(Archived) Enhancement Request-Export Needs More Depth

[Rigel2020 0]

I use Evernote to write my scripts, my books and generally track several creative writing projects at a time. Most of the time when it's time to send the script to an actor he needs to see it in MS word or some other format. I request the export do this:

Save to .doc

Save to .txt

Save to .html

Save all to .doc

Save all to .txt

Save all to .html

otherwise it's a horrible experience. Currently the HTML Export makes it a folder instead of my being able to save each note as single HTML files in a single folder. The fact that you don't support txt or .doc means you don't understand you are an MS Word Substitute but the rest of the world communicates VIA word so to read our evernotes you have to give us a way to share/export those with the rest of the world.

What I also don't like is you make me do the export one note at a time, I want to export them all in one single dump (but when I tried to email it said it was too large) so your email functionality should be changed to do a single email round robin push of each note to my email, (this may seem crappy but it's a workaround for my not being able to bulk dump these notes to email).

Overall, I think your firm is doing great, but you don't fully understand your users , why they use this (for the convenience of cloud storage) or that your users often want these notes back in a form that usable by the rest of the world.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,320]

I use Evernote to write my scripts, my books and generally track several creative writing projects at a time. Most of the time when it's time to send the script to an actor he needs to see it in MS word or some other format. I request the export do this:

Save to .doc

Save to .txt

Save to .html

Save all to .doc

Save all to .txt

Save all to .html

otherwise it's a horrible experience. Currently the HTML Export makes it a folder instead of my being able to save each note as single HTML files in a single folder. The fact that you don't support txt or .doc means you don't understand you are an MS Word Substitute but the rest of the world communicates VIA word so to read our evernotes you have to give us a way to share/export those with the rest of the world.

What I also don't like is you make me do the export one note at a time, I want to export them all in one single dump (but when I tried to email it said it was too large) so your email functionality should be changed to do a single email round robin push of each note to my email, (this may seem crappy but it's a workaround for my not being able to bulk dump these notes to email).

Overall, I think your firm is doing great, but you don't fully understand your users , why they use this (for the convenience of cloud storage) or that your users often want these notes back in a form that usable by the rest of the world.

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

I cannot explain why Evernote has the export features that it does, but I can guess.

(1) The Evernote database is based on xhtml, so it can easily export as the Evernote fork of this (enml) or as a regular web page (html), but Word would require a change to the notes themselves, and involves all sorts of complications (do we want .doc or .docx?).

(2) HTML is pretty much universal (it is really just text with some markup), and easily convertible to .txt or even Word. It's an extra step, but even with a bunch of notes, only takes a few seconds. Word is not universal.

As for exporting multiple notes, I export my entire database a couple of times a month. It is easily done on the Mac, for example. Just select all of your notes and choose the export feature.

[jefito 5,598]

The fact that you don't support txt or .doc means you don't understand you are an MS Word Substitute but the rest of the world communicates VIA word so to read our evernotes you have to give us a way to share/export those with the rest of the world.

I don't understand Evernote as an MS Word substitute.

It doesn't act like an MS Word substitute.

Evernote doesn't advertise themselves as an MS Word substitute.

I wonder where you got this curious idea that Evernote is an MS Word substitute...

Funny, I thought that the world communicates via email, and the Web.

Overall, I think your firm is doing great, but you don't fully understand your users , why they use this (for the convenience of cloud storage) or that your users often want these notes back in a form that usable by the rest of the world.

I think that Evernote wants you to use Evernote to access their notes. Yes, you can use Export to push them out in HTML format, for purposes of portable backup, but it's not much in Evernote's interest to promote widespread note copying to other format, particularly when the level of effort needed to get into the Evernote ecosystem is low -- it's free, after all.