Dave-in-Decatur

I agree that this is a very serious issue. In general, the Evernote programmers (like all prudent software developers) don't comment on when certain features will be added or restored or improved. But this really is a necessity for many millions of users and potential users, and in this case silence may (perhaps unfairly) give the impression of lack of interest. In a previous post, I did suggest a couple of workarounds:

But they are only workarounds, not really solutions.

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:

Sorry. At the top of the page, there are two large arrows, one pointed up and the other down. Click the Up arrow.

21 hours ago, Dave.Robinson16@Gmail.com said:

One of the problems users have is the inability to "manually resize"  text in a note on an Android tablet. 
If there is a way to do this, would you please let me know. I was not able to discover how to do this in the Evernote knowledge base. Can you point 'us'  in the right direction? 

Dave, just to save Matt a little time, there is currently no way to do this. It's been requested numerous times; a little searching would take you to one of the two or three threads already present on the Android Product Feedback forum, e.g.:

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.

22 hours ago, Matt W. said:

Hello @Dave.Robinson16@Gmail.com,

We are currently in the process of correcting this, and will likely be fixed within the next few updates. The development team is continuing to expand and correct issues found within the note editor. I will keep you posted when this fix will be completed.

Thank you, @Matt W.. It was apparently an over-eager or overly optimistic support employee who told me some time back that it would be fixed in the "next" update. Should have taken that with a grain of salt. But it is good to know that it's in the hopper. I don't know what all else is in there with it, but this one is pretty dysfunctional, and very consistent. I'll look forward to your updates, which I do appreciate.

You have to contact Evernote support, and you can only do this if you are a Premium user. If you are, go to https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Be sure you're logged in to Evernote; even then, it can be fiddly to get this page to work. Click through the drop-downs, e.g.:

1. What can we help you with?: Technical Issues
2. Select a topic: Other
3. Tell us more.: Report a bug

A "Submit ticket" button should appear (you may need to scroll down); click on that to supply the information.

5 minutes ago, NicCrockett said:

Honestly, I've had this issue for a couple of years and @Dave-in-Decatur is the first person I've seen get a response from Evernote. Congrats! I've seen Evernote get updated since Dave posted his last note stating that a fix would be in the next update. Unfortunately, I haven't seen an improvement. Even within the last week I've seen this issue happen in a note. I'm not calling you a liar Dave. I realize you were only conveying the info you were given. However, I don't expect Evernote to ever fix this issue. If they prove me wrong; I'll admit I was wrong, be happy that I have a fix, and will again praise their software as spectacular. Until then, I have no reason to continue paying for premium service.

Quite right, Nic. I just updated to the very latest v. 7.9.8.2, and the problem still happens. Pretty annoying when support promises something and it's not delivered. I way rather have them say, "It's on the list. Sooner or later." At least I know not to hold my breath.

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: