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Sure. But you're awfully nice about it.!

Caveat if you use this technique: you can only match on a tag's prefix, not on a substring inside the tag. I.e., if you use Kitchen Remodel 2017", this will only match queries like "tag:Kit*" or tag "Kit*", but won't match, e.g. "tag:Remodel*", "tag:*Remodel*", "tag:*2017*", etc. That's why I choose to use atomic tags.

I think you need to say "Alexa, enable the My Notebook skill, eh?" [Sorry, gratuitous cheap joke from someone who lives in a US state bordering Canada with lots of French Canadian influence (Maine). No offense intended towards our friends from the North, and hope that you get your Alexa problem resolved.]

Using titles to link project notes together is problematic in my view: you cannot retitle multiple notes at the same time (leading to the brittleness you refer to); using tags seems like a better approach, since you can tag multiple notes at the same time. In any case, I'm not sure why you'd end up with a cluttered mess of tags; you can organize those separately in the tag tree, that matters to you (spending time re-ordering my tag tree is a low-value activity for me, so I rarely do it). I'm also not sure why cleaning up your tags would require you to delete tags; you can move them around your tag tree without breaking any linkages to the notes they apply to, and you can rename them, again without breaking any linkages. Tags your notes accordingly, and don't depend on a tag/title link (tags are independent of titles). This should work fine. On a deeper level, I'd ask whether you've considered using more general atomic tags rather than unique tags for each project/activity. That is,, don't use specific tags like "Kitchen Remodel 2-017". Instead, use simple and general tags in combination to categorize your projects. Have a "Project" tag. Have a "Household" tag. Have a "Remodel" tag. Have a "Family" tag. Have a "Vacation" tag. Have "2016", "2017", and "2018" tags. Have a "Kitchen" tag. And so on, whatever categorizations are meaningful to you. These tags can then be applied in combinations to notes to make things more generally searchable. And add in specific tags, e.g., "Disney" as needed. So a search on "tag:Family tag:vacation tag:2017" will find all family vacations in 2017, a search on "tag:Family tag:vacation tag:Disney" will find all vacations your family has ever taken at Disney. A search on "tag:2017" will locate all 2017 activities. A search on "tag:kitchen tag:remodel" will locate notes related to your kitchen remodel. For each project, have a main note that -- similar to what's suggested above -- embeds the specific search to find all associated notes (each of which you would tag as required); hey, tag the main note with "Overview" so you can locate all project main notes. You can also plug those into ssaved searches as needed.

Or they could be rephrased as "if Evernote doesn't have all of the features that you require, then you should consider using using some other application", which is a sensible approach for many things in life, including software applications. But the fact of the matter is that they haven't ignored the request. In the Windows client, at least, they've implemented some shortcuts for Markdown-like input (let's not even get into a discussion of the fact that "deciding to not implement at this time" does not mean the same thing as "ignoring"). On the other hand, I think that a full Markdown implementation might not be as feasible as some folks think; round-tripping between Markdown and Evernote format appears to be problematic. Evernote has evidently chosen to put their development resources into other areas. This makes a certain amount of sense due to the presence of an existing Markdown/Evernote solution, the Marxico editor. Evernote focuses on what it does best (including supporting 3rd party developers), and the Marxico developer focuses they do best (Markdown editing). Everyone should always consider their options. Fortunately for you, Evernote still lets you use their service for free...

Yea, that hasn't been applicable in a lot of years (I started with DOS 1, so even before file directories).

I use Android mainly for viewing notes, not for creating notes, and even that in a fairly limited way. The desktop is where I create note and use them more actively. And I use reminder notes to keep notes in a sort of "notes I 'm currently interested in" state.

Evernote makes many things easy. Just not this particular feature...

You laugh, but early in my programming career, a colleague's baby daughter "discovered" a fatal bug in the software we were writing (a word processor) by sitting on the space bar for awhile...

Don't confuse Evernote tags with XML tags. They are not the same thing.

In the Evernote architecture, tags apply only to notes -- they're designed to categorize notes, not serve as pointers to individual notes, much less into a particular note. I think that you're more likely to links to in-note anchors that bring you to specific places in a note, like HTML, because Evernote's format is very similar to HTML. This has also been requested.

OK, gotcha. I feel your pain, albeit only very faintly...

What Evernote client are you talking about? Windows? Mac? Android? iOS? Web? What is a 'tab' in Evernote? Is this a Mac thingie?

Dunno what I'm missing, but I'm able to configure Windows to get Evernote to open PDFs with whatever program I choose on Win 10, both the Fall Creator's version, and the prior one. When viewed as an an attachment, double-click takes me there (rather than the default Edge). Granted, I don't do much with PDFs than view them, so I don't have use cases for dragging them in and out of Evernote, once they're in there, so I wouldn't call myself a PDF power user. I do seem to be able to drag PDFs out of Evernote to the desktop / Explorer and back, which is about as far as I go. *shrug*

Hmm, it worked for me, as I tried it before I suggested it. I'm on the latest beta, but not, I think) on the latest Windows release (Fall Creator Edition) here at work. Maybe it's the latter condition that's causing this?

This has been requested many times before, and there's at least one very long topic in the forums that discusses it, and at least one other feature request for a Linux client. You should search the forum and find existing content and add your comments and/or vote... Short form: maybe adding a Ubuntu client would reach a wider audience, but at what cost (development, support, etc.), relative to the potential additional users?

You can probably do this, but it seems kinda drastic: it's going to be pretty tedious for a person who's actually validly editing a note (and it won't do anything for right-click menu-based cut/paste operations). Unless you're trying to prevent deletion from the note list, in which case you might be able to constrain the dialog to only pop up when those keys are pressed in the note list, but again, right-click Delete is not prevented either in that case.

There doesn't seem to be a local setting for Evernote's default program, but there is a global setting. Try this: Find a PDF file in Windows Explorer. Right click on it, and select Properties You should see an "Opens with:" control on the General tab Click the "Change" button Select the program that you want to use, and return tho the Properties dialog Click OK If you're in Evernote, clicking on a PDF file should now use that program. It may still show the default (Edge browser) icon in the attachment block, but if you completely exit Evernote (File / Exit), then restart, it should show the correct icon.

Please use the forum quoting feature so that people know who you're replying to. Thanks.

Age old question, not just for Evernote. Part of the reason is that while all platforms provide similar services, they're not identical, nor are their user interaction tools/conventions identical. Try pasting "why can't applications be the same across all platforms" into a web search. I thought that this result was interesting, or at least a place to start. This is not a particular source of frustration to me. I use the Android client differently than I use the Windows client, and by and large, they don't need to be identical.

Sorry, got a chuckle when I read this... Nothing mean spirited intended, just got a chuckle. Synonymous with "the universe is unfolding as it should". Meditate on that...

Probably means one of two things: Evernote is running, and you cannot change the Evernote program bits on disk, while it's running. Shut down Evernote using File / Exit, then try again. If that doesn't work, then you may not have permission to change the Evernote executable file. That's a different problem altogether.

The option offered by @Cold Case Research Group was for the Windows Evernote client. This is a forum for the Android Evernote client, so the Windows advice doesn't apply.

Or if you don't know whether you have a 32 or 64-bit system, just right-click on the Evernote icon, and select Properties; the Target field will point you to the executable...

The content -- at least the image of the formula -- is still there; Evernote just can't display it. The actual formula content (MathML snippets) appear to be gone. The image content is stored as an attachment in the note (it's a little snippet of SVG). In the Windows client, you can right click on it and display it in Chrome, and the formula will appear, or view the text content in Notepad. I can't speak to whether this works on the Mac.