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Since I'm a Windows user, I'll invoke @DTLow, who is very familiar with the Mac application and maybe he knows. It's a pretty handy feature and I'd like to have it on other platforms (Web and Android are the other two I use). In Windows, there are also toolbar buttons available that you can long-press to get a menu of previous and next locations, again, a lot like a web browser, or Chrome anyway. These "History" buttons generally take into account search context, not just note navigation, again, pretty handy, though sometimes confusing. Not sure what "Home" is: for Evernote, I suppose it would be either "All Notes" or your default notebook or the notebook you were in the last time you were in Evernote? Again, I recommended something like the Windows implementation, which gives you both options: a dropdown notebook list to move the note to if you click on the button, but provides for the ability to filter to that notebook if you click on the triangle icon to the right of the notebook button (the triangle icon works in the same way for tags, except it toggles the tag on/off in the current search filter). Both functions are useful. Evernote web is pretty hotkey poor, though there are some editing functions. Hopefully that will improve over time.

The scenario is if you do a search for notes using some other criterion than notebook (e.g., literal text, tag, reminder, MIME content), then this gives you a quick way to get to the notebook that the note is contained in. I've found that to be useful on occasion. Not sure what a "breadcrumb trail" is. Are you referring to the history functionality implemented in e.g. Evernote for Windows where you can go back and forth through your Evernote navigations using Alt+Left and Alt+Right keys, much like page history in a web browser?

I doubt that actual intuition comes into play here (most of what is called "intuitive" is actually learned behavior, and there's not a lot of similar UI that's out there to have learned from), but I think that a better choice might be to do something similar to what they do with tags: make the button have a dropdown that leads to menu items that let you: 1.:Filter by notebook, and 2. Move the note to a different notebook,

If you're using the Mac client, then you should report problems in the Mac forum here: https://discussion.evernote.com/forum/219-evernote-for-mac/ This forum is specific to the Evernote web client.

Correct. The intent seems to be to have this be a shortcut to "going to" that notebook, i.e., filtering the note display to notes in that notebook. To move a note to a different notebook, you click on the "..." menu at the upper right, and select "Move to..."

A big problem here is that Evernote's note content (ENML) isn't a full equivalent to HTML (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enml.php), and its editing capabilities are tailored towards editing only ENML content, and not full HTML. Moreover, in the web clipping process, HTML must be translated to more-or-less equivalent ENML, so it's not going to be an exact replica of the original web page. Anyways, the ability to remove the tables while retaining the cell content is a fair request, and actually something I'd find useful. Upvoted.

No way to do this currently, as far as I can tell. There should be...

You can reply to him all you want (and it's better if you learn to use the forum quoting system if you do reply to someone), but he''s not been around here for a long time (note the date on his post). Sure. This is pretty well-known. Notebooks "contain", in that a note belongs to exactly one notebook at a time. Tags "label", in that a note may have multiple tags. In Evernote, notebooks are required for sharing a group of notes with someone else, or for designating local notebooks on a desktop computer, or offline notebooks on mobile platforms. You can't do that with tags. Flip side, notebooks are also usable for partitioning your note set into discrete collections., but you can do that with tags, and moreover, you can organize those tags in a hierarchical fashion, which you cannot do with notebooks. Also because you can apply multiple tags to a note, a note can be categorized into several different categories, which is very useful, and no, you cannot do that with notebooks. But you can certainly share individual notes. Please define "messy" vs. "clean". And what are the tag and notebook "workflows"? Tags and notebooks are organizational tools; a workflow is a procedure for processing information. No question that this is long requested. Somehow Evernote has weathered the demand over the 10 years or so since the original request, and grown to over 200 million users.Should they add it? Probably. Is it necessary? Not for me to say (I wouldn't use it, but that's just me). It could happen in the future, but if you're basing your decision on whether to use Evernote on whether nested notebooks are implemented or not, I'd say at this point don't hold your breath.

Take a look at it in the Evernote web client, just to make sure it's not the note content, but instead something weird with the Windows application.

Did you accidentally zoom the note display (Ctrl++, er, Ctrl + 'thePlus' key)? Try hitting Ctrl+- a few times.

And millennials, and you don't know the half of it. My town of just under 70,000 people has at least 5 roasteries that I can name off the top of my head in the city limits, and 20 or more craft breweries and I'm not even much of a drinker. And then the restaurants -- I could go on. Anyways, the coffee I get is roasted about 30 miles away, but I can get it at my local grocery store, and I wouldn't buy it is it wasn't good.

Good catch: they behave like folders in a file system in that (normally) a fle belongs to exactly one folder. Maybe "folders in a filing cabinet would be better". I'll edit. Sure, and we all know that, but the point of that particular post was to describe the properties of Evernote notes, notebooks, stacks, and tags actually work and interact, not how to use them. It's the starting point, and crucial to understanding what you can and cannot do with them. Fact is, the emulation is actually rather poor because tag names are unique to an account, and cannot be repeated in the hierarchy. The latter fact (tag uniqueness) is essential to understanding the limitations of using tags as a file folder emulation.

Oh, thanks. It's sort of a standard mantra I've been using for awhile to isolate the main Evernote organizational components; it's always seemed to me that it's a good starting point for how you can then start talking about various organization schemes in Evernote, particularly when you add in the Evernote search capabilities. This is the sort of stuff I look for when I look at Evernote competitors (or any new software, really), but never seem to find (e.g. OneNote, Notion, at least the last time I looked at them).

And hey - don't go jumpin' to no conclusions here stranger; there's some competition for that position - along with the consumption (out of school hours) of other recreational beverages with a higher specific gravity... Heh, I meant aside from me. I just buy mine locally (and locally roasted), rather than mail order...

There's also the Windows Emoji keyboard: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/02/05/windows-10-tip-get-started-emoji-keyboard-shortcut/. Shortcut: Win+. (Windows key plus the period). Not sure when this was added, but it's working for me. Beyond that, you could also use a 3rd party tool like AutoHotKey or Phrase express to define keystrokes that insert special symbols into an Evernote note.

No way that I know of. You'd need to figure out a way to split up the bookmark HTML export into separate notebooks/notes on your own. Personally, I think that this would be a pretty crazy usage of Evernote, notwithstanding the fact that Evernote's flat notebook organizational scheme can't model the bookmark hierarchy anyways.

I prefer to spend time organizing my notes, not my tags. My tag vocabulary is pretty stable by now anyways, but I do still add new tags on occasion. Even so, some of my tags resist a pure hierarchy anyways, because they can be used in different contexts: there's no single place to put them. In practice, I keep my Windows left panel tag tree closed almost all the time; I just plain don't use them for note navigation. BTW, this also has the benefit of making he lack of tag hierarchy on other platforms irrelevant to me. All the above being said, consistency in presentation would be a good thing for folks who do use them for navigation. Guess we know who the coffee hound is around here...

Note that nestable tags are not required for tag-centric organization. It helps if you want to do mouse clicking up and down a tree of organizing elements (folder, tags, whatever), sure, but not everyone needs-- or wants -- to do that. Some of us just type in the tags they want to search for...

A little late to this, as I spent my Labor Day weekend in a remote coastal area of my state with dodgy Internet connections (but with great food). Here's my semi-standard explanation for beginners, largely sans techie jargon like ":metadata" (though I can go there if asked), or metaphysical conceptualization about Evernote constructs. It's more or less a starting point for understanding and discussing Evernote concepts and how they fit together. I leave out search for further discussion, although search is necessarily closely related to the Evernote structural elements. This purely a how-they-work summary, not a how-should/can--they-be-used overview Herewith: Evernote is a software for note taking and note collection. with the ability to access your note collection across multiple computer devices. An Evernote note can contain text, tables, links, images and other files. Notes have other properties like title, author, URL, creation date, modified date and so on. All notes belong to exactly one notebook. In that respect, Evernote notebooks behave like physical notebooks, or shoeboxes, or folders in a file system file folders in a filing cabinet. Notebooks are not nestable: they cannot contain other notebooks; only notes. Notebooks have names that are unique to a user's account. Notes may be moved freely among a user's notebooks. An Evernote notebook may belong to either 0 or 1 stacks Stacks are notebook containers only, and may not contain other stacks or notes. Stacks have names that are unique to a user's account. A stack contains one or more notebooks; if the last notebook in a stack is removed, then the stack is also removed. A notebooks can be removed from its stack, or added to a stack, or moved to a different stack. A tag is a label that you can apply to an Evernote note, but not to notebooks or stacks. You can apply the same tag to multiple notes, and a note can have 0 or more tags applied to it. Tags are just a piece of text with no intrinsic meaning, though it's really helpful if a user chooses good tag names for themselves (or for others, if notes are shared with other people). Tags behave like physical labels you might put on an object, or keywords in a research paper, or even like adjectives to a noun; they generally are used to describe the note they're applied to in some way, but again, there are no intrinsic rules as to the meanings of tag names. Tag names are unique to a user's account. By default, tags are listed in a single flat list, but they can be organized in a hierarchical fashion. There is no intrinsic meaning in Evernote as to the meaning of a tag hierarchy; the user can create a hierarchy that suits their own needs. Tags can be freely added to or removed from notes.

Note history includes previous searches, which I find very useful. It usually seems to go back to the previous note in that search as well. Usually back through a search is close enough for me, though.

Or if you use reminders, you can use the filter -reminderdonetime:* that excludes notes that were reminders and have been marked as done. For more, see: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php Note that "reminderdonetime" (or "Reminder Done Time" as it's shown in list views) is already a note field.

There is not.

I suggested that, and I've had pretty good luck the few times I've done it; just tried my weekly work journal just now -- it's a big table, with an image in the header -- and it did fine. Evernote for Windows can also print to PDF, and Word can read those as well. If and until Evernote ever provides an export to .docx, those are the options.

What is the "universal search bar"? Is that a Mac thingy?

Dunno. I just tried it with the WIndows Evernote application, and it came in fine, resizable and editable. Maybe it depends on the image and how it's embedded in the web page. If you have an example of something that doesn't work fro you, post it, and we'll see whether we can replicate it.