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Actually, her answer is correct, in lieu of any definitive response from Evernote on the topic (other than what they've already said, essentially, "we have no plans to offer subnotebooks"). Her attitude of providing help to other users here on the forums (on her own, unpaid time) for their problems with using Evernote is actually *very* welcome, and one that would be useful for more forum-goers to exhibit.

Evernote doesn't have that. Sorry.

Part of the discrepancy is that the Windows and Mac clients are just plain older (meaning they've had more time to accumulate features) than the mobile clients. At the head end of the feature chain, though, the dev teams are relatively independent, and release when the individual teams are ready, so that other teams are not held any slippage on the part of other teams. A lot of us Windows users are waiting for Reminders, too, and I don't think that it'll be very long.

The developers are well aware of this feature request, and all posts are read by Evernote staff. The forums are a fine place to post feature requests; you can also open a support request, if you feel that you really need to.

@rimez: Requesting a Linux client is perfectly acceptable, and discussing the alternatives is potentially useful for other Linux users, but accusing Bnf of having "obvious bias against Linux users" wasn't particularly helpful to the discussion you seem to want to have. You can't stop other users from posting, so if you want the thread to stay on-topic, then you might try setting your phasers to "ignore" rather than "return fire"...

Just to be clear, Linux users have already made their desires known to Evernote; the lengthy (and aging) topic here being one bit of evidence.

As the Evernote staff constantly say, they do not give out product/feature roadmaps or timeframes, by company policy. Moreover, this is a user forum, and though the forums are read by Evernote staff, but they don't respond to every issue/request. Sometimes you get hints about certain directions/features, but I wouldn't expect it.

I urge you to take some time to peruse these forums for items that users think are "basic", count them up, and then reconsider your question...

Again, nobody's trying to stifle discussion or stop folks from suggesting new features. I ask for them myself, sometimes. On the other hand, it's not exactly Luddite to suggest a computer solution to a computer task; this one's just a few clicks more, which may be a sufficient workaround for some folks, but it's obviously not optimal for everyone's workflow, and it's rather obviously better in most respects than pencil and paper. It's all a question of balance: line sorting may be trivial to implement, if you like, but how many folks would it really benefit, and at what cost (i.e., what other feature do you burn)? Cars come in green around here, though.

I doubt that anyone is asserting this. I generally see it as a prioritization problem; if they do this, then they can't do some other feature. Since what's useful to some people is less useful to others, and since Evernote generally keeps its prioritization determination to itself, we just need to accept that they'll do it if they figure that it's going to be important to enough people. Not sure what LISP has to do with this, but I suppose that if you put on your LISP-colored glasses, anything can be viewed as a list (or maybe more properly a tree, since lists can contain other lists?). That doesn't mean that Evernote should ipso facto support every kind of list operation out of the box. I mean, everyone would want to sort their notes by character, right? On the rare occasions that I actually need text line sorting in Evernote content, I've always just copied the text into an actual text editor, sorted it, and pasted it back into Evernote. Obviously, your needs may differ from mine.

Please stop posting identical content to different topics. If you want to comment, then that's fine, but do it once, and then post links. For example, I responded to your identical post here: http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/29436-user-assigned-thumbnail-images/?p=203664 That would make even more sense if it was also practiced by Evangelists, say when responding to feature requests with the standard explanation that Evernote has their own priorities in which we have no insight. If you wish to become an Evangelist yourself, and show us how to do a better job, you're more than welcome to sign up. As it is, some of us do a better job at linking than others, but sometimes a brief answer works just as well. In this case, though, the identical post was copied and pasted into at least four topics -- a bit of overkill in my book, and not very forum friendly, since that would cause any ensuing discussion to become fragmented. Or if you like, I could just merge all of those topics.

Re duplicate posts: http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/37037-feature-request-choose-image-for-thumbnail-image/?p=203667

Please stop posting identical content to different topics. If you want to comment, then that's fine, but do it once, and then post links. For example, I responded to your identical post here: http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/29436-user-assigned-thumbnail-images/?p=203664

Without knowing the actual code base, the problems with rolling out a change to the ENML spec (must be understandable in all clients), and backward compatibility issues, among other things, all you can really attest to is that you think that this would be easy to add. And before the work even gets done, you'd need to assess what Evernote wants to spend its time doing, i.e., their priorities. For one way of thinking about adding features to an established code base, see Minus 100 Points. All of that being said: beng able to choose a thumbnail would be a nice feature to have. But is it nice enough?

@<actus: Everyone is allowed to post, make suggestions, rant or praise or whatever, and it's very unlikely that you'd get censored in any way. But when you post, someone is liable to respond to you, and possibly disagree. Metrodon's last wasn't personal -- call it a reminder that it's really not necessary to bump your own posts (because when they get read by Evernote staff, "bumps" really don't add anything to the conversation); maybe you disagree, but was there some reason that you thought that bumping your own post was helpful to the forum? His point on the forum software vs. Evernote software was just informational; not sure whether you took that personally or not. As for the original topic -- choice of thumbnail is something that's been requested elsewhere, as you know, and personally, I'd find it useful. Not sure that I'd need cropping but that's just me.

One point: the lack of arbitrarily nestable notebooks may seem silly to you, but note that GMail (a popular email client) also does not offer this kind of facility either. Instead, they offer hierarchically organizable labels, very similar to what Evernote offers with tags. Tags can, in some ways, serve as a way to organize your notes hierarchically, but they can also afford a flexible way of cross-categorizing your notes into more than one classification scheme, making tags potentially more flexible than rigid hierarchies. Given that Evernote doesn't appear to want to offer arbitrarily nestable notebooks, you should come to terms with tags if you need that kind of facility and want to continue to use Evernote. If you have questions as to how to organize your notes, including using tags, please feel free to ask.

And what does this have to do with Evernote?

Really? I find that tags that span projects (or other areas of interest) work just fine. So long as there's a single tag for each project (you can do this with notebooks, too), there's an easy way to distinguish them. For example: tag:project1 tag:Todo --> all todo notes in Project 1. (or tag:project1 todo:true, I suppose) Ultimately, though, it's finding a system that works for you. Sorry that Evernote doesn't work for you.

Sorry for the inconvenience -- hopefully they'll get that fixed in short order.

This is a recent problem with their ticket submission service, I think, related to a 500 character limit that is not being enforced. See http://discussion.evernote.com/topic/37102-evernote-website-hangs-on-submitting-a-ticket/?p=201003. I've seen reports that if you stick to under 500 characters, the ticket submission will go through.

Actively? Dunno. Evernote doesn't generally tell us what they're doing. Not easily, so far as I know, unless you want to copy/paste your note into MS Word, do the spell checking there, or something like that. You can also add words to the dictionary as you go along.

Yep. I've been impressed by that, too. I think it's a big plus.

Hey, and everything that Evernote lacks provides a market opportunity, right? Anyways, thanks, Phil, for helping to make Evernote a stronger candidate for those who want more than the Evernote product itself provides. Hope that it works out well for you.

Oh, geez, I missed that. Looks like it.

I am such a noob. My Welcome to Evernote is 10/28/2008. Looks like I was was experimenting with my new Dell Mini at the time. Mostly work stuff at the beginning, though within 3 weeks I had a LOLCAT, several XKCDs and some Rands In Repose columns. Plus ça change...