Popular Post sjgmail 34 Posted January 18, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 18, 2013 For example if I want move up a note towards the top of the notebook stack manually. Is this possible? 33 1 Link to comment
0 brwnidgrl15 0 Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 It would be very helpful if different notes could be moved around like they were in a list. I have many notes and use them for different things during my week. It would be great and very helpful if i could hold on the note and drag it to the top of the notes to be able to see that one first because it's the first thing I need to do in my day. I'm constantly searching through my over 40 notes that I have to keep for work trying to see if I already wrote one for that job. Thank you. Link to comment
0 dhdvt 0 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 One note allows you to put notes in a specific order. As you look at these notes they go back into the same order. If you were making a "book" and want to read page after page you can do it. EN sorts alphabetically or the last note used. Your most important notes in a notebook can get lost under recent notes or alphabetically. I have photoshop notes in ON and I can read them page by page in a sequence for a particular procedure. In EN the same notes would be re-sorted each time. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted February 9, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 9, 2020 56 minutes ago, dhdvt said: EN sorts alphabetically or the last note used EN has a variety of sort options The screenshot is from my Mac We can not arrange notes in a manual sequence (also known as Pinning) As a work-around, the page number can be added to the note title Link to comment
0 dhdvt 0 Posted February 9, 2020 Share Posted February 9, 2020 I understand the sorts available. If you use page a number as part of title it can sort page by page.If you want to add a page in the middle of you "book" the page would have to be 9a to fit in. If you wanted to a page between 9 and 9a it become cumbersome. If the book went over 99 pages (unlikely but can happen) all the pages would have to be re-numbered 001 unless you did that in the beginning. If EN wants to compete with ON this is one thing to add. I use ON for books and EN for tagging but I could get rid of ON with this feature. Link to comment
0 Kruger2147 46 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 You can sort your notes by date created, updated or alphabetical. You can also use reminders to "pin" your notes to the top. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted February 10, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 10, 2020 On 2/7/2020 at 10:31 AM, brwnidgrl15 said: It would be very helpful if different notes could be moved around like they were in a list. I merged your discussion with an existing request posted for this feature >>I'm constantly searching through my over 40 notes that I have to keep for work trying to see if I already wrote one for that job. A dashboard note might be useful; discussions at https://discussion.evernote.com/forum/644-home-dashboards/ Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted February 10, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 10, 2020 18 hours ago, dhdvt said: I understand the sorts available. If you use page a number as part of title it can sort page by page.If you want to add a page in the middle of you "book" the page would have to be 9a to fit in. If you wanted to a page between 9 and 9a it become cumbersome. If the book went over 99 pages (unlikely but can happen) all the pages would have to be re-numbered 001 unless you did that in the beginning. If EN wants to compete with ON this is one thing to add. I use ON for books and EN for tagging but I could get rid of ON with this feature. Doesn't help much in the scheme if things but adding a couple of zeros to the page numbering pretty much eliminates the number process issue. Page 9 becomes 00900 and adding pages between 9 and 10 then has 99 options (preceding 00's to facilitate the sort). Page 300 becomes 30000. FWIW. Link to comment
0 Bienne 11 Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 So can someone tell me whether the PIN to TOP feature is now finally available for individual notebooks? 2 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted February 12, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 12, 2020 27 minutes ago, Bienne said: So can someone tell me whether the PIN to TOP feature is now finally available for individual notebooks? It's not, other than the workarounds listed above.. Link to comment
0 Vinícius Lara 0 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Hello. I'm new Evernote Community user. I would like to vote on this feature request. Thanks. Link to comment
0 Luthien 5 Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 I am begging you: please implement this feature. How is it possible that you haven't yet? It's extremely useful and all the similar notebook apps do this. I don't want to leave Evernote, I've been using it for years, but other apps are catching up and Evernote is lagging behind. If you let me pin notes to the top of a notebook I would buy Premium immediately. But if you won't, eventually I'll have to give up on Evernote. I know you don't give a ***** about a single customer, no matter how long they've been a user, but I can't be the only one who feels this way. Link to comment
0 Level 5* s2sailor 2,426 Posted February 14, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2020 45 minutes ago, Luthien said: If you let me pin notes to the top of a notebook I would buy Premium immediately. It would be an interesting experiment if Evernote did add this but only for Premium users to see if it drives additional business. I suspect we would just see additional forum traffic asking for it to be added to the basic plan. Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted February 14, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2020 43 minutes ago, Luthien said: I am begging you: please implement this feature. How is it possible that you haven't yet? If you missed it above, a common workaround (which actually works well for me, in Snippet View on Windows, and on Android; the latest web beta, not so much yet) is just to use reminder notes. They appear at the top of the current note list, whether it's selected by notebook, or other search filter. You can order them by drag/drop if you want, or by date, and you can collapse the list altogether. Not sure how well this works on Mac or iOS, but in my world, they work great for pinning. Link to comment
0 Level 5* s2sailor 2,426 Posted February 14, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2020 7 minutes ago, jefito said: If you missed it above, a common workaround The work around isn't bad, but I also would prefer true pinning especially now that I use it in my email client. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted February 14, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2020 Another simple workaround is to tag your pinned notes with Pinned and put the saved search tag:pinned in the shortcuts bar. View independent. Works on mobile as well. FWIW. Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted February 14, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2020 2 hours ago, s2sailor said: The work around isn't bad, but I also would prefer true pinning especially now that I use it in my email client. Sure, I'm just making lemonade from lemons here. But it happens that it works really well for me anyways. Besides which, some folks don't know that much about reminders and don't take the time to read this long thread, so I occasionally feel the need to um, remind those folks of their existence. For me, they're simple and batteries included. 40 minutes ago, CalS said: Another simple workaround is to tag your pinned notes with Pinned and put the saved search tag:pinned in the shortcuts bar. View independent. Works on mobile as well. FWIW. That works too, but what I like about reminders is that they follow my current filter context. Hey, I'm working in my work Todo notebook; I see my work reminders. Oh wait, it's lunch time, let me check my personal Todo notebook, and hey, my personal reminders are there too. I guess it's lame horses for lame courses either way??? Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted February 14, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted February 14, 2020 4 hours ago, jefito said: That works too, but what I like about reminders is that they follow my current filter context. Hey, I'm working in my work Todo notebook; I see my work reminders. Oh wait, it's lunch time, let me check my personal Todo notebook, and hey, my personal reminders are there too. I guess it's lame horses for lame courses either way??? For sure. Down side to the search it is not notebook specific, though I suppose it could be with notebook drop down selecting post shortcut. As usual, downside to throwing out ideas re a concept I don't really use. Oops. 🤷♂️ 1 Link to comment
0 careydisco 0 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 I would like to drag and drop notes into a fixed order for a notebook. I use notebooks to track work items (one work item per note) and would like to order these notes by priority. Numbering the notes does not work because the priority frequently changes and I often need to reorder. Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted March 6, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted March 6, 2020 6 hours ago, careydisco said: I would like to drag and drop notes into a fixed order for a notebook. I use notebooks to track work items (one work item per note) and would like to order these notes by priority. Numbering the notes does not work because the priority frequently changes and I often need to reorder. Hello and welcome to the forums. Merging this to the existing request. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted March 7, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted March 7, 2020 20 hours ago, careydisco said: I use notebooks to track work items (one work item per note) and would like to order these notes by priority. Numbering the notes does not work because the priority frequently changes and I often need to reorder. Numbering should work for the frequent priority changes Your task list will be reordered if you sort by title Tasks etc is off topic discussion, but you might adjust your processing I make use of the reminder feature; the reminder section supports drag and drop Link to comment
0 messynotes 1 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Hello. In the "Sort by" option, can you please allow users to check the custom sort they want to use based on a drag and drop feature that allows rearranging based on your needs (a certain order) verses date only and title only? For example, by clinking on the "SORT BY" icon you will have a third option to sort by two (for now) generic names that you can change, and that will allow for the drag and drop feature to create the order/precedence. Thanks 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted March 10, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted March 10, 2020 On 3/10/2020 at 11:37 AM, messynotes said: In the "Sort by" option, can you please allow users to check the custom sort they want to use based on a drag and drop feature that allows rearranging based on your needs (a certain order) verses date only and title only? Your post has been merged with the ongoing discussion for this request To indicate your support, use the vote button at the top left corner of the discussion fwiw Drag and drop is supported in the Shortcuts section >>For example, by clinking on the "SORT BY" icon you will have a third option to sort by two (for now) generic names that you can change, and that will allow for the drag and drop feature to create the order/precedence It's an interesting idea. Currently we only get a single custom search option This would require the storage of multiple sort indexes My solution is to maintain master Table of Contents notes I can adjust the order preference as required The screenshot is my ToC note for a project Link to comment
0 Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted March 10, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted March 10, 2020 1 hour ago, DTLow said: fwiw Drag and drop is supported in the Shortcuts section And also in the Reminders section, at least using the native Windows and Android Evernote applications. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted April 2, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted April 2, 2020 17 hours ago, edpo said: I know this is an old thread but it's still relevant. I really want to be able to pin notes to the top of a notebook so that the most important ones are easily seen. This is already a feature in Apple notes and makes it really hard to shift to Evernote. Hi. As you may have seen from this lengthy thread, it's not an option in Evernote, although there are any number of work-arounds. That doesn't seem likely to change. In moving from one app to another there are always differences in how things work - up to you to decide whether the advantages outweigh the differences... Link to comment
0 Bienne 11 Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 no response on this for ages. the only thing you can do, apart from nagging to Devs about it, is to keep updating a file you want and hope that others you are sharing with have their list sorted by updated files. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted April 25, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted April 25, 2020 3 hours ago, Bienne said: the only thing you can do, apart from nagging to Devs about it You can indicate your support for this request using the vote button at the upper left corner of the discussion >>keep updating a file you want and hope that others you are sharing with have their list sorted by updated files Not sure what "file" you're updating To keep a note at the top of the sorted note list, you can adjust the note title and dates Link to comment
0 Bonobo 0 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I don't even require custom sorting at this point, it's been too many years. Just please think about keeping the sorting of notes as it is with one small change. Adding pin icon in the note. At the top of the list sort pinned notes, underneath sort the rest of them, leaving sorting mechanism as they are right now. Edit: My workaround is to start notes with specific symbols (e.g. !,!!,?, !?,%..) and only after that title your note. Then, sort your notes by title asc/desc. This way you can kind of create your custom sorting mechanism Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted May 11, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted May 11, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 8:38 PM, joeboxer35 said: Seems like the idea of pinning a note to the top of a notebook or stack has been around for awhile. I'd love to see this happen. Any idea, when? I currently have over 2000 notes in 5 or 6 stacks with 5-20 notebooks in each stack. Super powerful and helpful. But I'd like one or two pinned notes at the top of each stack and one or two notes pinned to the top within each notebook. Joe Evernote don't (usually) comment on whether or when any given feature might be released. In any event this is a -mainly- user-supported Forum so your guess is as good as anyone's. There are lots of work-arounds to create 'highlighted' notes with reminders, titles and dashboards. As yet, there's no Evernote native method. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted May 11, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted May 11, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 12:38 PM, joeboxer35 said: But I'd like one or two pinned notes at the top of each stack and one or two notes pinned to the top within each notebook. This option is not supported in Evernote We only get sort options for notes; date, title Link to comment
0 nicholsceilechair 3 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 Strong vote of support. Doesn't have to be a feature on every platform (as with font changing on some mobile) if devs are worried about screen sizes (and people who can't figure anything out) but it would be really good to have it on non-mobile and web (and I'm sure many people want it on mobile too -- either way it should respect the pins you made on any platform.) Link to comment
0 charlieedstrom 31 Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 On 4/15/2016 at 7:34 PM, DTLow said: I see this repeated so much in the forums. "It's a poor design because Evernote doesn't have my feature." Perfectly said Link to comment
0 Armin43 0 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 Hello, I am a med student and I use evernote for school, I have notebooks with notes from some time ago and now I realize that those notes could be arranged in a much better fashion within the notebook in order to make studying and updating those notes in a more efficient way, the problem is that changing the dates of creation takes too much time, and the other sorting options do not work for me. Could a way to edit the note order within the notebook be implemented? Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted July 6, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted July 6, 2020 3 hours ago, JQ7gysgfykgdsah said: I wish there's a feature where you can Pin some of your important notes to the top I merged your post with an existing request To indicate your support, use the vote button at the top left corner of the discussion >>I wish there's a feature to high light - change the color of the background of the title of each note, so some of the frequent notes are more visually popping out - i think the current short cuts are not as useful as it is intended You might want to post this separately so that it can be better addressed as a request No colours, but you can insert emoji characters into the title Link to comment
0 Wilf Forrow 15 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 I've found a lifesaver - the only way to make sure the key notes come to the top is by prefixing the titles, like this : 1. Main note 2. Sub-note 1 2. Sub-note 2 2. Sub-note 3 3. Sub-sub-note 1.1 3. Sub-sub-note 1.2 Etc. Works brilliantly for me. Recommended. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted August 13, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted August 13, 2020 42 minutes ago, GCN said: Just like Apple Notes, would like the ability to Pin notes, so they stay at the top of the list. I merged your post with an existing request for this feature To indicate support, use the vote button at the top left corner of the discussion Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted September 2, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted September 2, 2020 You're allowed (I think) up to 100 saved shortcuts which would immediately jump you to those notes; any note can be set as a shortcut on the home screen - also the Android widgets include a large icon which can list notes with various optional settings. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted September 2, 2020 Level 5* Share Posted September 2, 2020 On 8/31/2020 at 4:10 PM, Erik Fogth said: I think it would be a good idea to be able to pin specific notes to the top of a specific notebook, so that the person does not have to scroll through all of their notes to find frequently edited notes. Your post has been merged with the ongoing discussion fot this feature request To indicate support, use the vote button at the top left corner of the discussion My notes are displayed in creation date sequence To pin specific notes, I adjust the note creation date As per @gazumpd, the Shortcuts section gives me quick access to notes. I use a saved search based on tags Link to comment
0 Luthien 5 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) There was a workaround for this using Reminders in Windows, but because Evernote hates us they removed it in the new version. Should've known better than to update. Never trust a software company with such obvious disdain for their userbase. EDIT: please don't tell me to create shortcuts. I use multiple notebooks, one for each project, and I want each summary to show up at the top of that notebook. Having them in shortcuts does not solve my problem. Edited December 3, 2020 by Luthien Link to comment
0 roymond 0 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Looks like it's been over 7 years since the original "Pin note" feature was requested, yet it remains missing. What's not to love about it? Link to comment
0 KenDMSolutions 0 Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 Paying for this app but this feature is missing. Link to comment
0 doctorparadox 4 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 Have been an Evernote user for more than a decade and it is EXCRUCIATING to not have any ability to pin notes to the top, particularly given the enormous size of my collection and how many different uses it is trying to serve in different contexts. The recent removal of the "Reminders hack" by splitting out Notes and Reminders into separate views was a heartbreaking insult to the injury. Wordpress solved this "lost in a reverse cron sea of information" problem via pinning. It is the best known solution (yet) for combining the best of recency and priority -- Evernote has been flirting with it since at least 2013 and it's long past time to put the ring on it! Don't make us beg (further)... Link to comment
0 Mike P 2,967 Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 13 minutes ago, doctorparadox said: Have been an Evernote user for more than a decade and it is EXCRUCIATING to not have any ability to pin notes to the top, particularly given the enormous size of my collection and how many different uses it is trying to serve in different contexts. I agree it would be useful and for the last 10 years I've been using a $pinned tag to quickly select those notes I would pin to the top of a view if I had that option. Works better in legacy where you can shift click a tag in the sidebar to select an extra tag - I am more hopeful that that function will return than we will ever get pinned notes! Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted April 28, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Currently you can pin a note (or an entire notebook) to the shortcuts section. Probably this does the job for most of us users. Link to comment
0 Fabrice Weise 0 Posted June 3, 2021 Share Posted June 3, 2021 I would like to pin at least 1 or maybe a few notes in a notebook. In every notebook I made a ToC and it would be great if this note could always be my first note in the notebook (kind of “favorite”) Link to comment
0 Mike P 2,967 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 hour ago, DvirG said: It would be amazing if we could pin notes to the top of notebooks. So all pinned notebooks will appear at the top of the notebook and sort between them in the same way the rest of the notes gets sorted. This will give many more uses to notebooks, for example adding at the top a description note, etc. A quick search of the forums will show you that here are plenty of other people who would like this feature. These requests though go back for a long time, well before V10, so it seems very unlikely that it will happen given that V10 would presumably have been an ideal opportunity to introduce the changes in architecture required. The problem we now have is that some of the workarounds that people have used in the past are no longer available: If you sort by uptated date you can no longer change the date to be way into the future so that it always appears at the top Notes with reminders no longer appear above the normal notes in the notebook This leaves us with: Starting the title with a suitable character to bring it to the top if you sort alphabetically Changing the creation date to be a date way in the future if you sort by creation date Having a "pinned" tag to allow you to quickly select those notes from a particular view which would be pinned if the facility existed. This is my preferred method although it has been made more difficult by the inability to multiiselect tags from the sidebar. Therefore you need to use the filter menu which in my opinion is less convenient. Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted August 26, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted August 26, 2021 4 hours ago, DvirG said: It would be amazing if we could pin notes to the top of notebooks. Merged with existing discussion 1 Link to comment
0 Gary Keenan 12 Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 Eight years since this thread was started... 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted September 9, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted September 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Gary Keenan said: Eight years since this thread was started... Speaks volumes about EN's interest in implementing it. Maybe the new dashboard stuff would help you out. Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted September 10, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted September 10, 2021 A trick could be the new filtered notes widget. Create a tag "PINNED", apply it to the notes to move to the top and filter for this tag. Select the notebook you want to see. Downside: Works only for a selection of notebooks. Maybe this could at least be a partial solution. It does not solve the general request, which I support as many others do. Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted October 12, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted October 12, 2021 The easiest workaround is to use a symbol (like the @ ) at the beginning of the title of the note you want to pin. Then simply sort the notes by title. The symbol will be moved to the top (or the end, depending on the sorting priority). 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted January 5, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Don't double post ! Link to comment
0 faifaifai 16 Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 +1 Mainly for TOC/readme notes in a notebook. 1 Link to comment
0 almost practical 1 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I also think that the ability to pin a note to the top of a notebook is a long overdue feature. Evernote is supposed to save us time - yet we have to find work arounds to create a simple table of contents type note that we can pin to the top of our notebooks to help us navigate our information. It is beyond frustrating. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted December 27, 2022 Level 5* Share Posted December 27, 2022 10 hours ago, almost practical said: I also think that the ability to pin a note to the top of a notebook is a long overdue feature. Evernote is supposed to save us time - yet we have to find work arounds to create a simple table of contents type note that we can pin to the top of our notebooks to help us navigate our information. It is beyond frustrating. <sigh> have you seen the Home page? Link to comment
0 Bill Butler 12 Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 On 12/26/2022 at 8:50 PM, gazumped said: <sigh> have you seen the Home page? Apparently you have come late to this thread. The home page only allows ONE note to be pinned. I, along with the others requesting this feature, want to be able to pin a note within a notebook. I have many notebooks for the various projects I run, and want at least one note that is most relevant to my work in that project to be pinned at the top of the notes list. I shouldn't have to bend over backwards which is what Evernote asks of us. Use reminders so it shows in the Reminders tab. I can tag a note and use filtered notes on the home page, but once again, too many steps. Click a pin and boom it is pinned at the top. 1 Link to comment
0 Evernote Expert agsteele 3,059 Posted January 3, 2023 Evernote Expert Share Posted January 3, 2023 If you wish to pin more than one note to the Home dashboard then you can upgrade to Professional. Link to comment
0 Alxa 497 Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 It is requested to pin notes to the top of a notebook instead of using work arounds as reminders or the dashboard. I voted for it. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted January 3, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted January 3, 2023 4 hours ago, Alxa said: It is requested to pin notes to the top of a notebook instead of using work arounds as reminders or the dashboard. Hi. I think using the built-in features of an app (like the home page / dashboard) is rather more than a 'work-around'. I use 'parent' notes as executive summaries for my individual project and topic notebooks, which are basically annotated Table of Content notes containing my thoughts and progress to date. I use tags to make current items of interest instantly available by way of a saved search. I can use the home page to list all my parent notes in case I need to verify whether or not one has been created. I'll also create 'child' notes (referenced in the relevant parent note and by tag) for sub-projects that have their own set of priorities and interactions. It is possible to manage a wide variety of workflows with Evernote's available features. Whilst I have no objection to a feature for 'pinning' notes being available. for me it adds zero value to the existing package, and I would expect that the same would be true for many users. If and when Evernote decide otherwise, you'll likely see the function being added. Until then - it is only possible to use the actual tools available, if you wish to stick with Evernote. Link to comment
0 Bill Butler 12 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 On 1/3/2023 at 3:52 AM, agsteele said: If you wish to pin more than one note to the Home dashboard then you can upgrade to Professional. Oh, super really? I have been a loyal user since 2013. And the only thing I asked for is to be able to pin notes. And it has been an open request on here for an equally long amount of time. And your response is Upgrade to Professional. Really?!?! Even so it doesn't do what I want. I want to pin notes within the notebooks, not cluttering up my home page, which I find rather useless. Link to comment
0 Bill Butler 12 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 On 1/3/2023 at 9:15 AM, gazumped said: Hi. I think using the built-in features of an app (like the home page / dashboard) is rather more than a 'work-around'. I use 'parent' notes as executive summaries for my individual project and topic notebooks, which are basically annotated Table of Content notes containing my thoughts and progress to date. I use tags to make current items of interest instantly available by way of a saved search. I can use the home page to list all my parent notes in case I need to verify whether or not one has been created. I'll also create 'child' notes (referenced in the relevant parent note and by tag) for sub-projects that have their own set of priorities and interactions. It is possible to manage a wide variety of workflows with Evernote's available features. Whilst I have no objection to a feature for 'pinning' notes being available. for me it adds zero value to the existing package, and I would expect that the same would be true for many users. If and when Evernote decide otherwise, you'll likely see the function being added. Until then - it is only possible to use the actual tools available, if you wish to stick with Evernote. I architect and build enterprise software. And a guiding principle I have learned to follow is Less is more. As someone who considers themselves a power user in just about all things software, I have found in my 30+ years in this business, adding features for the sake of features is a poor plan. This thread speaks to the interest of many serious and long time users of EN for this feature to be able to pin notes. It is a simple feature that can add a heap of usability. "for me it adds zero value to the existing package, and I would expect that the same would be true for many users." On what basis do you make this claim? And as for workflow, I really don't see any workflow value of any kind in this product. It is a note taking and information management platform. Its task functionality is weak and does not impress me at all. There are plenty of other products to cleanly manage workflow. EN should not be trying to become something it isn't. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted January 8, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted January 8, 2023 About tasks: I think you didn’t get the main point why tasks are very useful: Tasks make notes actionable. For example many people keep one note for each contact (like a client etc.). With tasks you can now plan ahead for the next action. A friendly phone call or a complex project - you can manage it all, tasks for the action, the note holding the information. The combination of both is what EN tasks do better than the usual task manager. About pinning: First you elaborate why more features are not necessarily better. And then you ask for exactly that, an additional feature. Not really a stringent chain of arguments, crowned by a suada over true or imagined power users in general and in specific. My position is simple: We have the shortcuts section, and that’s usually enough for pinning. There are some users here who want more. But I have not yet really seen a „power argument“ I found convincing. Which is just my opinion, as just another user without marvel super powers (no, not Captain Evernote …). Link to comment
0 Alxa 497 Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Interesting with how much energy EN's ignorance on this simple request is tried to be justified 😅 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted January 8, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted January 8, 2023 54 minutes ago, Alxa said: Interesting with how much energy EN's ignorance on this simple request is tried to be justified 😅 - Vs the energy spent by users who just want that 'extra feature' added to suit their own convenience? - and for the record Evernote isn't ignoring anyone. The company simply has not commented whether, or when it will introduce this option - just like the other thousands of style / layout / bells-n-whistle feature requests in the forums. And as for "justified" - which bit of this feature does not currently exist - you need to find a different way do you find especially unreasonable? Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted January 8, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted January 8, 2023 “Ignore“ is the standard sticker those apply who can’t stand that EN does not implement whatever has been posted here. It is a long standing policy that forum requests are nearly never commented by staff - which can be mistaken for ignoring. Not implementing does not mean ignoring. Maybe the devs had heated discussions in the 3rd floor coffee kitchen about it, and then decided not to implement. Who knows … Link to comment
0 Luthien 5 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Hey, is anyone planning a 10-year-anniversary party for this request? I'd come! 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted April 3, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted April 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, Luthien said: Hey, is anyone planning a 10-year-anniversary party for this request? I'd come! Ever tried the Home page? You can pin notes there... that's been around for what - 2 of those 10 years now.. Link to comment
0 Alxa 497 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 15 minutes ago, Luthien said: Hey, is anyone planning a 10-year-anniversary party for this request? I'd come! Would come too 😆and maybe discuss all EN alternatives that do offer this little but nice feature. 🎉 Even the 2 or 3-men-company UpNote provides this feature. Some companies do care. Maybe EN has gotten too big, lost ground? 🤷🏼 Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted April 3, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Maybe most users are quite happy with the shortcut notes, notebooks and saved searches ? Works fine, so for many of us this is not an issue. You may find „pin note in notebook“ in some note apps, and not in others. Doesn’t seem to be decisive in the end. Good it is not all the same topping we get on our salad bowls. Since nobody puts a gun at your head when the subscription is up for renewal, just do what everybody should do: Pick what’s good for yourself. And be sure: No matter what you pick, something will always be missing. Link to comment
0 Boot17 1,536 Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 On 4/3/2023 at 3:00 PM, PinkElephant said: And be sure: No matter what you pick, something will always be missing. Yeah - I've found this to be the case for me in my own personal searching. And speaking of the recently mentioned UpNote that implements pinned notes very well... I really like UpNote and I wish Evernote had quite a few of some of the features that UpNote implements: Side bar table of contents Side bar backlinks (Evernote is close enough now, but I like UpNote's implementation in the side bar better) Internal note-linking to headers Collapsible sections Pinned notes Snappier Lower price Quote blocks Syntax highlighting in quote blocks Thumbnail image sanity Sticky note on top of other windows (on Desktop) However, even though I'm a Premium/Personal user of both, I still prefer Evernote for a variety of reasons and features that UpNote doesn't have: UI/UX (A lot of things about Evernote that I personally prefer) Accessible via web browser Dragging/dropping bullet points, images, attachments More robust table operations (drag/drop, adding rows/columns) Larger attachment size Inline PDF viewer Image annotation Built-in audio player Tasks OCR PDF search Fully Offline (UpNote only temporarily caches attachments offline on mobile) Cmd-J, Switch To command I'm sure many prefer UpNote and you should be using it if it checks more boxes for you (and you are comfortable with the security of your notes). Edit: btw -- please send me an invite too for the 10 year party. 😃 Link to comment
0 DaneLennon89 5 Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 +1 vote for this. Just went looking for this and while there is an option to "pin note to home" I really only want the note pinned to the top of the notebook 2 Link to comment
0 DaneLennon89 5 Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 On 2/15/2020 at 2:28 AM, jefito said: If you missed it above, a common workaround (which actually works well for me, in Snippet View on Windows, and on Android; the latest web beta, not so much yet) is just to use reminder notes. They appear at the top of the current note list, whether it's selected by notebook, or other search filter. Looks like this feature has since been removed in later version of evernote Link to comment
0 Level 5* s2sailor 2,426 Posted September 20, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted September 20, 2023 12 hours ago, DaneLennon89 said: +1 vote for this. Just went looking for this and while there is an option to "pin note to home" I really only want the note pinned to the top of the notebook Not quite the same thing but you can drag a note to the saved search section in the left hand pane and “pin” a note there. Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted September 20, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted September 20, 2023 8 hours ago, DaneLennon89 said: Looks like this feature has since been removed in later version of evernote Not exactly - reminder notes are still listed separately in all views on desktop. I prefer 'side list' as here... Link to comment
0 Gary Keenan 12 Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 I think it's safe to say if we're waiting +10 years on a feature request then EN aren't likely going to bother. 2 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted September 20, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted September 20, 2023 56 minutes ago, Gary Keenan said: I think it's safe to say if we're waiting +10 years on a feature request then EN aren't likely going to bother. ? Evernote is under new ownership as of 9 months ago - I don't think the previous 10+ years of waiting actually count; they've not had time to do anything much other than to fix sync (user request) address speed issues (user request) and add AI options (user request). Plus it's not possible to have a 'pinned' window on the home page or pin posts with reminders. What else exactly are you looking for? Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted September 21, 2023 Level 5 Share Posted September 21, 2023 Dropping any feature request and then putting it on the „personal waiting list“ is the wrong approach anyhow. There are a lot of feature requests that will never be tackled - some of them pretty popular, measured by the vote count. There may be technical reasons, there may be that it doesn‘t match the strategic planning, or simply that it never makes it to the higher ranks of the backlog list. Whatever, decisions should be taken based on „what is“, viewed under the own use cases and value perception. Moving to a service as to entering the waiting rooms for things to happen is a bad perception, and will most likely result in disappointment. Link to comment
0 VincentC 342 Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Meanwhile, just insert a period in front of the note title and it is effectively pinned to the top of the notebook. Hardly, IMO, an onerous work-around! 😀 Vinnie 1 Link to comment
0 Gary Keenan 12 Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 16 minutes ago, VincentC said: Meanwhile, just insert a period in front of the note title and it is effectively pinned to the top of the notebook. Hardly, IMO, an onerous work-around! 😀 Vinnie That forces you to have your notes always organised alphabetically. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted September 22, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted September 22, 2023 3 hours ago, Gary Keenan said: That forces you to have your notes always organised alphabetically. If you're determined that no other work around will do, and you must have manually sortable notes, I wish you luck with your wait for satisfaction. It may be a long one... Link to comment
0 Gary Keenan 12 Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 1 hour ago, gazumped said: If you're determined that no other work around will do, and you must have manually sortable notes, I wish you luck with your wait for satisfaction. It may be a long one... ...which was my original point. Link to comment
0 VincentC 342 Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 22 hours ago, Gary Keenan said: That forces you to have your notes always organised alphabetically. Yes, well, I posted that comment more for the benefit of others who DO organize primarily alphabetically and who, after stumbling onto this thread, may think there's no way to get a note to stay at the top of their >alphabetical< list. Vinnie 2 Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted July 2 Level 5 Share Posted July 2 Can be amazing how little is needed to make our day. And now let’s move on for thumbnail selection … 😆 1 Link to comment
0 talkingtojoey 0 Posted July 2 Share Posted July 2 That’s a shame. I already switch to UpNote a while ago. Oh well. Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,780 Posted July 3 Level 5 Share Posted July 3 Yeah, moving away is a shame. But you could now come back gracefully (and start pinning ...). Link to comment
0 Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted July 3 Level 5* Share Posted July 3 It seems to be a Universal Rule (or something) that no matter how much better an alternative shiny app seems to be than your current beaten-up, mouldering pile of code, almost as soon as you switch to the new one, your old app gets a similar upgrade... 1 Link to comment
Idea
sjgmail 34
For example if I want move up a note towards the top of the notebook stack manually. Is this possible?
Link to comment
Top Posters For This Question
82
53
31
22
Popular Days
Feb 24
12
Feb 14
8
May 28
8
Feb 26
7
Top Posters For This Question
DTLow 82 posts
jefito 53 posts
CalS 31 posts
gazumped 22 posts
Popular Days
Feb 24 2018
12 posts
Feb 14 2020
8 posts
May 28 2014
8 posts
Feb 26 2018
7 posts
Popular Posts
sjgmail
For example if I want move up a note towards the top of the notebook stack manually. Is this possible?
chad825
Please allow notes to be manually ordered rather than by creation date, name, etc. I want to be able to place my notes and notebooks wherever I want in whatever order I want; an order that makes the m
MikeH
Add my voice to those who would really the option of being able to sort notes and stacks manually. It's a feature that has been missing for years, and I say this as an Evernote Premium users of many y
Posted Images
486 replies to this idea
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now