Would an Evernote forum mobile app be overkill?

[Frank.dg 1,385]

I'd love to see an Evernote FORUM [edited] mobile app... for iOS, Android, whatever. That would be super convenient. Any thoughts on that from other forum users?

[Sugeeth Krish 476]

Maybe.. i misunderstood what you tried to say.. but evernote mobile apps exist for all platforms.. right? 

[Wordsgood 526]

Yes they do exist! I'm typing this from my Android phone.

[Frank.dg 1,385]

I don't find anything in the Apple store. I'm not talking about a web app. I'm talking about a full on app that I can receive push notifications for... Badge App Icon, sounds, lock screen and Notification Center Alerts etc... not that all of these features are necessary. An email alert does the trick... but I'm talking about an app itself that I can download. If there is one in the app store, I'm just not seeing it. If not, it's the difference between accessing Facebook via a browser on iOS vs accessing Facebook via an app. I have access to the forum on all of my devices via web... but I have a feeling that an actual app could be kind of nice. More convenient :-) 

[Frank.dg 1,385]

I'd love to see an Evernote mobile app... for iOS, Android, whatever. That would be super convenient. Any thoughts on that from other forum users?

 

Sorry... I forgot the Key word here. I'm not that smart. I meant to ask (and include as a title for this post) about an "Evernote FORUM [edited] mobile app". Haha, I'm wanting to kick the idea around of having a mobile app for accessing the forum, instead of following an email link to the forum via the Safari browser. Sorry for the confusion!

[Bill Myers 496]

Evernote does have a "full on app" for both iOS and Android:

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote&hl=en

[tavor 668]

A forum app would be nice. 

[Bill Myers 496]

You added your clarification just about five seconds before I replied. I don't believe there is an Evernote forum app for any mobile device. 

[Frank.dg 1,385]

My apologies Bill, Panzerkampfwagen and Wordsgood. The topic title and my 1st (and 2nd) post do not hint at all about a FORUM app. I dropped the ball there.

[Metrodon 2,188]

Tapatalk might work. In the past it has and it hasn't.

[Wordsgood 526]

No worries. We all make mistakes!

[Bill Myers 496]

My apologies Bill, Panzerkampfwagen and Wordsgood. The topic title and my 1st (and 2nd) post do not hint at all about a FORUM app. I dropped the ball there.

 

No apologies necessary.

[John in Michigan USA 140]

Possible solutions:

1. The forum content could be distilled into shared notebooks such as those done by spgscott at
   
   https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/42324-my-new-shared-notebook-and-updated-enreged/
   
   or more directly:
   
   https://www.evernote.com/pub/spgscott/evernote5help
    
2. Maybe someone smarter than me could automate the process of converting a topic into an EN note or notebook?
    
3. In Chrome for Android on Nexus 7 (7 inch screen) set to "old man mode" (large fonts, etc) this forum displays reasonably well.  Most browsers have a feature (or add-on) that will save offline copies of URLs or even whole sites, and keep them synced.

 

 

[gbarry 2,659]

Hmmm, there used to be a native IOS app from our forum vendors, Invision Power Board. It looks like it's gone now--it used to be under "IPB Mobile". I wonder if they had to remove it ahead of their Version 4.0 launch.

 

We disabled Tapatalk awhile ago because the plugin encouraged users to purchase Tapatalk, and there was no way to disable the ad while maintaining the functionality. So we yanked it.

 

Better mobile functionality for this space (and seamless connectivity from our apps to this space) is on the to do list.

[Frank.dg 1,385]

Better mobile functionality for this space (and seamless connectivity from our apps to this space) is on the to do list.

 

Nice to know... even though it is not an essential. 

Cheers!

[gbarry 2,659]

FWIW, it's my view that it is essential, and that right now we're delivering a relatively poor experience for lack of really strong mobile options for working in the forum. This isn't an easy thing to fix without significant investment, but it's something that we're exploring options for.

[tavor 668]

FWIW, it's my view that it is essential, and that right now we're delivering a relatively poor experience for lack of really strong mobile options for working in the forum. This isn't an easy thing to fix without significant investment, but it's something that we're exploring options for.

I don't see why significant investment is necessary. Thousands of forums use Tapatalk. And if this forum is technically capable of using Tapatalk (some forum designs are simply incompatible), that seems like the easy option.

 

 

We disabled Tapatalk awhile ago because the plugin encouraged users to purchase Tapatalk, and there was no way to disable the ad while maintaining the functionality. So we yanked it.

An ad to purchase Tapatalk is the reason EN abandoned the tool that thousands of forums use for mobile access? How many of us use google, gmail, yahoo mail, not to mention tens of thousands of mobile apps, etc.? Lots of free services are advertising funded and many users have no issue with that.

 

Why not put it up to a vote by the users?

 

Or at least re-enable Tapatalk while EN finds a more suitable replacement? Users who have a problem with the ad won't use Tapatalk (and will be no worse off than they are now), while users who don't mind ignoring the ad get to use what you are describing as an essential feature. It's a Pareto optimal solution until EN develops their ideal solution.