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I take online classes and we have to download readings. Before Evernote I just saved these readings to a PDF and used Acrobat to read them. Acobat has a highlighter function to highlight text, which is real useful for identifying key text I need to know for class. I like using Evernote because I don't need to save the readings in a seperate file, however I don't have the ability to highlight. I use Evernote on the iMac using the current version of OSX.

Another function that would be nice is a zoom function to make the text larger.

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Thanks,

Norm

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When I'm doing research I usually clip a whole bunch of text and then in the note I change the text that I want to refer back to, a different color. It would be much nicer if I could actually highlight it yellow though. Any ideas as to if this will be implemented?

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It's generally better if you have questions, to post them in the particular forum for your Evernote client.

That being said, this does exist on the iOS clients currently, I think, but nowhere else. I think it's likely that it will be implemented on the other clients, but Evernote typically does not release feature roadmaps.

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This has bothered me since I started using Evernote (which I do almost exclusive through the Mac desktop). I'll be thrilled on the day I can highlight in Evernote on my computer.

Mitigating the problem a little bit, however, is that highlighting websites is very easy with Diigo. Whenever I'm reading something online that I want saved in Evernote and highlighted, I highlight with Diigo before clipping. On rare occasions the highlighted passages show up as italics (not sure why), but usually it's perfect for what I need/want (and when the italics show up, re-clipping usually solves the issue with that page/note).

And when I'm desperate to highlight text in a non-clipped note, I copy a bit of highlighted text and start typing within it to change the text to say what I want while preserving the highlighting.

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In general, it's safe to assume that if we have one feature available on one platform, we're looking for ways to implement on the others.

This feature is essential for normal typing. I like the program as a hole, but lacking a highlighter makes Evernote look like they cant program. I see that there has been many other user´s unsatisfied by this. I´d hope, that when it comes available that we can be updated by this Forum.

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That being said, this does exist on the iOS clients currently, I think, but nowhere else. I think it's likely that it will be implemented on the other clients, but Evernote typically does not release feature roadmaps.

I understand that EN does not publish their roadmap, but it is disappointing the text background highlighting is still not available on the EN Mac client, even though it has been 5 months since it was released on the iOS client and there have been several EN Mac updates, including a UI redesign (that no one asked for).

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feature is essential for normal typing. I like the program as a hole, but lacking a highlighter makes Evernote look like they cant program.

Only to someone who lacks the senses to see the entirety of what Evernote has built.

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I can't believe there isn't an option for highlighting! It's a must for studying and preparing notes for presentations!

All three of your posts say exactly the same thing in the general, Mac & Windows section. There is no need to flood the board with the same post multiple times, in different sections.

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The "Clearly" Chrome extension has a great highlighter... so if you do your highlighting in Clearly before clipping, it works a treat.

But, alas, you cannot do any highlighting directly within Evernote... which, of course, would be amazing...

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