Evernote 5 for Mac (beta)

Skim any must-have-apps list, and you're likely to find Evernote. The note-making and organizing tool made its name among the smartphone community, but its desktop applications give users an incredibly powerful and reliable hub. A new public beta version of Evernote for Mac, officially called Evernote 5 for Mac (free or $45 per year for premium), does everything the mobile app doesand then some. You can create text notes, audio memos, photos, and tag all these notes and organize them into notebooks so that they're easy to find later.

Version 5 looks less cluttered, less cramped, and more sophisticated with shades of dark gray replacing much of the signature green in the user interface. A new productivity-boosting shortcuts feature lets users keep notebooks they want to see at the top of the app. Wrap this in with Evernote for Mac's excellent existing features, like having one of the most powerful search bars I've ever seen, and it's a clear and obvious Editors' Choice among software for productivity.

Evernote Basics
Since I became an Evernote user, Evernote's desktop applications have quickly become one of my primary tools for staying organized. I use a Mac at home, where Evernote for Mac gives me quick and simple access to all kinds of notes that I take, while also providing the fullest suite of tools, including good text formatting tools, for making new notes.

Everything you create can be sorted and tagged in a number of ways, and everything is searchable, including the text that appears in an image, as long as you have a Premium account. It's all saved to the cloud, which explains how you can access all your files from a multitude of devices. Some people (myself included) use Evernote in a way similar to how other people use Google Drive (free, 4 stars, and an Editors' Choice): to create files, store them in the cloud, and access them from virtually anywhere. Certainly, Google Drive does many things that Evernote doesn't (spreadsheet creation, synchronous multi-user editing), and vice versa (you can't record an audio memo in Google Drive, for example, and Evernote offers a much better and heightened experience on mobile apps). Both applications, however, leave a lot of room for creativity, so I recommend using both. Figuring how you want to use them and how they will make you more productive is up to you.

One of the things that often stops people from using Evernote is that they don't know how it can be useful, because the app is almost too open, and flexible, and ready to bend to your needs. It takes time to realize what you can do with it and more importantly, what you want to do with it. Once you figure it out, though, you'll be hooked. If you use Google Docs primarily to save notes and access them anywhere, you should give Evernote a try.

What's New in Evernote 5 for Mac?
Those who criticized Evernote's desktop applications in the past typically harped on the fact that the user interface looked cramped and too busy. The problem wasn't so much the arrangement of the interface, which in terms of design was actually quite simple, but rather how Evernote for Mac previously displayed previews of your notes. As a result, you'd see a lot of text on one screen whether you wanted to or not. With Evernote 5 for Mac, those in the "not" category can simplify their preview with a new Card view option.

Card view looks lovely when previewing image-based notes in particular, and for text-based notes, the point size of the text is larger and there's more white space in between characters and lines. Design-wise, the interface looks opened up and more spacious as a result.

Another major visual change removes some of the signature Evernote green in favor of a more contemporary gray. Plenty of high-end software, including all the major apps from Adobe, have incorporated dark gray with light gray text, a look that's as synonymous with "sophisticated software" nowadays as shades of "Microsoft blue" were in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Shortcuts, also new in Evernote 5 for Mac, let you keep your most important notebooks at the top of the stack on the left pane. This feature will delight those of us who appreciate great search functionality?which has long been a strong suit for Evernote?but also like visual file management. Sometimes be able to see your data is the reminder you need to get tasks done. Seeing your most important notebooks at the top of the Evernote interface solves this problem effectively and efficiently.

Evernote 5 for Mac also slightly changes some of the sharing features, notably, shared notebooks sit right alongside all your other notebooks, whereas they were previously kept separate.

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