Atul Mishra

14 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

I believe @Atul Mishra said, splitting the books and putting each chapter in a separate note might be more useful, and either carefully tagging each note, or including specific keywords in the body of each note might also help.

Certainly, but as the number of books/notes are over 1000, it would be extremely tough for me to split each book in its chapters. Can we do it automatically using a software? Any Idea.

If not, can we download the ToC from the bookmark section of the PDF viewer automatically in a text file or PDF file. This would be of some help to me in generating the TOC of as many PDF as possible.

14 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

If I may suggest an alternative, unless you need to do this on a mobile phone, there is a research suite called Nota Bene which includes a multilingual word processor designed with scholars in mind, and has a module that does perform very exact searches on PDFs and other documents, and display the context of each found result so you can get to what you're really looking for. It is available for both Windows and Mac.

Certainly will look into this software. 

Yes I do careful tagging of each note, as much as possible. Thanks.

22 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

It does however not play a role if the searched term is in the pdf, the note text or both

Almost all the notes are having PDF only. 

23 hours ago, Mike P said:

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.

Thanks, This is exactly what I have been doing.

It has a certain limitation that if a keyword or phrase is present multiple times inside an important note (for which ToC note has not been made), it brings us to the same hard situation, as agreed by you.

23 hours ago, Mike P said:

The fact that  EN searches within a pdf file is both a blessing and a curse!

Perfect line.

Hi, I, as a researcher, have been using the Evernote legacy as a storage and retrieval of information from text books, reference books, etc. of various topics/domains. I have over 1000 of these files in EN. Searching a keyword gives, sometimes, hundreds of files, hence pinpointing the note where required information is present, becomes quite challenging. As of now, what I have done is made a separate file of "Table of contents" of very few important books (by splitting the pages of PDF of those books), and when I have to search, I first search it here in the "Table of Content" of these important books, and if I get lucky, I am able to search the required topic with little ease. Splitting the "Table of Content" of these many books would again be very challenging. Hence, I also tag, as much as possible, the note containing the book with topics given in the book and keep it in respective notebooks (domains). Again, this task is also time-consuming. 

This has been hampering my productivity to a great extent.

If you have any idea to overcome this problem in EN, kindly inform me.

Thanks in advance.

5 hours ago, wbutchart said:

Let us know how you get on. Personally I find roam and notion far too complex and unproductive. I want to write not spend as long finding a structure to write.

Same here. 

I also second this.

16 hours ago, DTLow said:

I use the Evernote Helper app

Thank you, It works,

Is it possible to open a new note ready to type-in by clicking the shortcut, when EN is not running in background? Like a sticky note works. After typing in, the stuff gets added to EN database and later can be synced. For my PC, loading takes time, each time I try to make a new note. EN would load and open database. I don't want to run entire EN in back as it consumes resource. Any workaround.

Platform: Windows 10 EN application.

3 hours ago, Pritchett4 said:

Windows 7 & Windows 10 = two different computers

I use Win 7 and 10. No problem with me as such. Do the same notes contain any pdf or image?

1 hour ago, DTLow said:

For example, my budget tags are budget-housing, budget-food, budget-entertainment, ....

How many levels of tags do you use? If it is more than two, do you also prefix the grandchild with the grandparent tagname.

I use 4 levels.

1 hour ago, N.A. said:

Those users who is relying extensively on tags for organisation or quick filtering may/will have a nested tag structure going deep 1-2-3 levels.

I also have the same question. Thanks for asking it.

Which platforms you and your friend are working on? please mention.

YES, Thanks for elaborating it.

As mentioned earlier, using the EN Windows app clipping feature, I was successfully able to clip this PDF. Currently I am using that only.

Evernote team should take note of it. 

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

You have chosen the option "Snapshot" (visible by the tools displayed in your screenshot), which creates an image of the website on display.

Yup, I chose Screenshot (which I think is same as snapshot). Pl. check the image.

1 hour ago, PinkElephant said:

Is there no option "pdf" when you try to clip this in Chrome, or did you want to clip an image ?

PDF option is there, but I wanted to clip a portion of the entire PDF.

3 hours ago, CalS said:

Can't access the link in Chrome, security block.  So I brought up a PDF from a site I use and Clipper would not open.  Not a partial clip, no opportunity to clip whatsoever.  

I tried on another PC. It was Windows 7 + Chrome. With web clipper, the same problem. 

Hi @CalS

I tried using EN windows app, It worked as expected. however, when I try using web clipper, it has this problem. If you use Windows + Chrome, I am sharing the web link

http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/files/acad_cal1920.pdf

please check. 

I realise that the top left corner of the screenshot is also shifted. It seems a bug to me.

Is there a maximum screen cut size for screenshot mode of web clipper? I am taking this screenshot of a pdf which is opened in Chrome (As I want only that part of PDF). Though I can see the entire screen at once,  but what gets clipped is smaller than what i wanted. Have a look at the screen captures. 

I am using Windows 10.

Image1: what I get

Image2: what I wanted.

Only text within the note editor can be passphrase protected. Not the horizontal line, table, image, pdf, etc. 

Thank You for this clarification.

I appreciation EN team for reaching to their customers and ensuring their notes' security.

Yup you got it right. I am using EN on windows. Any way to do it on windows? I prefer to use EN PC. 

Say, In order to search for a note I selected the tags ($-books and <-engineering)  from the filter by tag box. The ""<-engineering" tag also has many children tags (which i don't want to search in). The list of notes come up have children tags associated with them. Is there a way I can only search the notes tagged in only "$-books" and "<-engineering" tags (not the children tags of <-engineering tag) using the "filter-by-tag" search box. 

PS: I know one way could be to go to settings and select the option not to choose the child tags OR select only the tag "<-engineering" from the Left panel. I want to do this from "filter by tag" which is convenient for me unlike other options. 

8 hours ago, DTLow said:

In addition to changing to a strong password, only use it on the Evernote site.  Don't use the same password on other sites.

I have done the same thing, the new password is unique to the EN (the same p/w is not being used on any other site). I use my college's private network, which IMHO is fairly strong. However, the strange thing is the App/device shown, is mine (Desktop-IHFTEAJ). 

I have never been to US, nor I use VPN service for my laptop. but my EN account seems to have been accessed from US. I have changed my password to a stronger level with the help of Password manager after noticing this. Please look at the attached image. Any body to clear this what has happened in this case. 

On 6/9/2019 at 8:10 PM, Jeffsky said:

I too have searched for alternatives, due to some of Evernote’s operating issues and inability to deliver on some promised capabilities. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, Evernote is still #1.  I am premium and have been using Evernote from their early days.   With respect to cost, it drives me crazy when people want a quality service for free.  This is exactly the reason most goods in this country are manufactured in China.  You get what you pay for.  Free does not exist!   Companies need to make money!!  Free is temporary or you are paying through annoying ads or by giving away your information, which has much more value than you would be willing to pay!

With this said, I am ok with paying a fair price for Evernote.  But, if Evernote is going to charge for their service, they at least need to honestly respond to our requests and concerns.  If all resources are  focused on putting out fires and keeping up the the unenviable job of ensuing Evernote works with the many operating system updates, I can handle that answer.   My #1 priority is keeping my data secure and not losing any of it!   I am a very loyal customer and do not want to leave Evernote.  I have not looked at other services to save money.  Why would I, if Evernote delivered quality service at a fair price?   Maybe I am not the norm here.  Maybe most other customers are always looking for a  better price or a free ride.  Maybe the internet has ruined a company’s ability to compete by delivering better service, rather than a better price.   But, I don’t think I am wrong.  I pray I am not, or we are all doomed to accept mediocrity or worse, just Free!

Jeffsky29@gmail.com

I agree with you that people should pay for what they want. I am a student and i don't mind paying (the current pricing) for EN premium-ship. With the premium service in hand, I can search inside all the PDF, books, images instantly, can access the notes offline  (mobile) and on personal PC, college PC, my mobile (over two devices), AI suggested notes, version history of notes. Besides data security, and not losing any of it, for students, search feature should not miss any relevant note (that may happen because of poor OCR algorithm or whatever reason), which might cost them in their exams and later in their future.