Popular Post eddyzzzzz 11 Posted August 8, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2012 .....last one (for now)When (for instance) summing up an action list i'd like the option to instantly create a new note from the selected text and the created note has the selected text as it's subjectEddyzz 10 Link to comment
2 Frank.dg 1,385 Posted October 17, 2014 Share Posted October 17, 2014 Its worth also pointing out that the manual workaround required at present... ie. select and copy the text, create the new note manually, paste the text as the new note title, copy the new note link, go back to the existing note, select the text again, paste the note link as hyperlink ... is all the more annoyingly slow at present because evernote needs to synchronise with the web server every single time, presumably because note links have become web-based. cheers,david Hey David, I set out on a (personal) mission to see how quickly and efficiently I could do what you've described above... learned some keyboard shortcuts in the process. Here's what I boiled it down to (on Windows desktop): Select text Ctrl-C-N-V (Copy, New note, Paste - Note title is created automatically) Copy new note link Return to original note & select original text Ctrl-K-V, Enter (Create hyperlink, Paste, Enter) So now I'm all dressed up and I've got nowhere to go, haha! Anyways, I throw in my lot here too. It would be nice to: Select text Right click New Note HyperlinkThe thought does come to mind, though... that even if we had this feature, we would still often need to create hyperlinks to existing notes manually. This feature would therefore be great - part of the time, at least. 2 Link to comment
2 antoinebugleboy 2 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Quote It would be nice to: Select text Right click New Note Hyperlink BUMP. I can't believe this request has languished for 6 years without a response. 1 Link to comment
2 terry92010 0 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 This seems like such a good idea - surprised another year has gone by with no action. Link to comment
2 Level 5* DTLow 5,743 Posted November 26, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted November 26, 2019 11 minutes ago, terry92010 said: This seems like such a good idea - surprised another year has gone by with no action. To indicate your support for this request, use the vote button at the top left corner of the discussion There are currently 2 votes Link to comment
1 Level 5* CalS 5,306 Posted January 6, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted January 6, 2016 Perhaps not optimal, but you can use something like PhaseExpress in Windows to take highlighted text (inside or outside of EN) and create a new note in EN, complete with tags. Once you get used to the PE syntax fairly easy on a one note at a time basis. (for example I created a hotkey that does a search in EN based upon whatever text I have highlighted) Not sure you can get the hyperlink back in the master note with this method, however. But if you have a tag for the project and precede your actions with something like !, then a tag:project tag:!* search will yield all of the tasks for the project. Workarounds for sure, FWIW. 1 Link to comment
1 Level 5* DTLow 5,743 Posted October 25, 2018 Level 5* Share Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, antoinebugleboy said: I can't believe this request has languished for 6 years without a response. I moved the discussion to the feature request forum. Users can indicate their support using the voting buttons in the upper left corner of the discussion. The post linked below seems to work well 1 Link to comment
0 Derekleez 6 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I second that!A bonus would be if the selected text turned into a link to the created note (created by the selected text that is).I'm new to this forum so please let me know if there's a better way to "vote" for a feature request that to say "I second that" like a goober. 3 Link to comment
0 heather 604 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 This is available already using pretty much any of our clipping tools.With Evernote for Windows/Mac installed, you can simply highlight your selected text then:If you're within a browser, right-click and Add Selected Text to Evernote. (And that links back to the original page you linked from).If you're not, Ctrl-C and then "Paste to Evernote" with the platform-specific shortcut (it's different for Mac/Windows, and user customizable.) 3 Link to comment
0 RogerThat 1 Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Thanks heather. This is almost what I'm after. I'd like Evernote to be able to replicate Zim desktop wiki. There, I can highlight a bit of text in Zim, and click a 'link' button on the taskbar. A new note is created, named as per the highlighted text, and the highlighted text becomes the link. This is really quick and easy for creating a tree of notes and index pagesHope it might be possible. Many thanksRoger 1 Link to comment
0 Derekleez 6 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Hi heather, Thanks for replying! The methods you mention are OK, but not what's desired here. The second method is closer, but requires you to first copy the text. Also, it doesn't create the link in the original note. Hopefully this request gets implemented in the future Thanks again for taking time. 3 Link to comment
0 happyatom 2 Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Another supporter for this feature. 1 Link to comment
0 paull 0 Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 +1(coming from Tomboy, it hurts a bit to realize that in evernote it requires so many clicks to create a new note from within a text...) Link to comment
0 jnelson522 1 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 There have been lots of improvements to Evernote, but this feature would still be useful. That is, from within EN desktop, the ability to create a new note from a selection within an existing note in one operation, rather than copying and pasting. 1 Link to comment
0 joelsephus 0 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Agreed. I just thought of this feature myself and found this thread by searching to see if others had already requested it. It seems like it wouldn't be too difficult a feature to create, and it would save me a LOT of time when I'm organizing my ideas and working with checklists. Link to comment
0 DonovanK 1 Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 Yes this is a feature I'm really missing from ZimWiki. To reiterate what others have said before, I'm looking to recreate this behavior: 1. Select a key phrase in an existing Note (say the name of a project you've been assigned).2. Click on a single "link" button and/or right-click > "Create & link to new Note"3. A new Note will be created whose Subject matches the selected text, the selected text will become a hyperlink linking to the new note. 1 Link to comment
0 cooperdavid 4 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 + another 1 I agree that this would be an excellent feature - I too came across this by searching to see if it had already been requested. I'm just getting into putting links all over the place in my notes and this would be a real time saver. And I definitely think the best implementation would be one in which the new note was automatically linked to the text that had been selected, and titled by default with that text. David 1 Link to comment
0 cooperdavid 4 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Its worth also pointing out that the manual workaround required at present... ie. select and copy the text, create the new note manually, paste the text as the new note title, copy the new note link, go back to the existing note, select the text again, paste the note link as hyperlink ... is all the more annoyingly slow at present because evernote needs to synchronise with the web server every single time, presumably because note links have become web-based. cheers,david 1 Link to comment
0 RobV 1 Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 +1 for me I use lists, sometimes those lists are just that, a list of text, but when I want more detail in my list it would be good to hyperlink that list item to a new or existing note. So, for me a solution cold look like (in evernote) select text, right click, link to note (list of notes appear at the top of the list New Note...)Clicking this would open a new note with the selected text as the title.ThanksRob 1 Link to comment
0 goruys 1 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 + 1 for this feature. It would be MUCH MUCH appreciated. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,118 Posted August 24, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted August 24, 2015 For those using a Mac, this could be done with a modest amount of effort using AppleScript or the new JavaScript for Automation (JXA) (if you have Yosemite+). Link to comment
0 Jeremy Hanke 1 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Another +1 for this request. I like to organize my work projects with a single Master Plan note that I keep in a Projects Notebook. As part of this, I have Tasks/Action Items. I keep my Tasks in an Action Pending Notebook and use Tags for time scheduling (Now, Next, Soon, etc). It would save a TON of time if I could type out a list of Action Items, highlight each one separately, and directly create a new Note in my Actions Pending Notebook from that, and have it automatically change this to a hyperlink in the Master Plan note. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* JMichaelTX 4,118 Posted January 6, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted January 6, 2016 3 hours ago, Jeremy Hanke said: I like to organize my work projects with a single Master Plan note that I keep in a Projects Notebook. As part of this, I have Tasks/Action Items. I keep my Tasks in an Action Pending Notebook and use Tags for time scheduling Jeremy, as you have found managing projects & tasks with Evernote alone can be a challenge. You might take a look at IQTell. It does everything you are asking for, and much more. It is a great, inexpensive, Project/Task manager that tightly integrates with Evernote. Link to comment
0 joelsephus 0 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 5 hours ago, Jeremy Hanke said: Another +1 for this request. I like to organize my work projects with a single Master Plan note that I keep in a Projects Notebook. As part of this, I have Tasks/Action Items. I keep my Tasks in an Action Pending Notebook and use Tags for time scheduling (Now, Next, Soon, etc). It would save a TON of time if I could type out a list of Action Items, highlight each one separately, and directly create a new Note in my Actions Pending Notebook from that, and have it automatically change this to a hyperlink in the Master Plan note. Jeremy, This is exactly the type of thing I'd like it use it for as well. It seems like it should be a fairly easy function for them to add to the right-click menu, and like you said, it would save a ton of time. I'd really rather not have to use another application just to have this function available. Link to comment
0 John Jablonski 36 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Hyperlinking: Creating a new note based on some selected text and create a link to it in it's place. This set of mostly keyboard shortcuts works for me on Windows App V10.9.10 Thanks to Frank.dg above for most of this. Select text Ctrl-C-N (Copy Highlighted Text, Create New note, Cursor in body of New note) [Up Arrow] (Move to Title), Ctrl-V (Paste - Note Title is Pasted in) - (I seem to recall an option to begin editing in the Title of a New note. Classic version, I think.) Copy new (internal) note link Ctrl+Alt-L Return to original note Alt-[Back Arrow] Select original text Ctrl-V (Paste - Replacing text with Hyperlink) I would love for this to be a one keyboard shortcut thing! It seems like an obvious operation to automate for anyone who's worked with a wiki. -- John 2 Link to comment
0 Minchy 0 Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 In Microsoft OneNote all you have to do is put square brackets at the beginning & end of any text and as soon as youve typed the last bracket [ ] youve instantly got a new note with the title of whatever was between the brackets & the hyperlink automatically put to the original word that you put the [ ] around. So So good Link to comment
0 Evernote Expert agsteele 3,055 Posted September 2, 2022 Evernote Expert Share Posted September 2, 2022 You've added a request to a thread that, with one exception, pre-existed the current version of Evernote. So it has been long requested but nothing has appeared. I suspect that this is one of the nice to have things that hasn't, and probably isn't going to, get to the top of the to do list for sometime. But please put your case to the Evernote developers via a support ticket on the in app Feedback option to be sure your request gets attention. Link to comment
0 dscott 0 Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 On 3/17/2021 at 9:55 PM, John Jablonski said: Hyperlinking: Creating a new note based on some selected text and create a link to it in it's place. This set of mostly keyboard shortcuts works for me on Windows App V10.9.10 Thanks to Frank.dg above for most of this. Select text Ctrl-C-N (Copy Highlighted Text, Create New note, Cursor in body of New note) [Up Arrow] (Move to Title), Ctrl-V (Paste - Note Title is Pasted in) - (I seem to recall an option to begin editing in the Title of a New note. Classic version, I think.) Copy new (internal) note link Ctrl+Alt-L Return to original note Alt-[Back Arrow] Select original text Ctrl-V (Paste - Replacing text with Hyperlink) I would love for this to be a one keyboard shortcut thing! It seems like an obvious operation to automate for anyone who's worked with a wiki. -- John Anyone give us the Mac desktop equivalent? Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,695 Posted October 1, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted October 1, 2022 This quote and nearly all of the thread is related to the legacy client - just watch at the date stamp of the quote. Legacy will not be touched any more, it is deprecated. To ask for such a function for v10, better start a new thread, because everything discussed here will at least be partially misleading when a new forum user reads through all the posts starting in 2012. Technically this was a completely different software, even if it was released by the same company, back then. Link to comment
0 Mike P 2,946 Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 In v10 the global (works even when you do not have the focus on EN) keyboard shortcut alt+ctrl+V seems to be very close to what you want. Link to comment
0 Nauman 0 Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 I would like to add my vote to making this feature available. Obsidian, OneNote, both have it. Is there a reason it's hard to make this feature available in evernote? Link to comment
0 Biartr 0 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 One would hope that these type of basic productivity features which are available in competing products would get some more attention going forward. It should not be all that complicated to "create note from selected text". What is complicated is to get something with priority in the development queue. Link to comment
0 Level 5 PinkElephant 8,695 Posted January 29 Level 5 Share Posted January 29 How much productivity is gained from avoiding ctrl/cmd-C to alt-ctrl/cmd-V ? Or didn’t you do the most basic action of reading first through the thread ? Link to comment
0 Biartr 0 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 11 hours ago, PinkElephant said: How much productivity is gained from avoiding ctrl/cmd-C to alt-ctrl/cmd-V ? Or didn’t you do the most basic action of reading first through the thread ? The aggression in your answers is astonishing. As far as I experience, the ctrl/cmd-C to alt-ctrl/cmd-V does not transform the selected text into a link to the newly created note, which is where the gain would be. Now If I missed this functionality by reading through this, I apologize. It would be kind of you to point me to the right post. Link to comment
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eddyzzzzz 11
.....last one (for now)
When (for instance) summing up an action list i'd like the option to instantly create a new note from the selected text and the created note has the selected text as it's subject
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