jefito

While interns are also valued colleagues, we are allowed to bark at them as well.

Are you sure about how your original recipes text files were encoded? I created a new UTF-8/BOM text file in Notepad++, and copied your first post here into it, andadded some carriage returns for spacing. Then I saved it into an Evernote import folder on a Windows machine, and all of the special characters came through fine: Seems fine to me.

I can assure you that not once have I ever quacked -- or squeaked -- in response to a valued colleague.

All they need is the general idea. Not much new has been added since early on in the discussion (typical for long-running topics like this one), and the whole of the request is easily summarizable. A summary plus some indication of user desire (post counts here and on other request sources) plus some notion of feasibility/implementation cost (which would be internal to Evernote) is all that's needed for prioritization. Which you're perfectly welcome to do. But this is exactly the sort of post that really doesn't add much to the actual prioritization process, except for maybe a +1 on the request count. As long as the folks assigned to monitor the forums are doing their jobs, there's no real need for the decision makers to read everything.

I've used Evernote reminders for this sort of thing since they were first introduced awhile back. They work great on Windows, and are seem fine on Android as well (which I use less that Windows). The reminder list is always at the top of the current note list, and the reminders shown in it are filtered by the current search filter.; the reminder list is collapsible as well Reminders can be sorted by reminder date or arbitrarily via drag/drop, all independently of the current note list sorting. You may consider this a workaround, but frankly, I'd rather have Evernote reminders than note pinning as requested here, if I had to choose; it's that much more powerful a system, without being over-complicated or obtrusive. Note that I don't use reminders for notifications; only for managing todo tasks, at home and at work. Unless it doesn't work on iThingies (always a possibility with Evernote of old), it would seem like a good thing for your case, too. What was your experience them?

Why not just make a bookmark that goes direct to the login? The link is: https://www.evernote.com/Login.action

I understand the effect very well, but "rubber duck debugging" has never been au corant in any organization I've worked for in the 35+ years I've been in the software biz, despite the author's claim to its widespread use (oh, hey, it's Lifehacker, so never mind. "Because coders are weirdos, they have a tradition of asking a rubber duck." Really?? No. There is no such tradition.). I was aware of the term via Jeff Atwood's blog (and he's a hero, for StackOverflow, if for nothing else), but never used it. All of that being said, I've experienced countless number of times situations where a co-worker calls me over with a problem, they start explaining while I'm still thinking about whatever it is I'm working on, so not really paying attention, and then all of a sudden they go "Oh, I see where I screwed up. I'm an idiot. Thanks a lot for your help!", and I just smile and answer "No problem. Really." and go back to my own problems. But I think that the real crux here is trying to verbalize the problem to a person (or as if to a person), rather than firing off a note/forum post etc without thinking about context or having done some basic research. Good idea, but I'm not holding my breath on this one.

My wife and I have a meme for that; goes something like this: "Two great minds with but a single thought. Honey, can I borrow the thought for a little bit now?" Yes, we're easily amused...

What makes you think that Evernote management is not aware of demand for this and other features? I can assure you they are. You might head on over to the recent "Behind the Scenes Series" subforum and check out the videos that star Evernote's CEO to see the depth of his engagement with the product and awareness of user pain points. But if you think that contacting management directly is going to make them more aware than they already are, then go for it..

I'm not sure why they'd do that, and indeed, they relatively recently -- as far as I can tell -- added some new commands to ENScript. Nothing earthshaking, at least for my usage, but still. The new commands: version - display version information listDatabases - lists all local databases to standard output exportDatabase - exports all notebooks into a folder deleteDatabases - deletes the data directory Let's be careful and make sure we're not conflating the common editor with a common UI. The various existing device dependent Evernote UIs encompass more than just the note editing piece of things, which is what the common editor thrust seems to be. Aside from that, sure, there's impetus to provide common functionality across all Evernote platforms (e.g. nested tag hierarchy, which is a part of the recent CEO videos), and that's laudable, but taking away things that work fine on particular platforms (e.g. desktop) just because they don't work on others would be pretty short-sighted, and I'm doubting that that's going to happen any time soon.

In the Windows application, you can use the Note History toolbar button to serve as a recent note finder. Long clickon the left arrow ("<") in the note history tool, and it should give you a list or recently visited notes. I don't know of any other mechanisms for this in the Windows application.

??? Wouldn't work in any of the companies I've ever worked for. Neither of the sales folk nor the engineers set Evernote priorities. They both may participate in the process: customer demand and implementation feasibility go into the equation, but even so, it Evernote management that makes the final call.

The dark mode problem relates directly to how Evernote is implemented in Windows and solutions for other operating systems do not apply to Windows, so they cannot be ported. Plenty more details are already available in this thread; please see comments from former employee dconnet. While you may consider it to be a 'basic feature', it is evidently not a simple feature to implement, and therefore is -- so far as we now know -- currently prioritized down. Only you can answer that one. If dark mode is a critical feature for you, then you should use a different platform where Evernote does implement dark mode, or use a different note-keeping solution.

Is this a request for the native Windows Evernote application? In the meantime, maybe the following will work for you (I've never tried it myself): https://www.pcworld.com/article/3184385/how-to-easily-switch-between-open-windows-of-the-same-program.html

You can start by not tracking beta releases. That being said, Evernote, like most software, has bugs, both known and unknown. Some people find earlier versions that work best for them and stick to them until a newer version is found that suits their needs. Maybe that would work for you.

And yet, Evernote is a very successful application by most measures. Many, many people are able to get by without Markdown. And some folks use third-party tools like Marxico. As for competitors, it's a bit hit or miss. OneNote, probably the most visible and comparable competitor, doesn't support Markdown natively. Others do support Markdown, sure, but they can have other weaknesses that don't compare favorably to Evernote. Markdown is a killer feature for some folks, and a "WTF is Markdown anyways?" for others. In other words, one feature out of a number of possible features on which to base your choice of note keeper software (or whatever category Evernote is in). So the question here is what do you mean by adding Markdown? If you mean Markdownish shortcuts to produce specific formatting, Evernote has done some of that in various of its clients, and could do more, but that's only a one-way thing. If you mean full two-way Markdown support, then that's where things get tricky. Evernote stores all of its note content in ENML, an XHTML derivative (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enml.php), and adding Markdown support would necessitate changes to ENML to accommodate the new content type .. So are we talking about a Markdown specific note type? Or are we talking about modes where either the original Markdown or the resulting formatting is shown? How is the Markdown stored? How is round-tripping ENML _> Markdown --> ENML accomplished? How easy are all/any of these? If it's not trivial (I don't know for sure, not being privy to the code, but that's my guess) then it's certainly then a matter of Evernote's internal prioritization process. Bottom line: it's an entirely justifiable decision for them to make. That no staff member has discussed t for awhile isn't particularly meaningful. They don't discuss in the forums all decisions that they make in general, and if their prioritization calculation hasn't changed, then there's no real reason to keep repeating themselves. And even if they do have it in the works, they are pretty gun-shy about pre-announcing features. Dunno about PR, but the real question is how much money would it add to the bottom line vs how much would it cost to add it and how much they might lose by implementing something else. In other words, the usual calculations that development companies make all the time. Asking for Markdown support is a fair request, of course (and a popular one, too), but calling Evernote's decision "STUPID" doesn't seem to make sense, at least without further knowledge of what's really behind it..

The original error was easy enough to replicate. Create a string 300 characters long (0123456789012345678901...", copy it into the Title area, and press Enter. Get the "too long" message. Easy enough to fix: shorten the title.. Never saw any inescapable loop. Folks who *have* seen it on the most recent release (I'm running 6.21.2.8716 (308716) Public (CE Build ce-62.5.9981)), should give a precise set of steps to replicate. Oh, and the title length limit is specified in the API: it's 256 Unicode characters (http://dev.evernote.com/doc/reference/Limits.html#Const_EDAM_NOTE_TITLE_LEN_MAX). Evidently it's enforced differently in the Windows client (if not others).

I'd guess that the level-of-effort for implementing sub-notebooks would be about the same as implementing sections. It would be an architectural change, affecting the internals of notebook (need a list of sections) and notes (what section am I in?), as well as search and sorting (remember, notes can be sorted across networks in various ways, so "visual separation" wouldn't always be apparent), across all Evernote platforms, including the Evernote servers. I don't see much difference, conceptually.

I'd suggest rolling your own template, probably using a table. I don't use the Evernote template system; instead, I just use the Windows client's Duplicate Note function to replicate my note templates for new items (weekly journals, in my case). Works pretty well for me.

I'm sure they are (and btw, which comments?): the search language is designed to work this way. From the search grammar reference (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php); the relevant section is: I don't know of any plans to change this, but I'm not privy to Evernote's internal plans.

Windows? Mac? Android? iOS?

What's the big deal? You start typing, and that text goes away. Entirely harmless, and useful for the people who do use templates.

I'll move this to a feature request forum so that people can vote on it, but I don't agree that it needs to be a basic feature. Evernote needs to have some incentive for people to pay for their service; this is one of them. Aside from that, you could probably find some tool to rotate them on whatever devices you use, and rotate them before storing them into Evernote.

I don't use them very often, but when i do I use the toolbar tool or Alt+Left or Alt+Right. I would usually reference them as back/forward in web history. I actually use them more often in Evernote, typically just to go back from a previous internal link navigation.

What do forward/back keys do in Chrome? This sort of thing might be possible using something like AutoHotKey.