donkeyfur

I'm an Apple user for decades, so I do get the advantage of integration on that platform. And I'm a big fan of their software design. That said, I like tkraikit's ideas and appreciate pink elephant's simplicity. KISS. I can offer two additional thoughts. One is that I think it's helpful to distribute my digital (if there's any difference these days) life among multiple applications. Even with redundant features, I like to spread out a little. I just feel that it is a hedge and keeps one player from dominating too many areas of my life. Second, I like sticking with the group that got the idea right early on. EN has really innovated in this type of content management and they continue to lead and innovate. They understand their objective and do an outstanding job hitting it. That kind of leader tends to innovate ahead of the group as well.

I'm a long-time EN user and evangelist. I love the app and love what you've done with this. I was just searching for this feature in the discussion groups and found it in a general discussion posting. I followed up to that OP but realized it should be added here. So here you are. EN needs to add an attribute to notes, designating them as "private". This attribution would prevent these notes from *automatically* appearing in searches or appearing in any Notes listing - including the sidebar - unless "view private notes" was turned on. This implementation of the privacy concept, as a simple attribute to any note, would allow these notes to be placed within any notebook. This would be really helpful and would add a helpful level of sophistication to EN. Searches could be enhanced to allow inclusion or exclusion (default) of this attribute. Very simple, elegant and consistent with the EN design. Having private notes show up in a listing is sometimes difficult in a work environment where others are able to see your screen. There are financial, personnel, IP, and personal reasons that all would better enable people to use EN for these types of jobs without fear of unintended exposure or unauthorized views. Trying to develop work-arounds to something simple like this, as others have suggested, is also problematic, particularly to searching and using this type of content. Some have suggested that EN treats all notes as private, which I think is intentionally misleading. That's not the kind of privacy we're talking about. The idea of a second account is counter to the DNA of EN which is largely to be a coordinating, curating force in your life, across work and personal spheres. This is a good idea could open up more elegant uses and a range of benefits to EN users.

I also think that attributing notes as private would be very helpful. It would be great if this attribution prevented them from *automatically* appearing in searches or appearing in the sidebar Notes listing. If implemented as a simple attribute to any note, they could even be placed within any notebook. This would be really helpful and would add a helpful level of sophistication to EN. Searches could be enhanced to allow inclusion or exclusion (default) of this attribute. Very simple, elegant and consistent with the EN design. Having private notes show up in a listing is sometimes difficult in a work environment where others are able to see your screen. Trying to develop work-arounds to something simple like this is also problematic, particularly to searching and using this type of content. I think the suggestion that EN treats all notes as private is intentionally misleading. That's not the kind of privacy we're talking about. The idea of a second account is counter to the DNA of EN which is largely to be a coordinating, curating force in your life, across work and personal spheres. This is a good idea and would provide a range of benefits to EN users.

Thanks to you all on this. I appreciate the clarification. It is strange to see they've hardwired the AND logic. I also don't easily see the benefit in that. I appreciate the search syntax example, Mike P. I don't usually use that, but it would definitely work. I'll also try the votable Feature Request. Thanks for the suggestion. I've never even looked at the Feature Request option, so wasn't aware of the options.

Thanks, Mike. I do see a value in being able to create structure in the tags. Your point about manually adding the ancestral tags is true, and arguably not that hard. It just seems to sidestep a beneficial consequence of that structure by not embedding that structure in the actual tags. Does anyone else think this would be a helpful feature? Is it worth submitting a formal request for it? It’s hard to know if this would require significant restructuring of the code to support.

I have been trying to find ways to squeeze more organization into or out of my Evernote use. I have been reading that EN design really supports limited nesting of concepts in stack/notebook/note structure, and that it is really supportive of more complex networked relationships using tags. Ok. I started designing a nice tag structure, and decided to test it before I got too far. I set up a parent tag: Analytics, and 3 child tags: Quantitative, Qualitative, Visualization. I can apply these so I have 2 notes with Analytics, 5 notes with Quantitative, 20 notes with Qualitative, and 10 notes with Visualization. I can search on any child tag and get the relevant notes, but if I want to find all Analytics notes (including all descendant notes), it comes up with just the 2 notes with the specific Analytics tag. It leaves me to wonder, is this a bug or a feature? Or a User Error? I'm hoping for the latter. Without too much of a rant here, it seems like the hierarchical nature of the tags is more conceptual that practical if I don't get any inheritance properties in child or grandchild relationships. If that's the case, why is this seen as so useful? I'm probably missing something insightful here, but am honestly trying to get more good use out of this platform. Thanks for any pearls of wisdom.

I also agree that there is a need to integrate math equations in Evernote. MarkDown would probably be the most widely used format. I've tried to use MathType with Evernote. The results have been inconsistent. MathType saves as MarkDown, png or pdf. Instertion of pdfs is bulky in the note. I was trying to use either MarkDown (LaTeX) or png. The png option worked intermittently. I contacted MathType tech support who tried it on his system and suggested Evernote (Mac) was stripping or reducing the header information on the png so that it couldn't be re-imported to MathType for adjusting. I have had problems importing multiple png-formatted equations into a single note. It seemed to work with 1 png.