User Manual? Real help functionality?

[Grant837 111]

Hi,

Is there a user manual for evernote (for windows)?

All I wanted to find out was if there where shortcuts to insert time and date.  25 minute later I still do not know. 

First I clicked on Help expecting a typical index off line help tool to pop up.  Nope, off to a web page.  Well at least i can search using that.  Nope, just a bunch of articles on general topics with no search function.  Off to this forum.  Searched on ' user manual ', ' user guide '  and, nope, nothing...

So now I bow to my fellow users on the forum for explaining what I missed as far as getting detailed instruction on how to use each function of evernote.  

Oh yeah, and if there are short cuts for inserting time and date.

Thanks

grant

[Giacomo22 0]

Hi, if you go to https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us and input the word date in the search box, it gives you as first result this page https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209004877.

Hope this helps

[gazumped 11,667]

Hi.  How to add date and time stamps to your notes ??

[jefito 5,589]

A web search on "evernote windows shortcuts" yields, for one, https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209004807-What-are-the-keyboard-shortcuts-in-Evernote-for-Windows-. Not sure how up-to-date it is, but worth reading. Date+Time shortcut, as documented there, is Alt+Shift+D, but Ctrl+; also works, and it's the one that I use.

[gazumped 11,667]

Also worth noting that despite the Ctrl+; option to add dates,  I use a 'text expander' app called Phrase Express which will insert the current date and/ or time in a variety of formats to suit my need.  I use full dates,  then hourly times,  forinstance,  in an activity log for one project.  My system date comes up as 17/05/2018 14:25 ,  but PE will insert 20180517 1425 with Ctrl+one key press.  It's more flexible.  Other text expanders are available...

[TK0047 422]

9 hours ago, Grant837 said:

Is there a user manual for evernote (for windows)?

I think your best bet is to use the online help which provides useful information from keyboard shortcuts to sharing. That is the closest to a manual. And with all apps growing, changing, upgrading all the time, developers going away from Manuals especially the screenshots change drastically sometimes from version to version too. Here is the link:

https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,960]

11 hours ago, Grant837 said:

First I clicked on Help expecting a typical index off line help tool to pop up.  Nope, off to a web page.  Well at least i can search using that.  Nope, just a bunch of articles on general topics with no search function.

Assuming the Web page in question was the one @TK0047 linked to, there's a search bar right at the top of the page. I pasted in "shortcuts to insert time and date" and got links to a page with all the shortcut info.

[Grant837 111]

Hi Dave, for me, using Chrome,  there is no search box in the upper right, but if I use Edge, I do see it... odd... that is indeed what I would like to see...

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,960]

4 hours ago, Grant837 said:

Hi Dave, for me, using Chrome,  there is no search box in the upper right, but if I use Edge, I do see it... odd... that is indeed what I would like to see...

Very odd indeed. But once again what I believe to be an axiom of contemporary computing comes into play: If something is messed up, blame it on Google. ?