Evernote App Reviews

Please fix the issue with annotations on macOS Sierra. I use Evernote for a ton of day-to-day note taking and all of my college classes. I need access to Evernote on my Mac again before I get too far behind due to this error. I love using Evernote and have nothing but good to say about it. However, I need to be able to annotate notes without any difficulties. PLEASE FIX THIS! Thanks!

Evernote is great for pack rats. Keep notes, docs, photos, and reminders in the cloud and unclutter your desktop. The app plays nice with a lot of other services. I use Evernote daily in my writing projects and I also set up a few stacks and folders for household record-keeping. The web clipper extension and the mobile app are great for saving interesting information for a rainy day. The annotation tools are a welcome feature but the highlights, label, and arrow buttons are a bit cumbersome and require a fair amount of practice to master. All things considered, a powerful app, and, with a Premium subscription, more than enough storage and versatility.

I love the new Google Drive integration. It helps to not have to pick and choose between so many tools. Now that Evernote incorporates into Google Drive, it’s more seamless.

It’s adequate. Not as much customization as I would like and “stacks” rather than sub-folders seems a bit clunky. Presentation mode not worth being there really. Despite that I would definitely have rated it higher except for the subscription that one would need to optimally use the application. To use it as advertised I would dump everything I find that I think I might need later into the application. Without the subscription I have to stop and think, “do I REALLy think I’ll need this later. . . enough to have it count against my free 60 MB?” Seems to defeat the purpose. Everyone seems to want a subscription these days. I know it allows the developer to sit back and collect money each month and arguably that would lead to better products. But if I subscribe to every app requesting it. . . . There has to be a better way. I pine for my old “Soho Notes”. I’ll keep looking for a better solution

Evernote is one of the first apps I re-install on my computer when I do a fresh start install of the OS. I use Evernote several times every day and it holds some of my most important stuff. With the iOS app on my phone and iPad as well, it is with me everywhere at a moment’s notice. For my dissertation work, I clip ideas and useful website references to a special notebook in Evernote. I keep the links and bibliographic references for the online searchable editions of the main works I need. Stray thoughts and ideas to pursue later are easy to jot down in Evernote and find later. Some of the features I find most useful are: Evernote runs text recognition on my photos (Premium subscription only, I think) so I can snap a picture of a bottle of wine we liked and find it again later searching by “Malbec” or some other word we remember about it. I can take a picture of a shelf of books and later search for titles to see which ones I already have at home. The pdf markup tools are great, and the way that it presents you with a summary of all the markups made in a document helps me find those changes quickly in a long document. I use this for my syllabus for the classes I teach. At the beginning of the term, I put a pdf of my syllabus in Evernote, then mark up any changes I want to make for the following semester. I get a summary of all those improvements, and can share the marked-up copy with others if we need to coordinate or discuss. This way I capture all those changes I want to make as they come up rather than trying to recall at one frazzled end-of-semester meeting everything that needed adjustments. Another use I have is to be the file cabinet of all my hand-written notes. I still like to take notes on reading and workshops with pen and paper. But now I scan them into Evernote and can group and find them easily without having to dig through file folders and half-empty notepads for those reading notes on Foucault. The automatic OCR doesn’t get all my messy handwriting, but enough to help the right notes come up in searches. I also use Evernote as my library run list. As I find books I want to look at, I keep adding them to the note for the library they are located at, often sorting them by the floor the books are shelved on. Once I get to the library, I can pull out my phone and see my “shopping list” for each floor of the library and don’t waste time doubling back to a floor I’ve already visited for a different book. Additionally, I keep the measurements, model numbers, and specifications for things I need to buy in Evernote. I can never remember which ink cartridge my wife’s printer needs - but Evernote remembers for me. What size shirts for my father-in-law? Evernote! What exact kind of printer paper do we buy for the laser printer again? Evernote! When I have a procedure I only do once a year or once a semester, I write up the steps in Evernote and then I don’t have to recreate the wheel each time. Want to keep a running list of gift ideas for someone special as you hear them mention things? I add those to a list in Evernote and then I can remember very particular things someone may have mentioned 6 months ago that they would really like. Checklists are easy to do in Evernote. In fact, the note writing interface is quick and simple - sometimes the best “word processor” for me to get a short text written when I need to focus on ideas without getting interference from fancy formatting possibilities. I highly recommend Evernote as a way to let your mind relax that you have everything sorted and stored where you can find it when you need it.

In a long note, if you scroll down, then view another note, and then come back to the first one, the scroll position will be lost and the note will be scrolled automatically back to the top. So you would have to scroll down again and try and find the position wher you left off. This is ridiculous that they havent thought about it. I wrote to Evernote many times about this but they dont seem to care. Imagine if the same happened in Word - you work on a document, then go to another document, come back to the first one, and its automatically scrolled back to the top. This is a major problem with Evernote. Im seriously thinking about switching to OneNote.

I loved this app for over a year. It has become so buggy that I have decided to move on. I can’t stop it from launching on startup. It doesn’t sync properly between devices if you edit the same note in 2 places. So now I am using the OS Notes app. Which isn’t great, but it does the job and it works! It’s a real shame because Evernote used to be great.

Hi if I open an annotated note by clicking that “a” symbol, it won’t show the annotated note at first, I need to click the text annotation “a” symbol at the side bar to “activiate” the page, then I will see all. Pls fix this bug cause it’s quite annoying. Version 6.9.2 (454159 App Store) macOS Sierra v10.12 Mac mini Thanks!

Don’t lock yourself into the whims and fancy of a third party. Why would there be a 250 notebook limit??? Especially on a paid account????

I have 33 years computing experience across multple platforms and operating systems; through more programs, utilities and apps than I literally can count. None have affected how I work to the extent Evernote has. Evernote is now the center of my personal and business universe. It is intuitive; efficient; alwsys available; and, oganized intuitively to keep you on top of whatever project you may be involved with. I just mess around with it for about a year without investing much time when I noticed that Evernote is what I kept coming back to - whether for research; case file organization; segregating favorite photographs; keeping income statments and receipts readily at hand - once you realize that Evernote keeps you on top of EVERYTHING, you will not keep fooling around with anything else. Evernote does not overwhelm you with features, it has the features that you actually need; but, most of all, that you will use. The time it takes me to find things I need has been cut by a factor of 5x. Evernote even keeps you up with current topics that relate to what you are workng on! It is the only app I can remember that I have not been frustrated with or disappointed in and it is the one app that I would not give up. I guess you could describe it as the Goldilocks app - it doesnt have too much or too little - it is just right.

I have been singing the praises for Evernote ever since I signed up. a perfect place to gather all my important papers in one place with security. NOW…..Pop ups!! I cannot use my screen as a pop up appears and does not let me x it out. I have tried 4 times and had to escape each time, not getting to use the page I wanted. I do have the premium but that does not seem to matter. I am really feeling conned if they need to resort to forced advertising at thsi level .

All the good this app does is overshadowed by the new policy Evernote has that you can only access Evernote on two devices for free now. I’ve been using Evernote for years and the basic version always allowed you to access Evernote on whatever computer you are using. They want you to upgrade to use basic functionality now and that is unfortunate. For that, they get 1 star.

I have been using it for years, creating notebooks and notes for my daily needs while always having them on the go.

Been using Evernote for years. Recently they made changes to usage so I can only use it on 2 devices unless I want to pay a fee. I don’t. I’ve used it for years for sharing notes across computers. I use a laptop a desktop an iphone and iPad. Had to decide to only use it on my laptop and iphone. I’m thinking about migrating to one-note. thanks Evernote. Oh and BTW. Thanks Evenote for stopping development on Skitch. Another good product you are ruining for your users.

I used the annotation feature to make notes on downloaded PDFs on yesterday— worked great. Today, I downloaded the update and now everytime I try to annotate a PDF, the app freezes and I have to force quit to even get out of it.

Add a space to a title, start typing and the space is removed!? Obviously testing is lacking Does not allow you to log out automatically Need to find that option in the menu Obviously security is lacking

More and more I’m considering not renewing my premium subscription. This app used to be great. It’s become very buggy recently. Annotating documents (on both Mac and iOS) used to be quick and easy. Now it’s so difficult and clunky. Multiple times while I’m annotating a document on the Mac version the app crashes. I hope Evernote focuses on making the features that already exist work well/better before they continue to add more features.

I have been using the free version for years now and its still amazing. I do hope that there is a “Dark Theme” down the pipe.

The sync never works right. It delays and creates “conflicting” files. If Google docs can sync live, I don’t know why they can’t. The syncing creates lots of frustrations for me. Hoping a better alternative shows up soon, or that they fix it. Otherwise it would be a great app. KEEPS CRASHING (11-14-16)

I have been using Evernote for years, and all along I was a vocal advocate for this app. I recommend it to friends all the time. For me, PDF annotation, the search functionality, and organizational tools are all indispensable features. I rely so heavily on Evernote on my Mac and on my phone for school, work, and my personal notes because it is so robust and reliable. Unfortunately Evernote for Mac has violated that reliability over the last few months. First PDF annotation became slower and somewhat buggy. When MacOS Sierra launched, PDF annotation stopped functioning completely, and in general the Mac app has multiple difficulties handling embedded PDFs now. Text input has also become extremely frustrating — Evernote frequently adds extra return lines while I’m working with bulletted lists, and randomly becomes unable to format text unless I relaunch the app. Overall, my experience with EN for Mac has gone from outstanding to extremely frustrating in just a few months. I’ve worked with tech support in depth on these issues back in September, and ultimately they just told me they had no fix and that they were working on it. I’m afraid that the change of leadership at Evernote is having a negative effect—I hope it turns around soon!