What are you expecting from Evernote version 11?

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Newsletter housekeeping: The latest version for PC & Mac is 10.155.5. You can grab it from the download page. Latest mobile version is 10.155.2.

Its been a while since I did a speculation/ask the crowd type post and with Evernote version 11 happening in the not too distant future I thought I’d speculate and ask you what you would like to see.

One thing we do know about in version 11 is that AI is going to be a big part and AI chat is probably coming.

This post on Reddit from Federico, the Evernote product lead confirms this.

I’m excited about this as I’m hoping I’ll be able to ask questions of my notes.

Get answers, dig deeper into the information held across Evernote rather than just one note.

For example, in large client projects I have lots of documentation, meeting notes and general notes. I would love to ask something like “what colour did we decide on for the header font” or “Tell me what options are needed for the lead generation form”.

Answers to these types of questions would speed up my work a lot. I would no longer have to look through meeting notes and briefs to find out what I have to do.

I would also like to manipulate notes as well.

How about reordering a table in alphabetical order and replacing the content in the note?

I’d love to be able to tag notes or add multiple tags to notes.

How about something like “Tag the note Pending and move to Client notebook”

I would also like to pull information into my note from outside of Evernote.

How about being able to use the AI to do some research and then insert that research into the note.

I would probably use this for code snippets which would speed up the development work I do.

Something like “Insert a Javascript snippet into the note that listens for a click on a call to action button and when clicked opens a pop up window with text content”.

I could then edit the code how I want it and build it into my project.

I do this sort of thing inside ChatGPT and then copy edited snippets into Evernote. Being able to do this inside Evernote would be great.

Long time readers of TTT will know I keep track of my vinyl record collection in Evernote and for a while now I’ve been thinking of including track listing for each record in my collection, but its always seems like a big job.

I can see AI helping with this. How about “Insert the track listings for this album in the note”.

Maybe I could also find reviews and ratings as well and add them.

This would save a bunch of time.

One great thing about Evernote is that its so flexible and everyone uses it differently so you may have different ideas about how AI can help.

What would you like to be able to do? Add information to notes, manipulate them? Are you worried about the privacy side of things? Let me know in the comments.

And finally…

A couple of small settings changes.

From version 10.156.2 on Mac and PC the setting for hiding the slash command hint and the set note width option which were in the three-dot note menu at the top right of the note, have been moved to the settings.

Both of these are global settings but they were inside the note settings so you’ll be able to find them in Settings → Preferences → Notes.

It makes sense to put these options in the settings area and it shortens the three-dot note menu a little.

Have a great weekend

All the best

Jon