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A web search on "evernote use tags to simulate folders" turned up a number of topics https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/22415-how-i-use-tags-to-replicate-nested-folders/ https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/25383-archived-organize-notes-in-folders/ https://michaelhyatt.com/evernote-tags.html The list goes on... A few things to remember: While you can generally have a folder with the same name as a folder in a different part of the tree, you cannot do that with tags in Evernote. Tag names exist in exactly one location in the tag tree. This is a big difference, and probably a drawback to using tags as a folder structure. While a file generally exists in only one folder in a file system, a note can "belong" to multiple tags. This a good thing, but it's also a difference with folders. If you drag a note to a different notebook, it moves the note to that notebook. If you drag a note to a different tag, it just adds the tag to the existing tags in the note, rather than replacing the existing tags with the new tag.

An obvious workaround is to edit your tables in one of the desktop Evernote clients (Windows or Mac); that will sync to your Android device. If it's critical for you to be able to do this on Android, well, it's not supported yet. Since Evernote typically doesn't give out release dates for upcoming features, nor indeed, which features are actually planned for implementation, it's up to you to determine how critical that feature really is for you vs. what features Evernote has that are useful to you.

This is already an existing request: You should head there and add your vote.

That works, too, if you have a relatively small number of notes that you want to pin. I almost always use snippet view and have a fair number of reminder notes, some dated and some not, and I like the sorting / filtering ability that carries over into reminder notes, so that's why I use that. Good suggestion.

This is not "feature creep", a fun term to toss around, but not all that meaningful (much like the overused "feature bloat"). This is not Unix-based "tie a bunch of separate command-line tools together to build synergy" development. It's development of a general purpose integrated, distributed note keeping application. Table support was extremely rudimentary at the start, and Evernote users have been asking for improved table support for a long time; there's obvious demand for that. Some people use tables a lot, and they're useful in note templates; I use them daily in my Evernote workflow for work, less so for my personal workflow. Your mileage obviously varies. And that's the problem / blessing with general purpose applications (think MS Word, for example): everyone uses the core 10-30%, but out beyond that, different people use different parts of the program a lot, and others, very little. If you don't add or improve some features, then you don't attract new users, because you don't solve their problems. But they haven't overdone it either (though there have been some missteps, e.g. WorkChat). In my view, Evernote has actually tended to maintain a pretty good focus on keeping actual extraneous features out of their application (I think that their strategy is generally to promote integration into other, more specialized, applications via their API; I can't speak to how well that's worked out. Aside from a brief flirtation with IFTTT and Zapier, I just use Evernote straight up). They haven't tried to become a serious todo list application, calendaring program, mind-mapper, Slack competitor, etc. etc.. It's still pretty minimal overall, a good general purpose note keeping program, and one that I use daily at work and at home, and has been for over 8 years in my case. Note that I am not suggesting that they ignore this, by the way. There's obviously a fair amount of dissatisfaction with the situation. But calling useful, user-requested improvements to Evernote "feature creep" is misunderstanding the term, and how software is reasonably developed. It's not all about you, or about me, for that matter. The core features remain; reasonable improvements in usability and functionality over time are expected.

OK, fair enough. Thanks.

Please don't paste the same post into multiple topics. It really avails nothing in the forums.

It's been reported already. Several times.

Yes, this is terrible. They should take them out of books, too. All that wasted paper... Anyhow, Evernote knows about it; we'll see what, or if, they come up with to address the issue.

This appears to come into play when you use the tag picker that's invoked if you click on the tag icon in the lower right of the Search Info panel above the note list; it's not a true dialog with a name, so you don't see 'Tag Picker' displayed anywhere. It's just a dynamic list that responds to your text entry. The same UI is also used if you right click on the 'Tags' header of the tag tree in the left panel. It should probably be applied more consistently in other places, like the 'Add tag' item in the note header. Ctrl+Alt+T (Assign Tags) is something else altogether. The tag list allows a match-by-prefix-as-you-type navigation that's also used in Windows Explorer. That's pretty standard stuff.

There is no need to 'bump' feature requests. You should use the voting button, up at the top left of this topic. One suggestion / workaround for the original idea is for the Windows client: if you are looking at a note, a Shift+Click on the notebook name in the notebook header will open up that notebook.

For the Windows client, if you use snippet, card, or thumbnail view, notes that have reminders are pinned to the top of the note list, in a second reminder list. reminder list can be sorted by date, or ordered arbitrarily. List view users are out of luck.

If you report a bug in the forums, Evernote will see it. If they need further explanation, they will ask.

I think that @rkr12 is talking about the one you get by clicking on the Text Color dropdown on the note editing toolbar. I believe that the dialog in question is the standard Windows font dialog: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646958(v=vs.85).aspx#_win32_Customizing_the_Font_Dialog_Box_for_Win7. The developer can customize this to some extent; not sure that the color selection can be customized, though (if it were earlier in the evening here, I'd chase that more, oh well).

The topic never went away ("bumping" accomplishes nothing). Did you upvote it?

Please have a look at SimpleNote. OneNote. SpringPad. Google Keep. Google Notebook. DEVONthink. SOHO Notes. Together. Yojimbo. Boostnote. Sure. All have strengths (well, the ones that aren't defunct), all have weaknesses. Use the one that works for you...

In addition to what DTLow said, if you want to use the any: term: On the other hand, there is a way to implement mixed AND/OR searches if you can use wildcards. For example, if @Home and @Errands are the only tags that you have that have a '@' at the start, then a search like "reminderOrder:* tag:@*" should work, since using wildcards act like OR filters. But that's not a general solution, just a side effect of wildcards.

No; that's is a separate request. Maybe it would work for you, but that's not what the people requesting for nested notebooks are asking for. The "Table of contents" is actually akin to a request for "internal links", or "anchors", which can take you from one location in a note to another. They've been requested before, elsewhere in the forums. Internal links would be useful.

Actually, Plus and Premium users pay a subscription for the service, not the product (since you can get and use the product for free), and hope that there are new features added that make Evernote more useful. In the absence of nested notebooks, we suggest using tags, much as we suggest workarounds or alternative strategies for any features that don't exist in Evernote. That's all we users can do, since we can;'t change Evernote. Suggesting workarounds is intended to be helpful, and not intended to say that nested notebooks aren't a good idea or wouldn't be useful (though In my case, I don't need them myself). You should also note that users get the designation "Guru" based purely on post count, but otherwise we are all individuals with differing perspectives on using Evernote and what features are (or might be) useful, so addressing 'Gurus' as a group usually doesn't make much sense. If you're unhappy with what a guru (or any other forum user) posts, then it's usually better to respond to them individually.

Ok, but Evernote stores its notes in ENML (sort of a subset of XHTML), not Markdown. It's one thing to go from Markdown into XHTML (which is, I think may be what you're saying), but can you easily go back to Markdown from XHTML? Anyways, with that in mind, there is this:

Please stop spamming the forums with links to other products. If you have something to say about the topic, then say it. Otherwise...

The above is true, at least on the Windows and Android clients.

Aside from this, even with the left panel closed, the various combo boxes presented can be used without needing to scroll endlessly: you can type in the edit control, and it will match what you've typed with available notebooks / tags / etc. (the match is anywhere in the name, not just at the beginning). The Notebooks combo has a Recent notebook list, as well.

Depends on your operating system. In Windows, if you use Ctrl+Click to select, they should be in order of selection. I don't know whether the Mac Evernote client can do that. Once you've merged the notes, you're stuck with Cut/Paste operations to reorder them.

You should probably say what your VPN setup is.