Evan Hahn (dot com)

Evernote is a marvelous note-taking application. It’s quite open-ended with regards to what one can do with it, and I really like it. I use it instead of Notes and Voice Memos on the iPhone. I use it to keep track of ideas and (not-so-sensitive) passwords. I even used it to draft this post!

But, like almost everything, you can complain about things you don’t like. Here are five things I would like to see in Evernote.

1. Linux support. I now use Ubuntu for hours a day (because it is superb), and I’m disappointed that I can’t have the same Evernote experience as I can on Windows or Mac. Although there’s the web version, it’s not great (see below). You can also hack it to work with Wine, but that’s less than ideal. I would really like to have Evernote for Linux — this is my most desired feature.
2. Voice transcription, similar to Jott. I’m quite a fan of being able to photograph a whiteboard and have Evernote transcribe what’s written. I would also love to be able to record my voice and have it write down what I said. And it’d be free, ideally.
3. Better web interface. I’ve noticed that, at least on Linux, Evernote’s web interface quite buggy. There are problems with bulleted lists, autosave, and it generally feels pretty clunky. I wouldn’t mind it becoming similar to the desktop interfaces.
4. HTML editing of notes. I may be irregular in this respect, but I always find myself editing HTML and CSS in my Google Docs. I know that you can export notes as HTML, so why can’t you edit them the same way?
5. SMS support. I remember always needing to remember things and wanting to be able to text them to myself, but I had no great way to do that. If Evernote supported that, I’m sure lots of people would use it.

I know that Evernote just raised $10 million…I hope some of that money goes to some of these features. But even if it doesn’t, I’ll still love Evernote.