For the love of God, please fix it so I can copy multiple notes at one time from one notebook to paste in another notebook.

[castlegateag 0]

the only current option is to duplicate all of the notes and them move them....  original version allowed us to copy multiple notes

and copy them into a new notebook.  REALLY hoping Bending Spoons can make this magic return!

[sDGdsGdsGdSDSBsDB 2]

I love it when someone asks for something that's obviously important to them, only to be met with the response "Oh, you shouldn't want that"
 

Sorry, but coping multiple notes (or ideally whole notebooks) is essential for some workflows, and it used to work. I hung on to Evernote Legacy for ages because of this.

Here's the use case, just to show that we're really not all making it up:

I write novels and screenplays. For each new project, I have a bunch of templated notes with lists of things to fill in for this project, like character sheets, plot beat sheets that need filling in etc.

These all contain lots of text, but the point is that they THEN get edited for each new project. Just like filling in forms which have explanatory text.

So in the old Evenote I used to set up a "template" Notebook with a note for each thing - Settings, Characters, Plot, Themes etc etc, then clone it every time I make a new project.

In the new Evernote I have to go into my template Notebook and copy every single note one by one - there are twenty of these notes. 

So yes, please please let us copy multiple notes at once. They won't be duplicates for long, because the thing I'm copying is just a template that I want to edit, does that make sense?

 

[PinkElephant 5,172]

The logical option is to select multiple notes and MOVE them, if it needs to be moved. This is supported by multiple selection menu.

Usually a note is not even moved more than maybe once. ENs basic concept is to hold ONE copy of content, and use TAGs to organize them.

Creating copies of the same to put it into several notebooks is folder thinking, contrary to ENs organizational concept.

This should IMHO not be made easy. Learn to use tags instead of littering your account with duplicates.

[Boot17 524]

Having multiple copies of multiple notes in different notebooks does strike me as interesting. I wonder if this is one of those things that they figured most people didn't use and so isn't worth bringing forward into Version 10.

Edit 12/9/2022: Ah, per comment by @sDGdsGdsGdSDSBsDB, I see that a common use-case would be to then modify the copied notes (not sure if this is what @castlegateag's use case was.)

[PinkElephant 5,172]

You can duplicate, multi select and then move. But the thread owner wants full support to create copies and stuff them elsewhere.

Next step is that you start to modify one of the copies, then another. Then you find out that each copy holds a part of the total picture, but none all.

And then we have a request for a tool that compares and automatically merges all copies into one note, holding all information.

All because people are trained to folder structures, going back to the dark age of MS-DOS and the like.

One copy, few notebooks, tags. And no easy escape to litter the EN account with copies not needed at all.

[Boot17 524]

4 minutes ago, sDGdsGdsGdSDSBsDB said:

So in the old Evenote I used to set up a "template" Notebook with a note for each thing - Settings, Characters, Plot, Themes etc etc, then clone it every time I make a new project.

In your particular case, @sDGdsGdsGdSDSBsDB,  have you tried exporting that template notebook as an ENEX? And then when you want to copy them all, reimport that exported ENEX as a new notebook? I don't ever do that so I'm vague on the particulars, but I think that might work and wonder if that wouldn't accomplish what you want quicker since it's the whole notebook that you want to copy.

[sDGdsGdsGdSDSBsDB 2]

Thanks @Boot17 - I think that's exactly what I'll do - I just got used to the old easy way of right-clicking on a notebook and simply clicking "copy"!

But given that my template notebook is fairly static, I would just need to import the ENEX file once for each new project, which isn't the end of the world.

I'm still surprised this got removed, and it feels like it has to be only a matter of time before it's reimplemented in the new EverNote, but I'll do what you said for now, cheers!