Dave-in-Decatur

@MillenChi, if you haven't yet, click the upward arrow at the top of this page to vote the request up. This should have an effect on how Evernote developers regard the importance of this feature, which I agree would be extremely useful, as @edeuser and @kondik have pointed out.

The notification-screen quick note tool was added only in v. 7.9.4. From your earlier post: I guess I should have said that when you save them, the quick notes are automatically placed in your default notes folder. From your experience, it appears that if the phone shuts down, any in-process quick note goes away. So it may be a good idea to save and start a new note periodically, or at least when there is a break and you're not interacting with the phone long enough for it to lock.

The reason for the difference is that the quick notes use a different editor than the main Evernote app; see this post, the links there, and @Matt W.'s following reply. As to length limit ... there is only one way to find that out. Please let us know what you discover!

Yeah, the S Pen is a terrific accessory--really not an accessory, totally integrated with the device. Samsung has got me for life. Great for doing Quick Notes; and I hope that eventually it will be working again in the body of regular EN notes.

That's very helpful to know. It certainly seems peculiar that this input field would not show up as an input field; I hope whoever can fix this will do so soon. These quick notes are Evernote notes, not Samsung. Perhaps EN uses a different, non-Chrome editor in them. After activating the capability in EN Settings (Notifications > Add notes from notification bar), you have an EN icon when you pull down the notification screen. Tap that, and you get a little popup note in which you can write a title and some text, with the keyboard or the S Pen. (See the screenshot below.) These notes are saved automatically to your default Evernote notebook. It's all happening in Evernote, so there is no extra step.

@Speedie, I'm glad that worked for you! @Matt W., @gazumped -- wow, now I really wish I'd seen the speech to text feature before, so I could have used it before it went away!

@Speedie, I see the same thing, and the mic is definitely audio, not speech to text. I'm a little surprised to learn that Evernote Android once did have a speech to text function. I accomplish much the same thing using a regular text note and the Google text to speech option from my onscreen keyboard. Could that work for you?

Just to be clear, it wasn't Evernote pointing toward Samsung and Google as bearing some responsibility, just me. I don't work for them (which keeps things from being worse than they are).

UPDATE: I just installed v. 7.9.4, now available in Google Play. This adds the capability of adding a quick note from the Android notification bar (In the Evernote app, Settings > Notifications > Add notes from notification bar). That's convenient in and of itself; but to my delight I found that when writing such a quick note, the S Pen works, not only in the title but in the note area itself! It's still not working in regular text notes, but this should be some relief.

If the S Pen doesn't work in this Chrome-based editor, presumably it doesn't work in any Chrome-based editor. That would be an issue between Samsung and Google, it seems to me. (I speak from very limited technical knowledge, I admit!) Whatever the reasons EN had for switching to the Chrome-based editor, they were presumably global, not specific to S Pen-using Samsung products. Those of us who use and love those products are unhappy about losing the functionality (I know I am), but I do think we need to consider the wider universe of Android devices for which EN is intended. And it does seem to me that it's Samsung that has to do the work to make S Pen work with Chrome-based editors. As an aside ... S Pen / Sad Panda ... both S P ... coincidence?

Well, but the S Pen is unique to Samsung, and Evernote's decision to move to Chrome had to be made with all types of devices in mind. If Google and/or Samsung chose not to play nice, WRT using S Pen in editing areas, there still may have been enough improvements to justify the change across the board.

This is a feature that has been requested a number of times, for instance in this thread: and in this one: If you go to that second one, you can click on the upward-arrow at the top of the page to vote up the suggestion. Or if that's not what you're thinking of, you could create a new suggestion topic in that Windows Desktop Product Feedback forum.

+1, @Steven Avery. I'm a long time user of Abbyy FineReader, and their Screenshot Reader is an absolute gem.

Are you using the latest version of the editor? There have been some improvements. Here's what I find when I select a long note from a notebook: If I scroll down into the middle of the note, I can double-tap and the note becomes editable. Or if I want the Edit button and it disappears, a slight scrolling movement up or down gets it back; when I tap the button, the note opens for editing and the cursor is placed at whatever point was at the top left of the screen; it no longer jumps to the top. I have seen some font errors with pasted text, even text cut and pasted within the same note. This is strange; but the menu option Simplify formatting helps.

Just to report in, my Note 4 Edge updated to Android 6 Marshmallow the other day; and Evernote updated to v. 7.9.3. But there is still S-Pen access only in the title area, not the text area. I echo hhagell's *SIGH*. Presumably this issue arose (if it arose for Samsung at all) only after the configuring of Marshmallow was complete. (And it seems to be a good bit different in TouchWiz than in standard Android.) Maybe Nougat.... Maybe Ovaltine.... Maybe Peppermint.... (or whatever; I'm making those names up!).

I just signed up with Cronofy yesterday to try it out, connecting Evernote to my Google Calendar, and so far it's working well. One advantage is that GCal alarms can be snoozed (on my phone). Of course once Cronofy creates the GCal event corresponding to the Evernote reminder note, it would then be possible to make the Google event repeating, though I have no idea what this would to to the EN note--duplicate it endlessly?

Just want to say that I often create notes, for a variety of purposes, in ways similarly to what danhash describes. I don't mind having the URL field populated, but it's not particularly useful in those kinds of notes. It might be good to have something in Settings to keep it from ever happening; but then for me there would be times when I would want it to happen in Web Clipper notes. kvitekp's kludge is, well, kludgey. I'll try using Clear in the drop-down next to the Source URL field, and hope that it won't repopulate on its own.

Let me suggest posting this in the Android Product Feedback forum, where it can be voted on using the arrows at the top of its page, and maybe get a little more specific attention.

Good idea. I've voted it up.

Sounds like a good idea. I'd also like to be able to "snooze" an alarm without resetting it completely.

Go to this thread in the Windows Feedback forum, and click on the arrow to vote it up. Lots of people like the idea, but only seven have taken the .5 second to vote on it. If that's not quite what you had in mind, there may be another proposal there; or you could start a thread.

Thanks, Matt. I hope so too. I believe they have an incentive to do so--the S-Pen is a super device, a genuine game-changer IMO, and they will hopefully want to keep it functioning for as many people as possible. It's a reason to buy Samsung rather than another brand. OTOH ... people here think Evernote updates are a long time coming; it is as nothing compared to UI updates like this.

Just to report that I upgraded to Android v. 7.9.2 yesterday. I find that I still do have S-Pen access in the note title, but not in the body of the note. Strange that it works one place and not the other. I presume that's because a different editor is actually used in each place. It would be nice to get it back in the note body; but since it's so device-specific, and given the new Chrome-based editor, that seems unlikely.

I'm not a Basic user, so I'm not affected by the 2-device limit. But I do have to say that this point--that the limit really means only using 2 logged-in devices at once--was not made at all clear in EN's original announcements, and isn't very clear even in the subsequent Devices FAQ. I can't blame Basic users for being pretty confused about it. I certainly read the original announcement as saying that they are limited to 2 devices forever, period. If it is a matter of logging off one device and onto another, then really it's hard for me to see the 2-device limit as much of a burden, even for people skillful enough to use one device in each hand. If 2 or more people are sharing a free account with 3 or 4 devices each ... well, honestly, even though it was allowed before, I can see how it couldn't last forever. It's like the Free Lunch Counter saying, "Sorry, but from now on you're limited to a plate and a glass; you and your crew will have to put the bowls, cups, and dessert plates down." You know, that Free Lunch Counter, the one we've all been to.

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