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(Archived) Feature Req: Note attribute/metadata for "device created on"


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Hello all,

I'm often going through my notes and trying to find certain ones I clipped while at a certain computer or device. I have Evernote installed on 3 computers and my Blackberry, but can't tell which of these was the device I created the note with.

It would be handy if there was an automatically-created note attribute that indicated the source.

Many thanks!

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I think that's a neat idea. Yes, you could easily do it with tags. However, I frequently don't add tags when creating a note on one of my mobile devices, especially if it was a quick note when I'm on the run. I add the tag later.

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Hello all,

I'm often going through my notes and trying to find certain ones I clipped while at a certain computer or device. I have Evernote installed on 3 computers and my Blackberry, but can't tell which of these was the device I created the note with.

It would be handy if there was an automatically-created note attribute that indicated the source.

Many thanks!

As far as the multiple computers, I have EN Windows desktop on two desktop computers & two netbooks. I can tell where they originated from by looking at the author field, which is the Windows login, since they are different.

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Interesting. Which version of EN are you using? The 'Author' field is not populated in any of my notes, and there does not seem to be anywhere to set a default. After a quick search through the forum, it seems that the auto-population of the Author field has been gone for some time now.

Thanks,

Brian

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Interesting. Which version of EN are you using? The 'Author' field is not populated in any of my notes, and there does not seem to be anywhere to set a default. After a quick search through the forum, it seems that the auto-population of the Author field has been gone for some time now.

Ah, yes, indeed, that seems to be the status quo. (Sorry.) I have hidden the author field b/c it was annoying (to me) since all notes were created by me, but on different computers. What I have noticed after confirming what you pointed out (that I love) is that when emails are automatically forwarded to the EN account, the author is populated with the sender's info. I wonder if the author (when creating a note using a desktop client) was omitted intentionally in the 4.x version. I've posed the question in this thread.

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I'm often going through my notes and trying to find certain ones I clipped while at a certain computer or device. I have Evernote installed on 3 computers and my Blackberry, but can't tell which of these was the device I created the note with.

In the Windows client, under the 'Attributes'' section in the leftmost pane, there are a some "Source" filters. They won't distinguish between desktops, but can filter by notes created on a mobile, emailed to Evernote or derived from a web clip. This corresponds to the "source:" attribute, documented in the Evernote search grammar.

Hope this helps.

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