DanielZhou

I work in a large tech corp, and I know that seemingly simple things like the Markdown support not getting prioritized or even communicated back to the community implies that management / leadership has some issues. It's not a tech problem. I paid for premium last year to support them and thought that they needed some time to figure out how to execute effectively and get things done. But one year later it's just the same thing. Since then I have migrated to Obsidian with Dropbox to sync and it works perfectly for my use case (thanks to another user in this thread who suggested it). The only missing part is Skitch integration which I still use with Evernote. But sooner or later Obsidian will have a plugin to replace it. It's a little sad for me to have to migrate since I've been using Evernote for 10+ years and it's a "one-way door" decision. But I can't risk saving my notes with a company that I have lost trust to believe that they'll still be around in a few years. I don't have much trust with Obsidian either since it's maintained by a very small team, but the nice thing is that everything is saved in plain text (marked down format) on Dropbox and even if they go out of business my notes are still safe.

Agreed. Anyone who even bothers sign up on this site and leave a comment really wants to help make EN better because at different stages of our lives we loved EN. To me, the thing with Markdown support is not just about this feature, but that EN gives no feedback to the community and it seems they don't care to listen to their customers given that this has been consistently voted in the Top5 most wanted features over the years. I don't see how a product can improve like this. I was a paid EN customer last year. I stopped my paid plan and I'm creating all my new notes in Obsidian and slowly migrating my existing notes to it too. It's sad because I wanted to use EN but I jsut have no confidence that it'll keep getting better to meet my needs.

I'm a paid Evernote user and I'll be trying supernotes.app today and consider migrate over if it works well.

I really wanted Markdown support. But plain text could work too. Without it I just cannot convince myself to invest into EN.

Here's a simple idea: Similar to "Insert Table" or "Insert Code Block", just give us a "Insert Markdown Block". We can then just write down whatever in the Markdown Block without affecting other part of the note. This seems a simple thing to implement, since it's not coupled with other part of the system. Can EN just deliver this simple feature that's been requested by so many users for so many years?

The cartoon above is funny, but doesn't make sense to me. Do you suggest that we as users should pay Evernote now to support the development for Markdown in future? I could consider, say, pay for a Kickstarter-like project that directly go to Markdown development and then get premium when it's delivered or get my money back if it doesn't happen. But I'm not going to pay for an incomplete product (to me and many other users markdown is a must-have) that doesn't meet my basic needs.

I really liked the new redesign. Markdown support is the only thing missing. I'd happily upgrade to a paid user again once this feature is in.