Evernote Release Notes

In 2025, we released more improvements than any other year in recent history, and there’s even more to come. Throughout the year, we focused on strengthening Evernote's core to make it faster, more reliable, and easier to use ahead of Evernote v11, a major update coming in early 2026. You can find the complete list of improvements here —we’ll cover the highlights below.

Here's a breakdown of our focus this year:

January-June

In the first half of the year alone, we shipped 110 improvements in just six months, from everyday refinements to bigger upgrades across several Editor, search, collaboration, customization, and AI features, along with overall performance. The result is a faster, more reliable Evernote designed to help you stay organized, productive, and creative.

July-December

In the second half of the year, we shifted our focus to building v11. V11 is the culmination of two years of laying new technical foundations, improving sync and speed, and delivering hundreds of features and refinements. It also introduces three new AI features — AI Assistant, Semantic Search, and AI Meeting Notes —with previews already rolling out to paying customers as we incorporate early feedback ahead of the full release.

Beyond that, we released 50+ additional improvements across the Editor, core workflows, and search, along with incremental improvements to new features in beta.

Below, we’ll walk you through some of the latest improvements released since June 2025 (some of which build on previous improvements from earlier in the year).

✍️ Editor and core workflows

Note-taking is at the heart of Evernote, so we continued to refine the Editor experience to feel simpler and smoother. We removed friction from core workflows like creating, organizing, and formatting notes.

Improved slash commands.

Released February-October 2025.

We're constantly looking for new ways to make slash commands more versatile and useful. You can now:

• Activate the slash command menu inside of headers and tables
• Fix a typo in your command without needing to re-trigger the menu
• Type with confidence, knowing that adding / between letters will no longer trigger the menu by mistake

After making slash commands easier to use, we expanded what you can do with them. We added 16 new options to speed up note-taking while typing, including dynamic date mentions (@Today), Google Calendar events, audio recordings, and more formatting tools.

Improved markdown support for consistent formatting.

Released February-November 2025. When you copy and paste content into Evernote, it now keeps key formatting like bold and italics, headings, lists, links, and block quotes. As of November, formatting for pasted tables and bulleted lists stay intact too.

[Mobile] Improved note headers.

Released July 2025.

Note details are now easier to scan at a glance. You can also add tags from the top of a note, without digging through menus.

[Mobile] Multi-select notes.

Released August 2025.

You can now select multiple notes at once on Mobile. Open the ⋯ menu in any note list, then choose Select notes to take bulk actions.

A smoother audio recording experience.

Released September-October 2025.

Audio recording is easier to access and control. You can now:

• Pause and resume recordings
• Start a recording from the Insert menu and slash commands
• [Desktop] Navigate to other notes and outside of Evernote while recording

Better link display options.

Released December 2025.

Links are now easier to recognize and customize in your notes. Choose how they appear: as a mention, plain text, or a content preview. And when the title of the linked content changes, the mention updates automatically.

Improved Insert menu.

Released November 2025.

We made the Insert menu easier and more intuitive to use, so you can add what you need with just a few clicks.

You can now search for items in the Insert menu on both Mobile and Desktop, and pin your favorite tools to the top of the list by tapping the ⭐. You can also insert text styles and list items directly into your notes.

Keyboard shortcuts for each tool are now clearly visible, making it easier to edit as you type.

Perform inline calculations.

Released November 2025.

Evernote can now do basic math as you type, so you can make helpful calculations without leaving your note. Choose if Evernote shows calculation suggestions when you type "=" in Settings > Preferences > Notes.

Enter focus mode when writing.

Released November 2025.

Minimize distractions by automatically hiding the toolbar while typing in a note. It reappears when you move your mouse again, so you can easily access tools when needed. You can control this setting in Preferences > Notes.

Improved Calendar management.

Released December 2025.

We modernized how events and tasks appear in your calendar, with a new pop-up that makes it easier to view and edit details. Select any item to:

• Create a linked note for an event
• Mark a task as complete without leaving the calendar

🔍 Search

Creating great notes is only half the story—it’s just as important to find them quickly later. Over the course of the year, we improved the core search in Evernote so you can surface right content in fewer steps.

What improved this year, released June-September 2025:

• A refreshed search modal with more room to browse results
• Smarter suggestions as you type, including more than just notes
• More complete results, so you can keep scrolling when you need to
• Clearer in-note matches, so it’s easier to spot what you’re looking for
• New keyboard shortcuts to navigate to a search from anywhere on your device

Improved filtering.

Released December 2025.

We streamlined search filters with a more compact filter menu and a clearer view of your active filters to keep your results front and center. When you search in your Tags and Filters, your search stays visible while you scroll results.

Coming soon…

Search will be more powerful than ever in 2026—keep reading to see what’s next.

🎨 Look & Feel

Released October 2025.

We gave Mads, our beloved green elephant , a fresh new look. We also fine-tuned everyday details across Evernote to make it feel smoother and more intuitive, from redesigned icons to a repositioned account menu in the sidebar. We also brought our modern new look to Evernote.com.

Setting the stage for v11

V11 has been several years in the making: each improvement we've made since 2023 has brought us one step closer to this landmark release. Most recently, preparing for v11 also meant indexing 3.2 billion notes in Evernote's backend to make sure our newest AI features will work correctly.

Product lead, Federico Simionato, explains how this process works and demos the new AI Assistant, AI Meeting Notes, and Semantic Search features in our latest video.

Previews of AI Assistant, Semantic Search, and AI Meeting Notes are already rolling out to paying customers in Evernote v10, and we’re excited by the positive response we’ve received so far. Over the past months, we’ve been putting the finishing touches on these AI features based on your early feedback to make sure they're ready for the official launch.

⚡New AI features are coming in v11

Three new tools—AI Assistant, Semantic Search, and AI Meeting Notes—are built to fit seamlessly into your existing workflows, helping you save time, stay focused, and move from idea to action faster.

AI Assistant

Built in close collaboration with OpenAI

AI Assistant helps you stay organized, manage your tasks, create content, and retrieve the right information through a simple chat. AI Assistant understands your notes and can search the web to answer your requests intelligently.

The final touches we’re adding:

• Mention notes, tasks, tags, and more with @
• New keyboard shortcuts to jump straight to AI Assistant
• The option to regenerate a response with one click

Semantic Search

Describe the idea, topic, or task you’re looking for, and Semantic Search will find the most relevant notes, even if the phrasing doesn’t match.

The final touches we’re adding:

• AI summaries that highlight key results
• Arrow-key navigation to move through results
• A Load more results button to see additional matches

AI Meeting Notes

Automatically turn recordings into meeting notes. AI Meeting Notes transcribes your audio, summarizes the key points, and recognizes speakers so you can assign names and keep everything clear.

The final touches we’re adding:

• Regenerate a transcription with a different setting
• Cue Evernote to remember your preferences for your next recording
• Select the language of your recording, and automatically translate the transcription

💡 We’ve added AI Settings in Preferences so you can tailor AI features to your workflow, including turning individual tools on or off. Learn more here →

What's next in 2026?

In 2025, we found our stride, with a steady stream of meaningful improvements contributing to an overall better experience and setting the stage for what’s next.

As we head into 2026, we’re excited to keep shaping Evernote into a smarter, more intuitive workspace that supports how you think and work every day, starting with v11!

For updates, follow us on X, YouTube, and product.evernote.com, where we share new features on a rolling basis.

Until next time,

💚 The Evernote team

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Back in 2024, we set an ambitious goal to release 100 improvements over the course of a year—and we did. 🎉

But we were just warming up. In fact, we’ve already introduced more improvements (110!) in just the past six months alone.

These include everything from little tweaks that makes everyday note-taking smoother to powerful new features that change how you work. Notably, we worked extensively on improving core workflows, Search, collaboration, customization, AI tools, and over-all app performance.

You can find the complete list of all 110 improvements here—we dive into the highlights below. 👇

✍️ Editor and core workflows

At its core, Evernote is a note editor. That's why, no matter how much we expand the product's functionality, we always come back to the basics: making sure that writing, organizing, and retrieving your notes is smoother than ever.

Here’s what’s new in Evernote’s Editor and other core functionalities:

A new Templates experience. Released January 2025.

Earlier this year, we completely redesigned the Templates experience to make it easier to jump directly into note-taking without the need to worry about creating (or recreating) the perfect formatting each time. Now, you can:

• Create custom templates from any note.
• Access your templates directly from the all-new Templates section or apply a template directly to a new note by selecting one from your My templates list.
• Make use of the refreshed Templates gallery, which offers dozens of ready-made templates that you can add to your Evernote account with just one click.

Improved markdown support for consistent formatting. Released February, 2025.

Now, when you copy and paste content from external sources (like ChatGPT 😉), the text will keep its original formatting, including bolded and italicized text as well as headers, lists, links, and block quotes.

Improved slash commands. Released February 2025.

One year after we first released / commands, we're constantly looking for new ways to make them more versatile and useful. Most recently, you can:

• Activate the / command menu inside of headers and tables
• Fix a typo in your command without needing to re-trigger the menu
• Type with confidence, knowing that adding "/" between letters will no longer trigger the menu by mistake

A fresh look for PDF and image editing. Released March 2025.

We rewrote the software we use for in-app PDF and image editing on Desktop and Web, eliminating some long-standing bugs and freshening up the design for a smoother overall experience.

Custom default fonts. Released May 2025.

With this update, you can set your preferred font style, size, and color once and have it applied to every subsequent new note. Easily control the defaults for header and body text via the Aa menu, or by going into your settings.

A better workflow for moving and deleting notes. Released June 2025.

We made some small but important changes to how the Move and Delete note actions work to reduce friction during these key operations. Now:

• When you move or delete a note, the next one opens automatically
• You can navigate directly to the new note location via a link in the confirmation banner
• You can use the Undo option to quickly reverse any action
• You’ll get more from the Move modal itself, including seeing the name of the note being moved and the option to create a new notebook or space directly from the modal

🔍 Search

Creating great notes can only get you so far—it’s equally important that you can retrieve important information quickly and seamlessly. That’s why we recently introduced several improvements to the search experience in Evernote with the intention of helping you find the right content in fewer taps.

A better search modal

• Centered pop-up. Our first change was to bring the activated search modal from a narrow column on the lefthand side to a centered pop-up window. This way, we give more space and visibility to your search results.
• Clearer sections in the default state. Better default states in the search pop-up make it more useful before you even start typing your query. Quickly scan top categories at a glance: Recent searches, Saved searches, Recent notes (grouped by when they were last updated), and Filters.
• Scrollable results. Unlike before, you can now see all of your query results via a scrollable list directly in the modal.
• New keyboard shortcuts. Open notes faster with dedicated shortcuts:
  • Press CMD+L or CTRL+L to copy a note link directly from the search modal.
  • Press CMD+Enter or CTRL+Enter to open a note in a new window.
• A more convenient default scope. When searching inside a notebook or space, the default scope is now set to Everywhere to get you the best results. If needed, you can still manually switch the search to focus on just a specific notebook or space.

Sharper suggestion logic

• Smarter and faster suggestions while typing. As you type in the search modal, suggestions appear faster than ever—not just notes, but also notebooks, stacks, spaces, and tags.
• Priority for title matches. We give higher priority to note, notebook, stack, space, and tag suggestions with titles that match your search query. Need more? Simply scroll to see additional notes with matching content. Still looking? Press Enter to run a full search and manage results directly from the note list.

Improved search results

• Unlimited results. We’ve removed the cap that previously limited search results to 128. Now, your search returns all relevant results each time.
• Targeted in-note results. When opening a note from your search results, you’ll now land directly on the first matching term, highlighted so you can locate it more easily.
• More reliable Search and Find in note results. We’ve enhanced consistency and precision across search and in-note highlighting, so you can locate what you need with confidence

Released June 2025.

🤝 Collaboration

Over the past six months, we’ve invested heavily in making Evernote a more collaborative workspace for individuals and teams alike with new features and small tweaks designed to make collaborating in Evernote more powerful, intuitive, and secure.

Shareable workspaces. Released February 2025.

In late 2024, we made Spaces (formerly a Teams-only feature) available for everyone. This powerful layer for organization and collaboration tool was initially released in beta, and over time we’ve added more functionality. One of our first changes was to make it possible to share your personal spaces with other individual Evernote users. Just click “Share,” add the person, set their permissions, and go!

Improved sharing UX. Released February 2025.

• Redesigned sharing modal. We’ve revamped the sharing modal to make it simpler and clearer to manage access permissions.
• Unlimited simultaneous viewers on public notes. Anyone with the link can view it without restrictions—perfect for publishing content for a large audience.
• Lite sharing flow. When a note link is opened outside the app, it will now consistently open in the Lite Note Editor, making it easily accessible for non-logged in users (note permissions permitting). Users then have the option to open the note in the full app and save public notes directly to their account.
• Improved social sharing options. We’ve added social sharing buttons to the Lite Note Editor, making it easy to copy the link, email it, or share it via WhatsApp, Facebook, or X.

In-line comments. Released March 2025.

Use in-line comments to flag specific words, phrases, or entire sections of your text to your collaborators. This way, you can leave feedback, ask questions, raise issues, or highlight ideas without ever leaving Evernote. The note owner receives email notifications for each new comment; instead new replies to existing comments trigger a notification to the note owner and anyone else in the thread. But don’t worry, you won’t return to a spammed inbox: we rate limit emails to once per hour per note, or up to three per hour for all notes.

Note access requests. Released May 2025.

If you receive a note link but don’t have permission to view the content, you can now ask the note owner for access directly via Evernote. You’ll be alerted as soon as access is granted—from there, you can jump back in via the original link or find the content in the 'Shared with me' section.

🤖 AI tools

Evernote’s AI tools are focused on saving you time and simplifying your work. Here’s how we’ve expanded Evernote’s AI capabilities in the past six months:

Higher limits for AI Transcribe & AI Edit. Released April-May 2025.

You can now use AI Transcribe for audio, video, and image files that are up to 1 hour in length or 100MB in size—ideal for converting long meetings, lectures, podcasts, or really high-def images into editable and searchable text. Plus, we doubled the character limit for AI Edit, so you can now apply improvements to longer notes.

Two new AI (re)writing tools to improve your content:

• (In-app) Use the new AI Edit “Write As” function to turn your text into an email or social media post. Released February 2025.
• (Web tool) Leverage AI Rewrite to reword your text—you can even choose to “humanize” the content for a more authentic result. Released March 2025.

Two new AI transcription web tools to simplify how you turn audio into text, and vice versa:

• With Evernote Text-to-Voice, you can turn your text into natural, easy-to-listen-to audio, choosing from a variety of voices and even setting the right tone. Released June 2025.
• With Evernote Meeting Note-taker, you can easily capture audio and video from your computer’s microphone or browser tab. From there, we automatically generate a transcript, complete with speaker recognition. Released June 2025.

🎨 Customization

Evernote should feel like your workspace, not someone else’s. That’s why, in addition to default fonts and template customization, we’ve rolled out several other new ways to customize your account exactly the way you like it.

• You can now set a custom thumbnail for any note—just right-click on an image or PDF and choose “Set as note thumbnail.”
• Evernote remembers your custom sidebar and navbar preferences across your devices for a consistent experience on Desktop, Mobile, and Web.
• Now you can fully personalize your daily notes: Edit the default templates, choose where your notes get saved, or even make your own custom daily note from scratch.
• You can now re-access the Mobile Widgets page from the More menu in the navbar.
• Not a fan of / or @ menu shortcuts? No problem—you can now disable them in Settings. For adding links and formatting manually, just use the Insert menu and the Editing toolbar instead.

Released January-March 2025.

⚡️ Speed & performance

We’ve been busy behind the scenes to make your Evernote experience faster than ever before. Here are just some ways Evernote’s performance has improved over the past six months:

[Desktop & Mobile] Attachments and tags sync.

We rebuilt the engine that handles how attachment and tags sync in Evernote, drastically increasing the speed with which they sync in a variety of circumstances:

• Up to 2x faster attachment sync for shared notes, plus fewer broken previews in the editor
• Up to 10x faster attachment sync in large accounts with big notebooks
• Up to 300x faster tags sync in large accounts with tags used within many notes

[Mobile] Note loading and opening.

We’ve reduced wait times when opening or creating a note on mobile:

• On iOS, 96.5% of users load the editor in under 1 second (up from 76%), while on Android 97% of users load the editor in under 2 seconds (up from 69%).
• We also made the process of opening and creating notes in Android faster for a much larger portion of the user base (+23% and +15% respectively!).

[Desktop] Notebook list loading time.

Your notebook list now loads up to 2x faster and uses 50% fewer CPUs.

Released February-April 2025.

What’s next in 2025?

We don’t plan to slow down any time soon! In the second half of the year we plan to release even more powerful AI features, additional search improvements, lots of Mobile updates, and much more.

For real-time updates about changes to Evernote, make sure to follow our progress on X, YouTube, and product.evernote.com, where we’re announcing new features on a rolling-basis and sharing helpful monthly recaps. Plus, follow our product lead @fedesimio for sneak-peeks of exciting new prototypes coming soon!

👋 Until next time,

The Evernote team

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Business plans, journal entries, family recipes, and grocery lists…from big ideas to everyday reminders, handwritten notes help us capture it all. But paper fades, gets lost, and is tough to organize and store long-term. AI Transcribe changes that. Whether you’re uploading a photo or scanning a document into Evernote directly, AI Transcribe turns your handwriting into searchable, editable text—making it easier than ever to keep your information safe and accessible.

Quickly turn handwritten notes or screenshots to text

AI Transcribe uses advanced AI OCR tools to convert images to text quickly and efficiently, preserving the look, feel, and formatting of your original notes—without the extra work.

Use AI Transcribe to capture anything, including, but not limited to:

• To-do lists
• Daily planners
• Project outlines
• Whiteboard notes
• Meeting notes
• Lecture notes
• Grocery lists
• Gratitude journals
• Poems
• Song lyrics
• Story drafts
• Greeting cards

Scan or upload your files with ease

AI Transcribe supports a wide variety of image file formats, making it incredibly flexible. You can scan documents directly using the Evernote app or upload existing images—both to the app or to the standalone web tool.

Here are the image formats AI Transcribe recognizes:

• Jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, webp, heic, heif.
• The maximum supported dimension for images is 9216 pixels.

Image-to-text in action: Create a family recipe archive

Picture this: You’ve inherited your family’s beloved—but chaotic—recipe collection. Scribbled across napkins, envelopes, and index cards, it holds decades of culinary wisdom, from grandma’s secret sauce to your aunt’s award-winning pecan pie. Digitizing this collection is the best way to preserve it for generations to come…that’s where AI Transcribe comes in!

Step 1: Upload and transcribe

Start by scanning the pages with your home scanner or phone and uploading them to the Evernote app. From there, click the ‘Transcribe’ button to extract text from images—handwritten or typed—and convert them into digital notes. The transcribed recipes (and original images) are stored securely in your Evernote account and can be easily searched, edited, and referenced at any time.

Step 2: Clean up with AI

To polish up your recipe book, use Evernote's built-in AI Edit feature—it can quickly summarize wordy baking instructions, correct typos, and fix grammatical errors.

Step 3: Add new content on the fly

Ready to carry on the legacy by adding your own recipes throughout the years? It’s as easy as snapping a quick photo. AI Transcribe picks up the handwriting, converts the image to text, and slots it neatly into your organized recipe archive.

Now, your entire collection is easily searchable and available anytime, anywhere.

Why choose AI Transcribe?

Evernote's AI Transcribe isn't just a photo to text converter. It's a powerful tool designed to make your handwritten content searchable, organized, and preserved for generations.

Along with handwriting recognition, AI Transcribe offers strong audio-to-text and video-to-text transcription capabilities. It also integrates seamlessly with the Evernote ecosystem, pairing well with tools like AI Edit (so you can quickly summarize transcripts), as well as both traditional and AI-Powered Search (to help you surface exactly what you need with simple natural-language searches).

Have a huge backlog of audio or video recordings? Learn how to transcribe audio and video to text here.

Check out these other resources:

👉 How to effortlessly convert audio, video, and images to text with AI Transcribe
👉 Transcribe your content using AI in 3 simple steps
👉 AI Transcribe FAQ

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