emmjayess

"This is the thread that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends! Some people started it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue posting in it forever, just because..."

Thank you! This should prove handy until the Evernote team gets off their collective a**!!

Don't hold your breath...

Some good points, but, c'mon, man, adding Find & Replace can't be that hard....can it?! I mean, it's been part of word processors etc. for a long time. And it's so useful for a program like this, it would seem to be a no brainer.

Sounds like you have the inside dope on this--do tell. (If there's nothing to tell, don't worry, I'm sure you're still a cool dude/dudette.)

FWIW: I just had a short tech support chat with an EN rep and, after discussing my main problem, I asked about Find and Replace. He stated the following: "As for the 'Find and Replace' option in Evernote for Mac, our development team is currently working on that, though we do not have a date when it will become available. In the mean time you may use the Evernote for Windows app (open note and press Control+H) and, after syncing you will see the changes in Evernote for Mac as well." I'm not sure what he means by using the Windows app when I use a Mac, though. Anyway, "hurry up and wait," I guess....

No point in posting about Find & Replace here anymore, really. If they haven't responded by now....

Would you mind posting that request? I don't use Twitter. Thanks!

Thanks, simply a basic uninstall and reinstall seemed to do the trick. Now, back to work....wait...it's gettin' kinda late....dang.

Lots of problems here. Running latest version of Yosemite. Latest version of EN. EN downloaded from Mac app store. I am a premium user. The body of notes isn't displaying. Crashed a a few times. Generally slow. I've restarted EN and the Mac several times. EDIT: new issue. Now body of notes are showing except when I open them as their own window. This is getting very annoying. Interrupted my work and disrupted my "flow." EDIT #2: Now the separate notes are showing, but I cannot edit them. Would like to know how long this is all going to take, ya know?! EDIT #3: Due to fact I couldn't edit, I restarted EN. Now the notes are blank again. I'm guessing there will be an "EDIT #4".......

Here's another vote for FIND AND REPLACE TEXT in Evernote. I just now discovered it doesn't exist. Amazing.

I have posted in this thread in the past and complained, as well; however, I'm no longer having the problem. Something changed and fixed it. Not sure what happened, but you might try deleting the notes with Pages documents in them and trying again....but I really don't know what I did (or didn't do) to get the problem to disappear. Go figure.

Holy *****, I've never seen your "Three Laws of Data Protection"! Very cool! I'm not sure about the importing to other apps issue with HTML: sounds like it could be problematic--anyone else ever tried to do this with another app?! "Our philosophy is that if you’re confident that you can leave Evernote at any time, then you’ll be confident enough to want to stay." Exactly! That, and the other two laws have just strengthened my confidence in Evernote! A big relief, THANKS! (For anyone who hasn't seen those laws, check them out!) Once again, it's clear you guys are the best in your field!

This is incorrect. We have no interest in forcing people to stay on our platform against their will. There are many ways to export your notes. The easiest way is to select 'Export All Notes' from the file menu. If you're exporting with the intention of moving to another app, you'll probably want to export as HTML. OK, that looks promising and thank you for your quick response, Browncoat! However, I just tried an export and I have a few questions/concerns: 1) It looks like I can only export one note at a time. If true, it again makes it a real b*tch to switch platforms (I have over 3000 notes right now). 2) I'm not clear how exporting as an "HTML" file is helpful. Once exported, I click on it and it opens in my browser. Assuming I can export all my Evernote notes as HTML, what would I do then? 3) What about notes with .pdf, Word, and Pages files etc.? Am I correct in assuming I would have to copy and paste all of those individually? Thanks for your patience with this--I'm really trying to stick with Evernote as long as I can be assured I'm future-proofed in case, for example, you guys (god forbid!) go under or you're bought out by somebody like google and I have to escape the evildoers etc.! Thanks!

I can appreciate the fact that Evernote was not originally intended to be a file management utility. I can also appreciate that Apple somewhat suddenly changed their iWork file formats on everyone and that this is not Evernote's fault. However, I, and many others, have come to utilize Evernote as a way of organizing documents. I am heavily invested in Evernote for storing and organizing about 75% of my files--most of which, I might add, are Pages documents. In fact, I paid for the premium Evernote service specifically for this feature. I'm not quite ready to abandon Evernote over this (for one, I simply don't have the time to reorganize everything at the moment). However, it has been quite some time (more than 6 months) and there is still no indication of whether Evernote considers this a priority. Is there more you can tell us beyond these three short sentences? Is there a timetable for the fix? I realize that Evernote might not want to make a promise here that they can't keep, but can you at least give us a general idea of how long we should hold out? Less than 6 months? Less than 12 months? A year or more? I am with you on this. I use Evernote too much to just pack up and move somewhere else (where?), but I really miss this feature. I, too, paid for premium to have this feature. My understanding is that, even if we wanted to switch to another application, Evernote's notes are a proprietary format so, if you have lots of notes, one would have to copy and paste them all into the new app. If this is correct, we're stuck. Dear Evernote, I would like to request that you install an EXPORT feature that allows bulk exporting to standardized formats. I'm nearly ready to do this, but would actually stick around if you made it easy to leave. Why? Because it would demonstrate you are so confident we will love your features for years to come, you don't fear us leaving. Right now, based on stuff outlined in this thread and the fact I just discovered the proprietary nature of your notes, I'm wavering and reading up on your competition.