Shortcuts on Home Screen

[UptonMan 8]

Why am I having to suggest this when we already had it before you took it away? I did most of my access to Evernote using shortcuts on the home screen to important notebooks. I'm very annoyed and feeling unappreciated as a long-term user.

[matej1990 187]

Yeah I also want to see launcher app shortcuts reimplemented:

[ehrt74 240]

On 2/24/2021 at 3:26 PM, UptonMan said:

Why am I having to suggest this when we already had it before you took it away? I did most of my access to Evernote using shortcuts on the home screen to important notebooks. I'm very annoyed and feeling unappreciated as a long-term user.

on Evernote 10.6 you can add shortcuts to notes on the homescreen. Shortcuts to notebooks are not yet possible.

[PinkElephant 8,117]

+1 for the idea.

A current workaround would be to create a Table-Of-Content note covering the whole notebook, and pin this note to the home page.

To create the links, select the notes and use the "create internal link" function from the notes menu of a desktop client. Or use the legacy client, where TOC is directly supported.

If the notebook is changing a lot, it is probably not a good workaround, because the TOC is static after creation. Single links can be added manually, but this will not work in real life when there are many new notes added or deleted.

[Pastafarian 0]

There is ABSOLUTELY no way that the new version should have been released without this function.  Removing it was foolish and will hurt your business.  That I'm forced to sideload an older version is to maintain functionality is absurd . Do you think I or anyone else pissed about this removal of a vital feature are going to speak well of the service to others?  I am once again after many years considering other services to replace Evernote in my life. This didn't have to be!

[Kisses from France 1]

Same issue. I just can't seem to understand who in the hell had the bright idea to stop remove shortcuts to notes I used to have on my cellular ? Aren't new versions aiming to improve instead of worstening  ?

[Paul A. 623]

First release of 2022, version 10.24, and this functionality still hasn't been restored. As a result of this and other issues with the Android app, I'm still not renewing my subscription, no matter how many "discounts" Evernote offers me in the app. Voting with my wallet until the Android app reaches a minimum level of functionality.

[Paul A. 623]

Bumping this because widgets were (finally) introduced in 10.26, which would have been the perfect time to also implement app shortcuts, but they are not yet here.

[olee22 5]

Edit: only works for notes, not notebooks (or stacks).

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I think this is working now, I can select in the three dot menu of a note "Add note to device homescreen"

[Paul A. 623]

7 hours ago, olee22 said:

I think this is working now, I can select in the three dot menu of a note "Add note to device homescreen"

"Add Note" but does add NOTEBOOK work? That was the original request.

Also (separate but related), still no app launcher shortcuts, as outlined by @matej1990in his comment below and in my separate post in the "issues" forum:

 

[olee22 5]

@Paul A. Unfortunately you are correct, only works for Notes, not whole notebooks. I changed my workflow and put everything into a .Inbox folder first, so I can live without it. But if you want to directly add notes to existing notebooks for grouping, this is a must. There are no Launcher shortcuts yet, either. Version 10.29

[gbudden 4]

I'm using version 8.13.3 on my android phone and tablet so I can put shortcuts to notes and tags on my homescreen. It's brutal that they took these features away on us 

[PinkElephant 8,117]

"Brutal" - hope you don't experience anything "brutal" in your life that teaches you the true meaning of the word.

A "mild nuisance" probably describes it better.

[agsteele 2,950]

1 hour ago, gbudden said:

I'm using version 8.13.3 on my android phone and tablet so I can put shortcuts to notes and tags on my homescreen. It's brutal that they took these features away on us 

The ability to link a home screen shortcut to a note had been with us for months - possibly a year. 

[gbudden 4]

Yes, it has been returned as an option, I'm still waiting for tags to be able to be a shortcut on android homescreen. 

[gbudden 4]

I'm still in using 8.13.3 as I am need to have tags on my homescreen.

Has this feature been added to the app?

 

Thank you 

[agsteele 2,950]

You can save shortcuts to individual notes on the device home screen plus the various widgets.

You can, as ever, save tags to shortcuts and there is a widget that will provide access to those shortcuts on the device screen.