


Evernote's Ink feature lets users draw out notes.Īlso quite cool, is a more easily accessible canvas mode made exclusively for Windows users with tablet PCs, which lets them more easily create hand-drawn notes. This may seem like a really minor addition, but if you're using Evernote as a primary text editor, this is important. Whatever you're writing gets the spell check treatment as you type, just as it does in versions of the program on other platforms. What makes up for that, is spell check-a long-overdue inclusion.

On a big, wide-screen monitor this isn't a big deal, but on smaller screens it means you have less room to view your work. Though unlike on the Mac, this group of options cannot be minimized. In their place are the simple, but screen real estate-sucking, buttons for printing, e-mailing and deleting any note you're working on. Options such as indenting, or adding a bulleted list are still there, but now they're nestled into a right-click contextual menu instead of being buttons as they were before (and still are on the Mac and Web versions). At first glance the already anemic text editor is missing a few buttons that were found on the old one.

Note that the new version has a thumbnail view. Old versus new versions of Evernote compared. The change may be jarring for some longtime Evernote users who have only used the Windows version, but for people like me, who use clients on both platforms-on a daily basis, the unification is welcome. The new version of the writing and archiving tool has more in common with its Mac counterpart, borrowing features like thumbnail previews and a three-pane view that lets users quickly hop through notes they have saved in one of their Evernote notebooks. Evernote is giving its Windows desktop application a huge face-lift on Thursday.
