(Archived) Feature request: Citations/endnotes

[AK7 9]

Hello,

 

Evernote Premium user / in conjunction with The Secret Weapon system here.

 

I'm currently writing a book and I think it would be really convenient to use Evernote to write it. Not only does it have most of Scrivener's features, but it also has other useful things like syncing, tags, and integration with the rest of the information, accumulated research, and tasks that I keep on it.

 

Now if only there was some way to easily insert endnotes, then I would simply create a note for each chapter and get going without any further hesitations. But all too regrettably that is not possible, at least as of now.

 

Are there any plans to add this functionality? I see that there have been some requests on this subject from 2012 - did they end up going anywhere?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

PS. The option I'm settling on now is to create a note for each chapter in a project specific notebook, and attach a Word document to each of those notes that will contain the actual chapter. Notes on, plans for, and images/graphs for each chapter will also be contained in that note. When its finished, I will simply combine all those Word documents into one and publish. Does this sound like a good plan? Has anyone written a book using Word embeds within Evernote?

 

PPS. I do have a Scrivener license, but I have yet to really get into the groove of it. And I have to start writing this book sooner rather than later. I don't wish to do it with software that I neither understand very well nor enjoy using very much.

[gazumped 11,664]

Hi. Several forum posts mention Scrivener and the possibility of using Evernote as an authoring tool.  Evernote have never commented on the discussions,  but the general theme has been that if you need a specialised writing tool,  Evernote isn't it.  Their general plan seems to be to add only features and tools which the majority of users will find useful.  You've gone as far as possible in using existing features by attaching the Word files - and as I'm sure you already know Word has quite a few authoring features including footnotes and references.  I'd be surprised if endnotes - or something you could adapt for that purpose - weren't in there somewhere..

 

I've 'used' Evernote to write long reports and most recently a complete commercial Knowledgebase - by doing the research,  planning,  writing and documenting in Mindjet and Word,  and attaching the files to notes.  It works for me..

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

Hello,

Evernote Premium user / in conjunction with The Secret Weapon system here.

I'm currently writing a book and I think it would be really convenient to use Evernote to write it. Not only does it have most of Scrivener's features, but it also has other useful things like syncing, tags, and integration with the rest of the information, accumulated research, and tasks that I keep on it.

Now if only there was some way to easily insert endnotes, then I would simply create a note for each chapter and get going without any further hesitations. But all too regrettably that is not possible, at least as of now.

Are there any plans to add this functionality? I see that there have been some requests on this subject from 2012 - did they end up going anywhere?

Thanks in advance.

PS. The option I'm settling on now is to create a note for each chapter in a project specific notebook, and attach a Word document to each of those notes that will contain the actual chapter. Notes on, plans for, and images/graphs for each chapter will also be contained in that note. When its finished, I will simply combine all those Word documents into one and publish. Does this sound like a good plan? Has anyone written a book using Word embeds within Evernote?

PPS. I do have a Scrivener license, but I have yet to really get into the groove of it. And I have to start writing this book sooner rather than later. I don't wish to do it with software that I neither understand very well nor enjoy using very much.

If your book is going to take a few weeks or months to write, I think you can spare five minutes for Scrivener It's written for writers, so it's going to be a much better tool, in my opinion. Evernote is a great app, and I know you can use it for writing -- I've tried it myself with limited success -- but I think there is a lot more than just footnote/citation support needed to make it a writing platform. Perhaps, if you were using LaTex, it might work, but even then, I doubt it is ideal. That said, people do it!

http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/04/23/how-a-columnist-and-author-used-evernote-to-write-his-latest-novel/

http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2012/11/20/how-tim-ferriss-used-evernote-to-write-his-new-book-the-4-hour-chef/

By the way, Scrivener can handle syncing, tags, accumulated research, etc. For example, I wrote quite a bit of my dissertation using a combination of Scrivener on the Mac syncing files in a Dropbox folder with Elements (and later Notesy) on the iPad. It handles it flawlessly. As for footnotes, if you want them, put them inline using double curly brackets {{ }} to enclose the content. Scrivener will generate the footnotes for you. It'll also easily compile different chapters, easily move writing blocks around as needed, etc.

Scrivener is great for writing projects, but lousy for all kinds of other things it isn't designed to do: web clippings, multimedia, sharing, research unrelated to specific projects, use on Android, etc. Evernote does these things better than Scrivener. I'd recommend using the best tool for the task.