Mike P

Because a task exists in a note you can add as much other information as you like to the containing note. Not quite what you want, but it might help in the meantime,

Any task is automatically part of a note. They do not exist in isolation. If you want to convert the text of a task into ordinary text in the body of the note you can select it, paste it into a text editor (or a EN code box) to remove all the other stuff and then copy and paste the terxt into a note.

If you are on the Windows client it doesn't come much faster than Win+Shift+F which is a "global shortcut" so works wherever you are. There will be a Mac equivalent.

That got me thinking. Another alternative is: Highlight the text (if you are already at the beginning ctrl+shift+End or if you are at the end ctrl+shift+Home) Then use the keyboard shortcut for insert code block (Ctrl+shift+L) rather than the blue + menu

Select the text (as you have done) and chose code block from the blue + insert menu

Select the text (as you have done) and chose code block from the blue + insert menu

@AlbertRMy concern, as I explained above, is purely that I don't want EN messing about with my notes in the background. I like to know that the only way a note's content is going to change is if I have it in front of me and I'm editing it. Call me paranoid but, while the principle is fine, there are so many potential ways that this could go wrong that I feel very uncomfortable.

Certainly agree with one and two. Much less sure about number three for reasons explained above.

The context of the discussion was a proposal to be able to insert the backlinks into the body of the note and whether these inserted backlinks should be dynamic.:

There is no way that I want EN messing with a note automatically. In fact, one of the things I really like about EN, is that it never changes the contents of a note that you are not actively, knowingly editing. The backlink list is already updated dynamically and that is enough for me.

And if you search for some text, and then press ctrl+F within a found note, the find fileld is automatically populated with the search term, allowing you to quickly cycle through the found items

There is an acknowledged issue with the backlinks button not showing in certain situations on Android. Isn't this just another example? In the mean time you can access backlinks from the three dots menu.

EN have a tack record of only very, very rarely commenting on future developments. If internal tagging is vital to you, then you probably chose the wrong tool. If it is something you would like in the future then, until it is developed (or not), @DTLow's suggestion of adding text, preceded by a special character, works well. In fact ctrl+F finds a much greater selection of special characters - not just the underscore. You could even use an emoji character. So I would just mirror the real tag with something like _tag or $tag. The real tag will find the note and the "text tag" will find the section. It's also worth pointing out that EN generally works best with short notes joined together with table of contents, tags etc. Most of the functionality to navigate long complex notes simply doesn't exist. e.g internal tagging, internal table of contents etc. That was a design choice made by EN long ago. Personally I try to keep notes short, and if it really does need to be long, use various ctrl+F hacks to find what I want.

On Windows desktop you can do two down arrows and then hit enter. "Everywhere" is then selected and the cursor returns to the search box. Alternatively go to "Notes" first (alt+ctrl+2) and then open search (alt+ctrl+F). As you are not in a notebook you are automatically searching everywhere.

I think this maybe relates to a bug that has already been reported. See the thread below for a (rare) acknowledgement by an EN employee

Valid point. I think the line I draw is thet if EN has added value then they have a right to add it to whatever tier they like. I have no problem with geographical search being a professional feature. Similarly I have no problem that the clever fuzzy text recognition data is no longer available in the enex but is hidden away on the server. I do feel it is wrong to simply deny access to a piece of data that I (technically my phone) have added to the note. You cannot even copy the coordinates in the mobile versions where the location is displayed on the map. It's not a big issue for me personally and I can always extract the data from the enex if I desperately need it. I seem to remember that the advanced search syntax for location (latitude:, longitude: and altitude:) still work although I haven't checked recently

I would be more than happy just to be able to see, and then copy, the longitude and latitude for the note. I do feel it is my data and EN is stopping me (easily) accessing the data, by choosing not to show the longitude and latitude note-attirbutes in the desktop clents, although they are exportable to enex.

Unfortunately this data is not viewable on the desktop client, unless you have subscribed to the professional plan. Even the coordinates are not viewable in the note information. However, if you download the enex file and open it with a text editor you will see that the coordinate data is there. This approach seems strange and inconsistent - if I can see the data in the mobile client I should be able to see the data on the desktop, even if EN wants to reserve "geographic searching" as a professional feature.

I think the ability to create a note in a notebook with a specific template would be a useful function. My work around would be the same as @PinkElephant. You will need to manually change the creation date, (ctrl+shift+I on Windows) if that is important to you. The modified date will obviously change as soon as you start adding to your note.

AS @PinkElephantpoints out this has been discussed extensively over the last 2 years. Recently, one of the main pain points has been removed from checklists, with the ability to choose in the options whether text is struck through when ticked off. To my mind checklists are an extremelly useful addition to the editoir. I love how I can drag items around to reorder them. For the odd ocassion when I need a checkbox at the beginning of the line the period hack works well.

Already noted and a support ticket raised. The initial response from the support team was that they could reproduce it so I think, as it is an obvious bug, it will get fixed fairly quickly. See

The general advice if a desktop version is being glitchy but the web version works OK is to rebuild the database. Sign out and choose "Remove my data from this device". You can then sign back in again and the database will be rebuilt. No guarantees but it does seem to solve all sorts of problems where the web version works.

My experience, and the experience of others on the forums, is that they do eventually update but as it's a server function that takes some time. I can reproduce this behaviour. Well spotted I agree that this would be a useful addition to the function.

You're right, thanks for pointing that out. I should really learn to read things more carefully!

I don't think that is correct: