vsmith1 2 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I love Evernote and it is replacing my use of SOHO Notes. But one of the features of SOHO Notes that appeared only in a latter version that was very very useful was the ability to have a text ruler - to define the tab positions.Unlike others I'm not asking for full word processing editing and layout but a text ruler with positioning for tabs would help me with the simple textual layout on my notes. Link to comment
Kimheami 0 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I would love this feature also. I love Microsoft onenote and am trying to find a replacement and have been using growly notes, but really like the fact that evernote is on a cloud. But growlynote has a text ruler for raving which evernote does not have. Link to comment
wilmat13 0 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 I agree. I would also like to have rulers. In fact, a full word-processing layout would be nice to, where the text wraps when it reaches the end of a "page" and not just the end of the window, which can be deceptive if you're trying to determine how much or how little you've written. Link to comment
peterfmartin 221 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 A lot of us would like much more word-processing capability, but unfortunately (for us), it's probably not coming. Evernote may add a feature here and there (for instance, the word count in the new Mac beta), but the company has made clear that it's not interested in adding a lot of the requested features that define a word processor. Link to comment
imflowers 1 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is very strange that Evernote is not interested in attracting the writing community. I mean, the app would be THE THING during NaNoWrimo month (with more than a million participants) and could make a lot of gold ^.^ if they included some basic editing / formatting capabilities. I personally tried writing in Evernote and it worked fine until I needed to start editing / formatting. I mean, they already have the base - they could build up on it anything they want. IMO Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,146 Posted February 29, 2012 Level 5 Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is very strange that Evernote is not interested in attracting the writing community. I mean, the app would be THE THING during NaNoWrimo month (with more than a million participants) and could make a lot of gold ^.^ if they included some basic editing / formatting capabilities. I personally tried writing in Evernote and it worked fine until I needed to start editing / formatting. I mean, they already have the base - they could build up on it anything they want. IMOIt is not strange at all.It is a simple matter of assigning priorities based on the 20+ million Evernote users.Different users have different needs and Evernote has a finite number of coders.Writers want a rulerGTD users want a Due DatePhotographers want photo editingBusiness users want more collaborationSpreadsheet users want more table editingMac users want same functions as Windows usersMobile users want same functions as client usersLinux users want Linux capability. Link to comment
WilliamK 0 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 @jbenson2,I'm surprised they do not have a method of allowing users to add Feature Requests and then Vote on which ones get implemented. The more votes the faster it gets implemented. That would let them know how many people want a certain feature. I believe this can be done via Jira's Bug System (Could be wrong on that). Link to comment
imflowers 1 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is very strange that Evernote is not interested in attracting the writing community. I mean, the app would be THE THING during NaNoWrimo month (with more than a million participants) and could make a lot of gold ^.^ if they included some basic editing / formatting capabilities. I personally tried writing in Evernote and it worked fine until I needed to start editing / formatting. I mean, they already have the base - they could build up on it anything they want. IMOIt is not strange at all.It is a simple matter of assigning priorities based on the 20+ million Evernote users.Different users have different needs and Evernote has a finite number of coders.Writers want a rulerGTD users want a Due DatePhotographers want photo editingBusiness users want more collaborationSpreadsheet users want more table editingMac users want same functions as Windows usersMobile users want same functions as client usersLinux users want Linux capability.Apparently, there is no app for that. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,146 Posted February 29, 2012 Level 5 Share Posted February 29, 2012 @jbenson2,I'm surprised they do not have a method of allowing users to add Feature Requests and then Vote on which ones get implemented. The more votes the faster it gets implemented. That would let them know how many people want a certain feature. I believe this can be done via Jira's Bug System (Could be wrong on that).Evernote has addressed the problems associated with a voting system.Digg ran into a similar problem with their voting system.Famous quote from Henry Ford: If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse".As can be seen in countless examples, Evernote does listen to their customers and have implemented many improvements from user feedback. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted February 29, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted February 29, 2012 I'm surprised they do not have a method of allowing users to add Feature Requests and then Vote on which ones get implemented. The more votes the faster it gets implemented. That would let them know how many people want a certain feature. I believe this can be done via Jira's Bug System (Could be wrong on that).Evernote's position on this sort of facility has been staked out pretty firmly in the forums; search for 'Uservoice' to see relevant discussions.Famous quote from Henry Ford: If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse".Post of the day -- I hadn't heard that quote before. Link to comment
WilliamK 0 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 @jbenson2,Fair enough, I wasn't pointing fingers, just musing is all. I know they add tons of features and heavens I was certainly not dogging their wonderful service. I have been a convert for about 2 months now and I swear i couldn't survive without EverNote. Wondering where it's been all my life. Link to comment
gbarry 2,657 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is very strange that Evernote is not interested in attracting the writing community. I mean, the app would be THE THING during NaNoWrimo month (with more than a million participants) and could make a lot of gold ^.^ if they included some basic editing / formatting capabilities. I personally tried writing in Evernote and it worked fine until I needed to start editing / formatting. I mean, they already have the base - they could build up on it anything they want. IMO I think our Open API is part of the answer to this question. We're always working on our core products--with the ecosystem of apps built around it used for more specific usecases. I don't think we have anything like this in a Trunk yet, but there's always the possibility some enterprising developer will realize the writing community is a good set of users that could use a strong app with a strong connection to Evernote. Also, I love NaNoWriMo. We had a section set up here for when it was going on. Will do the same next year Link to comment
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