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Our guest columnist Megan Berry named\u00a0Evernote<\/a> one of the best productivity applications for the iPhone<\/a> today, but it sounds like a new, just-released version of the app is even better.<\/p>\nThe big change, according to the Mountain View, Calif. company’s blog post<\/a>, is the fact that when you create a note (which can include text, photos, or a voice recording), it’s stored locally, on your iPhone. That means that if you have a bad cell connection or lose your connection altogether, you can still read the notes that were created on your phone and search through them. Users who have paid for the premium version can also download entire collections of notes, called notebooks, to their phones.<\/p>\n This seems like a pretty key improvement — being able to access notes anytime, despite the vagaries of my cell connection, means Evernote becomes useful in more places and\u00a0less frustrating.<\/p>\n Other improvements include improved speed, a button for upgrading to the premium service (which costs $5 million a month or $45 a year) from within the app, and the ability to record audio notes that are 20 minutes long (twice as long as was previously available).<\/p>\n Evernote has raised $6.5 million in funding<\/a>. When it announced its most recent funding in September, the company said it had 1.5 million users. You can get the Evernote iPhone app here<\/a>.<\/p>\n