If the note contains both images and text, then it will show text and a thumbnail. If your note contains only text, then the Snippet will display the text at full width. Snippets are designed to provide the most useful information possible at a glance. If you use Mixed View in your note list, the most obvious change you’ll see is the new Snippet View. Rather than displaying a simple list of note titles, snippet view combines text, tags, dates and media to offer an integrated view of what’s in your Evernote – plus, it looks really nice. There’s more in Evernote 2.2 however: the new Snippet view, much like on the iPhone, allows you to view text and image thumbnails for notes in your account at a glance. On top of that, you can also select multiple notes and grab a list of links with a single click. If you paste a note link on your iOS device, the system will try to launch the Evernote app with that note in the foreground – again, this is a very welcome addition that has greatly improved my Evernote workflow in the way I can reference notes and link items between various notebooks.

With note links and the new “copy to notebook” functionality, notes in Evernote 2.2 can be linked, duplicated and accessed from anywhere. It’s very handy if you’ve always wanted to add relevant Evernote information to, say, calendar events or OmniFocus but never found the right way to do so. The new Evernote 2.2, in fact, heavily relies on a new feature called “note links” that assigns a unique URL to each note in your Evernote account – meaning, you can generate a note link, paste it somewhere else on your Mac, and clicking on it will automatically open that note in Evernote. An important update for Evernote, the cross-platform “memory tool” that allows you to capture notes, ideas, images and webpages, is coming out today on Mac and Windows and, after some weeks of testing, I can say it’s one of the most interesting new versions of the desktop app to date.

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