JeremyToler 11 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 (edited) I could have sworn there was an option at the top of each notebook to add a code block but I cant find it now and searching online it seems like i'm the only person experiencing this problem. I feel like I jumped into a timeline where the codeblock format never existed or I'v gone mad. Please does anyone remember there being a code block format option and more importantly is there a way to add codeblocks now that the option seems to be gone? Edited March 22, 2018 by JeremyToler Spelled Do wrong 7 Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted March 22, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 22, 2018 The tool to create code blocks in the Evernote Windows client is in the note editor panel: You can also use the Ctrl+Shift+L to create a new code block (either by itself, or around selected text) 2 Link to comment
JeremyToler 11 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Is there a way to add the option back to my toolbar? Yours has a lot of options that are not available on mine. Link to comment
JeremyToler 11 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 I just realized I posted this in the wrong area, I'm using the web version of Evernote. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,744 Posted March 22, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 22, 2018 I moved the discussion to the web forum. The answer is the same; the icon is on the edit toolbar. Note: You have to be editing a note to see this toolbar. The image is from Mac/Safari 1 1 Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted March 22, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 22, 2018 3 minutes ago, JeremyToler said: I just realized I posted this in the wrong area, I'm using the web version of Evernote. Not sure you if there is a code block icon in the web version? I don't see one, Regular or New web. 2 Link to comment
JeremyToler 11 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 (edited) I don't have that option when editing anymore, but I remember having it in the past. (Just tried in firefox and still don't get the code block option) Edited March 22, 2018 by JeremyToler Tried another browser 2 Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted March 22, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 22, 2018 You could use twitter for EN and see if the option exists or not. 1 Link to comment
JeremyToler 11 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Looks like its not just me 2 Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,307 Posted March 22, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted March 22, 2018 1 minute ago, JeremyToler said: Looks like its not just me Hopefully this isn't an EN feature "improvement" exercise.... 1 Link to comment
rezecib 98 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 @JeremyToler @CalS A recent change in Chrome broke part of what supported that, so we had to revert to an earlier version. All other clients (including the new web client that's currently business-only) should still have it, and it should work in Safari. 1 1 Link to comment
JeremyToler 11 Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 @rezecib Same issue in Firefox Link to comment
rezecib 98 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Hmm, well it's definitely working in Safari. Edit: Ah, I see. We had only been able to update it to the version that had code blocks in WebKit-based browsers (Chrome, Safari). Chrome has broken it, so only Safari remains. And the native clients, of course. So Firefox never actually had code blocks. 1 Link to comment
Simbaxo 0 Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Yup I’m having this issue as well. I even have notes that I used the code block and they are no longer in my toolbar anymore. Link to comment
Jose Gonzalez 2 Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Is there an ETA for that fix? it's one of the features I use the most for the web version. 2 Link to comment
rezecib 98 Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 @Jose Gonzalez Unfortunately no, my understanding is that the focus is on getting the new web client (in which code blocks work) ready for personal accounts. I don't think there's any release time set for that. Link to comment
nuke 0 Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 @rezecib I am a little confused on why there is no timeline for this minor tweak, if it was working in Chrome before. Wouldn't this just be a slight code change? Link to comment
rezecib 98 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 @nuke It's not just code blocks that broke, but the whole editor. It's running off of an old version of the editor until the new web client. Apparently fixing the editor without the new web client wasn't easy, but I can only speculate as to why. 1 Link to comment
erang42 3 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Please fix this ASAP. I make heavy use of code blocks in my notes, and without a clear ETA on when it's coming back I am forced to look for alternatives. I am on Linux so I don't have an option to use a standalone client. 1 Link to comment
jerome.samson 1 Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Hello, Same problem for me using Chrome-64.0.3282.186 on Centos7.4... 1 Link to comment
cleermeo 0 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 On 3/22/2018 at 11:55 PM, rezecib said: @JeremyToler @CalS A recent change in Chrome broke part of what supported that, so we had to revert to an earlier version. All other clients (including the new web client that's currently business-only) should still have it, and it should work in Safari. While you guys are at it, can you please allow code blocks for Firefox as well? I never understood why you never added this to FF. Link to comment
cleermeo 0 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 On 3/23/2018 at 12:02 AM, JeremyToler said: @rezecib Same issue in Firefox It's never worked in FF for some reason. I wish they would fix that. Link to comment
jean.lourenco 2 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 The lack of Code Block support is a showstopper for me. I use Evernote mainly for studying programming and tech related books, and the ability to format code samples is essencial. As I use FF in Linux (and the iOS app) mainly, most of the time I have no access to the Windows App (that apparently has this feature). 1 Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted April 30, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted April 30, 2018 1 hour ago, jean.lourenco said: The lack of Code Block support is a showstopper for me. I use Evernote mainly for studying programming and tech related books, and the ability to format code samples is essencial. There's nothing stopping you from just formatting the code using Courier New, is there? Beyond that, there's not that much special about Evernote code blocks except for the outline and background color; you don't get any special text handling, syntax coloring, tab support, etc. Yes, I am a software developer, and I use Evernote for my job and related research. Link to comment
jean.lourenco 2 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 1 hora atrás, jefito disse: There's nothing stopping you from just formatting the code using Courier New, is there? Yep, I didn't notice how the code would 'pop-up' on the Courier New from the stardard text. Looks nice! My problem with the formatting is code looking like normal text, and that was solved by the Code Block. And I've just discovered that Courier New is monospaced, so another plus. Thanks! 1 Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,598 Posted April 30, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted April 30, 2018 31 minutes ago, jean.lourenco said: Thanks! You are welcome. 1 Link to comment
vzaliva 0 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 This is a major show stopper for me! I am a researcher and keep my research notes in Evernote. I have hundreds of notes densely interspersed with pre-formatted code fragments. Not being able to insert code is a disaster as now I will have to switch to different notetaking software and somehow migrate my notes. As a paid customer I demand to know when this regression will be fixed. When I paid for your software the feature was present and removing it is unacceptable. Link to comment
vzaliva 0 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 On 4/30/2018 at 8:36 AM, jefito said: There's nothing stopping you from just formatting the code using Courier New, is there? Beyond that, there's not that much special about Evernote code blocks except for the outline and background color; you don't get any special text handling, syntax coloring, tab support, etc. Yes, I am a software developer, and I use Evernote for my job and related research. There is whitespace handling. When I paste code all my whitespace is gone. This was not a problem in code blocks. Link to comment
sgtsunshine 0 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Hi @rezecib May we get an update on code blocks (and bullet points) for the Web Client on Chrome? Is this actively being worked on? It is disappointing that a feature that was provided to us can be taken away. Much sadness :( Link to comment
erang42 3 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 For code-heavy notes, I found that https://boostnote.io/ may be an interesting option... Too bad Evernote is not taking care of this in a timely fashion. 1 1 Link to comment
fornix 0 Posted May 10, 2018 Share Posted May 10, 2018 Hello everybody ! Finally , i found a solution for this today !! Hopefully it will work for you. I'm using a Mac, so i don't know if is going to work on Windows... I use the app downloaded from the appStore, which doesn't have the 'codeblock' option. To my surprise, i try to use Evernote entering from Safari, and it has the 'codeblock' option !! So, this may be an immediate solution... However, i wanted to have this on the desktop app, so i do this: Close everything relationated with evernote. Delete the app from your mac ( right click on the application --> remove ). Open Safari Go to https://evernote.com/ Click : "download the app" Wait for a second. It should be downloading the app Of course, then, install it Now you have the desktop app (again). Open evernote, log in with your user, and go to preferences/software uptade ( or similar ) --> activate the codeblock checkbox Link to comment
cynthiayeung 0 Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Thanks @fornix, this tip helped me enable code blocks that was missing from the Mac application! Link to comment
rezecib 98 Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 @fornix @cynthiayeung Hmm, I would've expected code blocks to be in the app store version. There's an option in the app's preferences for it-- in the app, Evernote > Preferences... > Software Update > Enable code block (at the bottom). Maybe they're saving config in different places and it happened to be disabled in the app store version's config? Edit: Software Update tab doesn't exist in App Store version, which I guess makes sense. I submitted a bug ticket for this and it seems to have caught some attention, yay. @sgtsunshine I would love to be able to tell you otherwise, but I haven't heard anything since, I think the plan is still to "fix" it by releasing the new web client as soon as it's ready. It's possible that third-party wrappers of the web client like Tusk may still be able to support it (if they are using an older version of a browser embedded), so that's something to look into if you want it back sooner. Link to comment
Eduardo Estefano 90 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 @rezecib The AppStore version does not have the Update tab. So you can't enable it. It is an odd place to place an option for enabling code block anyways. Link to comment
Migue 0 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 As a developer working on Windows, Linux and Mac I use the Web client to keep track of notes and code. One of the main reasons I decided to pay for EN is the code formatting tool! I guess I won't be renewing my premium account and will go back to Simplenote. What I find amazing is the complete lack of urgency from the EN team to help us, the paying client. Disappointed. Link to comment
vzaliva 0 Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 This accident made me realize that I could not trust Evernote with a bulk of important information I keep in notes. Such arbitrary changes breaking existing functionality without clear estimate when it would be fixed are unacceptable. I am paying customer after all and removing functionality I am paid for is the breach of the agreement. To put my money where my mouth is, I exported all my notes using CloudHQ to Google Drive, deleted them from Evernote and downgraded my account from premium to basic (I will close it later). I will be no longer using EverNote and will not renew my subscription. If somebody thinking about alternatives, after some research I decided to use Google Drive/Docs for longer notes and Google Keep for short transient ones. Link to comment
Eduardo Estefano 90 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 I can confirm that the code block works normally on the new web application. It is already available for business accounts. So I guess it should be ready for personal accounts very soon. This should fix a lot of problems people are facing with Chrome lately. Link to comment
jumarko 16 Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 The feature that I miss a lot though is a proper indentation of code blocks. As far as I know, you cannot create indented code blocks anymore. See the following link for more information: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/106520-indent-and-code-block-issue/ 2 1 Link to comment
Sebastos 0 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 On 5/20/2018 at 3:44 AM, Eduardo Estefano said: I can confirm that the code block works normally on the new web application. It is already available for business accounts. So I guess it should be ready for personal accounts very soon. This should fix a lot of problems people are facing with Chrome lately. Please evernote team, can we have a release date ?? Link to comment
rezecib 98 Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Just now, Sebastos said: Please evernote team, can we have a release date ?? You can opt into the beta for it now from the account page. 2 Link to comment
anil123 1 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I use EN web on my linux machine. I was heavy user of EN due to its 'code block' feature. I used to take all my programming notes there. I was furious when they removed this. I even waited for 2-3 months for them to fix it. I was very optimistic. But sadly, last month I shifted everything to an alternative (not mentioning the name here). Highly disappointed. Few suggestion for anyone who is in EN (if listening) : 1) Evernote is not only used for uploading of bills, quick snapshot etc. Many many programmers use Evernote for note taking purpose. Please include more features which will help us. 2) Kindly bring back the code block with code formatting. 1 Link to comment
NeoCreative 0 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 在 2018/3/23 在 AM5點31分, jefito說: The tool to create code blocks in the Evernote Windows client is in the note editor panel: You can also use the Ctrl+Shift+L to create a new code block (either by itself, or around selected text) 1 Hi, How do you keep the syntax highlight color in Evernote's code block? Thanks. Link to comment
NeoCreative 0 Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 在 2018/6/20 在 PM6點40分, anil123說: I use EN web on my linux machine. I was heavy user of EN due to its 'code block' feature. I used to take all my programming notes there. I was furious when they removed this. I even waited for 2-3 months for them to fix it. I was very optimistic. But sadly, last month I shifted everything to an alternative (not mentioning the name here). Highly disappointed. Few suggestion for anyone who is in EN (if listening) : 1) Evernote is not only used for uploading of bills, quick snapshot etc. Many many programmers use Evernote for note taking purpose. Please include more features which will help us. 2) Kindly bring back the code block with code formatting. I guess if someone can develop the same functionality as Evernote PLUS the syntax highlight feature for programming languages, that will be a hit to the market and take away some clients from Evernote. Link to comment
rrrrrocky 1 Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Had this code block issue for a while. Just would like to confirm that if you switch over to the new version of web client in the settings, the code block is there. Thanks for fixing it. 1 Link to comment
n3rd 2 Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 Evernote seems to be the typical company that constantly throws new features on the market that no one wants or needs (Work chat?!). At the same time, it fails to provide a stable product. In the early days, I would regularly lose notebooks because the syncing sucked. In addition, when it synced a note, the editor would jump to the top of the note - super annoying if you are working on a long note and are somewhere at the end. For the longest time, you couldn't resize images in Evernote (WTF?). Believe me or not, it is these small things that immediately tell you if a product is developed by a skilled team. Now I am wasting my morning trying to get the code blocks in Evernote Web working. Now you might say to use the Desktop version if you want code blocks. Nope, on Linux, there is no ***** support for Desktop (see a million threads on this topic). Linux is my Developer Machine (also use Mac and Windows). Don't even get me started on Open Source Clients. Now you might say to use the Web Client if you want code blocks. Nope, there is no code block in FF on Web Client. The latest FF is amazing - why would you not support this? Now you might say to try the new Beta if you want code blocks. Try again. Q.E.D. Btw, I am/was a paying customer. As soon as something better comes along I will ditch Evernote for good. 2 Link to comment
DamienLGD 0 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Me too, i have to switch from Mac to Linux for my work, and i use Firefox too. When do you release a desktop client for Linux? The desktop client is great, i need code blocks too... Link to comment
Joey Green 0 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 I think a lot of programmers use Linux, and they also use code block(of course). It's such a pain that code block is not available on Linux, no native client, not on the web client. Could you consider supporting Linux? Link to comment
morenomdz 0 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Em 26/05/2018 at 16:52, jumarko disse: The feature that I miss a lot though is a proper indentation of code blocks. As far as I know, you cannot create indented code blocks anymore. See the following link for more information: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/106520-indent-and-code-block-issue/ This. I spend more time re indenting my pasting that writing most of the time, sadly. Link to comment
morenomdz 0 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Em 28/07/2018 at 05:43, NeoCreative disse: Hi, How do you keep the syntax highlight color in Evernote's code block? Thanks. If I copy paste from my IDE (vscode) it will keep the color, but it translates to whatever color palet evernote uses and it is a mess in the end, also, it breaks indentation completely. Link to comment
erang42 3 Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 I just want to bring up something I had mentioned earlier, which may be useful to some... Evernote is a great tool for general note taking. But when it comes to code blocks, and given all of the trouble we're having with Evernote's implementation of it, I have recently started using https://boostnote.io/ for those notes that are heavy on code snippets. Apologies if it's a bit awkward to promote an alternative product in this forum, but I don't see it as a direct competitor. It's just better for the niche use-case of developer oriented notes. Link to comment
bflee611@163.com 0 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Maybe you can do this... Link to comment
level96 4 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Hi, as a longterm Evernote-user and a developer, this is a must-have feature for me. Especially Syntax-highlighting, space-stability (eg. for python) and output-result on all clients is essential. So i came with a custom solution by using pygments on Python. This allows me to render code-xml that is tailored to Evernotes restricted xml-dialect, so the result looks the same on the latest browser and Evernote-clients. Unfortunately there is no library in JS that fulfills this requirements, so i wrote an aws-lambda-microservice for it and a vue-js page to make it accessible. It create an Evernote-export-file (.enex) with the information of: - title (the notes title) - language (the code languages - current it supports 100 languages from abab to YAML) - the author (if needed) which you can import to Evernote. At the moment it just support one code per note. If you need several code-blocks in one note, you can copy from a note and paste. It works for me so far, if you are interested, i have an idea for an editor, where you can enter mixed-content and save the note direct to Evernote per API. This is how it works Here is the deeplink of that toolhttps://annoyingdev.com/save-code-with-highlighting-on-evernote ps. - this tool is free, i try to keep that as stable as possible. if you find issues, just send me a message. I'm looking forward for your feedbacks. Link to comment
peepdapatty 0 Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 On Chrome, click on your profile avatar and go to Settings. From there, find the section near the bottom called "Evernote Web". Click to use the Beta version. You should be able to use code blocks now. Definitely frustrating not having the code blocks feature as a developer. Link to comment
Vishnudev 0 Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Hello! In 2019 there's an option to switch to new editor under the account options. It's weird why they wouldn't automatically switch to new editor. That is why I am posting it here so that people coming here would find it. I struggled a lot to find it. Link to comment
lordfox_ 2 Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 Thanks 2019! After switching to the new version in your account options. The code block option appear under an "Insert" button as in the attached picture. Tested on Chrome and Firefox, ubuntu 18 2 Link to comment
wjson 0 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 On 10/22/2019 at 7:54 AM, lordfox_ said: Thanks 2019! After switching to the new version in your account options. The code block option appear under an "Insert" button as in the attached picture. Tested on Chrome and Firefox, ubuntu 18 so cool, fix it finally~ Link to comment
benjaminv 0 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 On 3/23/2018 at 8:44 AM, JeremyToler said: I just realized I posted this in the wrong area, I'm using the web version of Evernote. You didn't but jefito did. I am using the web app too and there is no tool of inserting a code area. Link to comment
benjaminv 0 Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 in my case this Insert button is on the left hand side of the edit toolbar. Took me a while to find this. The blue plus button makes me feeling it's for adding a new note orz... Link to comment
Mike P 2,965 Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 11:24 PM, benjaminv said: in my case this Insert button is on the left hand side of the edit toolbar. Took me a while to find this. The blue plus button makes me feeling it's for adding a new note orz... I find that the easiest way to add a code block in the new version is the markdown method of typing three backticks (```) followed by enter. Link to comment
Ali Akbar 0 Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Using the Web client on Firefox you can: Select a block and press `Ctrl + Shift + L` to format it as a code block. For inline code texts, wrap the text between two ` characters, remove and simplify formatting before adding them. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,773 Posted August 12, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted August 12, 2021 In the mobile v10 client, you can enter a code block by starting it with 3 ˋˋˋ To use this feature, it must be enabled in the apps settings, notes, advanced editing options. Link to comment
FransL 0 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Is there a keyboard shortcut for Mac? Currently Evernote doesn't support the M1 chip (it's been out for a year and used by 100s of thousands of people) and the web client doesn't support code blocks. The "ctrl + shift + L" doesn't work for Mac web client. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,773 Posted November 22, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Open EN, take a look at the left side panel: See the little keyboard symbol at the bottom ? Click it to get a list of all keyboard shortcuts. The code block is way down the list. There are 2 shortcuts, one for a codeblock, one for an embedded code string. Link to comment
Boot17 1,535 Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 @michaelbierman Three back ticks and then press the spacebar: or from the Insert Menu: For an inline code block with a single back tick, type what you want, then closing back tick 1 Link to comment
Boot17 1,535 Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Well, this is kind of embarrassing... It looks like I am randomly replying to a thread here 5 months later... but I swear that the said poster I replied to had posted a comment just 18 minutes prior to my comment, something along the lines of "How do you do this in Chrome? And please don't tell me to use another program to copy and paste into that first!"... Something like that. Pretty sure they deleted their comment after I made mine because it must have been embarrassing for them that it was so easy!? Either that or I just had a pretty late night and dreamt the whole thing... 1 Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,773 Posted May 20, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Yes, I think there was another post meanwhile, at which you posted your answer. Since you posted a good, complete answer with pics and everything, I moved on. So I think no dream involved, probably the post owner that was in between simply deleted his post here. Thanks for answering, anyhow. 1 Link to comment
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