niftygeek

On 3/6/2023 at 12:58 PM, Boot17 said:

This post brought to you by the ChatGPT conglomerate. You should be using AI everywhere... (FWIW - I had an AI powered meal for breakfast. /s)

I have found ChatGPT to be extremely helpful, but I don't want gimmicky AI implementations in Evernote just like I don't want Evernote to implement the kitchen sink feature-set. Quite often things are done better in a separate / dedicated program. There is probably going to be useful AI related features in Evernote eventually (like @gazumped mentioned because of the new owners), but this is still a brand new game. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some Bending Spoons initiatives on implementing some kind of AI-like things in the coming months since AI is so hot right now and they are already in that space. They could see it as a big win and a reason to justify charging more $$€€.

Ironically, I did in fact have an A.I. powered breakfast this morning based on my dietary guidelines and exercise recovery issues.

I recognize how silly such a thing sounds at the same time needing to admit I set up a personality prompt for meal planner that 'speaks' in a fake French accent to help me set up a practical meal plan (and mildly entertain me at zee same time).

And it IS silly.  But undeniably also useful to me. 🤷‍♂️

10 minutes ago, RevAugie said:

It's especially bad, since Evernote already offers so many text editing features - they clearly want you to edit text within their app - and not just shove data in from the internet...

But in particular, the existence of bulleted lists and numbered lists almost NECESSITATE being able to move items up and down in the list.  Who plops down a to-do list, or topics to discuss at a meeting, or ideas for an article - and doesn't then want to move them around?  Or does Evernote only want to be the storehouse for pre-formed articles?

^^ that.  Hierarchical arrangement is essential for knowledge-work and the tools should either be all the way there or not at all.

Also, I read the suggestion above by @DTLow after my last post, and it's an idea I was thinking about as well... problem is, it's fine for documents you'd visit regularly like role/project docs, but for quick work where you just want to right-click and add a new note for something, now one has to open word, create new (or use the explorer context creation), save and name, attach... not a speedy process -- and the additional ram overhead with working with multiple such documents -- it would be better to just stay using ms word entirely.

What's frustrating is the current text editing capability seems so close to being a good fit.  It really is a pity, but based on the age of the thread it's probably not a good idea to hold one's breath. 

I've recently started to use these keyboard commands for much faster organization when tackling more complex tasks.

It feels crippling to not have it there.

For people who don't use it, imagine every time you tried to copy and paste the keyboard commands didn't work...   These shortcuts are already sublimated into my outline maneuvering habits.  No fun for power users.

Makes evernote painful to use.