Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,117 Posted June 9, 2011 Level 5* Share Posted June 9, 2011 Please add the ability to highlight selected text in all of your EN Apps (Windows, Mac, etc) by changing the background color of the selected text.Please provide for highlighting as is done in many other apps:[*:1nact61f]Allow choosing of the background color each time it is applied[*:1nact61f]Allow setting of a default background color[*:1nact61f]Provide a shortcut key that will toggle the highlight on/off[*:1nact61f]Provide two methods of applying highlight:1. Select the text first and then click the highlight button or press the highlight shortcut key2. With no text selected, click the button/press the key to turn on highlight mode so that you can highlight multiple blocks of textJust about every Note I capture or create I need to highlight selected portions of the text so that when I refer back to that Note the key, most important parts stand out to me. Now that you have Notebook and Note sharing this becomes even more important when other readers view the note.Many times the Note may be several pages/screens long, but I need to make sure one or two short phrases don't get lost in all the details.While changing the text foreground color helps, it does not make the text stand out nearly as well as a background highlight. Most rich-text editors I have used provide for text highlighting. It seems to be fairly common.Thank you for consideration of this request. Link to comment
bosconi 0 Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 +1. This is the missing feature I would most like to see added. I periodically do a search to see if the status has changed, but just keep finding new posts requesting it. Link to comment
adriaanvk 0 Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Highlighting text would be great! I am missing that. Even in pdfs i like to do hightlighting like you can in http://crocodoc.com Link to comment
hart.ryan 0 Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 I would love this feature. From a HTML standpoint I believe it would be possible.For example,Highlighted text Link to comment
lukitron 0 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 I agree with this request! My first idea for a suggestion would definitively also be highlighting capabilities for the notes...I find this to be invaluable in making the most out of my notes.GreetingsLuis Link to comment
Nadya De Angelis 24 Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 I enormously miss this feature. Link to comment
slipperx 0 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 I agree too - add highlighting please. Link to comment
Hassayampa Slim 0 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 With every EN update, I immediately click on "New Note" and check to see if "Highlight Text" is available yet.... Alas, it's never there How one of the top five tools of note taking has been missed by the number one note taking application, is beyond me. Link to comment
MatthewV 0 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 +1 - have been waiting for this feature Link to comment
Pappy 0 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 I need to highlight! Please! Link to comment
Hassayampa Slim 0 Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 A new "pre-release" update today..... But alas, still no highlighting Link to comment
whistler11 0 Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 ++++1 for this feature. It would be great if highlights could be navigable (as they are in Preview on Macs) & searchable (by color, for example); even better if they could be cross linked to other notes/highlights using an alternate sub-tagging (or linking); it would allow for some pretty wicked filtering and searchability -- this would be a fantastic feature for locating important research info that I've clipped... Hopefully this will be possible in the not too distant future... Link to comment
Daly_de_Gagne 4 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 A few weeks ago, tired of waiting for a highlighting feature to be added, I tweeted Phil Libin, Evernote CEO, on Twitter.I expressed the need for this feature, which is on just about every other information program, and asked that it be included.He agreed with me, and said it would be in the next version.More recently I have downloaded the latest update, and I do not see highlighting.Highlighting is of major important to many people most likely to use a program such as Evernote.I hope the developers will include this feature, which some of us have requested for years, included at the earliest opportunity.Thank you.Daly Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,147 Posted September 17, 2011 Level 5 Share Posted September 17, 2011 He agreed with me, and said it would be in the next version.No, he did not say the next version.On his May 25 tweet, all he said was: "I agree. We'll add it." Link to comment
Hassayampa Slim 0 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Another new "pre-release" update today..... But alas, yet again...still no highlighting Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 It will be there, when it's there.viewtopic.php?f=56&t=29803#p128032 Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,147 Posted September 17, 2011 Level 5 Share Posted September 17, 2011 alas?Is the forum tuning into a Shakespeare class? Link to comment
Daly de Gagne 5 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Thanks for correcting me, and my apologies to Phil Libin and readers. I didn't intend to misquote Phil, or to mislead anyone about what he said.I allowed my hope that it might be the next version to get in the way of accurate recollection.Nonetheless, I hope the highlight feature comes soon.DalyHe agreed with me, and said it would be in the next version.No, he did not say the next version.On his May 25 tweet, all he said was: "I agree. We'll add it." Link to comment
Hofmann 0 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 +1 Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk Link to comment
amirmasoudabdol 14 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 PLEASE, PLEASE, +1A note taking application without annotation feature isn't complete Link to comment
RestonGL 1 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Check out http://www.scrible.com/ At a minimum, EN should provided the ability to highlight text within its notes. IMO, not having this basic capability greatly distracts from the value of the tool The cool thing about Scrible is that it lives right in the browser and doesn't get in the way of your workflow. Mark up pages as you go and then save/tag/share the marked up versions in your library. Link to comment
pwarbeck 14 Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Highlighting is so important to me that I'll sometimes type my text in another html editor (with highlights), then paste into Evernote. Link to comment
lcw1971 0 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 The ability to highlight text is the only feature I really miss in Evernote. I'm an extremely critical consumer and EN is my favorite software, but I'm surprised that something so basic as highlighting is missing. Considering it's pervasiveness as a feature elsewhere (Chrome extensions, MSFT Office, Adobe & other PDF editors) it seems like a clear oversight.As a former Bloomberg Terminal user (financial markets software) I remember hearing stories about Michael Bloomberg resisting the adoption of drop-down menus. This was circa 2001 so drop-downs were already in widespread use. That's just funny to me. It's kind of like still complaining about touch screens on smartphones.Is there some technical hurdle or other reason that highlighting hasn't been added? Link to comment
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