I use Evernote to take notes for articles I’m researching: when I’m working on a review, I create an “App Review” note and I collect all kinds of thoughts, screenshots, and URLs in it. Rather than a feature-by-feature review, here’s how Evernote fits in my workflow and why I like the changes in version 7.3.
I don’t use features like reminders and business card scanning I have just over 2200 notes in my Evernote account, but I know of people who keep more than 10,000. Concerns about feature creep are legitimate, and I’ve always been fascinated by how Evernote – a company that wants to stress how much they depend on their own product internally – tackles design problems and feature requests.Īt this point, the Evernote experience can be so variegated, I wouldn’t be able to write a complete review.
Just in the past year alone, Evernote added image and PDF annotations, reminders, shortcuts, Post-It notes, business card scanning, and highlights to their iOS app. I criticized Evernote 5 when it first came out, and just when the company had finally reached some sort of stability and cohesiveness, they threw that design away and stumbled across iOS 7 bugs and other new design inconsistencies.
It’s no secret that Evernote’s growth and willingness to redesign has led to apps that felt confusing, bloated, and prone to errors. In January alone, Evernote has completed the transition to a new sync infrastructure that made sync four times faster for all users, and, today, released version 7.3 of the iOS app, which I believe shows a good thinking process by Evernote. Evernote listened and started working on iOS updates aimed at fixing problems reported by the userbase, which had resulted in low ratings on the App Store.Ī few weeks ago, an article by Jason Kincaid highlighted some of the troubles he had with the Evernote apps, which prompted CEO Phil Libin to publicly address his complaints and, in the process, commit to making 2014 the year of prioritizing fixes and improvements to the existing Evernote experience instead of more complete redesigns and big feature additions.
When Evernote for iOS 7 was released in September, the app received a fair amount of criticism: the company had once again completely redesigned the app after users were still learning their way around the previous major redesign, there were bugs with sync and the note editor, plus several other minor issues that, together, didn’t provide a smooth upgade experience.
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