Evernote gets a whole new look

Evernote has completely revamped their Windows program with a new look and new software to back it up in the newly released 3.5 iteration of the note-taking juggernaut. The whole idea behind this new update was to make the Evernote experience as similar as possible on every platform that you use. And, while it might not seem that different at first, the new look closely resembles that of the Mac software.

More under-the-hood software reworking was done as the Evernote crew as claimed to have, “rewrote it from the ground up to make it faster, more reliable, and just plain better than Evernote for Windows has ever been.”

I must say that the new look, although not drastic, is very similar to the design in the previous version. The new tile view has made it easier than ever to flick through your notes and find whatever you are looking for, and, with that being said, search has also had some surgery and has improved from the previous version.

A full list of all that is in the 3.5 version for Windows:

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
• List view: Multi-column “List View” with sorting on any column
• Mixed view: Mixed thumbnail + detail view
• Zoom thumbnails to see more detail
• Display thumbnail or mixed views in visual groupings by date, size, source URL domain, and start of title

Note editing

• Auto-complete tagging and easier tag creation
• Spell checking as you type
• Better support for advanced markup
• Create tables within notes
• Specify default font size for text in notes
• Better handling of longer text notes
• Creating ink notes in easier with the new canvas-like layout
• Detailed note information and attributes

Searching

• Editable and descriptive search filter
• Ability to add or remove individual criteria from current search filter
• Save the current search for use later as a Saved Search
• Extend note search capabilities with ANY or ALL search criteria
• Support for advanced search grammar in the search field

Other stuff

• 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
• 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
• Remove tags from notes with a single click
• Advanced note text editor based on Google Chrome
• Improved synchronization performance via networking optimizations
• Improved database performance for faster searching and sorting of notes
• Full multi-language support (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, more coming soon)
• Single binary for all supported languages
• Synchronization is improved, it is now both faster and more memory efficient
• Drag and drop files onto the application icon
• Informational popups alerting users to synchronization and clipping
• New, re-mappable global hot-keys
• Search support for Asian characters
• Improved auto-import dialogs
• Improved copy/paste support
• Incorporated more standard keyboard short-cuts
• Improved task tray with easier access to clipping and short-cuts
• Email notes via the Evernote Service to remove email client dependencies
• Configurable auto-update to pre-release versions
• Improved installer

You can try out the new version of Evernote for Windows here.

Read [Evernote Blog & GottaBeMobile]