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Rufus M

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  1. In the old version of Evernote for iPad, I was able to create a new note by pressing Command + N. This hotkey seems to be missing from the new iOS version, so it takes quite a lot of effort to make a new note. If I am editing a note and want to create a new one, I first have to press the tick button to stop editing (it’s quite a small/fiddly button to press), then go down to the bottom-left and hit the New Note button (again, quite small/fiddly to press). The old hotkey made my workflow a lot faster, so it would be good to have this back.

  2. I have also run into this issue on iPhone and iPad. As I edit a note, Evernote periodically creates a duplicate.

    Evernote is also open on my Mac in the background — I’ll check whether quitting the Mac version has any effect and report back.

    Edit: looks like the problem occurs even if I quit Evernote on Mac.

  3. I usually work on a 4K monitor with my MacBook Pro, or on my iPad, and one issue I have run into with my Evernote notes is that the text size is incredibly small. On a Mac, you can pinch-to-zoom to increase the size, but as soon as you leave the note it resets, so you have to re-zoom every time you open a note.

    On the iPad, zooming doesn't re-flow the text, so some of the text ends up going off the screen.

    Would it be possible to add an option to increase the default zoom? The closest workaround I can think of at the moment would be to increase the default font size to something massive, but that can create the need for reformatting when copy/pasting into other programmes.

    Alternatively, if there is already a solution, please do let me know. 🙂

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  4. On 3/1/2018 at 12:11 PM, DTLow said:

    The first step is to select the notes in Evernote

    Second,  launch the Script Editor app5a9736810b61e_ScreenShot2018-02-28at15_06_28.png.c614ffe7bd1d4a6fabd7631a45922d34.png
    This app comes free with every Mac installation

    Enter the commands to execute

    • First statement identifies theNotes as the selected notes
    • Next, a repeat loop to pass through every note
    • Within the loop, the action required - a statement to set the reminder time

    Click run ( 5a9737324d091_ScreenShot2018-02-28at15_11_22.png.07f1c9ee10e8016cac7936590f111883.png ) to run the script

    • tell application "Evernote" to set theNotes to selection
      repeat with theNote in theNotes     
           tell application "Evernote" to set reminder time of theNote to date "Monday, January 1, 2018 at 00:00:00"
      end repeat

    Do you know the script to set reminders on the selected notes, but without a due date?

  5. I love Evernote, but after several years as a user (primarily for academic research), I am acutely aware of several areas in dire need of development (which would probably be quite easy to do).

    Evernote is lagging several years behind the competition in terms of features, having made only minor incremental changes since I started using it. With apps like Notion currently stealing the spotlight, Evernote needs to develop quickly indeed if it wants to maintain its user base.

    Despite the power of Notion, I haven't quite been willing to make the jump, primarily because of Evernote's magnificent search, web clipper, and offline functionality. However, in order for Evernote to survive going forward, I believe these five features are absolutely vital (and wouldn't take long to implement). If any of the developers are reading, I hope you find these suggestions helpful:

    • Custom note order (i.e. drag-and-drop), as in OneNote, Scrivener, and virtually every other notetaking app. The only way to manually arrange the order of notes is to put an alphabetical/numerical code at the start of the note title, but the moment you want to rearrange those notes, you have to go through and re-title everything by hand. When creating databases, there is usually a logical order for information to be presented in, so this feature is vital for researchers.

    • Hierarchy. Whether the Evernote Team like it or not, hierarchical organisation is vital to keeping notes organised and easily accessible (insert Jordan Peterson joke here). Tags do offer a limited hierarchy, but it isn't very convenient in terms of how most people actually use the app. I can think of two solutions under this subheading:

      • Stackable folders. People have been asking for this feature for years, and it blows my mind that we can still only create two-tiered folders (stacks with notebooks inside). The inevitable result is either (a) notebooks with far too many notes, (b) stacks holding an insane list of notebooks, or (c) both. If you've been using Evernote for a while, you probably know what I'm talking about here.

      • Sub-notes. In some cases, there is information that I'll probably only ever want to view as a sub-document of another note. Rather than burying it inside the main note itself (which can make it hard to find the information), sub-notes allow information to be stored as a separate document, but within another note. This works incredibly well in OneNote and Scrivener, helping to reduce clutter and make it easy to navigate between subsections of a given topic.

    • Custom metadata. This is one area where Notion absolutely hits it out of the park, bringing it the closest any app has come to matching the power of Scrivener. As great as Evernote's search function is, there is no way to categorise your tags and then search by those categories. Custom metadata allows users to create additional columns, and place tags, text, checkboxes, etc in those columns, for extra sorting power.

      • e.g. In Notion/Scrivener, I can create fields for "Screenwriter" and "Director", and enter the relevant name into each field for my note on a film. Then, if need be, I can search only for films directed by a given artist, while excluding films where they were screenwriter instead. In spreadsheet/table view, there is a separate column for each category, which lets me see a lot of information about my research materials. In Evernote, I can search for notes tagged with the artist's name, but there is no differentiation by role. This is a crucial feature for any serious research app, and vital if Evernote is to compete with Notion and other newcomers.

    • Note descriptions. Scrivener users will be familiar with this one. When viewing the note list, there is a text field below the title that lets you add a more detailed description of what the note is about. Incredibly useful if you want to know the key ideas of your notes without clicking on each one individually and waiting for it to load.

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  6. Currently, the iOS web clipper only seems to offer the Full Page option, and more often than not pages come out a bit garbled compared to the desktop version. My current workaround is to add pages to my Safari Reading List and clip them later on by Mac, but it slows down my workflow considerably.

    Would it be possible to introduce the same clipping options on iOS? Article, Simplified Article, Bookmark, Screenshot, and a Full Page option that works like the desktop version, would be fantastic. Otherwise, users will have to rely on their desktop computers for one of Evernote’s prime functions.

    I have dabbled in another programme called Notion, and when I clip pages on iOS, it seems like it just sends the link to their server, and the page is then remotely downloaded (rather than copying the page directly from the browser). Perhaps that could be a workaround.

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