Evernote should be able to take screenshots, like it did before.

[randbrown 11]

Please add screenshots back into the app, like it used to do.  It was perfect before the v10 nonsense.

[ForestD 1,618]

What benefit did Evernote screen-shotting have over today's native OS functionality or free third party apps that can take screenshots? What is the compelling case for it?

[PinkElephant 9,253]

Nothing was perfect before v10, and nothing is perfect today. Software always is a work in progress.

If you want a feature, better contact support. The forum is user2user.

[agsteele 3,134]

I don't remember the screenshot option as described but I typically take a screenshot on the device then attach it to a note. Probably a couple of steps extra but barely a significant delay in my workflow.

[PinkElephant 9,253]

BTW no idea for Windows (there was no OS posted). On the Mac the v10 helper has both a crosshair and an active window clipping option.

[agsteele 3,134]

41 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

BTW no idea for Windows (there was no OS posted). On the Mac the v10 helper has both a crosshair and an active window clipping option.

Good point. I just assumed that we were thinking of a mobile app.

[randbrown 11]

Sorry I should have specified, this is for the desktop app...  Mainly the Windows platform is the one I'm ranting about here, but I do use it on several platforms (win/mac/ios and occasionally android). The EN helper app supposedly can initiate the Windows snip tool, but I find it usually doesn't work for me, and even if it did it's a pretty clunky user experience.

The old pre-V10 EN screenshot tool was great for grabbing a quick screen cap and annotating it.  For years EN was imho perfect note taking bliss. but this is one of the many features which got axed in the V10 debacle. 

Shame they've deleted the legacy download too.....

[agsteele 3,134]

The Evernote Windows screen shot tool was broken by an update from Microsoft. There is a really simple workaround which works well.

Using the standard Windows screen clip Win+Shift+S will pop the clip onto your clipboard and you can paste that directly into a note.  If you prefer you can connect the Windows screenshot directory to Evernote as an Import Folder and then Win+Shift+S will copy the screen shot into a new note in the same way that you are familiar with.

Just remember to empty the screenshot folder before linking to Evernote or any images already there will be imported without your choice.

You might like to review this thread...

 

[randbrown 11]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'm playing with some different options.  Reading through the linked thread, glad to see I'm not the only one who finds the V10 to be a downgrade from legacy.

It's sad to watch the EN app decline like this.  One of the few apps I can think of which have gotten worse instead of better through the years.  I know the users on this forum can't fix Evernote's failings, but I always mention it in hopes that someone at Evernote might see it and care.

[PinkElephant 9,253]

The only decline was while legacy lasted - no new features in years, belated updates to keep up with OS changes, bug fixes took a year, or longer. This app was visibly dying, you could see it wain. It lost more and more touch with software development - legacy on Windows is still 32bit code.

Luckily we are beyond this stalemate.

[John Conley 1]

9/28/24: Here is a table for the current state of play with the Windows 11 Print Screen key and its modifiers. In addition, Alt+Ctrl+S is an Evernote hotkey to launch the Windows snipping tool and then save to a note.

PrintScreen	What it does	Filename pattern	Copies to clipboard?
by itself	launches snipping tool	Screenshot yyyy-mm-dd hhmmss.png	yes
Alt	Saves current window	yyyy-mm-dd[ (n)].png	yes
Ctrl	Saves current screen	does not save to file	yes
Windows Key	Saves current screen	Screenshot (n).png	yes
Shift	Saves current screen	does not save to file	yes

[PinkElephant 9,253]

Since this is General Feature Requests and not Windows Assist, let me add this for the Mac community:

Just do as you always did, screenshots from EN work as they always did