While there is no need for shouting...
I do agree that lack good annotation is a major failing of Evernote. Not only is it extremely limited functionally, but the functionality that it has is very poorly implemented. For example, when I try using Apple Pencil to write on a document it fails to accurately capture my pencil strokes. Evernote clearly understands the need for annotation. But how is it possible that having been around for as long as it has, with the user base that it enjoys, that its annotation capability is so unforgivably horrible???
I started using Evernote some years ago, but largely stopped. The reason? Every time that I clip an article, my next step is going to be reading that article with Apple Pencil in hand. I highlight, edit, make notes in the margins, etc. etc. When I discovered Notability, my workflow turned into:
Save PDF to Notability --> Interact with the PDF using Notability --> Just live with the very limited organizational capabilities
Why don't I just pull that file back into Evernote? As noted in the previous comment, the workflow for using an external app like Notability is so cumbersome as to be all but useless in a practical sense. Not only do you have to do handstands to annotate a file at all, but when you bring the file back into Evernote it is a new file to which the annotations are forever cast in stone.
I am returning to the question because I am in the process of revising my workflow. Unsurprisingly I am finding that it would be very convenient to use Evernote as a central repository to clip to, use to capture ideas, organize research and the like. I WANT to make Evernote the hub of my digital content, but it remains to be seen whether I throw Evernote overboard again.
Given the existence of good annotation apps out there, surely it can't be that difficult to lay your hands on an annotation interface from this century!
Again, I'm not going to shout or get abusive about it, but come on, folks. This need is beyond obvious. Please.
I have an extensive Evernote environment built in AppleScript, and just learned (upon installing on a new Mac) that it is now dust in the wind. I could go back to Legacy (and probably will for a time), but clearly that’s not a sustainable path forward. It sounds like the right thing to do is to just rebuild the interfaces in Electron. So, with that in mind, has anyone found a nice “getting started” document for scripting the new version in its native tongue?
