Evernote Release Notes

✨ Features:

• Image and file annotation improvements: a Recent colors swatch that remembers your 8 most recently used custom colors, an Eyedropper tool to pick any color from the screen, text alignment, and some new animations and polished transitions.
• You can ask the AI Assistant to rename an attachment or recording, and review the change before it is applied.
• The calendar link suggestion after starting a recording now appears only for meeting recordings, skipping all day and multi day events.

🛠️ Fixes:

• A note is marked updated only when its content changes.
• The tab bar no longer gets cut off when you zoom the interface in or out.
• The in editor audio recorder bar no longer blocks clicks on the editor and tag menus.
• Pressing Enter or Tab after typing part of a tag name now reliably adds your existing tag instead of a new, shortened one.
• The Evernote logo is back in the Microsoft Store, Start menu, and taskbar on Windows.

Features

• Date mentions can now be formatted like the rest of the text.
• Improvements to speakers in transcription:
  • You can now see and assign speakers in the summary.
  • New buttons to move across speaker blocks.
  • A play button to start the audio from a specific speaker block.
  • Hover the "Speaker on" button to see the list of speakers.
• Redesigned the Move note modal.
• You can now drag multiple pages in the PDF editor.
• New connector with Meta Muse.

Fixes

• Note "updated": moving a note, or adding/removing tags, no longer updates the note timestamp.
• Fixed an issue where template import could fail.
• Made transcription more reliable.
• The Evernote icon in the macOS menu bar is now sharp on Retina displays.
• Notes opened in a separate window no longer open larger than your screen when moved between monitors with different display scaling.

Features

• When clicking on a note link in the app, you can now request access if you don't have it.
• Close tabs faster with two new options: Close other tabs and Close tabs to the right.
• You can now open an attachment in your computer's default app: Cmd+Click on Mac, Ctrl+Click on Windows.
• Tables are now much more powerful: sort and filter rows by column values, toggle a header row, customize borders, and distribute columns evenly (rolling out gradually).

Fixes

• Many fixes for export and print on the Web app, now reflecting improvements already available on the desktop app.
• Fixed an issue where deleted image captions could reappear after reopening a note.
• Fixed an issue where Find in Note could fail to reopen.
• Fixed an issue where date mentions did not preserve surrounding text formatting.
• Fixed an issue where sync folders could import metadata files or import the same file again.
• Fixed an issue where the note list could reappear after navigating between notes, notebooks, stacks, Trash, or Templates.
• Fixed an issue where search with Include sub tags could omit notes tagged with the parent tag.

Features

• You can now use Page break to force a new page when exporting to PDF
• The PDF annotation editor now supports dark mode, additional text sizes, and improved selection controls.
• You can now use the AI Assistant to create and manage events
• Run saved AI Prompts by typing / in the AI Assistant

Fixes

• Links pasted into comments are now clickable.
• Find in note now supports match case again, replacing matches with nothing, and prefilled selected text.
• Fixed an issue that duplicated note titles in printed notes and PDF exports.
• Fixed exported notes becoming progressively smaller and slower when exporting notebooks.
• Fixed recordings controls not appearing when a recording opens in a separate note window.

Features

• The PDF editor got a full refresh: a new page sidebar (delete, insert, reorder, rotate), merge and split PDFs, an eraser tool, and upgraded text formatting.
• You can now create toggle lists from the formatting toolbar.
• You can now see transcriptions for your older files too.
• AI title suggestions now work also on notes that contain only attachments.
• You can now use saved AI Prompts from the AI Assistant by typing "/" in the composer.
• The AI Assistant can now interact with your comments: it can follow their instructions and create new comments.
• The AI Assistant now shows the context it's working with at the top of the chat.
• You can choose a transcription model with speaker recognition in Settings — our internal model, or an external provider.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where search or navigation could unexpectedly return you to All Notes or show stale results.
• Fixed AI Assistant edits not appearing correctly in notes with Tasks blocks.
• Fixed calendar notification setup and controls so they better reflect your calendar connection and permissions.
• Fixed recordings and live transcripts to recover more reliably and stay responsive.
• Fixed AI Assistant created recurring tasks that could start overdue.

New features:

• Tables are now more user friendly: resize and move images easily, spread out columns just the way you like, and experience a smoother copy and paste again with Excel and Google Sheets.
• Image search just got smarter: uploaded images now get automatic captions, helping Semantic Search understand and find what's inside them. Select "Show caption" inside an image to see it.
• You can now bulk select, rename and remove speaker blocks in audio transcriptions.

Fixes:

• When you link a note, the menu now highlights the first matching note instead of "Create new note". Press Tab if you did mean to create a new one.
• Fixed an issue where live transcription could lose content during network interruptions.
• Fixed an issue where note link previews could fail to show content.
• Fixed an issue where tag suggestions in the note footer didn't match prefixes correctly.
• Improved tag suggestion performance on large accounts.
• Fixed an issue affecting callout formatting when deleting blank lines.
• Fixed an issue where the AI Assistant button could overlap the editor status indicator.
• Fixed Spaces directory table columns crashing and overlapping at narrow views, with space descriptions getting cut in the middle of a line.

New features

• Improved the search UX: notes open right at the first match with Find in note ready, and search better highlights matches inside images, PDFs, and audio or video recordings both inside the editor and in the note list.
• The audio recorder now works across tabs, and the note tab stays pinned while you record.
• Improved the UX of how tags are suggested when typing, and by default shows the most recently used matches.
• You can create templates from the Templates tab or the sidebar Create menu.

Fixes

• Fixed Find in Note menus being misplaced, obscured, or left open with stale highlights and search state.
• Fixed the live transcription panel staying open across tabs and remaining available until you close it.
• Fixed recordings being inserted at the bottom of a note instead of at the cursor position.
• Misc print fixes, especially around components such as toggles and code blocks.
• Fixed images in table cells so they resize correctly and their controls remain usable.
• Fixed a crash when inserting date mentions in note titles for some display languages.

Features

• Evernote MCP is now available!
• You can now ask the AI Assistant to pin notes to Home, pin notes in a notebook, or add notes to Shortcuts and help you manage stacks.
• You can now open a note mention in a new tab or window from its context menu.
• You can now upscale images past their natural size, up to the width of the note.
• The menu with three dots in the sidebar has been reorganized for better structure.

Fixes

• Fixed several printing and export issues, including attachment names, note title styling, page ranges, and table and mermaid diagram pagination.
• Dictation now works in notes opened in a new window.
• Fixed the tag, mention, and note link pickers not filtering correctly when typing in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, or with accented characters.
• Fixed incorrect dates returned for certain German date and holiday mentions.
• Fixed inconsistent file size display between Note Info, Files, and attachment cards within the note.

Features

• AI Prompts now support mentioning notes, notebooks, and tags with @.
• You can now set Live Transcription to start automatically for all meetings in Settings > AI > Features.
• Improved speaker assignment in audio transcriptions, with the option to apply changes to just one instance or all occurrences.
• You can now add additional speaker blocks within an audio transcription.
• The AI Assistant can now create and open notes on your behalf when using Editing mode.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where toggles could not be expanded while viewing a note.
• Fixed the AI Assistant overwriting transcriptions in edit mode.
• Fixed the floating global audio recorder disappearing on views outside of notes.

Features

• Introducing Edit and Ask modes for the AI Assistant. Edit makes changes directly in your notes; Ask answers questions without touching them.
• New keyboard shortcut to create a Space (Shift+Command+S on Mac, Alt+Shift+S on Windows).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the AI Assistant could not create stacks or organize notebooks into them.
• Fixed an issue where the date picker in note titles could appear empty.
• Fixed calendar events disappearing after switching from week view to day view.
• Fixed the start recording icon not being visible on calendar events in dark mode.
• Fixed AI Prompts closing unexpectedly when a recording finishes uploading.
• Fixed calendar event times not matching your system's time format.

Features:

• Date mentions are now available. Type @ to insert dates using natural language like "tomorrow", "next Friday", or "1st January". Supports relative dates, and you can customise the display format.
• Videos are now transcribed with the same experience as audio, including speaker recognition.
• Insert emojis in task descriptions by typing : to open the emoji picker.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the recording timer froze when a modal opened during recording.
• Fixed a bug where truncated note titles were not fully visible on hover.

Notes & navigation: The ultimate canvas for your thoughts, ideas, and plans

Your notes should keep up with the way you think—whether that’s a quick checklist, a project plan, or a personal dashboard pulling together text, tasks, links, files, and reminders. These are the core workflows where your second brain takes shape: writing, structuring, and moving through your content with ease. That’s why we’ve spent the past few months investing heavily in these areas. Here are the highlights:

Tabs. One of the most requested updates we’ve made to the Editor is Tabs. As notes grow into longer, more complex workspaces, tabs make it much easier to move between different pieces of work without losing your place. Whether you’re comparing ideas, jumping between related notes, or keeping a project open alongside supporting material, tabs help you stay oriented as you work. You can now also drag to reorder tabs, pin them to the left, and open different account sections in new tabs too, like your calendar.

New types of @ mentions. Type @ to mention a note, notebook, stack, or space, or # to tag inline—linking a specific idea, task, or paragraph to the wider context it belongs to. You can now use @ to mention people too, making it easier to collaborate in shared notes.

New inline toolbar. Keep your favorite editing tools within easy reach with Evernote's new inline toolbar. The updated design makes it possible to style text and adapt content without reaching for a menu and losing your train of thought.

Callout blocks. Callout blocks make key points stand out, drawing your eye to important parts of a note with customizable colors and emojis for added personality.

Toggle blocks. Headers have always been collapsible, but now you can create even more layers inside your notes by adding toggles on regular text. That means long notes stay tidier, with more structure and less clutter.

Mermaid diagrams. Turn a few lines of text into a flowchart or diagram, directly inside your note. Mermaid diagrams are a fast way to map a complex process, design a decision or logic flow, or illustrate how your ideas connect, without switching to another tool. Not sure where to start? Ask AI Assistant to build the diagram for you, so you get the visual without needing to learn any special syntax.

And that’s not all. We’ve also introduced Link View options, text wrapping around images, a more powerful Insert menu, richer Slash commands, floating table of contents, inline HEIC image support, and many other quality-of-life improvements to make writing in Evernote smoother than ever.

AI tools: maximize your productivity

Evernote’s AI Assistant is the built-in chat in Evernote, designed to use your notes and context to give you more relevant help. Because it works with the notes, tasks, and ideas you already trust Evernote to hold, it can tailor its responses to your context.

AI Prompts. Create a reusable AI workflow once, then run it whenever you need it—on an empty note, selected text, a transcript, or a recording. For recurring work like summarizing notes, drafting follow-ups, or turning rough ideas into a clean structure, you save the whole process instead of retyping the request each time. You can also @-mention AI Prompts in a conversation to trigger the workflow.

AI Memory. Instead of re-explaining your preferences, context, or working style every time, tell AI Assistant what matters once and it remembers to tailor all future responses to that preference.

Update multiple items at once. AI Assistant now helps you take action across your account in more ways than ever before: it can create and update tasks and reminders, tidy up your tags and notebooks, set up templates, and rename notes. So a request like "turn these meeting notes into a task list" can happen in a single interaction, rather than through several separate manual steps.

MCP. You asked for a way to connect Evernote to other assistants—so we built a solution. Through our new MCP (Model Context Protocol), you can connect Evernote to AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Once connected, you can work with your notes right inside those tools.

AI Transcribe: Capture audio, effortlessly

We've introduced major improvements on how Evernote captures and transforms audio so you never miss important information from the conversations that matter—the back-and-forth of a meeting, the key points in a lecture, an answer in an interview.

Improved transcripts. Earlier this year we improved nearly every step of the audio transcription process. You can start recordings from more places throughout the app, including the toolbar, Calendar, and Meeting Notes. You also can set a transcription language and translate automatically when needed, transcribe audio up to 2 hours long, and keep transcription running in the background while you work in other notes.

Recording modes. We redesigned the audio recording experience around two different needs: meeting recordings and voice notes. Meeting recorder helps you capture conversations with multiple people, while Voice note is built for a single-voice recording you want to capture in your notes.

Live transcription. Follow along as you record with the live transcript appearing in a floating, draggable panel. From there, you can also start a conversation with AI Assistant mid-recording to ask questions or get a recap of the conversation so far.

Automatic transcription. Upload an audio file and Evernote automatically transcribes it, turning the recording into a searchable, editable note without any extra steps.

Dictation. You might be surprised how differently your ideas flow when you're not tied to the keyboard. Some people would rather talk through an idea than write and think at the same time. The new dictation feature lets you do exactly that: talk to Evernote and watch the words appear in real time in your note as you say them.

Taken together, these updates make it easier to turn spoken ideas, meetings, and recordings into searchable, editable notes you can return to, refine, and build on inside Evernote, with less manual work involved.

Evernote Mobile: The best of Evernote, wherever you are

So much gets captured on the go: a whiteboard after a meeting, a receipt, a handwritten note, a document to scan, a thought you dictate while walking, or a task you remember between appointments. That's why we’ve been working hard to make Evernote as powerful on mobile phones and tablets as it is on your desktop computer.

A better mobile editor. The redesigned formatting toolbar puts everyday tools within easy reach, and slash commands and @ mentions now work on mobile too—so you can add structure and context without leaving the keyboard.

AI Assistant on mobile. The AI Assistant, including AI Prompts and AI Memory, is now available on mobile, so you can unlock the full potential of these tools from your phone and tablet too.

Mobile camera and scanning. The camera inside the Evernote mobile app has a cleaner design, with an integrated scan function, PDF support, and manual adjustments (pinch to zoom, tap to focus, and front/rear switching) that make it easier to capture important documents so they don’t get lost.

Wherever you are, capturing your ideas and important information in Evernote is now just as easy as it is when you’re at your computer—and the two systems always stay in sync.

Beyond features

Building the best second brain isn't only about launching new features. It's also about making Evernote faster, smoother, and more reliable. Many of our improvements are the smaller fixes and refinements that quietly remove friction from your everyday actions in Evernote. You can find some examples of those in the full list of improvements we made since January.

Your feedback plays an important role in the process of identifying what changes move the needle for our users. Bug reports and feature requests help shape what we prioritize and where we focus next. Share your ideas and requests with us.

We also added a new What's New page inside the app, so you have one place to catch up on recent updates and find useful resources on any feature. You'll find it at the 📣 icon in your navigation bar on Desktop, or from the menu under your profile icon on Mobile.

What’s next

The first half of 2026 was about making Evernote v11—its core workflows and new capabilities—more powerful than ever: a better Editor, deeper AI workflows, richer capture options, and a stronger mobile experience.

Next, we’re looking at improvements to some of our most-loved Editor features, including tables and tags. We’re also exploring ways to make organizing content across Evernote more efficient and intuitive, with smarter ways to categorize and sort information.

Plus, we’re working towards making every single piece of content you add to Evernote—no matter the format—searchable. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) already lets you find text inside images and files via the Search, but we want to expand that to all your audio content too. The idea is that a voice note from years ago back with an idea can be surfaced when you ask a question about your notes or are looking for mentions of a keyword in Search.

Want to keep up with everything new? Follow along on X, YouTube, or check the 📣 What's New page inside the app to see all the updates in one place.

Until next time,
💚 The Evernote team

Features

• You can now choose between Pastel and Bright highlighter colors in Settings > Preferences > Notes.
• The audio player now shows the recording length.
• Enjoy an expanded emoji set!
• Improved the search handling by the AI Assistant.
• The AI Assistant can now insert images you upload in chat directly into your note.

Fixes

• Fixed audio and video auto-transcribing even when AI transcription was turned off.
• Fixed uploaded audio and video being renamed from their transcription instead of keeping their original filename.
• Fixed resizing an image from its top-left corner.
• Fixed labels in Notes settings not aligning with their controls.
• Fixed your own templates and the template browser not appearing on notes shared with you with edit access.