jefito

Just waiting for the obligatory "you're just arguing semantics"...

I guess that this is what this topic has come down to: trying to make meaningful distinction between "moaning" and "whining"...

Fortunately, the Internet still works...

I'm not sure what you're arguing about. Device capacities are already beyond what Evernote can use while performing well, according to anecdotal evidence from users like GM (who is an outlier, as I'm pretty sure he'd admit). My own, and probably more typical, use case is ~6K notes in a ~3GB notes database; 100K notes at that rate gives me a notes database size of ~50GB, which would fit comfortably on my terabyte hard drive, twenty times over. The history of drive capacities is that they exhibit exponential growth over time. Drive capacity isn't the problem here. Oh, and you can get a 5GB internal drive for $165 currently, which is hardly a premium price. Meanwhile, back to the actual point: you can solve your small device problem, today. You don't need to wait for selective sync, when or whether it comes. This statement says nothing about whether I think that it's a good or bad idea; it's just a fact. Sure, it would be easier if true selective sync existed, but making this work using multiple accounts shouldn't be too hard a problem to figure out, particularly for the power user crowd...

Some relevant prior discussion on the issue: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/11193-selective-notebook-sync/, circa 2010 Includes comments by Evernote staff, mention of the Dropbox case, plus the sharing workaround. Also, a reference to a Phil Libin claim that selective sync is "inevitable" (but of course no reference to any timeline for implementation). Hard to imagine that individual accounts are going to outstrip drive storage capacity, even if the note limit cap (currently 100,000 notes) is lifted...

Interesting juxtaposition there, though...

In the meantime, while you're waiting for an implementation that may or may not come, you can implement this yourself, using two accounts, your main account, that lives only in the web, and an account that lives on your MacBook Air. Share only selected notebooks to your MBA from your main account. Probably a little clumsy, but two accounts is definitely workable.

The current web beta doesn't appear to support multi-select in the note list, however, if you revert to the actual release web client, you can do multi-select via Ctrl+Click, and it makes tagging, moving a bunch of notes to a new notebook, or merging notes pretty easy. No Shift+Click however. Account / Settings / Beta : Go back to old version

The Evernote Web client? Windows? Android? Mac? iOS?

There are two parties in the exchange, if you're cutting/pasting between different programs. The source cannot know what program you are going to be pasting into, so it usually offers up its content in a number of different formats. On the other end, the target can usually accept only certain formats. So right away, you are limited to the common formats supported by source and target. Common formats for text include: a number of plain-text formats, including Unicode. There's also HTML and Rich Text. Evernote offers up several plain text formats, plus HTML (which is a common interchange format) and also puts up ENML clips, in case you're pasting back into Evernote. MS-WORD will put up a plethora of formats, including plain text, HTML and RTF. The target, in choosing among the proffered formats will probably have a preferred format, and will go with that one. For example, a plain old text editor like NotePad++ has no need of rich text formats like RTF or HTML, and doesn't understand Evernote's ENML, so it'll choose one of the plain text formats. Evernote will accept HTML (and I think RTF), so that you can transfer rich text into Evernote. Plain-text formats are pretty well understood. One of the problems with rich text formats like HTML is that there are many different ways of marking up text to achieve the desired result. For example, MS Word's HTML markup is notoriously convoluted, and tailored towards interchange with other MS Office programs. For a different program, interpreting that may not result in perfect transfer. You can make a start at understanding what's going on by using a clipboard viewer to see what's being stored up there; I use Clipboard Format Spy, which shows the available formats, and a viewer for various clip types, plus the ability to examine the raw clip contents in text or binary form. Viewing the text of say, an HTML or RTF clip is the start towards figuring out whether it's the source or target program that's going astray when you don't get what you expect.

https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/18482-choosing-a-thumbnail/. Look for the replies from emerick, downthread...

Manual can still be logical. This is number 3 for me behide alphabetizing note lists within a noteboot and getting rid of those iratating hints that are always getting in the way. About the only answer that exists in Evernote right now is to use Reminders, which can be sorted manually.

Please see my answer to your other post on this topic.

I'm pretty sure that I did something like this using the Zapier service, a couple of years ago. The trigger was an incoming email to my GMail account from a certain company (you could use any search filter, I believe), and the action was to create a new note in Evernote.. I was able to add header information by specifying GMail fields in the Content area

The UI doesn't bother me because it's there when the note has focus, and when it doesn't, useful note information is displayed in its place. Usually. A few times, I've had it disappear when the note had focus. No problem to remedy -- tap on the note in the note list, and tap back on the note body. But weird, and I couldn't replicate it.

Last time I checked, the desktop clients give you the ability to return to previous notes, sort of like the browser history. The Windows client does, for sure. Bidirectional links would be interesting; I suppose they'd need to emplace a backlink to any note that has a note link, such that if both notes A ad B had a link to note C, C would contain backlinks to both A and B, right?

It's an ad-hoc thing. Fiddling about sharing with myself from an additional account sounds a right PITA. I just want to click a button "Make Read Only", "Protect from Changes" or whatever. Yes, that's what a workaround is. You have to work with the software as it is while you're waiting on the feature you want (if it's it's ever implemented). Anyways, sharing accounts is actually not all that bad, if you have a fairly stable organizational scheme -- I use it myself, though in my case, it's to keep separate personal and work accounts: my personal account has all of my software development reference articles (which I want at work), and sometimes I work at home, so I want my work stuff available to my personal account. I don't have a lot of churn in my notebooks and tags, so it's no big deal.

The usual workaround that I suggest nowadays is to make a separate account for stuff that you are afraid that you might mess up by inadvertently editing them. Share the notebooks in that account as read-only to your main account, and you are saved from yourself.

I don't work for Evernote, I am a fellow user, just like you are. Evernote does read all of the posts in the forums, and will have taken this as a feature request already. Speaking for myself, I read your suggestion, and I just don't see this as an Evernote problem. But I don't claim to speak for them. And it isn't possible in any of the desktop clients that I know of, which is one of the reasons I tried to steer you towards using your native OS's capabilities. I do understand about customers, and deal with them, personally, where I work (also software development). We try really hard to accommodate customer requests, but not everything that's suggested makes sense for our products, for various reasons, and when that happens, we try to convey that to them. Listening is one thing, but implementing is entirely another.

In the scenario you present, anyone who happens by your desk can also start spelunking in your documents as well, or any other location on your computer as well. Locking notebooks in Evernote isn't a solution for this. You can: * Sign out of Evernote when you're not using it, or... * Learn to lock your computer when you leave it, or... * Add a guest account if other people need to use your computer, and if you're on Windows, employ Switch User functionality to that account for other users

Does "classic" mean old? Anyways, "intuitive" is a frequently misused and misunderstood term; this is all learned behavior here. And tags and hierarchies are both logical constructs -- there's nothing illogical about tags.

If you're on the Windows client, you can try the following: * In Evernote hold down the Ctrl key, and click on the Help menu item * At the bottom of the Help menu, you should see some special new entries; these are intended for customer support use * Select "Delete Unused Linked Tags" That should do it; you may need to sync, and / or shut down Evernote and restart -- I can't remember. I did this once, not too long ago, and it worked for me. I'd recommend making sure that you are synced and backed up before doing this, just to be on the safe side.

So set up a separate account for that, that's used only on that machine. A free version may suffice for your needs. If you need access to notes in that account, then share notebooks as appropriate to your own account. You'd just be using Work Chat to do the sharing.

It's a classic, like fine wine...

The algorithm isn't the "biggest image in the page"; it's a little trickier than that, and it's all been explained in the very early part of this topic -- see the description of "largest-smallest". The web clipper pulls in content, but I think that the choice of thumbnail is probably done locally by the particular client that's running on your device (I don't think that there's anything in the Evernote note format that says that image X is the thumbnail). It's probably not a web clipper problem -- the web clipper is just building a note and pushing it up to the Evernote servers.