Peter W.

Since when is Evernote “speedy”? It’s massively bloated and slow. That’s not a valid rationale. What you’re effectively saying, given the context of how Evernote actually works, is that being slow, bloated, buggy, and inconsistent is what it’s supposed to be. Nonsense. And I completely agree with @davidtderrick. The issue is mainly about cross-platform consistency and typographic literacy, which is important not just within Evernote, but for when things leave Evernote. I work on notes from multiple platforms, and then very often I am copying and pasting out of Evernote into other things. When some parts of a note look one way and some parts look another way, because I worked on different parts from different platforms, it means I have extra work to do when I’m copying out—extra work that Evernote is creating for me. I hope that @PinkElephant is not associated with Evernote, because if so then that ridiculous comment might just be the straw that finally breaks this camel’s back and drives me to another product. I am sick and tired of tech people telling me that my problems with their shoddy systems are not actually problems because they think I care about the wrong things.

Thanks. I just left them a nice big steaming pile of feedback through the “Share Feedback” option.

That’s nonsense. I’m not going to use their idiotic and unintuitive key combos for something that is a systemwide feature in macOS BUT BROKEN IN EVERNOTE! Good god I do not understand why Evernote developers are so damned sense.

Yeah, I submitted a ticket and then got this ridiculous response: But that’s nonsense. Smart quotes are a systemwide feature of macOS. They work everywhere else, but Evernote seems to block or break that feature within its note editor. Even worse, smart quotes do work in the iOS app. So I can start a note in iOS and have smart quotes, but then go edit or add to the note on macOS, and then everything I write in that context will have straight quotes. I don’t think it used to work this way. I am pretty sure smart quotes used to work on the macOS application.

I am on a Mac (macOS 11.3.1) with the latest version of Evernote (10.13.4), and although the smart quotes feature is turned on systemwide in System Preferences, it is not working in Evernote. When I type in note, and I use quotation marks, I am not getting the “smart” version—just straight ones. Is there a fix for this?