      [*]When accidentally missing a tag on click all selections deselect, this is way too frustrating

    [*]Deleting tags doesn't have a keyboard shortcut. Only the right-click menu allow deleting.

    [*]Add cmd+bksp to delete all selected tags

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@Metrodon Software has always been updated, but before the Cloud/Internet you had to opt in. Increasingly now software companies can waste millions of our man hours forcing us to adopt new work flows or re-learn an interface etc. (and without warning!)

Obviously they can do lots of good too!

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OK - I've been investigoogling. For those who really want to downgrade - AFTER BACKING UP THE DATABASE - go here and select the version you need to download:

mac.filehorse.com/download-evernote/2755/old-versions/

Again - BACK UP FIRST.

But mine went very smoothly. No problems at all, and the world is good again. I've just reinstalled v3.3.0 Build 300201

All warnings to be noted, and all responsibility to the user. Not supported by Evernote - but it worked for me.

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Verdict (after 3 hours sourcing old versions and updating those on three laptops.) version 5 is a very poor app when being used by previous lovers of the app.

People coming to the app for the first time will probably like it.

I fail to see how removing capability can bee seen as improvement.

I have several more friends who are eagerly waiting for links to version 3.3.0 that I have emailed them.

Goodnight

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Thanks for that AF. Unfortunately, I have emptied the trash a couple of times since "upgrading", so I'll have to investigoogle.... ;)

I haven't upgraded the iOS version either, so I'm running "Evernote 4.4.1.261773". Hope that helps.

And I agree with you -- a public archive/repository of previous versions would be very useful. (Best practice example: Mozilla)

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No one tells airlines that they can't change their planes, or that they can't drop a route. Depending on where you live you'll find that utilities are either state owned or very lightly regulated in order to create competition. If MS chose to stop selling Windows, there is absolutely nothing anyone could do about it. They own the code.

The software business is already competitive, you have lots of choices for taking and collecting notes. Read the terms of service for cloud applications and it will tell you very clearly that the company that owns the software can and will upgrade you whenever they like. That's your choice, if you don't like it then go with another option.

People really have got to take some responsibility for themselves. Whining about software upgrades without doing research, complaining about cloud services without reading the terms of service, gets you absolutely nowhere. Understanding the software and services that you use gives you a modicum of control - going through your life with your eyes half shut leaves you on the verge of ignorance and destined to be confused, angry and disappointed.

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So I found all the discussions interesting, but just need to know - where do I go to roll back to the Mac version that works??

I tried mac.filehorse.com/download-evernote/2755/old-versions/ with no luck - just kept getting shown PC versions.

I am new and green admittedly, so just need to know what to do, specifically.

Thank you - any help is tremendously appreciated!

Lori

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Like Grumps, I'm just being realistic. If you genuinely believe that any government is going to try and regulate note taking software services then good luck to you and I think you look fabulous in your tin foil hat.

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Now, as it has been a couple of weeks since I "upgraded" to v5.0., can anyone remember what the most recent version was on the Mac before the v5 upgrade? I have v3.0.6 here, but if I can find a later version, but pre v5, I'll install that.

Fortunately, I usually make a zipped copy of an App before a big upgrade just in case (zip stops it being updated and deleted) - my copy of Evernote 3 says v.3.3.1

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I just upgraded to your most recent release. This is the first version in all my experience with Evernote, some three years, where it's crashing every single time, rendering my experience almost unusable. Might I have some guidance here? I'm on a Mac Air, running 10.6.8 and using Firefox, and have embedded an Evernote applet within my bookmarks toolbar, which automatically launches Evernote as a discrete application. When I run Chrome, which doesn't launch the Evernote app, I can clip and save.

I too am on Mac 10.6.8 and the Evernote Application version 5.0.0 keeps crashing on me! When I launch it and it asks me if I want to import notes from the previous version of Evernote, if I hit "Import Notes", the application crashes. It also seems to crash occasionally when I'm pasting text into the body of a note and, sometimes, without an apparent reason. I'm submitting crash reports like a good little monkey, but I'm wondering if there is any likelihood of the 10.6.8 version getting de-crashified anytime soon or I should install a prior version?

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A feature I am missing in v.5 is less notebook management ability in the new dark grey sidebar.

I have "Show Notebook List" turned on to try and replicate version 3, but I want to rearrange notebooks - for example: I can't drag a notebook to a stack to have it move into that stack anymore. I have to go the extra step of viewing notebooks in the main window to do any heavy lifting.

I miss the old full function sidebar listing, and i will probably miss it in iTunes 11 also I guess. Is form triumphing over function?

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I really like Evernote V5. Faster, less visually opaque. The coloring of the dates really grabs my eye. I do believe stacks should either have a disclosure triangle though, or the ability to double-click to open/collapse the stack. Small usability thing, but it breaks UI expectations to hide the function behind a right-click.

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Jo, sounds like you're taking a non-traditional upgrade path if it's asking for your notes to be imported. You might want to submit a support request for that one.

I'd like to start from scratch. I installed Evernote awhile back and fiddled a little with a different username, which I just went and deactivated via the web version of evernote. Is there a way to delete the data from the previous version on my computer so that it stops asking me to try to import it?

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@Grumpy I hope you are going to bring some high-quality, reasoned thinking to this debate? I think Metrodon's feeling under the weather. :)

I do not know of any regulatory moves, at least in the US, to regulate software companies in that fashion; hence, my skepticism.

The viewpoint that their ought to be regulation, and that regulation will come to the software industry, is certainly valid. I've seen people talk about that before, so I think there is a stream of thought that runs along those channels. I remain unconvinced, but I guess you never know. At best, though, I think security concerns will lead to some regulations, but even that will take some kind of particularly nasty event (a stuxnet for Facebook, or even worse, for Windows) before it happens. I doubt there is much interest in directing regulatory fervor at updates to software outside of those rather narrow concerns.

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Hi,

Congratulations on the new version of Evernote.

It is more beautiful and user-friendly, good job!

However you removed one feature that is mandatory for me and my evernote workflow: be able to manually add a localisation.

For example, when i capture a web article about a restaurant, i used to manually add the latitude and longitude so that it appears correctly on the map when i view this on my iPhone.

Please add this simple feature back soon!

Thanks

Fabien

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I really like Evernote V5. Faster, less visually opaque.

The performance of Ver 5 seems to vary user-to-user.

Some report Ver 5 slower, some report it faster.

It is definitely slower for me.

In particular the sync process now seems to take twice as long.

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I know you guys put a lot of work into this, I can tell, but I have to say usablitity wise it is a major step back for me (so much so that after struggling with it I came to the conclusion that it was not worth it at all. I recovered my old version of the software from the trash and am back to using that).

I actually liked the hierarchical sidebar way of navigating. I know you can turn it back on partially in the new version, but that new list on the sidebar is a neutered version (can't make any changes or move items from there). I will wait out this cycle. I hope in the next cycle the abiltity to choose the full classic view is put back in. Otherwise I'll stick with 3.3 till I find something that replaces evernote entirely.

I completely agree - the new Evernote is pretty, and obviously a lot of care and effort went into it, but it is not as functional as the previous version for me. One of the main things I LOVED LOVED LOVED! about Evernote was how it was much more Outlook-ish, as in workable and productive, easy and flowed, and less Appleish. Now Evernote is basically iPhoto/MacGourmet? Why? Apple is great at making applications pretty but a lot of times their desire to aesthetically please gets in the way of letting me 'just do' what I want/need to do to organize and easily manage my files.

Adding a layer between me and being able to see my notebooks in one easy scroll as the above poster mentioned was particularly upsetting. The card view and awkward side scroll view, while attractive, I cannot see as very practical. I calmed down when I realized I could access my whole list linearly by going into any notebook and then clicking the arrow next to the NB name but that's still not going to work. I agree with another poster that said all the previous version needed was some color and some additional password protection/encryption available on certain notebooks (at least for me, anyway).

Positives with the new version are: I like the smart search, the addition of color (thank you); I don't share NBs but there seemed like there were some good changes there; from a previous version I also liked seeing the url right on the note screen as opposed to going into info; the card view (grid) is actually nice and I like it - just not to the exclusion of the other simple vertical list view and I don't appreciate the additional layer to get to it. Shortcuts and recent notes seemed like nice ideas too, perhaps collapsable and expandable (not sure if they were already are because I already reverted back to 3.3). All in all, thanks for all the ideas you are trying and I still love Evernote (3.3 and probably a hybrid future version I hope) but thanks for an amazing app with amazing functionality and thanks for listening.

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Is the Attribute (contains) list from the left column anywhere to be found? Or any way to build a saved search for "contains encrypted text" ? I can create the search (seach notes - add search option - contents - encrypted text - add). Just cant figure out how to save it.

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Activity stream - Does it steal focus or just give you a blue icon?

Oh. I realise my choice of words was probably misleading. It does not "steal focus" in any technical sense. It does turn blue and numbers appear - which makes me click on it to make it go away. Which steals focus from actually getting things done. That's what I meant. It's not a bug, just a bad design decision IMO.

Alignment - It's an internationalization bug that will be fixed in our next release.

Excellent.

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Is the Attribute (contains) list from the left column anywhere to be found? Or any way to build a saved search for "contains encrypted text" ?

The left sidebar doesn't have it anymore. It is kind of inside the dropdown in the search field.

The advanced search operands are here.

https://support.ever...?questionID=535

Among those, you'll find this.

encryption: Returns notes that have been partially encrypted using Evernote's built-in encryption system (this operator doesn't require additional values).

As for saved searches, they are in Edit > Find > Save Search.

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I'm glad you're excited about the new version, 5.0. I, on the other hand, can't find anything and don't know how to use Evernote now. It seems that i'll have to pay Lynda.com $25 for a lesson on how to use it. Is there a cheaper way to learn the new version?

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Is the Attribute (contains) list from the left column anywhere to be found? Or any way to build a saved search for "contains encrypted text" ?

The left sidebar doesn't have it anymore. It is kind of inside the dropdown in the search field.

The advanced search operands are here.

https://support.ever...?questionID=535

Among those, you'll find this.

encryption: Returns notes that have been partially encrypted using Evernote's built-in encryption system (this operator doesn't require additional values).

As for saved searches, they are in Edit > Find > Save Search.

Thanks GM. Any idea how we get that search to remain in the "saved searches" section of the seach dialogue box? After building the search and clicking "add" it doesn't save itself

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Depending on where you downloaded it from...

If you downloaded directly it's in user/library/application support/evernote

If you downloaded from the app store it's here ~/Library/Containers/com.evernote.Evernote

Or use an App like App Delete to get rid of everything.

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Hi everyone,

We just released version 5.0 and couldn't be more excited! It incorporates a lot of changes that you, our community, suggested and we hope that you enjoy it.

Before I get to the release notes, I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for your feedback and support during the beta period. It means a tremendous amount to us at Evernote to have such passionate and engaged users. The EN Mac community has been incredibly helpful in shaping what v5 is today. Keep in mind, what we shipped today is by no means final and we will keep working tirelessly to improve it for you. You are our motivation, so thank you!

Without further ado, here are the updates since the last public beta:

  • Note sort order preferences are remembered
  • More applescript fixes
  • Fixed the notebook sharing dialog for smaller screens
  • Fixed multi-select note view alignment
  • Fixed some copy/paste whitespace issues
  • Reduced overall memory consumption
  • Improved stability dramatically
  • You can now drop files onto the note list
  • New App Store to Direct Download version migrator

Congratulations! You made it into my Google news feed with this review :)

http://www.slashgear.com/evernote-5-for-mac-up-for-download-now-in-the-app-store-15257266/

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I have some serious concerns for the new version.

Ever since I installed it I'm having a serious bug in spotlight searches for evernotes. Not only does Evernote no longer present new notes to the spotlight index. Even worse is that when I do serach for an older note that still reside there and open it, this method of opening a note BLANKS the note and uploads the blanked copy to the server while presenting the correct note on screen. The next time I open Evernote the note is gone, it's blank, clear, empty, and there's nothing in the trashcan or anywhere else. It's just gone, hasta la vista. I had to actually dig through my timemachine to find a data html file for the note to recover it. Not exactly nice, anyone else having this issue? It's horrible, I keep forgetting about it and keep deleting my notes "€&!&!# :(:o

Apart from that I like the LOOK of the new version. It feels abit more like typing on a paper, which, call me a weirdo, feels much more creative (I'm a musician, we're allowed to be weird). There are things I don't like however. While there still is a way to keep all notebooks to the left in the panel it isn't sleek looking at all as it was in the last version. The quickbar is a neat idea but it looks halfbaked and I'd like features such as folders and separators. It's also sketchy. Sometimes when I click a recent note it doesn't really open it. Sometimes when I open the program I get into "all notes" and there's nothing there, freaking me out totally until I click notes again and I find them listed again (jesus are you trying to kill me??)

I'd especially like a comment on the blank note / spotlight search bug, I've filed a ticket already.

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Is the Attribute (contains) list from the left column anywhere to be found? Or any way to build a saved search for "contains encrypted text" ?

The left sidebar doesn't have it anymore. It is kind of inside the dropdown in the search field.

The advanced search operands are here.

https://support.ever...?questionID=535

Among those, you'll find this.

encryption: Returns notes that have been partially encrypted using Evernote's built-in encryption system (this operator doesn't require additional values).

As for saved searches, they are in Edit > Find > Save Search.

Thanks GM. Any idea how we get that search to remain in the "saved searches" section of the seach dialogue box? After building the search and clicking "add" it doesn't save itself

Glad I could help. My saved searches stay... Well, if you are getting it saved properly, dragging it to your shortcuts might be a good idea. I've got my saved searches there. I don't like to have to do two clicks when one will do.

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Dear Mod,

I just upgraded to your most recent release. This is the first version in all my experience with Evernote, some three years, where it's crashing every single time, rendering my experience almost unusable. Might I have some guidance here? I'm on a Mac Air, running 10.6.8 and using Firefox, and have embedded an Evernote applet within my bookmarks toolbar, which automatically launches Evernote as a discrete application. When I run Chrome, which doesn't launch the Evernote app, I can clip and save.

Cheers, Jer

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Where, oh where, is the customizable toolbar? You said you listened to people on here, but there have been loads of folks on here bleating about the taking away of the customizable toolbar, including me. We do NOT want to have to put up with what YOU guys think is important on the toolbar. Virtually every other app on the Mac has a customizable toolbar. Right-click/customize. Including the Space and the Flexible Space. But is it there on your new, shiny ENv5? Nope! So what happened to listening to us?

Also - the whole thing seems slower, and sluggish. It seems to be building the note content locally all over again. Scrolling the snippet view is a PITA - takes forever, and is a stutter/stop/start operation as notes are built up for the snippets - again. Is this going to happen with every update? And why can't it build the snippets in the background, rather than waiting for each screenful of snippets to "appear" before building them?

The whole operation of Evernote is nowhere NEAR the quick, intuitive, and effective way it used to be. And we won't even start on the disastrous iPad version, as this is the wrong thread...

I still haven't come across ANYTHING that is as effective and QUICK to use or to search as the old InfoSelect on the PC. I used that from version 1, and only changed to Evernote when I switched to the Mac. But the search function in InfoSelect was/is incredible. And that was with thousands of notes arranged into multiple notebooks. If only they'd do a Mac version, and include the premium features you guys have, I would switch back in a heartbeat. This version 5 is awful!

You say you listen - but I seriously doubt it. Version 4 was great, and did pretty well everything (except it needed coloured icons instead of the awful Lion grey). So why did you go and break it?

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The new GUI will definitely take a while to get used to. With this major upgrade I was hoping for more typographic control, such as being able to change space between lines and paragraphs, and for bulleted lists. Instead you have taken away the ability to change font in the lists etc. The font that is used for the headline of every note is awful.

Please give us back - and extend - those formatting options!

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I really like Evernote V5. Faster, less visually opaque.

The performance of Ver 5 seems to vary user-to-user.

Some report Ver 5 slower, some report it faster.

It is definitely slower for me.

In particular the sync process now seems to take twice as long.

Is very slow for me. Sometimes even just typing something gives me beach balls. It's maddening

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<opinion>

Government regulation is NOT the answer to software you don't like.

Competition is the answer.

If you have been paying any attention to the US Congress for the last several years then you surely realize that you don't want those idiots trying to fix your problems or control your life.

</opinion>

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