sespy

It is plain text. But the font wrappers you describe are part of the note. Plain text is text without display attributes. On a Mac, for example, if you copy out of a text editor (e.g. BBEdit) and use a tool to inspect the clipboard where the copied text is, you will see plain text (aka text without formatting or layout properties). If you copy text out of Evernote in a note that you have created without formatting, even after you "Make Plain Text," and you use a tool to inspect the clipboard, you will see formatted text, not plain text. A plain text note would not just look like plain text (like now, where a monospaced font is applied and saved as part of the note) but actually be plain text. Yes, there would be a setting in Evernote that I want plain text to all display using AnadaleMono 12pt, but that would be an attribute of the application's display logic, not an attribute of a note. While some apps have "Paste and Match style" or "Paste as plain text," a majority of the ones I use do not, so I need this plain-text-note feature. @CalS this is the "something different" that I want, and @PinkElephant, it is different than plain text with associated formatting that makes it look "plain-text-y". And @jefito is looking at the issue the way I see it. If I could create a new note that was just some text in-between the <en-note></en-note> and not font/html/etc. tags, and when I paste text into it, no formatting was pasted in, and when I copy out there is no font/display metadata mixed in, then EN would have the plain text functionality I would like. If I paste plain text (real plain text, like from a text editor) into an EN note that I have "Make Plain Text" on, and paste or paste-match-style, and copy from that note, and paste into Word, I will get font and size stuff pasted in with it. If I paste directly from a text editor, I do not get any new font/size studd pasted in.

Plain text is by definition the lack of properties. The properties like font, size, etc. are not properties of the plain text, rather the display of the plain text. Look at any IDE, most of which deal with plain text. You simply tell the app what font you like plain text to appear in, but it has no impact on the text that is being stored. I might want plain text displayed in a font that is different from you, so I set my prefs to use a different font that you might not have. But we both have plain text. Currently in Evernote, you can make the formatting monospaced and emphasis-free to give the appearance of plain text, but that is not a plain text note. That already exists. Those who request plain text notes here are asking for something different from that.