How to Upgrade to Evernote 3.5 Beta

by jessen on December 3, 2009

I have been a user of Evernote for a couple of months now. It has become part of my life and workflow.

In this post I will be sharing steps to take to update to the latest version of Evernote (it is still in Beta, be warned).

Select All Notebooks

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Right click on All Notebooks and select Export Notes

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After you click on export, you will the following status bar…

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Uninstall your old Evernote program, reboot and install the 3.5 beta version.

Once you are done, you will see this welcome screen.

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After signing in it will ask you if you want to synchronize with your old database…

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Select ‘Copy Database’

After doing this, I had to wait for a while as it handles this process (I am using a Samsung Netbook)

For a while it shows this message:

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But in the end, I was taken to the following panel view:

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What I like about this version:

I have always been waiting for a better email facility with Evernote. The previous version was really bad at handling the formatting of email and relied on local email application to send email. This new version has fixed this weakness.

I tried sending one, and went along just fine.

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Success…

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I also see a button that I haven’t seen before:

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Anyway…that is my initial impression about this new release.

So, far I think it is a great improvement.

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