What’s new at Evernote? 🧡 October 2024

In October, we focused on making your Evernote experience as smooth as possible, introducing improvements to everything from the Editor to Mobile performance.

00:00 Update on recent performance issues
00:48 October monthly recap
00:52 Note lists load 3x faster on Mobile
01:22 Remove thumbnail
01:57 Sort notebooks individually
02:28 'Title' note view on Mobile
02:58 4 new Editor improvements

[nigelh]

Love the monthly updates. As a long-term user, I have had some ups and downs with EN, but I am full-on back with it now and even using more and more of it. Cheers Bending Spoons for reinvigorating the product.

[traderghost]

I have never left EN but was feeling unsure about the future of EN. Have thought of abandoning EN many times. And when Bending Spoons took over, I thought this is the death knell for EN and I begin actively looking for an alternative. But due to work load and laziness, I did not do any migration of my notes to the new alternative I have selected. Now I am so glad that I did not move. Bending Spoons is doing a great job re-inventing and re-invigorating EN. Suddenly, EN feels alive again for me and I am once again excited about EN as when I first used it 10 years ago! Good job Bending Spoons! Continue the good work on EN and you will continue to have me as a subscriber :)

[jink]

I've been an Evernote user for over a decade. All I ask is for Evernote to prioritize its core function: providing seamless note-taking across all devices. The app has become bloated with unnecessary features, making it slow and cumbersome. I'd love to see a lightweight version that focuses on the basics. Real-time syncing and accessibility are all I need. Please stop adding features I don't use, like AI. Please stop forcing updates every time I open the app. I just want a simple note-taking experience.

[EmeraldHillsSkies]

Boy, thanks for all this work. This past week, I really appreciated the way. Evernote works off-line. In a day and age when so many note taking apps are devaluing off-line capabilities, it’s nice to know that Evernote continues to attach a high value to that one critical feature. The ability to work off-line is clutch and so many ways. Thank you!

[lifeyouthflc]

10 year user here. This is great! Thanks for all the hard work and listening that you're doing!

Still excited to see autocorrect come back on the Mac version!

Keep shaping the future 🚀

[thibautguerquin]

Great video and awesome fixes/changes/additions !
Evernote becomes more useful and fun as time goes by
Keep at it Evernote team !

[nicole.bertsch]

Thanks for the information and the updates. Very helpful! The thing wih the possibility to choose the thumbnail I really hope that this going to work soon!

[RealShmanda]

I'm way too excited about the thumbnails and happy you implemented what you could now while working on the rest.

[JonasFelipeTube]

Thanks for the frequent updates and improvements, as some have already said here, it has restored our faith in the future of Evernote. I would also like updates on simplifications and exclusions of features, I believe there is still a lot of dirt accumulated over the years to clean up from this project, perhaps the insecurity in being better than the computer's native notepad has caused this, and you don't need to compete with it in terms of accumulation of features, the intelligence is not there.

[pepijnthissen]

These are again such a wonderful improvements. Thanks! Evernote is by far the application with the biggest impact in my work and private life. Thanks for your awesomeness and thanks to the team! Ciao from Amsterdam.

[vbishel]

Your constant improvements, explanations and communication are very impressive! Thank you for these monthly update videos.

[Bunny-kx]

Thank you for these monthly updates. They are very helpful in learning how I can use Evernote more efficiently, for example, the ability to sort individual notebooks.

[omega]

I really like all these new features and didn't know about them with the upgrades. These video recaps help me a lot.

Keep up the good work!

PS: I'm very curious to try out the thumbnail customization feature.

[niklashenckell]

Love the constant communication, the massive improvements and your pace! I hope you see this comment and know that we really appreciate the work you are doing everyday and it makes a massive impact in my life!

The notes speed on mobile is such a game changer. Really. Love love love it!

also love to see the many small improvements. Like the quotes thingy which would never make it in classical impact + effort scoring. But doing these small things over time will give Evernote such a boost.

A few questions:
1. I saw you have "Show notes in groups" as a sorting option. Is that something coming, as I don't have that option on mac?
2. For the performance team, I can see a bunch of small workflow improvements that increase the speed in which I can use evernote even without touching the infrastructure. Basically everything that, unnecessarily, requires a click too much (quick note feature: save + close the feature with cmd + enter instead of clicking on "save note", move note: when typing, auto select first result in the search so I can type 1-2 letters and hit enter directly, etc). Hope these small wins in people's workflows will also get some attention.

Keep up the good work!

[graememyburgh]

Thanks for all the hard work and for the updates. It's wonderful that so many enhancements are being made.

[MrSamoDude]

Thanks for these videos, it's great to see Evernote finally delivering feature improvements and bug fixes. I recently returned to Evernote after moving to Obsidian, and then to Apple Notes, then trying Notion, and back to Evernote, it's exciting to see the product moving forward.

[dianebassett]

I am really appreciating the increase in communication from the team. Keep up the great work

[neilb]

As a long time Evernote user, I appreciate your regular updates and improvements — and these videos are useful. Some people were worried about Evernote's new ownership. Honestly, I'm happier with what you're doing now, than ever before — thank you!

[ryanmmcwhinnie]

Thank you for the updates 0:23 ! Could we get the feature on iPhones to add a widget so that you can access a specific note on demand?

[batsonjay]

I love all the attention to the little details. The Bending Spoons team is running engineering the way it is *supposed* to be - great product lead prioritizing stories, a regular cadence of releases of demonstrable and useful stuff, and great communication with the customers. SO awesome to see EN resurrected from near-death to high-flying.