Dave Land

Well, I'm out. Too many bugs and long waits for basic features like this one. I'm migrating to Notion, and have downgraded to a Basic plan on Evernote. I was a real fan, too.

On 11/29/2018 at 4:34 PM, Kruger2147 said:

@jyl Maybe let Ian be CEO for more than 5 minutes before calling for his head on a pike?

Or maybe not.

He's the CEO. The top dog. The ONE person who is required to be responsible for everything Evernote.

Instead of "rebranding" the company or turning it into something that nobody who pays for it and uses it wants it to be (An advertising platform? A social media channel? A lead-generation toolkit? Whatever else an investor demands?), maybe they could do the thing that people have been asking for for years and years, which every other similar product has always done?

I don't think the CEO needs your protection. He's a big boy. He can handle himself.

Or he can't. In which case, where's my pike?

There are thousands of reasons that people might use colored text highlighting. Maybe millions. Maybe a different reason for each user.

Here's an article from Fast Company that explains "How Color Coded Notes Make You a More Efficient Thinker."

Here's another reason, and I think it's compelling:

• People who have been asking for this for half a decade have concluded that you're not listening to them, so they've moved on to other platforms.

And after waiting five years, we get homework assignments from you: "Prove to us that you need it badly enough." Oy, vey!

Instead of "Refreshing the Evernote Brand," whatever that means, why not give your loyal users the features that have been asking for?

On 3/29/2018 at 1:51 PM, Tsiry said:

Do we have an update for more colors in Highlighting please? As an Evernote Premium user, we hope an improvement would be soon on this.

This is very basic, so please since 2015, how many years do we still need to wait?

1) Update, from Twitter on Sunday, attached as an image below.
2) How many years do we have to wait? More. More years.

16 hours ago, DTLow said:

As a work-around, users have the option of switching out to a dedicated word processing app and adding the document as an attachment    to the note

I find the Evernote editor adequate for simple notes, but for serious work I switch to dedicated editor apps

I've done that, but I have also been known to edit the ENML directly, using the amazing Evernote HTML Editor greasemonkey script from https://andrealazzarotto.com/2015/03/30/modificare-lhtml-delle-note-in-evernote-web/. It's not especially convenient to be forced to use a completely different editor because Evernote can't be arsed to improve theirs. I'd much prefer to right-click and choose the list style type. Even WYSIWYG web editors (notably CKEditor) support this.

Thanks for moving it to the General forum.
I would vote for it, but I wrote it, so the forum won't let me :-).

I know that Evernote is neither a word processor nor a Web development tool, but it is based on a variant of HTML (ENML), and I know that by editing the ENML, it is possible to create ordered lists that look like this:

Please make this possible in Evernote on Mac. And Windows, while you're at it: my Windows-loving friends deserve love, too.

Thanks

PS: I will not be holding my breath for this feature. If I did, I would have been dead many years ago waiting for highlighting in different colors then yellow.

13 minutes ago, DTLow said:

1. Thank you for reminding me that that feature is there.
   In all the time I've been using Evernote, I never saw it. Thanks!
   (I expected to see it in the sidebar, so I wasn't looking in the right place!)
2. I'm grateful that Evernote lets you show it in some notebooks, not others.
   Nice user experience touch on their part.
3. “My Reminder Section is full of .......reminders”
   Cool for you! Mine isn't. Not everyone wants the same thing or works the same way.
4. “I'm not a fan of "pinning"”
   Awesome! I am, as it turns out. It would be nice to not have to "spend" reminders to get this one feature.
5. You evidently sort by title.
   Great! I sort by most-recently-updated, and use prefixes for other things. To each his own!

2 minutes ago, DTLow said:

Adding a reminder to a note ensures the note is listed in the Reminder Section at the top of the note list

… on the Mac version …

There is no "Reminder Section," as far as I can tell, on the Mac version of Evernote, but if you know how to reveal it (and your GURU status suggests that you do), bring it on!

Thanks in advance.

Adding a reminder to a note does NOTHING on the Mac version, which is stuck in 2013 or so.

Please add pinned notes.

Here we are, three years after the initial request, trying various hacks for what should be a relatively simple feature.

I'm on a Mac, so no amount of futzing around with Reminders is going to do me any good, as the Mac Version is several YEARS behind the Windows version.

Please add pinned notes.

+1 Want this to highlight code separately from general "highlighting".

Recognizing that this is an old, old thread, I'd like to add my voice to those who would like to have this feature.

Two workarounds:

1. The editor on evernote.com is not so picky about URL schemes. Editing your note online (then syncing back to the native app) may satisfy those of us who really need oddball URLs.
2. You can edit the raw ENML (a variant of HTML, it appears) by opening your note in http://enml-editor.ping13.net and adding the link by hand:
   
   <a href="nonstandard://foo.bar">The linked text</a>
   
   Note: Although the editor above seems to have some validation built-in that tries to prevent you from submitting badly-formed ENML, be aware that you do run the risk of killing a note by "going behind Evernote's back."

Hope this helps.

@cybrhippy: Here's another workaround, which may address your need to find-and-replace across multiple files:

http://www.wikihow.com/Edit-the-HTML-of-Evernote-Notes-on-a-Mac

I tested it (edited a file at /Users/<me_on_mac>/Library/Application Support/Evernote/Accounts/<me_on_evernote>/content/p<numbers>/content.html after quitting out of Evernote) and it worked.

If you use something like BBEdit (or any other app that allows you to search-and-replace across multiple files in nested folders), you should be able to make the global changes you need.

But wow: that's heading deep into http://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/?platform=mac (search for alternatives to Evernote on Mac) territory.

Two work-arounds are documented here: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/52260-mac-find-and-replace/?p=270062

Still, it's 2014: the time for applications without search-and-replace was over before there even was a Macintosh.