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Do reminders "pin" in the Mac client? They do in some note views of the Windows client, and that works well for me.

Lack of action doesn't mean that they don't take it seriously. As the forum header says:

All I know is that's the intent here (per the forum description), and it makes a certain amount of sense to me. And added into that is the understanding the Evernote staffers do read all posts, so sure, it's all feedback of a sort. But not all feedback is alike in kind. The kind of feedback intended for Feedback subforums is for product suggestions and improvements. With respect to the idea that "if there's a problem, we must not have explained it well enough", I don't fully agree. Anyone experienced in software development understands deeply in their bones that no matter how clear your documentation is, people won't read it, or no matter how clean and simple and helpful your UI is, some people's conceptual knowledge won't quite match up. Moreover, with a product that's to some degree open-ended, as Evernote is, there are many ways to use it (a good thing), but it can take time to understand the pluses and minuses of particular approaches. And since this is a community forum and not an official support forum, that's where we, as a community of Evernote users, can step in. All of that's not to say that if someone reports a problem using Evernote, that that can't serve as an implicit improvement request. But the feedback forums are intended for explicit improvement requests.

Many posts are asking for help, either for ways to use Evernote better, or with specific problems that they've encountered using Evernote. The feedback areas are set up for making suggestions about features to add to Evernote; see the quote at the head of the forum: Bug reports can be kinda in between, and people who can move posts around will sometimes move posts to whichever forum type seems appropriate (this power is based on post count., I believe). In addition, Evernote employee moderators can merge similar requests into a single topic, to try to keep things consolidated. This topic here is clearly a feature request; as it does seem to be cross platform, it probably does belong in the global Evernote Feature Requests forum.

That's cute, but I doubt that Evernote actually wants to be a democratically run company. Not that democracy is showing all that well at the moment, mind. But the Kickstarter thing could perhaps fund a small development staff to build that client separate from Evernote, which would be the Linux way, right? Or at least support Nevernote, I suppose. ?? If you send me the $70, I'll be happy to start on the design...

Start here: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/ Gee, $70 is going to go a long way towards funding development staff to build your Linux client, bro.

Moved to feature request forum so users can vote on it directly. Should be merged with other identical requests.

BTW, I'm not wholly unsympathetic here, I've just seen this movie script before, and it doesn't seem to turn out like it's written down. We'll see about the Win 7 thing (for sure, some users will go elsewhere), but my guess is that for most casual users and for most workplaces, changing over to Win 10 is a lot lower bar to jump over than changing over to Linux (or even Mac).

Assumptions are worth their weight in gold (how much does an assumption weigh?). So-called "Gurus" receive that designation by post count alone. You could be one, too. Nope. As DTLow said. I'm an Evernote user, just like you. I'm not paid in any way to be here. You have opinions, I'm allowed to have opinions, too; I thought that your initial post was overcritical, and somewhat underinformed, with its accusatory language like "manipulative", "misleading", "bury complaints", etc.. I disagree with those characterizations; my experience with Evernote has been way different. Note that I don't think that every piece of information about using Evernote is easy to find, but finding out the information you were seeking was extremely easy, via some fairly standard approaches. *shrug* Actually, Evernote is a relatively small company, with over 100 million users. The amount of time and money Evernote has available to do 'X' is opaque to us. But yes, of course feedback is welcome. Even better, though, informed feedback presented in a positive way is usually even more welcome. Anyhow, you have the information you sought, so I'll step aside.

Should not have to tell people to Google things that aren't immediately evident. Also, from the Evernote home page (evernote.com), the "Plans" link at the bottom of the page takes you directly to the plan comparison page. Like it or not (and I'm not wholly in favor myself), that's a common model for application web pages: the splashy stuff up fron at the top, the details down at the bottom. It's a paradigm that's useful to learn.

The sky is not falling on Windows any time soon... https://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp, etc. Sad reality: most users don't care about Microsoft telemetry and updates (updates have always been a pain point, so that barrier has already been crossed). You buy your machine at Best Buy or Amazon, or wherever, it has Windows on it, you get back to work. Most users have no clue as to which of the myriad Linux versions they should use, or why. Also, in my role as a software developer, we can't afford to chase much more than one OS for our product; converting our code base to some other OS (or more particularly, some other UI / API) would be very onerous indeed; we're just not going to go there -- the market just won't support it.

Which Evernote client? The Evernote for Windows client shows things pretty nicely if you have the Search Information panel opened (View / Search Information).

That's a different (and pretty popular) feature request; see It's a long thread. Note that the previous Evernote CTO (that's engberg, the first respondent) generally argues against providing nested notebooks in favor of using nested tag structures. It's possible that hat philosophy may change in the future, but I wouldn't bet my Evernote workflow on that being the case. If that were implemented, I *might* use them, but I kind of like how things work now with respect to notebooks, tags, and stacks. Just my opinion, though *shrug* No workaround, clever or not, for that specific case The only workflow that I have for situations remotely like that is to pre-create note templates (which can include formatting, formatted text/tables, tags, etc.) for various note types that I use a lot (weekly journal and bug tickets, mainly) and use the Evernote for Windows' "Copy Note..." command to create a new instance of the note in its appropriate notebook.

An Google search for "evernote free vs premium" turned up the following as hit #1: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209005157-Which-Evernote-product-is-right-for-me-

Sorry, but "it will be interesting to see how many Windows <x> users move over to Linux when Microsoft does <Y>" is a meme that hasn't achieved significant reality in the many years since I've been hearing it. There are segments where Linux is strong, but the average Windows user's desktop is not one of them.

If you want this type of functionality, why not just use tags as your virtual notebooks? Tags already have the property that you want (namely, a note can "belong" to more than one tag). In addition, tags are hierarchical, which notebooks aren't. What you said earlier about your objection to tags (see the following quote) doesn't make sense to me in this context. Tags are as "visual" as notebooks, in every sense I can think of; click on a tag, you see the notes that have that tag. I don't see any salient difference.

The problem is that a candidate area can generate multiple valid words, depending on how bad your handwriting is (mine is pretty bad). This is all done on the Evernote servers, so they can't stop and ask you which word did you mean? Moreover, not all words that might be used are in dictionaries (think abbreviations, acronyms, variable names in computer code, and so on). Anyways, it's a good idea (I upvoted), and it's been requested before, but they'd need to change their processes and probably their internal format to accomplish this. In conjunction with this, it wold be nice to be have the ability able to edit the recognized text in the Evernote clients, so that you could weed out false matches. A couple of links that you might find informative: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314518-How-Evernote-makes-text-inside-images-searchable http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2013/07/18/how-evernotes-image-recognition-works/

One small problem with Evernote's OCR: it doesn't produce a stream of words from beginning to end; instead, it produces a set of potential matches for areas in the image, and stores them in the note. There can be multiple guesses for a particular sequence of letters, or possibly guesses for overlapping sequences of letters. So there's really no attempt to make a coherent stream of words out of the text in your image. It's really just a sequence of the guesses, and the pixel locations where the guess came from (the pixel locations are how they can do the highlighting). Other than that, that would be a nice feature to have...

This feature request is in a Windows specific subforum. Please find a similar feature request in the iOS Product Feedback forum and vote it up and add your feedback there, or if you can't find one, then add a new one.

Did you mean "specify searching for the specified text"? Or searching for the specified text in a single note?

In addition to what gaz said, right click on the Evernote notification icon, and look for the Clip Screenshot entry. Pre Win 10, the default was Win+PrtScn, but with Win 10, Windows has taken over that combination, so Evernote switched the default to Win+Shift+S.

Sorry, I don't know iOS (or OSX), just Windows and Android. Curiously, the tag hierarchy is built into Android (and obviously Windows), so you can do the simulated folder thing (I have other quibbles about Android search/filtering, but that's besides the point here). I can't speak to why it's not in iOS; one of those puzzling Evernote mismatch thingies, unfortunately. For that, I'll give you that "no, it doesn't work" in some cases and that's a drawback to the simulated folder approach, and I'd certainly be for having that work on all platforms. Given that the first post in this topic is 8+ years old, and posts by Dave Engberg, the previous CTO indicate that he didn't particularly want to add nested notebooks (or at least didn't see any deep need for them), I wouldn't hold my breath (even though he's not around any more). My take is that it's fine to ask for them, but since they don't exist now and if you can't learn to love tags and they're critical for your use case, then your time is probably better spent seeking a different product that works better for you (btw, this is the general "you", not you in particular). That's hardly patronizing, it's just practical advice that applies to any tool you're evaluating.

Or I can take a screen shot to the clipboard (Win+Shift+S to activate the screen clipper, then hold down the Ctrl key while dragging to choose the Clipboard destination), and Ctrl+V to paste it into the current note at the current cursor location.

By replying, I didn't mean to insult you; I certainly questioned a couple of things you wrote, and I disagreed with a couple of others. This is a public forum, and different viewpoints are common and expected; sometimes disagreements are caused by misunderstanding or lack of clarity, sometimes by not knowing the problem domain, and sometimes it really is just different preferences/beliefs. Discussion can still happen most of the time, hopefully. I do understand that people have learned to do things differently by widespread use of file folders, but I think that most of us here can learn to use different methodologies (e.g. tags) as well if our preferences aren't provided for, provided that the tool at hand provides some greater benefit for using it. Of course, it's certainly fair game to ask for new features or improvements, but they may never come (nested notebooks have been fervently requested for over 8 years now, and Evernote rarely provides timelines for future features), so we're really stuck with the tool we have now, with its hierarchical tags and flat folders (that's kind of the it-is-what-it-is clause). Moreover, Evernote's capabilities and best uses aren't always known to newer users -- they sometimes even escape longtime users like me and others here -- so sometimes you may get explanation about capabilities that you may already know about. Anyhow, I apologize if I gave offense.

Does this have anything to do with Evernote?