Dave-in-Decatur

On 3/1/2017 at 8:30 PM, Australian with a Note 5 said:

I know evernote has it's market difference,  but basically to my workflow, it's totally unusable without being able to sketch and write notes with the S-Pen in the body.

The issue is in the Chrome-based editor that Evernote introduced last year. See these posts:

It's a real pain, and I hope that as they improve the editor they will bring this back. Be aware that the S-Pen does work in the non-Chrome quick note creator in the Notification pull-down; and that the Samsung keyboard has its own built-in handwriting-to-text feature which you can use in EN, as in this post:

@meirjean, this very serious topic is being discussed in this thread:

I haven't used the business card scanning feature very much, but what I find is that (a) it is not possible to add any text except in a text field that is already present (e.g., Name, Email, etc.); but (b) in those text fields, I can add and delete text as I wish. Some cards that I've scanned previously have a Notes field, and in such a field I can write whatever I want. (I can't remember if I added that field manually when scanning the card, or whether it was created for me.) Even without a Notes field, it is possible to type at length into an existing field (e.g., Name, Title, Company). So it's not that the business card notes can't be edited at all; but it is definitely impossible to do free-form editing, because they are not free-form notes in the first place. Again, this is based on limited experience and testing.

@kfreels, I strongly suspect that the feature was not removed just to remove it, but disappeared when they changed to a new, Chrome-based editor. (That's right, ultimately it is Google's fault, just like every thing else , except for what's Microsoft's fault. ) They're currently working on improving the editor, but of course I don't know whether re-including this is part of that process.

Please see the note right above yours. It is a little crazy. It is not necessarily Evernote's fault. It would be good to be able to remove links; but if it's an OS issue, it may not be possible. I find that if I select something (even a space) just before or after the number, I can expand the selection to get the number.

It's always hard--impossible really--to know why a feature is removed, especially such a handy one. They redid the Android editor; conceivably, I suppose, the new version couldn't handle this. Be sure to click the up-arrow at the top of this page to vote up the request.

@Carl-L-ND, that's a great use case for these features. Did you click the up-arrow at the top of this page to vote it up? WRT the horizontal line, see this request (and vote it up too):

Well, this is beyond my knowledge at this point. I hope that someone else here who is more knowledgeable may have an idea.

That looks like a message that the browser displays. What happens if you click on "View Certificate"? It might give you an option to accept the Website (presumably Evernote) permanently, despite what the browser perceives as a security certificate issue. That should prevent the alerts from popping up in the future.

4 hours ago, LeoB said:

Can't find an up arrow, or I would!

Look for this:

Yours may be all black; I think it turns green when you vote for it.

I agree that Recent Notebooks ought to be an option in settings--especially since it never actually seems to show the most recently used notebooks. Those who want this feature should please click the up arrow at the top of the page to vote in support of it.

I think it's an OS issue. I see it, for instance, in the stock e-mail app and in a calendar app, as well as in Evernote.

I use Cronofy, but that will only sync the one-and-only Evernote reminder to your online calendar. At present, Evernote isn't really set up to do what you want to do, @hawkdrver. It might be best to try using Google Calendar, or Outlook, or whatever your usual calendar is, to set up the reminders. Then what you can do is copy the note's link (Note menu, then Copy Note Link) and paste this into the comment or note section of a calendar item. Clicking that should open the relevant note in Evernote. (In Windows, if you hold down Ctrl while clicking Copy Note Link, you'll get a link that will go directly to the Evernote program, without opening the Evernote Website first.) That way you do get a reminder, which you can specify for repeats, etc., that leads you to the Evernote note.

Well put, @B-Seitz! "Immediate babysitting" is exactly my experience too. If you haven't yet, be sure to click the up-arrow at the top of this page to add your vote for this feature. Welcome to the forums!

Definitely a needed feature. I voted it up.

Absolutely no need for this little bit of aggravation.

Brilliant! Just the sort of thing I was hoping for. So I clipped your post, did a bit of formatting, and it is in an Evernote notebook waiting to remind me how to do this in the future. As a test, I e-mailed that note to noheaders@pdfconvert.me, and it worked as advertised. Thanks for finding this!

10 hours ago, jefito said:

Except, except, except. Except that we don't know if the person I replied to had that problem or not. The feature design is that you can send note content, as opposed to just a URL, via email. It appeared that they didn't know about that, and not surprisingly so, since it's not in an obvious location. Let's solve the user's immediate problem first, and if the bug manifests itself, then that's a bug for Evernote to address. If it doesn't, then that's job done here.

Well, true, I was perhaps solving a problem that did not yet exist.  Sharing static notes by e-mail would in fact not be a bad substitute for sharing as PDF, assuming the recipient can get the e-mail. What would be really great would be if there were a service you could e-mail a note or other document to, and they would e-mail you back a PDF! I looked around, but didn't find one.

5 hours ago, jefito said:

No. You can share a static copy of a via email as well, though it's not accessible via the standard Share button. It's under "More Sharing" under the standard note menu.

Except that for many e-mail addresses it doesn't work. The issue in this thread applies to the Android app as well:

This is an old thread with a lot of suggestions, many of them apparently promos for people's apps, not real advice for Evernote. What specifically has happened, and what have you tried so far?

BTW, if anyone's interested, Evernote did in fact implement what both the original poster and a subsequent commenter requested: in the Windows program, in Tools > Options > Shortcut keys, it is possible to choose to transpose the worldwide, decades-old standard key combinations Ctrl+V and Ctrl+Shift+V. 

Given the huge number of people who write in RTL languages, I'm surprised they haven't fixed this more quickly. Hopefully, it will not be long.

In the meantime, I've discovered a couple of things. I do sometimes write a few words in Hebrew (I don't know Arabic, so I can't test that). On my Android phone, I use a keyboard called Smart Keyboard Pro, precisely because it allows typing in a large number of languages, including RTL languages. I tried creating a new Evernote note and typing some Hebrew in it using Smart Keyboard Pro, and it typed correctly, right-to-left. Smart Keyboard Pro does include Arabic among its available languages. This might be a temporary measure that would work for some.

On Windows, I don't have Hebrew or Arabic implemented at the system level, but I do have Syriac, another RTL language, and I found I was able to get correct  RTL typing in an Evernote note when I selected Syriac as the language. I also use a word processor called Nota Bene, which has excellent facilities for writing both Hebrew and Arabic (though I admit I have not tested the Arabic!). When I write some Hebrew text in it and copy it to the Windows clipboard, then paste it into an Evernote note, it appears correctly formatted RTL, including word-wrap; and when I sync the note, it appears properly in Evernote on my Android phone. This might also work using RTL text created in Microsoft Word, but I'm not able to test that.

So there may be some workarounds: a RTL-capable keyboard in Android, and creating RTL text in a word processor in Windows and copying and pasting into Evernote. Not really solutions, but perhaps they may help someone get some work done in EN until the fix is implemented. Of course, I don't know what would happen to notes created in these ways when the fix happens!

The original request didn't say anything about the phone app, and all the discussion has been about PCs and Macs. I hate to be an idiot, but it seems like you're raising a slightly different topic.

But a very valid one. Probably the most useful place for it would be in the Android suggestions forum: https://discussion.evernote.com/forum/208-android-product-feedback/. There you can make your case, and people can vote it up if they'd like to see it implemented. I know I will.

2 hours ago, erdman31 said:

Evernote markets their product as a word processing tool

I definitely agree that copy/paste interoperability, and overall editing tools, should be improved. But I'm curious about the statement above. I've never thought of EN as a word processor (I first learned about it from a writer who uses both EN and Scrivener, but also a dedicated word processor, as I do now). Can you point me to where they market it as such? If they do, they're clearly exaggerating.

@mattnumber, see a possible explanation here: