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BurgersNFries

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  1. Oh. My. God. You really don't get it... Yikes. I can only hope that Evernote's software/features/design team has more of clue. G FWIW, there are many, many, many people who have a particular feature that they think is absolutely essential. Any software that doesn't have it must have been designed/written my morons. Etc. Quite often, there are at least as many others who think that feature is nice but not essential & would never use it and still others who think it's not essential but nice & may use it if it were implemented. Whether or not EN elects to include these features depends on many things including prioritizing time & money (which is often the same thing.) Apparently, even Microsoft figured it wasn't all that essential, since it was dropped. (shrug) (The weight that carries with the reader of course, depends upon their take on Microsoft. ) I would also agree with Jeff, that the EN editor is not all that feature packed. I'm not complaining b/c if I need lots of formatting, I'll simply use Word. I think the reason is that they aren't really trying to be a text editor, plus they want the usage to be as similar as possible across all platforms, plus, all attributes of the text must be able to be viewed on all the platforms, etc, etc, etc. So I think they started out with a very basic text editor & are improving it as time/money permits.
  2. As metrodon pointed out, no, you cannot flag/tag a note for read only.
  3. You could simply access your account at work by using the web client. You cannot selectively download certain notebooks on the Mac/Windows clients.
  4. Have you tried Nevernote? It's a Linux client for EN developed by forum member baumgarr. The feedback I've seen here on the board is favorable. I don't use Linux, so can't speak directly about it.
  5. You're really reaching here. Oh, well, if that's what floats your boat. Neither you or dloebs or me or anyone else who does not work for EN can know what's easy to implement. Period.
  6. Indeed. I have no intimate knowledge of EN code. And unless you work for Evernote, neither do you. However, I am not making bold statements about how easy something should be to implement. Please don't modify my statements to suit your own purpose. It's very bad form. My claim wasn't about who has certain programming skills. And as far as knowing who has an intimate knowledge of the EN code, no search engine required. It's pretty darned easy. If you don't work for Evernote, you don't have intimate knowledge of their code.
  7. It never ceases to amaze me when people who have no intimate knowledge about a particular piece of software profess to know what's easy to implement.
  8. Cool! Yes, congratulations to baumgarr! (That's pretty cool getting mentioned by Lifehacker!) And for WM users, Don Reba (a member of this forum) has written his own UI that seems to be pretty popular, too. It's called People's Note.
  9. ??? The only people who can address that are those who work at EN. But as has been pointed out a few times, now, this doesn't seem to be anything EN is interested in adding. But if they were, it would be a good long while, so it's best to learn to use the tools already in EN.
  10. Please search on GTD - some people have been able to tweak EN to work with the GTD philosophy. They probably can. I don't know. But they probably won't.
  11. Not sure what you're wanting then. If you're using EN & want to use it on a linux box, that app is supposed to be very good. I don't do linux, so can't speak to it myself. Not sure why you're "afraid" of something like that. There are tons of apps out there that sync with various cloud services. (shrug) I use Dropbox but don't see it as competition for EN. (Similarly, I use OneNote & don't see it as competition for EN.) I use Toodledoo & have two iPhone apps that sync with Toodledo (neither is the "official" Toodledo iPhone app.) One is better when entering several tasks & the other one is better when I'm actually at the market, loading stuff into my cart & marking items off my grocery list. I also use FastEver & it's sister app, FastEver Snap, to quickly get notes & photos into my EN account via my iPhone. It's all good.
  12. It hardly takes a psychic to "predict" something that's already happened. viewtopic.php?f=43&t=13900
  13. There are plenty of mindmapping programs out there.
  14. If you search on 'sub folder' or 'sub notebook', you'll find this discussed ad nauseum.
  15. viewtopic.php?f=30&t=13059&p=59414&hilit=linux#p51960 viewtopic.php?f=30&t=13059&p=59414&hilit=linux#p52007
  16. I don't use EN as my to do list. Several people use EN with the Getting Things Done philosophy, so try searching the board on GTD. IIRC, someone worked out a pretty nifty system. viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8113&start=0&hilit=gtd
  17. I do often merge notes into one, but it's not a requirement. The search on "coffee maker selection" only happened to have two results (I was looking at two different models of a Bunn.) But it could just as easily had many results with titles like Bunn BXW, another titled Bunn GRXW, another titled Keurig B40, another titled Keurig B60, another titled Keurig B70, etc. I don't understand why you think you need to prioritize by naming 001, etc. (Example?) The only time I ever do that is when I have similar notes but the difference between them is so minute, that it's hard to find something significant about each note so I may title them "mattress 01", "mattress 02" and "mattress 03." Most times, I could even combine them into a single note titled "mattress." But if they are images or screen caps & I want to see them on my iPhone (IE, again more shopping research I may want to reference when out shopping for a big ticket item), I like to keep them separate in case calling up a very large note would wig out my iPhone. I can't say it would do this, so this could be an unfounded fear. :?
  18. No. I have over 10,800 notes in EN. I just now selected ALL notebooks (all 10,800+ notes) and did a search on "coffee maker selection" (in quotes, so it only finds notes with the words "coffee maker selection" together rather than the word coffee, the word maker and the word selection) and the results pane showed the TWO (only TWO) notes pertaining to my coffee maker selection. Another example is that I wanted to find the receipt where I'd purchased Orb for the iPhone. (I archive my emails in EN.) Again, I selected ALL notebooks & searched on the words iTunes and orb (not in quotes.) Only THREE notes showed up in the results pane. So I browsed all three & quickly found the one I needed. To reiterate, both searches included ALL notes, so I didn't even select a specific notebook. Nor did I even use a tag, in either of the above cases. Both searches quickly found (within seconds) the 2 or 3 notes that matched my search criteria out of the 10,800+ notes in my database. In the case of the receipt, another ~30 second browse through the three resultant notes yielded the ONE note that I was looking for. Yet another example (when looking for an entry you're not sure about) is my journal/diary entries. I may make a journal/diary entry about looking for furniture for my mother. I may stick that into the "Mother" notebook or the "Journal" notebook. An entry noting that I changed the a/c filters today may go into the "House" notebook. An entry noting I gave the dogs their heartworm medicine may go into the "Pets" notebook. But in all cases, I'll definitely tag the notes with Journal. If I want to browse my journal/diary entries, I search ALL notebooks with the tag of Journal. (I have this as a saved search.) I then will either sort by date created or title and browse away through the numerous entries. If I wanted to find only journal entries pertaining to Mother, the house or the pets, I can then go to the "Mother", "House" or "Pets" notebook & search on the Journal tag. I could just as easily add a tag to the furniture search note of "Mother" (instead of having a "Mother" notebook), add a tag to the a/c filter note of "House" (instead of having a "House" notebook") and a tag to the heartworm note of "Pets" (instead of having a "Pets" notebook) and plop all three notes into the "Miscellaneous" notebook. Adding the second tag of "Mother", "House" or "pets" to the search on the Journal tag would yield the EXACT SAME RESULTS in the results pane as using the three notebooks and only the journal tag. But I haven't completely gotten away from using notebooks. But guess what, this yields the same results as if I had a parent notebook of "Journal/diary" with sub notebooks of "Mother", "House" & "Pets." To take it a step further, let's say I wanted a parent notebook of "Journal/diary", a sub notebook of "pets" and pets subdivided by pet name. To do this in EN, in this case, I wouldn't use any additional tags, I'd just make sure the pet's name was in the note. (Which it probably would be anyway, since the note may be "Monty, rabies shot today" or "Monty treated for ear infection.") So if I wanted to find only the journal entries pertaining to our dog Monty, I'd simply search on the tags "Journal/diary" and "Pets" & add a search term of "Monty." I probably don't need to add the tag/notebook of "Pets" in this case unless we knew someone named "Monty" and there were journal entries talking about him. Adding the "Pets" tag/notebook omits the journal entries referring to the person named Monty. And the notes displayed in the results pane are exactly what would be displayed if I were using sub notebooks like this: Journal/diary --> Pets --> Monty
  19. You're limited to 100 notebooks. I often use temporary/work notebooks for research/work in progress. Then when it's complete, I add appropriate tags & move the notes to another (more generic) notebook. IE, when researching a new coffee maker, I'll create a temporary folder named _coffeemaker. (The underscore puts it at the top of the list where it's easier to get to.) I'll add all my notes, webpages, screen caps, etc in the folder. Once I'm done with the research, in this case, since I don't want to create a tag for this, I'll prefix the titles with something like "coffee maker selection", then move all the notes to my "Miscellaneous" notebook & delete the _coffeemaker folder. I know I can then recall these notes by searching on "coffee maker selection." I'll even add other words to facilitate a future search. In this case, I may also add the word "choice" to each note (copy/paste) in case I look for "coffee maker choice." You say you download your web orders. Not knowing how your downloads look or what format or what data is included (all orders in a single CSV file? One file per order? Multiple products per order so that a single order may need to be split up by product?), it's kind of hard to tell you specifically how I'd do it. But I'm guessing since it's all electronic, the business name & the product name is contained in the file & would be easily found with an EN search. If your downloads contain only orders for a single month, you could change the title to (or prefix it with) Business Name - Product - Sales Records - 200903 (I would use this date format b/c then when you sort by title, it will arrange them chronologically.) BUT...I don't think you'd even have to add the business name & product name, since I'd think that's already included in your download... If the file contains records for multiple months, you could create a notebook named 200912 and 201001 and a main order notebook simply titled "orders." Put each order in the appropriate notebook. Once you know you've got all of Dec 2009 orders downloaded, tag them as Sales Records 200912 & move them to the "main" order file & delete the 200912 notebook. Keep adding newly downloaded web orders to the 201001 notebook until they are all in & then tag them Sales Records 201001, move them to the "main" order file & delete the 201001 notebook. Then if you want to see the sales records for 200912 in May of 2010, just go to the "orders" notebook & search on the tag of Sales Records 200912. You can then sort by title or date created. I hope this makes sense. And as I said, not knowing more about what your downloaded info contains or how it's presented, these are just some suggestions.
  20. You create a tag called orders-2009. You can even create a temporary notebook like I mentioned here:http://forum.evernote.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=10057&p=53894&hilit=prior+year#p53894 As I said before, I think you should spend some time reading the threads to familiarize yourself with how EN works.
  21. I don't use Scansnap, so can't speak directly to it. But if it were me, I'd create a notebook for "current bills". All my scans (of bills) for the current month would go into that notebook. I would also preface each note title with the date the expense was incurred in YYYYMMDD format. I like this format b/c when you sort on title, notes show up chronologically. Once you close the month, you could then assign a tag (IE 200912) by selecting all the notes for that period & adding that tag & possibly a tag for 2009QTR01 so you could search on the expenses for a particular quarter. Then I would move them to the "general" notebook. And of course, there are a few days each month where you're receiving bills from the current month as well as the month before. Again, this is when the YYYYMMDD format of "date expense incurred" is helpful, when you want to move the prior month's expenses from the current month's folder & assign whatever tags you want to assign to them. Another option may be to have 12 notebooks. One for each month of your current fiscal year. You could even set up another 12 for prior fiscal year. Eventually, (if it were me), I'd move everything into a single notebook with tags to be able to find the expenses incurred in the various fiscal periods/years. Since I've never done this, I'd start out this way & see how it worked for me. You may find that another option works better for you.
  22. iEach of your scenarios can be easily accomplished by using the tools currently in EN (notebooks, tags, keywords, creation dates, titles, etc.) If I want to insure I'll be able to sort notes by a date, I'll preface the title with YYYYMMDD of the significant date. IE I keep entries that are tagged "Journal" and the title starts out YYYYMMDD. I may also tag the note work, family, personal, etc. If I want to look at all journal entries, I do search on the tag Journal & sort by title. If I want to reduce those entries to those strictly related to work, I can add in the tag "work" and sort by title. If it's a search you do often, you can make it a saved search. Once you have very many notes (I currently have over 9800), folders & sub folders only make it more difficult to find things. Tags give you greater flexibility.
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