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[jbshanker]

I love Evernote and love the mobile platform, but I've always been flummoxed by the fact that some notes can't be edited in their entirety on the mobile platform. I've been experimenting to see what drives that and I created three notes from scratch on the Windows platform, synced them to my Android, and opened them for editing.

• A plain text note with carriage returns is completely editable. I can move around from top to bottom with the cursor arroes on my Epic 4G, edit all the lines at the same time, click Done and the note is uploaded. Perfect!
• A note with styles -- bold, italic, underline, etc -- is editable in the same way
• A note with plain text (no styles) but bullets seems to be a problem. As far as I can tell, each line of such a note has to be edited separately and even if there are blocks of non-bulleted text in the note, the presence of any bullets in the note makes the whole thing revert to the far less usable editing mode

Is there anything else that causes this and more importantly any way to avoid it? I use bullets a lot and find them incredibly helpful on the desktop or when viewing, but the degree to which they cripple the ability to add to the data on the mobile platform almost offsets their value. Any advice on how to work around this (or insight into whether it will be improved at some point!) would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Keen]

I agree, this is a major inconvenience in what should be a very seamless experience. I noticed that the issues only seems to occur if I use numbers or bullets from a note that was created on my desktop. When I edit this on my Android Tablet, I get the single line editing box. If I start the note on the Android and use numbers or bullets, I can fully edit the document later on with my Android.

[xdelplanque]

A bullet or number list should not change the editing, however, an indented list will.
The reason is that this styling is not fully supported yet on Android.

[jwchong]

i am also troubled by this bullet problem. i tried to un-indent the bullet in Windows but it cannot be done. i click bullet and it auto indented. pls help.

[Ming]

Please support better editing on the Android. I haven't tried Evernote on the iPhone but if it's much better there, I would be really mad.

The block editing and inability to do bullets, etc is really counterintuitive. The best I can do with Evernote Mobile on Android it seems is make new entries. Trying to do anything else substantive with text is a joke.

[jefito]

They've said many times that they are working at improving editing on Android; you can find these statements if you search the forum.

[OrganisedSid]

It also happens when you add images. See here:
http://discussion.ev...ain-images-why/

[cpchang]

I have problems editing bullets as others posted here. In addition, I have something else today. This note with bullets has just been updated by a change I made in a desktop EN. When I tried to edit the note in my Android, the edit page shows the previous editing state: it is not the just updated note! So the same note has two states, one just updated through sync'ing with my desktop, and another which was the older version that shows up when I tried to edit the note. If I close the editing page, the new note appears. If I try to edit it, the old one appears. Anyone knows why and what to do?? ,

[mrossk]

I have problems editing bullets as others posted here. In addition, I have something else today. This note with bullets has just been updated by a change I made in a desktop EN. When I tried to edit the note in my Android, the edit page shows the previous editing state: it is not the just updated note! So the same note has two states, one just updated through sync'ing with my desktop, and another which was the older version that shows up when I tried to edit the note. If I close the editing page, the new note appears. If I try to edit it, the old one appears. Anyone knows why and what to do?? ,

I have sometimes the same problem. When you edit a note with bullets on android then this note is sometimes not synced: In edit-mode and view-mode are shown different contents.
My workaround: Edit an other line in the note and save the note again, then the first editing is included and sync does work most times. After this, delete the unneccessary changes and save again.