What’s New in Evernote 5 for Mac
Redesigned with over 100 new features to be more beautiful, flexible, and powerful
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Shortcuts, Recent Notes, and quicker access to everything.
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Beautiful ways to browse and create notes.
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Better ways to see and organize all your content.
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Atlas helps you rediscover all the places you’ve been.
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Smarter search with TypeAhead suggestions and filters.
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Collaboration is easier with new notifications and better sharing.
Left sidebar
Shortcuts
Drag your favorite notes, notebooks and tags into the Shortcuts area for quick access.
Recent Notes
Quickly jump back to what you were working on using Recent Notes, which displays your 5 most recently-edited notes.
Notes, notebooks and tags
Dedicated buttons let you access and organize notes however you choose.
Expanding notebook and tag lists
Advanced users can right-click on the Notebook or Tags buttons and select “Show List” to show the expanded list.
Browsing and creating notes
Better notes list
Your Notes List now displays one list of all notes from your personal as well as Joined Notebooks. The menus on the top of the Note List make it easy to sort notes, change your note layout, or filter notes using notebook or tag selectors.
Snippets view
Snippets view now shows that note’s notebook and whether that notebook is shared with others.
Cards view
Browse notes with the new Cards view, which displays your notes as a list of informative, easy to scan, and visually appealing Cards. You can show a huge collection of notes full-screen with Expanded Cards view.
Note editor
The note editor now frames your content beautifully and expands as needed to fit your content. For distraction-free composition and editing, you can use the full-screen single note view.
Change a note’s location
We made it easy to add or change the geographic location of a note. Just pull up the note info menu, then type any location or address in the Location field or click the compass arrow to use your current location.
Convert to Plain Text
Copy and paste any content as plain text to eliminate complicated formatting. You can also Simplify Formatting to convert an entire note to plain text.
Keyboard shortcuts
We’ve added lots of timesaving new keyboard shortcuts, such as:
- CMD-J: Jump to a notebook from anywhere in the application
- CMD-Shift-A: Jump to All Notes
- CMD-Option-(1-5): Switch to main sidebar sections (Notes, Notebooks, etc)
- CMD-(1-9): Jump to Shortcuts
- CMD-L: Edit current note title
- CMD-’: Edit current note tags
- CMD-]: Indent text
Notebooks and tags
Grid view
Grid view shows every stack and notebook in one place, including your own notebooks as well as any Joined Notebooks. You can now sort notebooks or tags by Name, Note Count, and Owner (for Joined Notebooks).
List view
List view notebooks show the same information as Grid view, but in a more compact format.
Tags
Tags are presented in a comprehensive list. Select any tag (in blue) to see other tags (highlighted in white) also used on notes with that tag.
Timesaving new features
- Quickly filter out notebooks or tags by clicking the left navigation button, then immediately typing the filter word.
- Drag all your most frequently-used notes, notebooks or tags to the Shortcuts menu. Click on any Shortcut to browse those notes, or drag notes onto a Shortcut to change the notebooks or apply tags.
- Share a notebook by clicking the “share” button on any notebook icon.
Atlas
Place Cards
Atlas is a brand new way to visually explore your notes in Evernote. Evernote helps you remember where you were when you took notes to help you have richer, more vibrant memories. Evernote Atlas reads the location where your notes were created and intelligently presents them to you on Place Cards based upon their proximity to each other.
Map view
Click on any card to see flags with numbers representing all the notes in that location. Pan and zoom to see more or fewer notes then click on a flag to see the associated notes. To see notes created near your current location, click the compass icon.
Smarter search
TypeAhead search suggestions
With TypeAhead suggestions, Evernote’s Search is more powerful than ever. It completes your thoughts based on the words and phrases you personally use frequently in Evernote.
Search Joined Notebooks
Search results now show notes both from all personal as well as Joined Notebooks at the same time.
Saved Searches can be Shortcuts
You can drag Saved Searches from the search menu into your Shortcuts for easier access.
More search options
Click into the Search field for a variety of search options. You can search all your notes or click the Notebook capsule to search just those in the Notebook you were last viewing. If a notebook or tag matches your search, selecting a match adds search tokens that you can click on and modify later if desired. Below those, your five most recent searches are stored and shown in a selectable list.
Collaboration
Content all in one place
For Evernote 5 we rethought the sharing experience. All notebooks are in a single, sortable view and all personal and Shared Notes can be viewed and searched in a single Note List. Everything is together. Icons clearly tell you whether a notebook is shared, and who the owner is. Share any notebook simply by clicking the Share button.
Activity Feed
It’s now easier to stay up-to-date with who made what changes in Shared Notebooks. The Activity Feed still shows all activity, but now collapses redundant information. If you are running the latest version of Mac OS X, you’ll see alerts in Notification Center as well.
Share banner
A share banner along the top of the note indicates if a note is in a Shared Notebook and how many people have access to it.
Learn Evernote
Explore Evernote
It’s easier than ever to get started with Evernote. When users first launch Evernote, a first-launch experience called Explore Evernote will walk through the basics of using the app. The experience is tailored to match a user’s experience with Evernote. This makes it easier than ever to explain Evernote to your friends!
New Evernote for Mac guide
Our new product guide highlights the core features of Evernote and walks you through details of how to use them.
