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8 hours ago, Kynareth said:

This is so basic that's ridiculous it wasn't yet implemented into Evernote.

Oh, for goodness' sake: it's the post right before yours: 

10 hours ago, caryn@carynwakelin.com said:

According to my emails I have had a reply from a member called Hartog, but I'm not seeing this in this thread.  Unsure why?  They said this:

Looks like @Hartogs deleted their only forum post. I remember seeing it, and thought that it was pretty unclear at the time.

On 3/9/2020 at 5:21 PM, DavidPierson said:

An option would be fine, a great idea. But for heaven's sake don't unilaterally change the behaviour without an option.

On 3/9/2020 at 6:25 PM, ChrisNZL said:

Would probably prefer a Ctrl+W shortcut to close the window, akin to Explorer or most web browsers.

Alt+F4 continues to work

In additions to @CalS's correct info, two links to more detailed documentation:

How to use Evernote's advanced search grammar: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828-How-to-use-Evernote-s-advanced-search-syntax

Evernote search grammar (technical): https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php

4 minutes ago, JKST said:

Fair comment, thanks and I apologise @DTLow if my frustration boiled over into unreasonableness but the radio silence on why this is not being considered is more than bemusing.

No problem -- these days I'm blaming folks' testiness here (and everywhere) it on COVID-19!   

I think we'd all like more feedback on feature requests from Evernote staffers.

10 hours ago, JKST said:

Instead of trotting out the same responses, that people could have read already, why not just accept that it is not an unreasonable request to have additional functionality so people may use the tool in the way they wish.

OK, a couple of things going on here. First, I think that everyone acknowledges that this is a valid & reasonable request; indeed,some of the regular responders here may have actually upvoted it. Second, though, is what to do about it the current situation. We users cannot change the code, but sometimes workarounds are available, and since this topic is very long, sometimes those workarounds get "trotted out" a number of times. Suggesting workarounds is not necessarily arguing against the request, or somehow invalidating it.

In this case, there are some things a user can do on their own: using separate OS user accounts, and/or separate Evernote accounts. More work? Yep, but "batteries included". Or in some situations (leaving your desk to go get a cup of coffee, mentioned elsewhere), the simple solution is to lock your computer while you're away: in Windows, that's just a Ctrl+L and your Windows account is now locked; no logging out required. 

We're all Evernote users here, and we all want Evernote to improve, and I'd guess that most of us want Evernote users to be able to use Evernote better. That's why I spend my time here, anyways...

11 hours ago, Baranof said:

I personally pay for and love Evernote.  I use it at home and at work so have multiple installs.  I'd like to not have all my personal folders synch to my work computer.  Please consider enabling a folder by folder selection (at the parent level) - or a home / work group that triggers. Then I could select to only select the work group folders (or one by one select work folders) so that my bloated personal folders don't synch to my work computer.  

I use the two-account solution as mentioned. My personal account is premium, and my work account is free. I share several notebooks from my personal to my work account, because they're generally applicable to any company I'd be working for (I'd just get another free account if I switched jobs again), and they're synced automatically.. Mostly works fine,

At home, because I have a premium account, I can have both accounts loaded, synced, and active at the same time, so sharing from my work account to my personal account isn't really necessary (though it's nice-to-have if I need something for work from my phone). That's really handy for working at home, which is every day these days.

15 hours ago, jianfa.tsai said:

Why not an option in Windows Evernote app > Options settings > user select checkbox so Evernote auto launch when laptop start up or user log in. Please implement? 

You mean like this?

As @PinkElephant says, there are other ways to do it yourself. The option above effectively does that...

23 minutes ago, jianfa.tsai said:

why not set as defaults the shortcut keys for new note window, screen slip

These five Global Shortcut keys have defaults, but you can change them to fit whatever works best for you.

There are a large number of local shortcut keys, and speaking from some experience, it can be difficult to find perfect usability for all users in choice of shortcut key. Something that "shortens learning curve" for you may lengthen lengthen learning curve for me, and vice-versa. On the whole, with many 10's of shortcuts available, I'd guess that any so-called leaning curve among the non-standard ones (i.e. excluding Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and the like) would be immeasurable. In fact, I'd guess that most users don't use all of the shortcut keys, so it's not even an issue for most.

Short form: difficulty in measuring a difference for a seemingly small subset of the users = "small bang for big bug", i.e., low priority. Particularly when the user can change the global hotkeys.

BTW, "Move Note" is Alt+Shift+M, not Ctrl+Shift+M (Ctrl+Shift+M is "decrease indentation". That's one that I use a lot, along with its friend Ctrl+M "increase indentation)". Note that Alt+Shift+M is a*lot* closer to the default key set than Ctrl+Shift+M...

2 hours ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

FWIW, I generally prefer to let people choose for themselves whether or not to change where they post. I think it's the former professor in me--I want newer members to see how the forums are structured.

Sometimes I ask, often not. My experience is that many users don't really notice or care where they're posting in the forums, so if it's obvious and unambiguous, I'll just move it. If not, I'll ask. In general, my theory is that a post in in its proper place is more likely to be seen by someone who can comment on it with some expertise (especially Evernote staffers). Maybe that's influenced by my own habits: I only travel through forums that relate to my Evernote usage: general stuff, Windows, Android, and web applications, and the web clipper. No Mac, no iOS, because I know relatively little about those environments / applications.

27 minutes ago, Andis said:

Hmmm... it seems like it's the Evernote clipper who does it. But it only shows it when using Google, not when I use Startpage (that is my standard search engine).
I have removed it now. Not very happy to see my notes showing up on a google website. I do not trust Google at all.

Your notes are not showing up for anyone but you. The web clipper can augment a Google search (dunno about other search engines) with results from your notebooks, but only when you're the one doing the searching, and only if it's enabled in the web clipper options. The relevant web clipper option is "Show Evernote content related to my web searches":

2 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

The only workaround today is to place a table into a note, and place the picture(s) into the table, one pic per cell. The pictures will be resized to the dimension of the table. If you resize the table, the pictures will follow. 

This is not true in the Windows client, from what I can see. If you click on an image, then you'll get a blue outline witha resize handle in the lower right-hand corner:

Tug on the blue square, and the image will resize. As far as I can tell, you cannot make the image larger than its actual dimensions, but you can certainly scale it to display at a smaller size: the image itself does not change, just the scale at which it's shown. .

It is so moved...

On 4/19/2020 at 11:24 AM, Me_in_VA said:

The ability to have a main folder for a specific topic and then to have sub-folders in the main folder allows me to place all my data concerning the main topic into separate folders according to sub-categories. Once I have these sub-folders filled with some data I can add tags to help me locate what I need.

Tags can be used across notebooks, and are an effective way to group related notes, wherever they are. One other option: if you have a main note, you might want to turn it into a "table of contents" note by using note links to directly link to other, related notes. I use a combination of tags and note links myself.

1 hour ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Hi, and welcome to the forums. You may get better results by posting this in the Android-specific forum: https://discussion.evernote.com/forum/210-evernote-for-android/.

Or someone could just move it there. I'd be surprised if you couldn't do it yourself, Dave. I think that your level is high enough. Try it. If it doesn't work, then I or any number of other folks can do it.

I am able to copy an image from Evernote direct into a Facebook post, using the Windows Evernote client and Facebook on Chrome.

Please specify your OS and browser.

You'll need to be more specific. Windows version? Mac? Android? iOS? Web?

A screen cap would be nice.

2 minutes ago, CalS said:

???  

How soon they forget...

1 hour ago, Calvin.Powers said:

I don't just want to change the highligher color. I one to be able to hve some words in a note be highlighted in yellow and maybe other words highlghted in light blue. 

And that's exactly what the highlighter changes in the web beta allows you to do...

1 hour ago, Kruger2147 said:

Throwing in my support. I use EN heavily for saving articles and for school notes and homework. I'd love to be able to put an EN link straight to the tags for each of my classes in the shortcuts on my favorites bar on my browser, or to set my browser homepage to go to my !Inbox tag so I can address or read anything new as soon as I open Chrome.

For the web, this seems to be not that hard. Go to Evernote in your web browser. Do the search that you want, and make sure that it's giving you what you think it should. At that point, copy the web link in your browser address control. Save it as a bookmark, or pug it into your opening page address. Seems to be worth a try...

19 hours ago, sespy said:

Currently in Evernote, you can make the formatting monospaced and emphasis-free to give the appearance of plain text, but that is not a plain text note. That already exists. Those who request plain text notes here are asking for something different from that.

The simple fact of the matter is that all notes in Evernote are stored in the ENML format (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/enml.php).  I created a very simple note, one line of text, and exported it to an Evernote export file. The result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE en-export SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/evernote-export2.dtd">
<en-export export-date="20200420T121401Z" application="Evernote/Windows" version="6.x">
<note><title>Test Note</title><content><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd"
><en-note><div>very simple note<br/></div></en-note>
]]></content><created>20200407T123137Z</created><note-attributes><source>desktop.win</source><source-application>evernote.win32</source-application></note-attributes></note></en-export>

You'll notice that the <en-note>  tag discussed in the article is wrapped up in some XML stuff that Evernote needs in its export files. but the en-note bit is pretty simple:

<en-note><div>very simple note<br/></div></en-note>

No fonts, sizes, etc. The only markup is the <br> and the <div> elements. The <div> bit is described in the section: Representing plaintext notes. The markup is required because he various Evernote editors are not text editors, they're essentially HTML editors. The normal CR/LF (or whatever your OS prefers) for line endings are just whitespace to HTML; you need markup to give you line endings.

So as you can see, Evernote cannot really store plaintext notes; it can only represent them. OK, actually you can store plaintext notes in Evernote, but only as attachments, which I'd guess isn't quite what you want.

Oh yeah, just for fun, I round-tripped this note up to my Android phone, made a simple edit, and synced it back. No font-y markup was added. This appears to be about as close to a plain text note as you're going to get in Evernote.

6 hours ago, itsoundsfuture said:

@jefito is it possible to become one of the Beta testers?

I'd start here: https://evernote.com/betaprogram

8 hours ago, thom382 said:

Just being able to sum a column would be extremely useful to me.

Just merged an identical request to this topic, wherein I talked about how the developers might go about getting started with this (https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/112314-basic-calculation-in-tables/#comment-560544), it's not so much that simple summing is difficult, it's a fair amount of setup that needs to take place before the simple summing can come into play...

To clarify: it appears that there are at least three Evernote web versions out there (maybe 4, if you've been a user for long enough). In order of newest to oldest:

• "Beta Editor" : the is the "new classic" Evernote with a new, "beta" editor: You can switch between "new" and "classic" editors from a a control on the note editor (rather than needing to go to your account settings page), Note that only the note editor window refreshes when you switch between "Beta editor" and "classic editor"; the framework otherwise appears to be the same.
• "New Classic" : this is that "classic" edition of the "new " version: expanded sidebar *white on black), no reminders, tag available in a panel that takes over the note list and note display. You can switch to a beta version of the note editor (Beta editor) from a control on the bottom right of the note display.
• "Previous" :  Completely different framework from the "new classic" and "new beta" versions (and also different from the old "classic" version below). minimal sidebar (no text, notebooks and tags available via slide-out control), reminders list. You have to access this from your Account settings.
• The original (or legacy) "Classic" version : older, with an expanded sidebar (black on light gray) showing nested notebooks, and a reminders list above the note list. A lot more like the desktop versions. Only older users are grandfathered into this version, I believe; and you can only get there from your Account settings, and only then if you have the "Previous" version active.

Clarified now?

2 hours ago, barley123 said:

Sometimes I may be using evernote while working with somebody, and I may want to show them my screen but look something up in evernote, and I'd want certain tags to not show up while I do a search re tags.

An important rule is this: don't put personal stuff on shared computers. And you don't need to in this case.

If you want things to be private, make yourself a personal account, that resides on your own personal computer..If it contains notes that relate to embarrassing things, put them into separate notebooks, and don't share those notebooks. Innocuous notebooks/notes can then be shared with an another account without "leaking" the embarrassing tags.

Alternately, you have control over your tag names, and you don't have to use literal names like "jihad". If you want to tag a note as Islamic jihad related, use a tag like "IJ", which isn't so obvious, or anything else, really, like "Prune" or "Mosquito" or "XYZZY" or whatever. But you still run the risk of pulling up embarassing content.

Hiding tags just seems like a mechanism that' would be awkward to implement (you still want to search/filter using embarrassing tags) -- now you need a mechanism to enable them, and you still need to remember to turn it on/off as required. Seems really awkward and not foolproof. Separate accounts is a bit awkward, too, but it gives you control, and it's already built into Evernote. I've used separate accounts for years: I share my personal software development library to my work account, and a couple of other notebooks, but private stuff stays private on my personal machine.