Novak

They don't have to build the whole app around the "stylus experience" in order to provide competent support. All they have to do is use the built in OS features, respect the file associations I've already defined, and allow me to open the PDFs through a third party piece of software like Squid, and save in place. This is not hard. This is how operating systems work. No other application on my tablet handles the pen so abysmally, only Evernote. The bit with the pen colors and linewidths is purely bush league, like a senior undergrad project demonstrating a proof of concept and then just letting it rot. The breaking of the filenames (pretty sure that's what's happening) and the loss of access to the PDFs should be mortifyingly embarrassing. It is an application-breaking error. If I can't trust the application not to send my data and documents into Never Never Land, I can't-- won't!-- trust it to do anything at all. Or I can find an application that works right. Having skimmed the forum, I can see people have been complaining about related issues for ages and it is manifestly obvious that Evernote are just not professional enough to care. I'm under no illusions, here. The loss of my three dollar a month subscription means nothing, in the ultimate scheme of things. But I'm not paying even small amounts of money for an application that trashes my data willy-nilly. I'm not even paying for one that doesn't trash my data but is still laughably unusable on my platform of choice. (Recall, by the way, that PDF annotation is a feature that kicks in only at the paid tier.)

What am I missing, here? Over the past day and a half, with Evernote 10.46 Personal on a new Tab S8+ with S-PEN, I have noticed the following when trying to annotate a PDF within a note: Just getting into the annotation screen on Android is a painful exercise in UI exploration and blind luck. Apparently the way to do this is: Go to the notebook Select the note by touching in the left pane Touch the whitespace *above or below* the name of the PDF in the left pane, but not the PDF itself Then long touch the PDF name in the left hand pane Then notice and touch the circle-a symbol. But make sure not to be doing any of that with the pen itself. Use your finger, because the pen taps have an unfortunate tendency to be recognized as text punctuation-- a period, a comma, an apostrophe, sometimes a tilde, whatever. I'm not 100% sure what happens next, but I think that mark is then incorporated into the filename of the PDF itself! Whatever is happening, the PDF disappears from note never (so far) to return. Gone. Vanished. Dead. But if you get past that, you are treated to the worst stylus implementation I have ever seen, bar none, no exaggeration. If I try to write "hello" in a natural fashion across the PDF, without even worrying about handwriting recognition: I can't get a true black pen stroke, just an anemic grey Aside from that the color palette is woefully limited. I can't get a usefully narrow penstroke-- the narrowest setting is far too wide Sometimes a second stroke won't register at all-- am I writing too fast for it? Sometimes it will assume two sequential strokes are meant to be joined. Sometimes it thinks the second stroke is not a stroke but an attempt to move the first stroke. If the PDF was a white background, there is no visual indication where it starts and stops and the application will cheerfully render the full stroke and then remove whatever was outside the document area in postprocessing a few seconds later. That one was fun to figure out. There's probably more, I've only been able to annotate documents for a few hours, but that's what I've noticed so far. This feature cannot possibly be this bad-- as it is, it's worse than not having the feature at all. What am I missing? What do I have set wrong in Evernote, or on the Tablet itself?

It is a year and a half later and as far as I can tell there is still no way to get basic PDF annotations working correctly on Android. Why can't I do something simple, like open a PDF-within-a-note with a quality PDF editor (Squid would be my choice, but this doesn't seem to work for any editor), mark it up with the s-pen, and then save it back in place? This is basic OS functionality. Worse, as far as I can tell, the ability to annotate PDFs at all, even through Evernote-specific means, seems to be completely broken on Android. When can we expect any of this to work?

This has now been happening for at least two months according to the comments here. It is still happening. So when exactly is this going to be fixed?