![]() Most of all, I’m not exactly sure what’s the reason behind the panel approach. I have triggered Notification Center several times when trying to swipe away a panel to switch sections. In terms of performance, panels are slow: bringing a different view in the foreground takes more animation time than tapping on a section in a sidebar, and the animations often lag and “freeze” on the iPad. However, switching from an old-style, yet efficient layout based on a sidebar and tabs to a full-screen vertical panel UI poses a series of challenges that Evernote hasn’t solved in this first release. I like the playfulness of the animations and the “weight” of the panels: it really feels as if you’re grabbing a window and moving it. You can tap on each panel’s title bar to bring it to the foreground, or you can manually “grab” the title bar and drag it across the screen. On the iPad – where I have used Evernote the most – the top area of the app is dedicated to showing recent notes as “cards” (thumbnails) with buttons to create new notes available on the left side. The new Evernote uses vertically swipeable panels to represent various sections of the app: there are panels for All Notes, Notebooks, Tags, Places, and Premium. More importantly, even if that spatiality was indeed necessary, it nevertheless hinders the app’s layout of data and information – effectively Evernote’s core. In practice, Evernote 5 is affected by severe performance issues and design metaphors that – visual taste aside – constrain the UI into a spatiality it doesn’t need. ![]() ![]() The note editor looks clean and polished, the animations theoretically suited for a software that aims at letting you organize your digital life. Its interface is colorful, peculiar in the way it employs green elements of the Evernote brand. I believe Evernote has a strong foundation to build upon, but the first result of this process – the new Evernote 5 for iOS – is far from solid.Įvernote 5 looks great in screenshots and videos. I am not an “Evernote power user”, but having recently revamped my paperless workflow, I thought I had a good opportunity to properly test the major update. I have been using the latest Evernote app for iOS, Evernote 5, for the past week.
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