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Personally, I have had good experience with the current evernote app for windows. I just know how to use it leaving the unwieldy "features" behind. It helps, I think that I have pared things down to 1 notebook and a tag/subtag/sub-subtag model for easier navigation. The new features interest me, though, especially the text-editing features. Currently, you have to pop the note into an external window to edit text in any sort of wysiwyg fashion.
I'll give it a try, I think...
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I've installed it -- honestly, I am not sure I like it. I am fairly open to newness, and there are features that I do like, but the first thing I need is an obvious method of closing the image/list browser. It is just in my way. I would like to keep it closed and open it with a shortcut or buttonif I want to. Also, the fact that it doesn't open by default to a new note anymore is a problem for me. I write more notes than I review. I want instant access to being able to write my next note. I know I can do that with shortcuts, but that is not necessarily the point.
*note* I have not yet explored the options to see if these items are configurable, but I personally believe they should be default options.
When you say you know you can do quick notes with shortcuts, do you mean a bookmarklet? Or is there something nice I could be using that I don't know about? If I need to add a note that isn't too complex, I use a bookmarklet with this as the address: http://www.evernote.com/mobile/CreateNote.action . That is from the mobile interface, but works from a normal browser, too. The one drawback is that it doesn't autocomplete tags, so you need to get them right. I also email notes into Evernote often, but you have to go back and tag the note later. I think there was some talk in the forums about being able to tag via email (perhaps by formatting the subject line a certain way), but I'm not sure what the official response was to that.
Don't feel too bad about the iPhone app. The 3.0 version of the app has had a rocky road. At least for me, it seems a good bit slower than it was, or maybe my phone is just overdue for a reboot.
As for the keyboard shortcuts, there are a whole list and (I think) are somewhat configurable to. I really only use the quick note one though and that, if you have the client installed on a windows machine, is generally ctrl-alt-n. Instantly opens client to new noteland (as long as you have opened it at least once before since the computer booted).
Personally, I have had good experience with the current evernote app for windows. I just know how to use it leaving the unwieldy "features" behind. It helps, I think that I have pared things down to 1 notebook and a tag/subtag/sub-subtag model for easier navigation. The new features interest me, though, especially the text-editing features. Currently, you have to pop the note into an external window to edit text in any sort of wysiwyg fashion.
I'll give it a try, I think...
When you say you know you can do quick notes with shortcuts, do you mean a bookmarklet? Or is there something nice I could be using that I don't know about? If I need to add a note that isn't too complex, I use a bookmarklet with this as the address: http://www.evernote.com/mobile/CreateNote.action . That is from the mobile interface, but works from a normal browser, too. The one drawback is that it doesn't autocomplete tags, so you need to get them right. I also email notes into Evernote often, but you have to go back and tag the note later. I think there was some talk in the forums about being able to tag via email (perhaps by formatting the subject line a certain way), but I'm not sure what the official response was to that.
Don't feel too bad about the iPhone app. The 3.0 version of the app has had a rocky road. At least for me, it seems a good bit slower than it was, or maybe my phone is just overdue for a reboot.
As for the keyboard shortcuts, there are a whole list and (I think) are somewhat configurable to. I really only use the quick note one though and that, if you have the client installed on a windows machine, is generally ctrl-windowsbutton-n. Instantly opens client to new noteland (as long as you have opened it at least once before since the computer booted).