Popular Post kmae 18 Posted December 9, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2016 Recently, the message "You are leaving Evernote. " is appeared when I access to an other website by a link on notes. I don't think the message is necessary. It is just annoying. How do I be disable the message function? 17 1 Link to comment
0 AngelaE 1 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I just wanted to add that after being annoyed for so long by this change I have decided to finally leave evernote. I tried so many different things in my frustration but I have finally decided that oneNote is the best alternative. I use evernote frequently to make lists of links so this is pretty frustrating. I'm not in love with oneNote the web UI is a bit clunky but its apps are pretty decent. This is the one and only reason I have decided to leave. It literally makes the experience of using evernote unbearable. I was so hoping evernote would have made an option to disable it by now but no luck. Farewell evernote. Link to comment
0 Cucumbercutter 10 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Evernote!! Don't treat your paying customers like garbage. Remove this totally workflow-destroying message ASAP! Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted February 12, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted February 12, 2018 Could it be this easy? I rarely use Evernote Windows because it has so many less features than the desktop version, but I recently saved some bookmarks that I need to get to so.. I happily middle-clicked my mouse in Firefox (which is the 'open in new tab' shortcut I use a lot) and got through about 10 before it occurred to me that all my new tabs opened up without a single "you are leaving..." message! Went back to recheck, and yes - left-clicking a link gets a warning; middle-clicking doesn't. So any of you that have 3-button mouses (possibly with Firefox) can maybe have a 'leaving' free life!! Link to comment
0 Eiden 3 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 In some cases, if you need to use the same note several times, the solution can be export the note as a html file and import this file in the browser. I created my own starting page with this method. And yes, this feature is really annoying. Link to comment
0 kylescousin 4 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Please remove this 'feature'. It's annoying and pointless. Why the hell is this message showing when we click a link WE ADDED FOR OURSELVES to a note?! It makes no sense at all. What's the thought process here? Imagine even if some hacker did get access to someone's account and added a malicious link, and the user clicks it... Will he suddenly decide not to follow the link because this useless message appears? Does anyone ever click 'back' on that screen? "Oh no, I'm leaving Evernote, I am freaking out! Thank god for that back button!" If you would track the behavior on that page, you will notice how much % of users click that 'back' button. So please hire someone who has a clue about usability. Also, please make a Linux client. Link to comment
0 stekovsky 0 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 "You are leaving Evernot buhuuu it's so frustrating , please let me disable this !!! Link to comment
0 sillylogger 0 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I created an account here just to complain about this "feature".. it is as though some product manager at Evernote is gaming the "time on site" metric. As Evernote keeps ignoring these issues & walls off their application they make me more keen for a replacement every day. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted May 12, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted May 12, 2018 On 5/11/2018 at 9:17 AM, sillylogger said: I created an account here just to complain about this "feature".. it is as though some product manager at Evernote is gaming the "time on site" metric. As Evernote keeps ignoring these issues & walls off their application they make me more keen for a replacement every day. I believe the recent Windows Beta now includes some more friendly (and optional) warnings about various account limits and actions. While a 'simple' update to fix one message might seem a quick fix that is being willfully delayed, Evernote apparently had a more detailed overhaul of the user interface in mind which took a little time to design, test and release. They're also making some detailed changes to the web client (which could be good news or bad news!) but probably means it's not cost effective to change the old version at all - any new features will be in the new one... Link to comment
0 BrunoF 0 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 +1, please remove this from the web version of Evernote Link to comment
0 Brian Jackson 0 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 +1. Can't use Evernote until this is removed... not double-clicking on my notes all day long. Doesn't make any sense. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted July 26, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted July 26, 2018 14 hours ago, Brian Jackson said: +1. Can't use Evernote until this is removed... not double-clicking on my notes all day long. Doesn't make any sense. The Windows client now includes "Evernote client asks once and remembers when you don't want to see a "note move" notification". They're busy rewriting the entire web client - recently reissued as a Chrome-only Business version - so updates to the current web version(s) seem unlikely until that rewrite trickles down to the rest of the Evernote versions. Link to comment
0 emmanuelnk 0 Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Please give us an option to remove this feature. It is a serious impediment to workflow especially when you move through tens to hundreds of links a day. Something as small as this will bring your business to its knees when a competitor does what you won't do and by then it will be too late. You cannot be oblivious of all these complaints. Link to comment
0 markjl 55 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Thank you most kindly @Harristribe for this marvelous workaround from this annoying "feature" Link to comment
0 Joseph Dickson 6 Posted January 6, 2020 Share Posted January 6, 2020 Why is this still a problem 4 years later with Evernote for Web? This confirmation slows me down and breaks my otherwise smooth workflow. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted January 6, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted January 6, 2020 49 minutes ago, Joseph Dickson said: Why is this still a problem 4 years later with Evernote for Web? This confirmation slows me down and breaks my otherwise smooth workflow. Since I get the same warning from other online services, I assume it's 'good practice' from some web authority or other. It's been 4 years since this was introduced, so it doesn't seem likely that there is going to be a rethink any time soon... 1 Link to comment
0 RichardG63 15 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Completely agree with everyone here, this is a really annoying feature! Please let us skip it... 1 Link to comment
0 dbmilam 1 Posted June 21, 2020 Share Posted June 21, 2020 +1 Will drop my Evernote subscription as my company won't let me install the client on their Work machine - using everyone Web is my only option, and this double click is so annoying and time consuming that I will not use it. Link to comment
0 JohnsLeavingEvernote 0 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 I can't believe the comments on here are so old, and I've stumbled across them trying to find a way to turn it off. The TamperMonkey solution looks OK, but really?? We have to hack the site to make a small change that has had no official response (that I've found so far) in 3 years? Came back to Evernote from Keep due to a yearning for some markup, but really, I'll happily go back... Anyone have a favourite replacement they've migrated to? Link to comment
0 ExNihilo 26 Posted July 4, 2020 Share Posted July 4, 2020 On 6/30/2020 at 6:21 PM, Harristribe said: Ironically as the original poster of this solution I have since moved on from Evernote (and believe me I’ve tried them all – including Keep). I’ve finally settled on a good compromise in the form of Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/). Count me as another Joplin user. The current form is very nice and the web clipper is superb. And versioning is quite nice. I'm not a heavy user of the "to do" list, but have occasionally needed that. Yes, it does not clip videos, but I've never wanted that. I sync everything between 2 PCs, an Android tablet and an Android phone. Before I settled on Joplin I tried Keep (far tooo basic) Zoho Notebook (awkward and very limited features, and too chatty calling home) and QOwnNotes (too many manual tweaks, slow loading, and no workable sync app). I haven't touched Evernote in a year now, and have deleted 98% of my Evernote content. I'll probably kill the account soon. The device limit pushed me to the edge along with privacy limitations inherent within Evernote itself. I still use OneNote as its organizing features are unparalleled... but not so much for web-clipping (which is horrid). Link to comment
0 RadioGregg 0 Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 On 7/11/2017 at 7:08 PM, shadowmoses said: Thanks a bunch for this, it worked perfectly for me. I would suggest others follow this workaround in the meantime. This works for me so far...thank you! Link to comment
0 mll 1 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 STRONGLY AGREE as a PRO user... Especially since it seems a TRIVIAL fix and there are no disagreements that I see or responses from EverNote as to the effort to implement this suggestion in the last 2+ years. 1) I'd like to be able to GoTo a link immediately rather than having to go thru the "You are leaving Evernote. ..." dialog box. ... I realize the difficulty of differentiating between he Edit link and the Goto link. so here are my preferences: 1.1) Click on the link to GoTo and Long Hold and in the Dropdown menu to [Edit] and [Remove] and [Goto]. 1.2) On PC, If you don't want to do 1.1), at least have a third option [GoTo]. (re: links) 2) Document in the "Insert Link" dropdown [Chain] the CTRL-Key that can also be used to do the function. Note: Do this with other appropriate dropdowns and implement as many CTRL-Keys as reasonable. Note: If others dislike this, you could allow me/them to set this behavior as a Note-by-note setting. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted August 13, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted August 13, 2020 2 hours ago, mll said: it seems a TRIVIAL fix There ain't no such thing as a 'trivial fix' when you have 200M users worldwide using several operating systems and syncing 24/7. 2 hours ago, mll said: responses from EverNote Evernote does not (usually) respond in the public forums as to whether or when they might release an update. You can check out the blog to see the ongoing work that is currently in Beta and may address your issue... or as a subscriber you could contact Support for some direct feedback. Link to comment
0 mll 1 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Sorry about my tone. I was a Coder, but never involved in the operation and support of a large user community and a large, essential, and flexible tool, My bad... But that was no excuse for my incivility. I'll look at the blog and beta to learn. Thanks for the information and response. p.s. I even have more to apologize for. I now note that I did submit this to your support requests and got a "read and noted for the development team." I should have remembered and that is satisfactory. Sorry again. 1 Link to comment
0 robert-evernote 0 Posted October 5, 2020 Share Posted October 5, 2020 +1 to the issue. Please fix this, it's not needed because all of the content in my notebooks are safe URLs that I deliberately added there. Link to comment
0 lltous 0 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Annoying bug. +1 to remove this stu**d jumping page. I know where I'm going. You don't have to warn me for the links in my own notes. Link to comment
0 Just give me access 0 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 On 12/25/2020 at 1:05 AM, Greggles said: Ditto - Methinks they have lost their way in forgetting 'productivity' and 'efficiency' apps aren't best served by adding an extra click just for the sake of it. And it's not just a extra click. It's The original click--then wait for the OutboundRedirect.action page to decide to show its useless warning, then the extra click for the Continue button. The waiting makes it all the worse. I suppose I could click a bunch of links, wait for those to show the OutboundRedirect.action page, then click the Continue buttons--but then I'd be dealing with a bunch of tabs. Not so ideal. Productivity software shouldn't get in my way. Link to comment
0 MarkKoe 0 Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 this is still not removed on the new 10 version? please remove, it has been requested for years, as you can see in this topic Link to comment
0 JulioHM1978 2 Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Thank you, so much! "You are leaving Evernote" warnings were driving me nuts On 1/6/2020 at 9:18 PM, Joseph Dickson said: I found a trick to bypass the alert page. Right click on a link then select "Open Link in a New Tab" (or Window, Private Window) from the context menu. It requires a few steps but is quicker than navigating the alert page with a mouse / trackpad or hitting Tab several times. Shortcuts in Windows on Firefox "Right click" + "t" + "Enter" will open in a new tab "Right click" + "w" will open in a new window "Right click" + "p" + "Enter" will open in a new private window Chrome, MacOS and LInux may have slightly different combinations but it could be committed to muscle memory... I suppose. Link to comment
0 stohn 0 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 At the very least, make the external-link notification optional. Perhaps default to displaying the notification, but PLEASE allow me to opt-out. Link to comment
0 Erik_wiuhwbrhuiwegh 0 Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 Any updates? I really need to disable that message. Yes, I know that I'm leaving Evernote, I'm that guy who clicked on external link! I'm also that guy who put that link in my note before. Link to comment
0 Glauber FM 0 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 Hi, brethren-friends. 🙂 Peace be upon you. Kindly adding will to this request. Link to comment
0 Peterrr 0 Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 +1 please fix/get rid of this feature. It's been 5 years since the start of this thread. I'm wondering if this is just falling on deaf ears at this point. Link to comment
0 Andrew Kravchuk 0 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 +1 To add opt-out for this "feature". Evernote dev team, anyone? Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,794 Posted August 4, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted August 4, 2021 This is a user forum. To send something to EN, use the feedback function or issue a support ticket. Link to comment
0 JulioHM1978 2 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 If this is any good news, the Desktop client -- at least the beta for Linux -- does not have this annoyance. Clicking links will directly open the browser on the destination URL. Link to comment
0 JulioHM1978 2 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 If this is any good news, the Desktop client -- at least the beta for Linux -- does not have this annoyance. Clicking links will directly open the browser on the destination URL. I'm guessing, the Windows Desktop client will do that as well? Link to comment
0 gardwired 0 Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 what's really pretty silly is that this is 5+ years old AND if you just right-click > open in new tab you don't get the "leaving evernote" page. it just goes to the desired link. it seems like such a low-hanging piece of fruit to make a lot of users happy no? isn't that the goal? at least give an option saying "yes i understand the risks" now give me the direct link without the wrapper. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted September 4, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted September 4, 2021 1 hour ago, gardwired said: it seems like such a low-hanging piece of fruit to make a lot of users happy The Evernote team aren't stupid, so perhaps we should assume that there are some important facts we're unaware of - maybe technical or scheduling - that prevent this happening. They'll get it done as soon as they can... although other sites do this to me; I assume it's part of some web protocol or other. Good job it's so simple to get around, eh? Link to comment
0 mrQuidome 0 Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 YES YES YES! PLEASE REMOVE THAT MESSAGE Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,794 Posted October 5, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Your keyboard is broken - sticking caps lock … Link to comment
0 hbflyte 0 Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 I wasn't going to add to the void here, but I came back to Evernote to annotate articles I've collected, only to run into this issue again. For me, the interstitial is only part of the problem. When I save an article and open its note, I get the original URL in a little area in the top right. Click 1: select the URL (cannot right click to go straight to the URL, in-text URLs work this way, not the original source URL) Click 2: "View Source" Click 3: "Continue" - this is the interstitial page Possible Click 4: "Continue" again because the interstitial didn't fully load after Click 3. I've yet to see a good argument as to why it is this way. Good luck on this one though. Link to comment
0 cchen 0 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 This is really a bad "feature". This is my own note that I created. Why do you have to warn me about the link? Please fix it. Link to comment
0 rei2work 0 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 lots voices already but adding in mine, absolutely frustraing feature. please disable Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,794 Posted November 6, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Only other users here, we won’t disable anything. Send feedback or issue a support ticket. Link to comment
0 elondaits 5 Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 Yes, please, remove this message. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted December 16, 2022 Level 5* Share Posted December 16, 2022 24 minutes ago, AnonymousSquirrel said: What's a good alternative to Evernote that doesn't do this to its users? It's a little ridiculous that I put links into Evernote, because, you know, I want to be able to click on them later. But apparently Evernote doesn't want me to be able to do that??? Hi. How do you interpret an "are you sure?" message that can be cleared with one click as preventing you clicking the link? -And. Please see previous comments about contacting Evernote on this. Link to comment
0 AnonymousSquirrel 1 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 I mean, it's absurd. It's an extra annoyance EVERY time I click a link. I have an entire note full of links that I created to follow up on a topic, and as I go through this note and click on every link, I have to either right click to open in new tab, or click and take an extra step of approving myself to go to my own link. What purpose could this possibly serve? The only links that are in my Evernotes are links that I put there myself. It's not like these links are coming in from 3rd parties and might be dangerous. It's not like I can't easily hit the back button in my browser to return to Evernote. And so, the only conceivable purpose of imposing an extra barrier, which can never be turned off, EVERY time I click a link, even if I click 20 links in a row... would be to discourage me from leaving Evernote. Probably there is some business metric at Evernote that measures how much time users spend on the site and some "brilliant" product manager thought that making it a little harder to do every time would help drive that metric up. I really can't think of any other explanation. Can you? Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted December 17, 2022 Level 5* Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 minutes ago, elondaits said: This is about the danger of someone sending you to an Evernote page Er no, it's not. Several other apps I use have the same step, and it's simply to remind you that the link you're clicking on is going to take you out of the nice, safe environment of Evernote and out into the big, bad Interweb. As I hinted before it's just the "are you sure?" of linking, and it's meant to keep users secure. 6 minutes ago, elondaits said: the only people not ignoring our requests This forum is supported by other users (like me) who try to help, where we can, by pointing people -usually politely- in the direction of work-arounds or solutions. I don't believe we've told anyone "you're wrong" (apart from above) - in this case I just suggested that complaints on this are best directed at Evernote through a support ticket or feedback link - they'll get there sooner. While Evernote do read the forum posts, there's a lot going on here and they may not get around to this thread until well after the holidays. And this isn't a request show: Evernote are looking for feedback and ideas - they're not interested in debating which feature they should implement next. Occasional ranting by users, however, is allowed. Have a good Holiday. Link to comment
0 mirayong 0 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 that's not this annoying feature at all that's helpful for biggners TweakBox Tutuapp Link to comment
0 zdanevich 26 Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 On 12/22/2016 at 3:16 PM, Harristribe said: Hi All, I too am very frustrated with this new *feature* and decided to find a work around until Evernote give us the option to disable this feature (although I suspect that they have introduced it to gather statistics so may never will). However, if like me you use Google Chrome this works quite well: Install a Google Chrome extension called TamperMonkey (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo/related) Open up the TamperMonkey settings (Left click on the new icon shown top right in chrome) Create a new script and past in the code shown below (copy paste everything in blue) The TamperMonkey extension allows us to inject and run our own Javascript on page load. The @inlcude bit in the script below tells TamperMonkey to only run this script on any pages that have a URL that starts with https://www.evernote.com/OutboundRedirect.action. The script then grabs the target destination (i.e. the link we want to show) and tells the browser to immediately redirect there (bypassing the need to press evernotes continue button). // ==UserScript== // @name Evernote Outbound Clicker // @namespace http://harristribe.co.uk/ // @version 1.0 // @description Avoids the evernote outbound page // @author Rob Harris // @include https://www.evernote.com/OutboundRedirect.action* // @grant none // @run-at document-start // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; var urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search); window.location.href = urlParams.get('dest'); })(); Hope that helps Rob Thanks, but is it possible to disable that intermediate page, for better performance? Can we write a JS that will change some mouse click event? Link to comment
0 zdanevich 26 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 My userscript to solve this - without intermediate screen clicking https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/489822-evernote-direct-link-opening-without-you-are-leaving-evernote Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted March 16 Level 5* Share Posted March 16 On 3/14/2024 at 5:24 PM, zdanevich said: My userscript to solve this - without intermediate screen clicking https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/489822-evernote-direct-link-opening-without-you-are-leaving-evernote Hmmn. Third party promotions aren't really permitted here with Evernote's approval and double posts are definitely not allowed. Please don't double post. Link to comment
0 suethatswho 3 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 2024 and they still haven't fixed this. Maybe if we all threaten to move to a new platform they'll listen. Anyone know of another platform similiar to Evernote that doesn't make you click on this annoying message every time you want to access an external link? Or is that considered an unpermited third party promotion. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted April 15 Level 5* Share Posted April 15 15 minutes ago, suethatswho said: 2024 and they still haven't fixed this. I'm not seeing that popup any more. What's your device and OS / Evernote version numbers? Link to comment
0 axllax 0 Posted May 3 Share Posted May 3 This thread provided some valuable information, so I would like to contribute my own experience. Around 3 years ago I was so annoyed by the issue that I started to research it and stumbled upon this thread. That lead me to search and find an alternative webservice. Unfortunately that webservice is now as good as dead (slow) because the company decided to leave the ...bus brand to make a totally different product. As a side remark: Be warned if you should ever leave evernote: I now have the hassle to escape the vendor lock-in because the export feature is not as good as evernotes enex export. So I was looking into the option to come back to Evernote. It has improved in the meantime and looks good. Unfortuately I am somewhat stubborn I just can't bring myself around to accepting this intermediate page when clicking on a link. Tampering with javascript as a workaround to avoid it, is not for me. I would like to use Evernote everywhere and with different webbrowsers. Why oh why is there still no opt-out for the intermediate page when using the Evernote webpage / webclient? Which is the case as I checked of today 2024-May-3. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,062 Posted May 3 Level 5* Share Posted May 3 6 hours ago, axllax said: I just can't bring myself around to accepting this intermediate page when clicking on a link. Hi. I strongly doubt that Evernote will make this change to its process in the near future - they have far bigger issues to resolve and (if they're anything like most other web providers) a work schedule laid out a couple of years in advance to deal with what needs to be reviewed or upgraded. You'll need to decide whether you're coming back regardless of that feature. As a subscriber you'll be in a position to feedback your views to Evernote and -maybe- influence future development. Link to comment
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Recently, the message "You are leaving Evernote. " is appeared when I access to an other website by a link on notes. I don't think the message is necessary. It is just annoying. How do I be disable the message function?
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