jefito

You could always set up a central account that holds all of the data, and share with individual users' accounts. You can even make shared content read-only. This is generally pretty feasible.

It's nothing to do with Google, since nothing has has actually happened there yet. The question is, are you using the free version, and are you offline when this is occurring? That would mean that note has been kicked out of the cache, so it can't be accessed. Otherwise, you're probably in a customer support situation.

If it's not in the product, then its status is "not implemented".

Sure, the use case is pretty well understood. Feature prioritization is aided by requests in the forums, but is not the only input to the process. It would certainly be a welcome feature for many Evernote users, but Evernote folks tend not to comment on future features until they're pretty much ready to go. I can't recall off the top of my head whether there's been comment on it, or not; if I come up with one, I'll post it here..

In my experience, and based on the comments of some Evernote employees, they don't often announce upcoming features until they're almost ready to go (and you can see them in beta releases), nor do they often definitively rule out future development directions. All in all, It's probably better to base your expectations on what is actually in the product than what may appear some time later.

The status of selective sync that it is not implemented in the Evernote desktop clients. You can achieve something similar to selective sync if you're willing to use multiple accounts (two should suffice) and notebook sharing: set up a master account that holds all of your notes, and a slave account that you want to use on some device. Share the notebooks you want from the master account with the slave account. Awkward, but it works.

Tell you what -- I'll move this to the Product Feedback forum, so it can be voted up and maybe get a bit more visibility.

Uh yeah. If it actually were simple, rather than just seeming to be, they probably would have fixed it by now. But there's reality, and there's appearances. We all want better and more reliable formatting and editing. They do too. They're working on it.

Look again (I just moved this topic to a voting area)...

Helpful, but not quite the same thing...

So this feature request for stack sharing (which is the amalgamation of several separate, but similar feature requests) is now in the new Feature Requests forum, which means that you can vote for it if you would like it. Your votes may or may not be the absolute decision-maker for the implementation of the request, but they will help Evernote to gauge interest in stack sharing. I voted for it.

I'm not familiar with the Mac Evernote, so I can't help there. The Evernote search language is fairly simple as compared to a full-on search expression grammar (AND, OR, NOT, parentheses), and I think that that's intentional, as its easier to parse, and the search language is supported across a number of clients and platforms. The reference is here: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php. The essence is pretty simple, though; you start with any scope modifiers: If the query starts with either notebook:<notebook name> or stack:<stack name>, then that limits the scope of the search to either that notebook or stack. Only one of these is allowed per query. If the next thing in the query is the term any:, then that makes it an OR search; otherwise the search is an AND search After any scope modifiers, the actual search terms follow, as many as you need. These can be: Literal search terms, i.e., text searches: This is just a piece of text, possibly enclosed in double-quotes, and these designate words that you are looking for in the note text. There's some trickiness here; you'll need to remember that in general, punctuation is ignored in searches. Also, you can add a minus sign before a literal (-sometext) to say that you want to match notes that do not contain the text term, or you can add an asterisk at the end of the term as a wildcard to say that you want to match notes that contain words that begin with that term (text*) Note properties: There are a slew of terms that you can use to match note properties with: tag:<tag name> to match a tag, intitle:<text> to match text in a note title, todo: to find notes that have todo items, and many more. That's just the high-level overview. Because Evernote has pretty speedy search, it's easy to test out search queries to increase your proficiency. Start on queries that you alreasy know the answers to, and verify that you can find them with search.

Please see: Also: in Evernote, all searches are AND searches by default (AND searches tend to give you smaller search result sets, so are more helpful in narrowing down to what you're looking for), but you can turn them into OR in the search language by prefixing the query with "any:", or via the UI, in Windows clients anyways. Not sure what this means... could you please expand?

Moved to General Feature Requests so you all can vote on it.

There is now. Fixed that for you, gaz.

The "meh" was because it's a feature I suspect I wouldn't use much, if at all. But I decided to upvote anyways, because it is an interesting idea, and one I'd not thought of before. Now why haven't *you* added your vote yet? The flip side is a collaborative group working on a project together; they will tend to have their own vocabulary around what they're working on, so shared synonyms sees like a plausible case as well.

Would you rather they didn't have voting at all? A voting result is a data point, and one of a number of places where they can get direct feedback from users about particular ideas (we've been told that every post is read, and also that they do collate internally posts/topics that ask for the same thing). Many of the folks who spend a lot of time here do encourage other users to add votable feature requests and/or vote up requests that are similar to what they are looking for. Oh, and forum users have been asking for a voting system for ages. As for tag synonyms, I'm kinda "meh" on it, myself. Just off the top of my head: I want my tag vocabulary to be as small as it can be to describe my note content. Less is better than more sometimes. But that's a personal preference. How is this handled in the case of shared notebooks? If I have a synonym for a tag that exists in my notes, is it also a synonym for the same tag in a notebook that's shared to me? I can see cases for both yes and no. Is a tag that's a synonym for my notes also a synonym for someone I share notebooks with? I'm not wholly against this, and I kinda see the use case. I do like to use tags-as-vocabulary to describe how tags work, and languages certainly have synonyms. Hence the "meh", Now where do I register my "meh" vote? Edit: I do think that it's an interesting idea. I'll keep rolling around in my head; maybe I'll up-meh it.

If you right-click on it in File Explorer, does the menu have a "Run as Administrator..." on it?

This functionality does not exist on Windows or Mac clients (it does on Android and iOS). The only known way to do this at this time is to have two Evernote separate accounts, one master account, presumably synced onto a device that has enough storage to store all of your notes, and a second account for your laptop, with which you share only the notebooks from your master account that you need on your laptop. On the other hand, it's unlikely that you'll be able to actually upload and use 10GB/month in a single account; my understanding is that very large note databases do not perform that well, though that may have changed (but I've not heard any different).

If import involves the use of Evernote .enex files, then the information is there; whatever method you're using to import must not be taking advantage of it (contact Apple support, maybe?). A web search did turn up this article though: https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-i-ditched-evernote-for-1286074947960886.html?ref=gs; maybe that will be helpful.

You know, it's awfully fun to play armchair quarterback for a product you don't make, and you can wait around and kvetch about it and whether it's the most requested or needed feature until maybe Evernote finally come to their senses and see things your way (that's even if they were to deliver selective syncing the way you want it, which is not guaranteed), or you could just go ahead implement the two-account solution and get on with your life. This is not rubberbands and slingshots, or outside the box; it's certainly not hard and requires few extra resources (a new email account?); it just uses notebook sharing, which has been a batteries-included part of Evernote for a long time.

The fact of the matter is that DIY selective sync is pretty easy to implement. Get a free Evernote account for the storage-challenged device, and share notebooks to it. It's not that hard. You all can keep arguing about whether the need for this capability is self-evident or not, but geez, Dorothy, you've always had the power to go back to Kansas -- just close your eyes and tap your heels together three times and think to yourself "There's no place like Evernote."

Yes? So where's the customer curve for the product we're discussing here? In any case, a lot of the people so torqued about this change were *never* going to pay for the service. How does that help Evernote? Oh, and thanks for distorting my statement: I said "long-term free users"; you said merely "free users". Not quite the same thing.

If you don't pay attention to money, then the business dies, and customers are nowhere regardless. That's not a good business plan. By the way, it's false to say that they are putting money first. You certainly can still use the Basic service absolutely for free, as in free beer. But long-term free users do not help the business. They've pulled back so that free users need to make a choice: either accept the limitations of the free service, subscribe to a paid tier, or move to a different note service. But again, they are not killing the free service, and claiming it is doesn't make it true.. If you feel like joining in the fun of speculating about Evernote's future, you should seek out the lengthy topic elsewhere in the forum about Evernote's new pricing. Other people feel as you do.

The value of Evernote has never really been in upload capacity, which is not the same as storage capacity; Evernote doesn't really have storage capacity limits, though you'd be probably be pretty sorry if you actually had a 1TB Evernote note database: the desktop clients have had difficulty with large databases. It's actually the ability to organize and search your data in ways that are better than that of a simple file system that makes Evernote useful to me. So no, nobody's expecting you to do anything; I'm guessing they're hoping that you try to make a rational decision about your needs, and do something appropriate. If that means losing you as a customer who doesn't pay them anything anyways, then I think that they can take it. Why wouldn't they be interested in your money? Do you think that they're in business purely to feel good about how they're helping people to organize their lives? That's a nice thought, but businesses need money to pay their employees. I don't work for free. Do you? If the business can't survive because they're not making enough money, then what happens to their customers anyway?