Evernote App Reviews

The Mac version of the app used to be great, but now it doesn’t seem to work at all. I can’t clip and save anything. I was once considering purchasing a premium subscription, but now there’s absolutely no chance of that happening. It’s unreal how such a simple thing is completely broken in the newer version. This is one reason why I never, ever update apps. I wish I wouldn’t have installed the latest updates to this one. It would probably still work.

a great app, today it has no alternatives

Cannot access my contents using the app because it crashes. I need to use website instead.

I got an app update this morning, and when it finished, it caused by Safari to crash. I’ve rebooted and everything and it still doesn’t work. How can I uninstall whatever was installed for this app?

Calling this a note taking app is like calling an iPhone the modern version of the telegraph, it may be true, but it doesn’t begin to cover the ground. As a writer and blogger it is my primary research and writing tool, whether it’s storing a paper from the web in captured HTML or storing, searching and annotating a PDF or MS Doc. I use the free webclipper extension for Chrome (and other browsers) to put found news and research items in one of the twenty or so research project note books I have going at any one time. Want a full screen shot or to capture a map image from Google or MS? It’s right there in a free tool bar gadget, or record a voice feed the same way. I don’t remember the last time I opened Grab. I bought the annual premium plan after using the app for only a few weeks, this adds 10 GB of new uploads each month, access to notes while offline, searching in Office docs & attachments, the ability to turn notes into presentations, clip from anywhere on the web, sharing and discussing notes in Evernote Sync across phones and computers, scanning and digitizinjg business cards, passcode lock on mobile apps anjd even the ability to automatically view net content related to your notes and the ability to annotate attached PDF. Finally, and vitally, I can save emails istraight into Evernote. My note pads are literally bursting with thousands of notes, pdf ranging from forms to book length, all synced completely and seamlessly with my iPad and phone. The notes are easy to dump into one of the blogs I write for, and it does all the formatting I ask for, save 1 thing. I want real footnoting, that way I’d never have to open Pages or Word again. I should also mention, as a Dragon user (which is still two steps ahead of the tech it gave to Apple for voice to text transcription), that it works perfectly with Evernote. Finally., it is frequently updated and their reputation for customer service is sterling. I ask a beta tester for Apple system software on both my primary office Mac and my iPad, and have never experienced a hiccup of any kind with Evernote - even digesting multiple multi-megabyte pdfs (something that will crash iTune or iBookss) leaves Evernote unfazed and ready to go.

I get that Evernote would want to upsell the bigger features, but if a customer simply DOES NOT NEED a powerpoint presentation, why not make it possible to shut off the offer? I am an artist and designer, and use this app to store crucial customer info, pictures, reference materials and more. 99% of the time it is to contain pictures that I then need to use later - and I do what every other app lets you do… I double click to make them big, so I can work from them. AND THIS OPENS THE IRRITATING POWER POINT OFFER THAT I DO NOT NEED. I am not making presentations. I do not need to make a presentation. I particularly loathe power point anyway, so I would avoid using it at all costs. I DO however double click images Every. Fraking. Day. And this is the one feature of evernote that drives me crazy. I love being able to organize materials, and with the storage that it offers. Not being able to tie a double click to a “preview” or windows viewer or whatever is gimping the app. Making it go, EVERY time, to an ad for powerpoint… is just aggravating and annoying.

I primarily use evenote for in-class notes and organizing my points and structure of essays/research papers. I especially use the text to speech feature which greatly speeds up “writing” or getting the text down onto the screen. I use text to speech on my iPhone, sync it with evernote for iOS, and then retreive what I just got down in Evernote for Mac. Id give 5/5 if, like Microsoft Word and other word processors, we could copy and paste text and have Evernote automatically format it in a way that would seamlessly fit into the note based on already existing text.

Ive been using Evernote for years and it still remains the best note taking application. Of course there is room for improvement, but they make consistent changes that make the application better. Huge fan, couldnt recommend more.

I have been using Evernote for five or six years primarily to collect and store information from the Internet. It does that function as well as I can imagine doing it. As a writer and commentator, I read several newpapters everyday plus a number of informational sites such as the Brookings Institute daily brief and the Pew Institute reports. I can clip and save just about anything I find on the Internet using the Safari browser. I also read books using either Kindle or iBooks. Capturing highlights and notes made in books cannot be done directly, but that is more an issue with the book readers than with Evernote. I am able in both cases to download highlights and notes and paste them into Evernote, and that’s still easier than the old fashioned way of reading a bound book and transcribing excerpts and notes manually, which I sometimes need to do. I read magazines using Vizio—same issue as with books. So for clipping and storing information this is a great tool. Syncing between Evernote and both my computers and my iPhone is invisible and pretty much bulletproof, which means I have never been able to screw it up no matter how tired or distracted I get. Highlighting in regular text clippings works fine, but there is no way to add a freestanding annotation (like an Excel note or a comment in Preview) inline in a stored article or any other kind of note, unless it is a PDF. As for someone’s complaint that you can’t annotate PDF’s in Evernote without paying for Premium, I just use Preview. Double click on the PDF icon in the upper left on a PDF stored in Evernote and it will open in Preview. Use the Preview annotation and commenting features, then Save the document and it gets saved back in Evernote. BTW: If you have a PDF file on your Mac that you you want to put in Evernote, just right click on the file, choose Open With…Evernote and voila, a copy is stored in Evernote. But I can’t give Evernnote 5 stars because it’s features for indexing and finding stored information are adequate but cumbersome. Clippings can be segregated into notebooks which is handy. Some people have commented on the fact there is just a two level hierarchy for notebooks, but this is not a problem for me, because it’s difficult for me to know in advance how I’m going to want to access my information a year from now so I just have big notebooks for things like Newspaper Clippings or Science Books. Evernote also provides tags which can be used for non-hierarchical access, but using tags effectively on a large (~10,000) number of stored articles on a wide variety of topics can be a lot of work. I use TheBrain app as an external indexing system because it allows me to create a network of connections between topics and I can add new connections arbitrarily whenever I discover the need for them. I use the Evernote note links to connect the end nodes in TheBrain to the Evernot articles. It’s awkward setting up the links between Evernote and TheBrain, but storing isn’t the real purpose of using Evernote. Getting the information you need when you need it is.

I used to make notes in folders or on sticky notes. Things I wanted to remember and recipies. Now working on a DMin degree and I don’t know how I would do it without Evernote. It is so well organized for MAC. I use it on Windows too, but the MAC version is much more user friendly and organizaed I think. I love them both. I also appreciate how easy it is to reorganize notes in the notebooks and the value of stacking notebooks (I have a paid version).

First , it isn’t free. What you get with the free version is worthless. Lots of features that you can’t use until you upgrade to the paid version. Have tried to figure out how to save emails but you can save all of 5 emails and then you have to pay for the upgrade. Cumbersome, complicated to figure out, useless. Still looking for an app that delivers what Evernote promises. Any suggestions?

I’ve also been using Evernote for years and love it. It’s much ligher weight than Microsoft’s apps but still contains nearly all the features that I want for note taking. I like the way its organized. I like how easily pictures can be inserted (I do this very frequently). I love that it can search PDFs. The one thing I’ve been waiting for is better skitch integration. It would be really helpful if I could quickly and seamlessly throw some annotations on a picture I added to a note. Even better if those annotation tools had some of the basic features of vector editing software, like guidelines.

Needed, wanted ,have to keep. Love Evernote and it makes my life a LOT easier :))

I have the Evernote premium service, and it is excellent! I recommend giving it a try, especially if you like to search your notes, PDFs, etc. with ease in one place! (I use it on iPad [pro, air, and mini], Macbooks, and iPhone)

I love that it allows ingestion and storage of all different formats of documents. Very helpful. The list functionality could be improved a bit by moving completed check-off boxes to the end of the list or hiding them, similar to a true to-do list.

I actually am running a paperless law office with this program. I created a notebook of Active Files and one of Closed Files. In active files, I use the pull down elephant head icon to name it Last name first, first name last…. After that I type in the essentials, address, contact phone numbers, emails, what the case is about, Court file number, and so forth. Saving that file, i then when i open that file up can Scan documents using the camera WITHIN Evernote, or use Fujitsi Scan Snap to scan many documents and then drag those pdf files into the file in Evernote. I can talk to my clients and record the conversation. So if I’m in court and it’s essential to get a client’s understanding, I can pull out my phone, open up their Evernote File and record a brief conversation wherein they acknowledge what I’ve said, and for example if it’s child support court, that they have to pay x number of dollars by x date, or litterally go to jail. After a file is closed, I move the file to the Closed files. This way wherever I am if a client calls me (my office number is my cell phone) I can open up their file and well, “there it is”. A lifesaver. There are other programs for lawyers but all are expensive, Non is as cheap as this program.

I used to love Evernote, now it’s just a convoluted mess. Glad Apple came up with their own Notes app. Evernote still won’t even work with Spotlight, they’ve claiming in their forums that a fix is coming, 3 years later…. nothing. Goodbye Evernote.

I started using evernote about three years and still use it as premium member, but this app is getting worse , a confusing interface that is not helping to organize and cluster ways to see the notes. Getting bloatware as iTunes did . Waiting for an alternative to switch .

2/26/16 UPDATE: Several updates later and they refulse to address the WEBCLIPPER not functioning. Their ratings are going downhill as well. Probably because they are trying to pack too many features to compete and keep premium customers happy but at the same time they are ignoring the issues that made them stand out from the best. Hey Evernote, if you ever read these things…stop acting like a mosquito and look this way. Your best customers who got you this far are begging you to pay attention to them. And you can start by allowing your free version customers to contact you via email privately instead of throwing us all into forums and ignoring the issues. Good luck! ______________________________________________________________________________________ It is too bad that Evernote does not wish to hear from their customers even though they have been loyal and helping them grow if they don’t have premium service even though there appears to be no solution for users who are paid for the webclipper issue. Online there are thousands reporting the same issues and they still keep updating the app without ever even murmuring the problem with webclipper not working for Mac users on Safari or Firefox. The reason I say this, is because I am fed up. I am backing up all my notes and deleting this app soon and will never support them again. I have reccomended Evernote to countless people since they started as an option to help people clip an article or page from the web and save them in the same layout and as beautiful as they appear on the web browsers. To me, and to many countless users, that is one of the only elements that have really set Evernote appart from any other word processing, notes or organizing apps out there. There are countless of Permium users complaining you are ignoring them as well. So free or paid it appears you simply are beyond yourself. Unfortunately, they have the numbers to show that X amount of people install their apps or have installed them and they don’t wish to address their incapability to work hard to fix the issue. So they don’t and that brings me to integrity. They lost it. As with a million options out there now, I would rather just advice anyone who is frustrated to look for alternatives paid or free than to continue to support an app developer who has lost its integrity to its customers. Paid or free. Your reputation must have gotten to your head and you may somehow think it’s okay to ignore problems. It’s not. With all the competitors and all the social media and communes out there, there is no reason to support companies who lack integrity by showing complete disrespect to their community of users and customers. Creatinga a fan with a good product is something to hold on to and not something to take for granted. I hope everyone does this to stick it to them where it counts: Their numbers Update: Months later: They still won’t make webclipper wrok. It was the main reason to get the app. Otherwise it’s just another note app on the cloud like any other app. Until they fix the web clipper it’s just useless. Used to love this but no more.

Number one productivity app for me. I use it for my GTD organize. It is really amazing