Is there any way to freeze the top row of a table?

[scottr99 5]

Like done in Excel.

[agsteele 3,075]

Do you mean to have the to row permanently displayed as you scroll up and down the table?

If so, the answer is no...

[scottr99 5]

55 minutes ago, agsteele said:

Do you mean to have the to row permanently displayed as you scroll up and down the table?

If so, the answer is no...

Ok thank you, that’s unfortunate.

[ForestD 1,555]

I think this could be a useful feature but I wonder if it could be implemented in a good way... or I guess I wonder how it could be implemented. With excel, the "table" takes up the whole main part of the page. Everything is all about that one table on that one sheet. It's easy to know what to scroll... everything but the top XX fixed rows. With Evernote, you could have multiple tables on one note mixed in with text, images, attachments, tasks, etc... And tables don't need to take up the whole page... it's harder to know how/when to scroll it.

@scottr99 Are there any examples of other software like Evernote (that are non-spreadsheet based) that have tables with fixed rows that you can think of -- where you can also have multiple objects on the same page with the table(s)?

[scottr99 5]

On 5/14/2023 at 8:51 PM, Boot17 said:

I think this could be a useful feature but I wonder if it could be implemented in a good way... or I guess I wonder how it could be implemented. With excel, the "table" takes up the whole main part of the page. Everything is all about that one table on that one sheet. It's easy to know what to scroll... everything but the top XX fixed rows. With Evernote, you could have multiple tables on one note mixed in with text, images, attachments, tasks, etc... And tables don't need to take up the whole page... it's harder to know how/when to scroll it.

@scottr99 Are there any examples of other software like Evernote (that are non-spreadsheet based) that have tables with fixed rows that you can think of -- where you can also have multiple objects on the same page with the table(s)?

Hi @Boot17 I don't know of any.  Along this idea, however, I was thinking that an easy fix would be to make freezable the note heading/title area. I've always wondered why EN made that part of the scroll anyway.

[PinkElephant 9,015]

The table is just a HTML formatting, it has no logic. I doubt it can „learn“ fixed 1st row on scrolling without completely overhauling the feature.

You can contact support about it.

[hazpoco 1]

On 5/14/2023 at 8:51 PM, ForestD said:

Are there any examples of other software like Evernote (that are non-spreadsheet based) that have tables with fixed rows that you can think of -- where you can also have multiple objects on the same page with the table(s)?

Google Docs (not sheets) does this now. It's extremely useful. The lack of this feature in Evernote makes it difficult to use when tables are so important for organizing large amounts of data in Evernote. I feel like I'm going to get the, "you should be using Excel." comment but I think that's short-sighted -- Excel's not a good place to keep my notes when I'm trying so hard to be a good Evernote consumer.

[PinkElephant 9,015]

As already posted, the tables are only a formatting tool. Don’t expect anything else to emerge (short of a complete rewrite), and don’t overload EN tables with more content than it (or you) can digest.

[s2sailor 2,508]

5 hours ago, hazpoco said:

Google Docs (not sheets) does this now. It's extremely useful. The lack of this feature in Evernote makes it difficult to use when tables are so important for organizing large amounts of data in Evernote. I feel like I'm going to get the, "you should be using Excel." comment but I think that's short-sighted -- Excel's not a good place to keep my notes when I'm trying so hard to be a good Evernote consumer.

If you need spreadsheet features just attach the spreadsheet to a note.  You can open, edit and save back to Evernote.

Adding Excel features to Evernote is a slippery slope.  Where do you stop?  Someone will always want one more thing for it to be “perfect.”