Summary
After giving it a review, I’ll admit It looks a lot cleaner and more modern, but they moved a LOT of cheese.
Not real happy with it yet.
I’ve been with Evernote for 10 years as of last April and I have about 20,000 notes buried in there. I use it to run almost everything.
What I’m missing already
- Saved Searches are buried under Search now. What was one click for me is now several clicks and scrolling. I used Saved Searches to run my LIFE.
- Views. I often would pivot between the 4 or 5 views you could us to see your notes different ways (with images, less data, more data, preview pane on/off). That appears to be gone. No idea if it’s coming back.
- Speed. I’m getting 3-6 second lags when I do something simple like click on a note or using Ctrl+N for a new note. That’s gonna add up for me. I move fast in this app (or used to anyway).
- Tags are at the bottom of the page now. Hopefully I don’t start forgetting to tag since the feature is kind of “out of sight, out of mind”.
- My tags are not autocompleting for me either if I use F3 to start the tag. I’m typing tags I know I have and they aren’t showing up. BIG problem here. I probably have 200 tags or more. No WAY am I going to scroll through those hierarchically. Fortunately it seems I can click to add a tag and autocomplete works in that case. So this seems to be a bug.
- Presentation mode appears to be gone
- I’m still exploring so we’ll see what else comes up.
What I like
- Dark mode
- Note editor is much better.
- Drag blocks of text
- Full editor features (like header sizes, more colors
- Sketch feature seems pretty great. Like this:

- Drawn by hand using Bamboo tablet
- Evernote only inserted the part it should have, which is excellent
- This means I can do more “whiteboarding” right within Evernote, instead of using MS Whiteboard and then Snagit to capture and place it in Evernote.
- Only better would be if I could copy/paste it here and then edit it. Let’s try:
- Nope. I had it pasted here fine, but Evernote could only display. Instead I edited the original.
Update: went back to version 6.25 for now. Going to look for alternatives just in case this new version doesn’t show signs of speeding up and backfilling some of the important missing features. https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/129307-back-to-version-625-i-go/