The excellent Evernote app for iPhone has just had another substantial update, to Version 3.2.0.
As with many Evernote updates, there is quite a lot of good new stuff “ from major speed boosts to doubling the max. length of voice note recordings. Read on for details and more screencaps
Here ‘s more information on what ‘s new in this latest Version of Evernote, straight from the company ‘s blog post on it:
Local note caching
All notes that you create or view on the iPhone will be cached locally, so you can view them again even without a network connection. This feature is available to all users.
Premium feature: Offline notebooks
Premium users can now choose to be fully downloaded any and all of their notebooks to the device, making them instantly accessible even when offline (or on a plane). Tap on the new Sync tab and choose Offline Notebooks to configure this feature.
The larger the notebook the longer it will take to fully sync, but the plus side is you only have to do this once. For fastest results, we recommend doing this over Wi-Fi. Please note that the app will not be able to download all your notes if you select more notebooks than the available space left on your device.
[Important: There’s a small bug that inaccurately displays notebook sizes for premium users if you upgrade from the previous version of the app. Deleting the app from your phone and reinstalling fixes this.]
In-app purchase of Evernote Premium
Want to go Premium to take advantage of the new features? Now you can. You ‘ll be able to buy a month or year of Evernote Premium right from the new Sync tab in the app.
Double the talkity talk
This latest version doubles the length of Audio Note recordings, to a nice 20 minutes.
Local searching
Searching now works offline, so you can search through your Favorites, cached notes and offline notebooks. If you have a network connection, the app will automatically search through both the notes on your phone and on the server.
Editing rich-text notes
If you try to edit a note that contains formatting, pictures or attachments, you ‘ll be given the option to append the new text (as before) or make an editable plain-text copy of the note. If you chose to strip out the formatting, a copy of the original note will be moved into the trash so you can recover it later.
New ‘Sync ‘ tab
All of the Sync and Account features are not consolidated into one tab with real-time status of all sync operations.
Ability to search while synchronizing
The dreaded ‘already communicating with the server ‘ message is gone for good. So long. Good bye.
Easily see all your notes
A new ‘All Notes ‘ button when searching or filtering makes it easy to get back to all your notes with one click.
Zippy
Every aspect of Evernote for iPhone is much faster: launching the app, searching, syncing, making new notes, browsing, etc. Our goal is to let you use Evernote without ever having to even notice the speed and this version is another big step in that direction.
Additional languages
Evernote for iPhone is now available in English, French, German and Russian with limited (but quickly growing) support for Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese and Chinese.
I applied the update last night and I ‘m quite impressed with it. The app seems much speedier to me in all the areas I ‘ve tried out thus far “ saving notes, syncing (which was already quite quick) and generally navigating around the app. The one place I noticed this most of all is in editing individual notes. The time from when you tap the edit button until when your are in the note ready to edit has been hugely reduced. This used to be a place where I always felt a fair little lag, that was somewhat frustrating. That has been banished by this update.
I ‘ve had a Premium account for some time now, so I ‘ve also been able to try out the new Offline Notebooks feature. It works quite well. It took it a little under 20 minutes to download all my notes. When I put my iPhone into Airplane mode, I do not see all the thumbnails for all my notes “ but I can view and edit them just fine. As soon as I took the phone out of Airplane mode, my changed notes synced immediately.
I ‘m not super convinced by the new ability to ‘edit rich-text notes ‘ “ the implementation of this still feels quite clumsy to me, with the need to scrap an existing note with formatting and have a new plain text version created to work with. I also agree with a comment Thomas made in an email conversation about this update “ that the whole notes editing / input area still needs to be much improved. On a new note, far too much space is chewed up by information we do not need to see after initially creating a note.
Overall though I ‘m pleased with this update “ and as always it ‘s great to see that Evernote refuses to rest on its laurels, and continues to pump out improvements to the app and the overall service.
You can find this latest version of Evernote in the App Store now, and it ‘s a free app.
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