Evernote for Symbian live and usable

Published by Steve Litchfield at 14:13 UTC, January 13th 2010

An Evernote client has been a constant request in the Symbian ecosystem for many months now and, late last year, a Web runtime version turned up, optimised for the Nokia N97 and compatibles. This has been regularly updated and, with version 1.0.70302, released last night in the USA, has reached the point where I can start to recommend it to the wider world. See below for screens, comments and some links. 

Now, obviously, a fully working, native Symbian application would have been faster and slicker. But writing a client for Web runtime (in HTML and CSS and Ajax) has at least meant that the project has got off the ground. And, with Web itself handling the buttons, display elements and kinetic scrolling, the interface is surprisingly usable:

Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian

(left) The main Notes view, (right) Your starting point for creating a new note on your smartphone. One of the strengths of Evernote, of course, is that you can create content on any Evernote-compatible phone or computer, and it all gets synced together happily.

Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian

(left) The Activity pane, showing notes that are currently uploading or waiting to be uploaded, (right) The Settings pane. Note the geo-location option, for geotagging your notes, though I'm not convinced this is working yet. The 'Check for update' identifies updates happily but doesn't actually download them (yet)

Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian

(left) The Account screen, where heavy users can keep track of their allowances, (right) more Notes, the bottom (image) one uploaded from my iPod Touch last year

Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian Screenshot, Evernote for Symbian

Examining Evernote notes in detail - (left) an audio note and (right) an image note

You can download the latest version of the Evernote client/widget by going to the Evernote Nokia N97 forum and downloading from the most recent numbered topic. Comments on compatibility welcomed here but should also be fed back in the original forum so that the developer ('Pasha') can take note.

Version 1.0.70302 is by no means perfect, but does reflect a month or so of iteration and can be used for real to view or add to your ever-growing Evernote information store.

Notable problems in the current version:

  • new notes can have the wrong time assigned (US time, not local)
  • starting the widget doesn't always work. Something's a little unstable in the startup sequence
  • there are some user interface limitations (going back a level is klunky, finding 'Exit' is tricky(!), bringing up a pop-up Menu is clumsy, etc.)

Problems aside, I'm heartened by the client's existence and by the pace of new updates. Good job, Pasha!

Steve Litchfield, All About Symbian, 13 Jan 2010


 

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News Discussion

Unregistered
The Evernote S60 client does not work on the 5800. After entering username and password, the widget asks for which access point to use, and then just closes. No error message or any indication of what might be wrong. I have tried several times. I immediately uninstalled it, don't want to waste 2.5 MB(!) of precious phone memory.
Unregistered
I agree. I tried a bunch of times on the 5800, no luck. The previous version 69848 works fine.
Driq
AAS....Nokia 5800 firmware v40.0.005 was released today.Please report on that.
sorry for putting it at the wrong place.
royster70
The first time I attempted to login resulted in application closing (like the owners of the 5800's), however it did fire up ok on the 2nd attempt

Thanks for update, have been using Evernote on the web for quite a while and had no idea they had been working on a Symbian WRT
Unregistered
I'm the one who first reported that it didn't work on the 5800. I uninstalled, upgraded APIBridge, and re-installed. That did the trick.

Sadly, however, IMHO the application is not good enough yet. I deleted it after 15 minutes of testing, and will eagerly await updates and improvements.
slitchfield
See also this blog post about the same subject: great minds think alike?

Also note that if Evernote doesn't work for you, or if you have trouble including (for example) Camera images, you need to install the latest version of Nokia's APIBridge.
juwlz
Oh grrrr. Installed the (long-awaited) Evernote app on my N97 after I saw your Tweet last week, but couldn't sign into forum Nokia to get the API bridge, so not a lot worked. I've just had another go, and discovered - after getting it to reset my password AGAIN, and pasting in the new one - that the login won't work in Firefox (but is fine in IE <sigh>).

Julie
capitaine
works fine on the i8910 except you have to bloody login all the time!! If u leave the app in the background, it seems you have to restart it, and it doesn't keep your login so u have to sign in every time.
Jejoma
It only runs on my i8910 the first time it is installed. After that it closes every time I try to login.

When it did run the only "New" button that worked was new text note. The file reader opened the image folder but noly showed blank icons. No images, no file names.

Beta? Definitely an Alpha. Did I also mention how slow it was when it did work? The QT demos are more complete programs!
capitaine
hmm I have no such issues on my i8910.. dunno, maybe different fw? I'm on HX 1.62
juwlz
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jejoma View Post
It only runs on my i8910 the first time it is installed. After that it closes every time I try to login.
Bear in mind that for now it's intended for the N97. Anything it actually runs on apart from that is a bonus.

Also, the documentation in the Evernote forum threads does say that you need to install the (Nokia) API bridge before installing Evernote to get any type of note other than a Text note to work, so it's not exactly surprising that it doesn't work on a non-Nokia phone without the API bridge installed.

Julie
thunderror
I guess the development of the widget has been stopped because of issues with the API bridge.
Micky!
I have been checking for updates in this app for quite a while, and its not once been updated sadly since launch.
Unregistered
Will this work for the e90?
nekomatic
Just to note, the link in the story no longer works but there are various discussion threads in http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=40

It looks like the Symbian beta hasn't been updated in over a year, though someone has recently posted that it works fine on their N8...
harrifolfenced
yes obviously it will work for e90?

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