Review: Evernote 5 for iOS improves user interface, note organization
Get Your Notes Quickly: The prominent Quick Notes buttons allow you to create new Text, Photo, and Page Camera notes with one tap. You can search or sort notes from any tab. Tapping or swiping a tab header expands the tab to full-screen.
Evernote, the note and snippet managing service, recently updated its desktop clients (see my review of Evernote 5 for Mac), and at the same time refreshed its mobile clients, unifying all clients at version 5 (version 5.1.2 for this review). The new iOS clients sport an all-new interface that simplifies the process of capturing new notes and improves the visibility of Evernote’s organizational tools.
To begin creating a note, you use one of the three new (and prominent) Quick Notes buttons. All versions of Evernote permit you to type text notes and to take photo notes with your device’s camera. A new mode for iOS clients, Page Camera, premasks images to take pictures of pages with handwritten notes from special Moleskine paper notebooks, dubbed Evernote Smart Notebooks.
After you capture a note, Evernote automatically uploads everything that you put into it to the company’s servers, where your notes are indexed for easy search and retrieval, and become available for syncing to all your devices. If your new item is a picture containing words (even handwriting), Evernote runs optical character recognition on its servers to make the picture’s text searchable.
Making organization easy
The previous versions of Evernote for iOS used a standard iOS interface. For example, on the iPad, Evernote had a scrollable list of notes on the left side, flanked by a large area to the right for displaying the selected note, and with toolbars at the top and bottom. Evernote 5 has completely refreshed the interface—successfully, for the most part. Notes now appear in four different views: All Notes, Notebooks, Tags, and Places. Tapping a tab header expands the tab to take up most of the screen and to display its contents. Tapping or swiping down on the tab’s header closes it.
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