BurgersNFries

I tend to try and think of a tag as a type of folder. EG. I store my expenses in EN so to add a receipt in a normal hierarchical system I would need to open :

 

Expenses --> 2013 --> September

 

Instead I have a main Archive notebook that holds everything and just tag the receipt September 2013. If I want to view all expenses for that month I can just click on the tag.

 

One point - not sure if its the same on the desktop clients, but in the web interface you can nest tags many levels deep, not sure if this is a new feature but only noticed it recently.

 

I am a premium account user.

I love this service very much except the limitation of notes(250 note books).

I have 2325 notes now.

In order to reduce use the total number of notebooks,I try to use tags.

Now I have 129 notebooks and 198 tags.

Try to tag one note is a hard work in your software (198 tags and increasing @@)

I am also a pro user of Wiznote,tagging is easier in their software.

It need no scrolling and try to find out correct tags of a note.

Can developer improve it?

Change the limitations or change the interface,please!

Can you imagine try to scrolling 10000 tags for correct tagging?

It is surely a nightmare!

IMO, you're overtagging. IMO, some folks "overtag". Often, tags are not needed if you use descriptive titles, some tags, some notebooks/stacks & keywords. I have over 62,000 notes & have never reached the 250 notebook limit. I'd guess less than half my notes have any tags at all. Probably only about 1/3 of my notes have tags. Those that do have tags normally have only 1-3 tags. IE, all my bills are in Evernote. Although they are in a "bills" notebook, I can quickly & easily find my Cox cable bill from June 2009 by searching ALL notes because the title of that note includes the vendor (Cox) and the date of the bill in YYYYMMDD format. So a simple search of

intitle:cox intitle:200906*

will quickly find the ONE note which is the bill I'm looking for from over 62,000+ notes. And I didn't even use a tag.

You can also net the tags for organizational purposes only. This allows you to collapse the top tier so the nested tags do not show up. Or even the "hide unassigned" tags may be helpful.

 

Both Everpad and Nixnote (Nevernote) suck! In addition, Evernote native client sucks under wine. After trying these, I use Evernote's slow web client (website). There is a HUGE community of Linux users, many of them using Evernote (some of them like me, on a daily basis). I really think Evernote should respect all of its users. It's a democratic world, not an authoritrian one where you dictate your users which OS they should use.

We really want it dear Evernote!

Evernote certainly does respect their users. Just because they don't do something you want them to do doesn't mean they are disrespecting you. A company is not a democracy. Those in charge have to make choices & they have chosen to not make a Linux client. And lastly, they are not dictating (or even trying to dictate) what OS you use.

I own and operate an IT firm. We serve over 50 medium to large size companies. We've tested several products including Evernote, for possibilty to suggest the service to our clients (Business Edition). This forum and complaints about education discount was a game changer for our decision. We can not promote nor support a company that offers a service to teachers/students for discounted price and than with no communication it stops the discount... This is no different than giving the students cookies with discounted price and taking it back from their lunch boxes. This is not ethical, I will take my business elsewhere. I hope someone from Evernote is reading this; Shame on you guys.

IIRC, this discount was for a premium account & was specifically for a limited time frame (three months, IIRC.)  Rather like a trial magazine subscription or a trial of a software app.  So it's not like the users were totally unaware that this was not a lifetime deal.  Having said all that...Evernote is...FREE!  Premium account is optional.  So I'm not really sure what there is to complain about.

Evernote is a wonderful platform, but I have a concern and I am sure I am not alone. I want to use Evernote for managing all sorts of information related to work projects, but I want to have the ability to export them to a desktop folder to use elsewhere if I want to. As far as I can tell, Evernote supports exports in PDF and HTML, but this is not very useful to me. I would like to be able to export to .doc or .txt so I can use my data outside of Evernote if I ever choose to.

Right now it seems that content is basically trapped in Evernote's ecosystem forever. Please tell me I am wrong.

No, content is not trapped in Evernote. Exporting to html is the best way to get information out of Evernote.

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/42066-copy-all-evernote-notes-to-google-drive/

I have just gotten Ubuntu 13.04 on my computer. Is there an Evernote for Linux or should I just use Wine?

Please search the board on linux. Evernote has no plans to make a linux client but other options are discussed.

And this is why I prefer Springpad over Evernote.

Completely oblivious when it comes to having a visual UI.  Just now I was testing out both of the platforms.  I was trying to clip a page with a video in it. With Springpad,  I can select the image which represents the thumbnail of the video.  But with Evernote, it randomly chooses a thumbnail of a related video.

It's great that Springpad works well for you.  OTOH, for some (like say, me) the features that EN has that Springpad does not far outweigh being able to select a thumbnail.  That's why there's chocolate & vanilla.

Please help I accidentally deleted a tab with maybe another 50 sub-tabs. Which means there are around 500-600 notes that I need to re-tag, it's going to take forever! So as i recognized what I had done, I unplugged my internet to prevent it from syncing. The good news is that I checked my online account and in that version all the tabs are still there.

My idea was to uninstall evernote on the PC, and then re-install it, in the hopes that it would download the old version of my database off the web. However I tried that, but when I re-installed evernote, it did not download anything. It already had all my notes there already, with the deleted tags still missing. So somehow uninstalling EN did'nt get rid on my local database. What do I do? so that I can get my online database to overwrite my local one?

Windows is renowned for not fully deleting files/folders when uninstalling an app. For future reference, Revo uninstaller is the best way to workaround this.

However in this case, you don't need to uninstall EN. And it's great you prevented syncing. As long as the notes on the web client are correct & you have no unsynced notes (including any local notebooks) all you should need to do is fully exit EN on your computer, including any elephants in the system tray, locate all your-user-name.exb files on your computer (there will be at least one), rename them (I would not delete them until you're certain everything is fixed) & reinvoke EN. It will then require you to be connected to the internet & will require you to provide your account login credentials. (If it doesn't do this part, then EN found an exb file you didn't rename, so stop, exit EN & find it before continuing.) It will create a new exb file & download all your notes from the EN servers.

If you have any unsynced notes (including local/non-synced notebooks), please search the board on

backup restore local

For info on how to migrate them.

I would also suggest you start making your own backups of the EN database as well. There is a lot of information on the board already on the topic.

As of today, stack sharing is still not available, gosh why so difficult?  I have a stack of 20 notes to share with my hubby and friends, but I cannot.  Sharing each notes would be so much more work....and stupid.

First, you have no idea of the difficulties involved. Second, AFAIK, EN hasn't even said they will do this or when. So I'm guessing sharing stacks is still not going to be available tomorrow. Or next week. Or even next month.

No one here is saying Evernote is "good enough" & certainly not Evernote.  They are regularly updating their clients & adding or increasing features.  However, a feature that is important to you but does not exist in Evernote does not immediately qualify it as a "serious flaw".  Statements like that demonstrate a certain amount of naivete.  The forum is littered with similar thoughts on totally different features such as sub-notebooks, lan syncing, manually ordering notes, etc, etc. etc.  Some users even go to the extent of claiming to know adding a particular feature is easy to do and/or will increase revenues by a bajillion dollars overnight.  (I may be exaggerating that last one a teeny bit.)  But even if it was easy, that doesn't mean EN has even decided to add it. It may be something EN has decided not to add. It might be easy to change the color of the EN apps to purple. But maybe they simply don't want to do that. You don't even know that EN hasn't taken a particular feature request  very seriously and simply decided against it (for whatever reason(s)).

Seemingly every well-reasoned request for this fundamentally-useful feature is deprecated by some self-appointed Evernote Evangelist.

Evernote Evangelists, personally I'm insulted by your 'small number of users' argument with respect to this feature, and disappointed by your collective apathy in really trying to understand the depth and breadth of this feature's general usefulness.

Instead, we're pontificated to with condecending, closed-ended statements in a less-that-subtle ad hominem effort to riducule and marginalize supporters of this feature request.

For example, list-sorting would be useful to everyone who uses checkboxes for provisioning (i.e. 'shopping'). If list sorting were possible, it would be a simple matter to

• Check the boxes for the items that you already have, or items you have just tossed in the shopping cart,
• Hit 'resort', and instantly move all checked-item to the bottom of list.

Users cannot easily do this in an external application on a tablet or phone when mobile -- the 'sorting list in an external application' argument really struck me as particularly myopic as to how this application is leveraged by a vast majority of users.

Evernote Evangelists, I'm not interested in any response that doesn't ask thoughtful questions in a genuine attempt to better understand and define this feature request.

No one has said this feature would not be useful. And I don't think this feature is really in need of being further defined. This isn't rocket science. However, it's something Evernote has chosen to not implement yet, if at all. It's their company, their product & their choice. If you're insulted & disappointed, that's unfortunate, but we cannot control your feelings. BTW, I'm not a "self professed Evernote Evangelist. Evernote approached me & gave me that moniker.

Need I go on, or have I made my point?

So I'm going on vacation, and I'll be using EN every day...but I won't be back to this forum for a week or two. Promise I will keep a log of all the time-saving opportunities for within-note list-sorting in my travels, and report-back appropriately.

And as stated previously, I'm not interested in responses that doesn't ask meaningful questions or otherwise escalate the discussion to promote better understanding and definition this feature request.

Actually, the only point you've made is that you're annoyed with valid & reasonable answers provided by other users & that you just don't get that, eventhough GM tried explaining it to you.

Additionally, you may not be interested in many subsequent posts. But this is a message board, open to all users. You are not able to dictate what type of replies you will get.

Furthermore, I suggest we get back on topic. If you have any issues with any users, evangelists or not, please feel free to use the report button that is on every post. Futher discussions on your views of Evernote evangelists will result in thread lock, since this board exists for discussing Evernote, not your opinion of other Evernote users. Thank you.

Exactly. It won't keep out hackers and it doesn't need to. I am talking about those "Casual users" who can come to my computer today and read my stuff. With a Passcode lock, they can't access my evernote.

Or...just see post #2. That's Evernote's recommendation:

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/6002-feature-request-option-to-require-passcode/?p=52934

Nested stacks are absolutely needed. The Evernote team should seriously consider this issue, this is very important.

I've got used to Chrome style bookmarks: I store my bookmarks in multi-level nested structure. Although I use Xmarks to sync my bookmarks across different browsers, I use Chrome for organizing them because it has a very intuitive and efficient bookmark manager which lets you manage bookmarks and bookmark folders like regular files and folders with the same shortcuts and mouse operations you use in your OS (Windows shortcuts are the de facto among OSes) like holding down Shift or Ctrl, multi select, drag and drop, easily rename, even Ctrl+Z to undo your actions, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V. I think Evrnote notebooks should be considered as folders rather than notebooks, then you can put your notes in these folders, and of course you can have multiple folders inside each other (as many hierarchical levels as you need). Stacks are the best concept for organizing, you cannot put single notes in them, but when you consider folders you can have both folders and notes inside another folder (again like bookmarks), which is needed in my opinion. And of course, we should be able to use regular desktop interactions with them, like using the same keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, and so on.

 

Does it have any impact to request this feature here? Or should we write directly to the Evernote team?

 

Thank you in advance.

EN is fully aware that many users want nested notebooks and/or stacks.  It's doubtful they will appear any time soon, if ever.  Options (tags, keywords, etc) have been discussed at great length already on the board. 

Well again its all about convenience and who do you trust. Lastpass was hacked 2 years back.  Evernote makes it easy to store information and find them. Even though i dont condone people to store things like password out in the open, but evernote certainly has the ability to store sensitive information. The encryption feature is also great but sadly its on "Per note" basis and not on entire account or notebook.

 

A simple passcode lock will certainly add an extra layer of security on the existing secured and awesome Evernote.

A "simple passcode lock" does pretty much nothing except keep out the casual user.  IE, a guest in your home who has access to your computer.  It won't keep out a hacker. 

I don't know about a Lastpass hack.  I do know Roboform encrypts your data on their servers & they do not have the encryption password, which is a different password than your account password, unless the user is uninformed/lazy & uses the same one for both.  IOW, if you forget your encryption password, you have lost your data forever.  Roboform cannot send it to you b/c they don't have it.  What that means is even if Roboform servers got hacked & someone had access to your Roboform data, they still can't view it unless/until they use a brute force attack to get your encryption password.  I would guess Lastpass is similar in that respect, since it's a highly regarded password manager. 

It really depends on the use case. If a user uses Evernote for general note taking, to-dos and store clips then they probably wont really appreciate the lock feature. However if you are storing passwords, credit card information, banking information and other crucial details I think having an extra layer of security is a must.

 

You should use a true password manager for this type of info.

Just my opinion.

That's my point.

but quite frankly I have given up on expecting Evernote to make wise choices on my behalf and will continue to rely on the forum as it is clear that EN will continue to require many work arounds in order to deal with the (far too many) EN annoyances. Glad that Google Keep might in time keep you folks honest - a good idea you have but some poor execution. I know that is harsh, but as an adjunct to a business productivity tool you have a long way to go in making something that is really useful let alone elegant.

Why would you expect Evernote to make "wise choices" on your behalf?  You are but one of what was it last count, sixty million plus?, users.   They apparently have been making wise choices for a majority of their users.  Something that you call "some pretty fundamental usability" is not necessarily what many others would call fundamental.  The forum is ripe with feature requests that others call "basic functions" & many of them are different from yours.  (More fonts, highlighting, sub-notebooks, lan syncing, blah, blah, blah.) The app may not do everything you want it to do.  I know it doesn't do everything *I* want it to do.  But the apps & service continue to evolve & become better & better.  And there are workarounds that you can use or else find another app that better suits your needs.  But to broad brush Evernote as ignoring *you* is silly.

I don't know what being a software dev has to do with this.  95% of people here have been, are or claim to be devs.  (shrug)
 

I'm a software developer using Evernote very often.

However there is some missing basic feature:
When Evernote allows pictures in the Note and it also offers thumbnails of a picture, it absolutely _basic_ to select _which_ picture is shown as thumbnail.

The quote of BurgersNFries: "You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is." and of jefito answer to ThePixelated (analogously) "You dn't know what a basic feature is." are extremely impertinent.

When such a basic feature is missing, I expect an answer like: "Oh, you are rigtht. It will be implemeneted in one of the next release."
And what I expect also, that this would be implemented on every device.

My comment? Impertinent? Perhaps. Accurate? Absolutely.

If this is Jeff's comment you're referring to...
 

 

Why isn't this a feature yet??? It's basic...

I urge you to take some time to peruse these forums for items that users think are "basic", count them up, and then reconsider your question...

 

It's also accurate.  What you consider to be a "basic" feature does not always coincide with what others consider a "basic" feature.   WRT the answer you "wanted"...:

1. It may be surpassed by tasks of a higher priority
2. it may not even be on EN's to do list
3. EN does not publish their roadmap or ETAs

So yeah...you may not like it (does that sound better?) but that's the way it is.

Your responses read like a smug Apple forum fanatic. I'm sorry this topic burns your soul, but it's a legitimate request. Your attitude is unwelcome.

I never said it wasn't a legitimate request.  Sorry if you don't like my answer.  But I post accurate & valid answers.  Not just an answer that you want to hear.

Yes, yes, and yes. 

Give us manual sort.

It is so important for organizing your notes, particularly if you have a big folder.

Seems such a simple thing. Why can you do it, Evernote?

but I think Evernote can make this happen.

They probably can. I don't know. But they probably won't.

Hello all.

I have been a EN user for a good two years now and would like to know if there is any method for me to share a root stack?

My query comes as I have a group of users who all need the same access rights. At present, I need to share each notebook to that individual list of users - and again when a new notebook is created under the stack.

If I could just share the stack then the permissions would be applied once and then all those users would get the changes/additions.

Does anyone else have this query and if so, is there a method to make a feature request to the Evernote developers?

No. Stacks cannot be shared.

http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/18364-request-sharing-of-stacks/

I would also add that I use Clipmate.  So when I need to carry on, if I have a screen grab/text/URL I want to put into an EN note, I'll copy it & then be able to pull it out of Clipmate later, to put into my Evernote note, once the spinning wheel has subsided.  The problem I tend to run into is when I forget to go back & do this.  ;-)

I've had this issue a lot in the past couple of years.  I've submitted several support tickets.  I've upgraded my OS (I first started getting this on Win XP Pro SP3 & am now using Win 7 Pro).  I've re-downloaded my database entirely from the EN servers twice.  (A daunting task, since I have over 55,000 notes & my local database exceeds 35 gb.)  I've moved my database out from a Truecrypted container.  I've moved my database to a brand new hard drive.  I'm also willing to concede part of this is my computer, since I tend to have a lot of apps running at any given time, leave my computer on 24/7 & switch back & forth between apps quite often as I work & although I hate to use the buzzword, I'd have to say I'm pretty much of a power user of my computers & the many apps I have installed on it/them and b/c I occasionally get slow response on other apps.  (breath) But EN is the one affected most often (like a bunch of times each & every day) & the one that's the longest lag.  But since I don't know of a tool that would better serve me than Evernote does, I tolerate the lags & accept it as SOP, especially given the (relatively) large size of my database & the fact that I regularly add tens of notes pretty much each & every day.  But every now & then, the lags do get to the point where my productivity is greatly hindered & that's when I submit another support ticket.  I guess I should also add that I augment my PC Evernote usage with my iPad & iPhone via FastEver, FastEversnap & Clever.  I've been known to look something up on my iPad with Clever while sitting at my PC, looking at a spinning wheel in the EN app.  (shrug) 

+1

 

please!

 

any formal EN response on this request?

Evernote reads but does not reply to every thread. Nor do they publish roadmaps or ETAs.

You can use a third-party Mindmapping application, and then drag the map files into Evernote if you have a Premium subscription. Then you can double-click to open them again in that application.

 

Hi , can you suggest us one application for mind maps that already have the integration feature with evernote?

 

Thanks!

 What Dave was referring to is the same thing you can do with Word, Excel, video, etc files.  You store the file in an Evernote note & then double click on the attachment icon.  The associated app will be invoked & open the file.  His post is old, so the part about a premium account no longer applies, since free accounts can add any file type now.

Point 1 - the topic of this thread is "Is there an Evernote for Linux'.  NOT "Is there an official version of Evernote for Linux".  The answer to this is YES.

Point 2 - the last few points were useful to people looking into using evernote in Linux as they discuss what's available (including pros and cons).

 

Stop lurking around and bugging people. This is the second thread I've seen you being rude for no reason. It's great that you answer questions about things you know about Evernote for Mac and Windows but please don't answer when you can't provide something contrstructive or useful.

 

This thread is useful for people wanting to use Evernote on Linux. Your comments are not.

I don't know why your knickers are in a knot.  But my post that you seemed to take exception to (#35) is perfectly reasonable & helpful.