Mike P

There are certain times when the note list is designed to disappear! I think this is a bad decsion. Some examples of when the note list disappears: Going to a shortcut which is just a note clicking a note in "recent notes" clicking on a note suggestion which comes up in search below the search bar Using ctrl+Q (Windows) to go to a particular note

I can reproduce this behaviour. The ctrl+Q menu seems to work as expected. You should raise a support ticket with th EN team. In the mean time you can of course always use the keyboard shortcut.

I think the copying of the ToC into a note is always going to be a manual operation. Normally a simple "copy and paste" works well - potentially made a bit quicker using the global "paste to Evernote" shortcut (alt+ctrl+V on windows). For text books, the publisher's website for the book will often contain the ToC and you could webclip it from there. For a new book the amount of work you would need to do is not huge, but obviously it will take you a long time to work back through all your over 1000 books. One other thought, although I'm not sure it will help. You can link to files from an EN note to a file on your hard drive, Google docs or Dropbox. If the pdfs were not in EN then they wouldn't be searched and you could just include the link and the the meta data (tags and ToC) in your EN note. I don't really think that offers any advantages to putting the pdf into a note by itself and excluding it from the search by notebook, tag or @PinkElephantsearch string suggestion. Just included it here for completeness.

There really should not be examples, however trivial, where the free plan has capabilities which the paid for plans do not have! This is useful provided you do not have text in the note as well as the attached pdf. For me, sometimes that works well, but other times I want a pdf and text. I think currently a good principle is that if you have a very large pdf it is worth considering putting this in a note by iteself and then having a second note with any supporting info - e.g. TOC, notes etc. Obviously each note would need to contain a link to the other note.

The fact that EN searches within a pdf file is both a blessing and a curse! I would love the ability to exclude attachments from a search which I think would make things easier in your case. I think the idea of separating out the TOC is an excellent one. Personally I would put each TOC in a separate note (with a link to the note containing the pdf) and either put it in a notebook containing only tables of contents or give it a TOC tag. You can then easily restrict your search to only TOCs which will avoid all those hits where the word is mentioned in the pdf but it's not really a major theme.

I think my understanding at the moment is: If you create a note manually by pasting in an image, typing text, pasting in another imnage etc the thumbnail is the first image you paste in. Even if you were to delete that image the thumbnail remains If you create the note by some other method e,g pasting in a whole bunch of text and images in one go or by using the webclipper, it seems to be random which image becomes the thumbnail. As evidence for this, each week I generate a report as an html file. I then view it in Chrome and copy and paste it into an EN note. Each week the various images (plots) are the same size. The image EN chooses to be the thumbnail is, as far as I can see, random.

Sorry just seen that your question is about legacy so ignore the following which is how you would do it in V10. Open the three dots menu. If the note is in shortcuts you will see "remove from shortcuts".

You can already do this by double clicking the note in home. The note is launched in a new window but the main app stays on home. So when you close the note, Home is still there. I completely agree with your comments of Home vs the sidebar or even a "dashboard note" with links etc. Sadly, after a promising start, further development of Home seems to have just stalled. The inability to configure the shape of the widgets (I want a note widget which is the shape of a note) kills it for me.

You can't. It has been requested often but at the moment you have to manually change each file. I would suggest you give your feedback direclty to EN (e.g. via help -> share feedback in the app) as this is mainly a user to user forum.

Highlight the file and press the delete key works for me (Chrome, Windows 10)

They are certainly similar. The main difference is that alt+ctrl+N will create a new note in a new window even if you are not in EN (although you must have EN open in the background).

On balance I would not want this as it would use up too much of the available space in the sidebar. Seeing deeply nested tags for example would become difficult. It would be nice to have a shortcut keyboard command to take you to the shortcuts or even better a jump out window like you get for tasks or tags. I deliberately don't have too many shortcuts so can access the ones I use a a lot using the ctrl+1 etc shortcut.

You can drag and drop a note from the note list into a notebook (folders don't exist in EN) in the sidebar,

To start you off the search string to find the notes cteated exactly one year ago is: created:days-365 -created:days-364 You would then have to have several saved searches - one for two years ago, one for 3 and so on. I don't think you can get any: to work here because of the need to use a negated search term. The main reference documents to help are: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828-Use-advanced-search-syntax it may be that proper Boolean search available in the professional or teams tier would allow you to construct the more complex search required but I have ni expereince of this.

I'm sure you are aware that you can merge cells yourself to create the same effect in your own tables.

I don't see a nested table. I see one table with some cells merged to make bigger cells.

Did yo mean to post this in the forum for legacy version? Some of the content seems very specific to V10, and I'm sure you realise that EN are not going to be doing any work on the legacy version.

The correct syntax to negate any search item is to put a - before it NOT an ! So in your case it should be: -contains:URL Also just to note that this is for a URL string in the body of the note and does not look at the note URL found in note information or at the top right of the note..

Unfortunately this is another example of EN being unwilling to let you see your note in context. The other one being the view where the note list completely disappears when navigating to a note from a shortcut, recent note etc. The annoying thing in this case, is that the note is still selected in the note list - if you scroll through you will find it highlighted in blue if the focus is on the notelist. There are numerous keyboard shortucts to allow you to quickly navigate through the note list. The one that is missing is "go to current note"

For me this is the main thing that tasks bring that a simple checklist can't. I love the concept of attaching a task to a note. The tasks panel then gives the overview of "what needs doing now" over all projects, notes etc.

An alternative is simply to duplicate or copy the note rather than create a new note from a template. Another possible alternative would be to make the task recurring but that means making it a specific day rather than just "summer". If you wouldn't mind using a checklist rather than tasks then you can easily remove the check marks by highlighting the entire list and then clicking the checklist button to turn the checklist off and then again to regenerate the check list.

It might be worth trying the web version as well. That way you can isolate whether it is an account or installation issue.

Not it hasn't. There is though a very simple work around. Select the notes and export as a single page html You will then get a folder containing all the attachments (including images).

When deleting redundant references to urls it is worth remembering that if you merge notes which contain "note urls" (the top right reference) only the first one appears in the merged note. In legacy there was an option to display the note urls in each section of the merged note. So if you ever merge notes, need to keep the reference as to where each original note came from and don't like the duplication then I would delete the "note url" meta data and not the one that appears in the body of the note. You could do a "prep notes for merging" step where you copy the note url into the body of the note but it would be easy to forget and generally a pain!

The filename: syntax certainly doesn't appear in the official search grammar document, although this is very out of date. There are references to it in the forums 10 years ago. A word of caution though. I got the following numbers of hits when searching for pdf files contains:filePdf 928 hits (same as filtering for files containing a pdf attachment) *.pdf 895 hits including some with just a reference to a file and no actual file filename:pdf 204 hits I think @eric99 's suggestion is a good one although you may get some false positives which you will need to weed out.