Patricius

I use the Personal version, contrary to the info on the left. I've returned to the paid plan, and glad I did. But one little issue. I also use both web and desktop versions of EN. My use of the web version in Chrome usually produces the message "Page is nonresponsive" with the choices of Wait and Reload. Reload doesn't fix it. My "solution" is to use the EN web on the Edge browser. Anybody experiencing this issue with Chome's EN? Have you fixed it?

Thanks for the comments. I will learn to use the hotstrings that Mike P laid out for us. Another thing is there is a work-around to get some rudimentary SUBTASKS added to the task text. Go back to the emoji tables [Win + .], search for "square", tap on the "⬜" emoji. Then search for "check mark", tap on the "✔️" emoji. Now you can make a task like the following: "Prepare for Sept 11 poetry mtg: ✔️Do summary ✔️Check history for next presenters ◽Contact Nicholas to send his address to the other members ◽Email whole group".

I don't think tagging is impossible in EN tasks. I put the 🏷️ symbol in front of words that are meaningful tags. [On Windows, Win key + period will fetch the emoji lists, and you can search for "tag"] So I "tag" certain of my tasks by putting the 🏷️before ... 🏷️Book_Club 🏷️Next_task 🏷️In-process 🏷️Friends_networks 🏷️Finances 🏷️Freelance 🏷️Productivity 🏷️Waiting 🏷️Aging 🏷️Notion. You get the idea? So to search for tasks that are next in line, or connected with Friends or the Book Club, it's easy. Put the tag symbol 🏷️ in front of the meaningful places you wish to find. ... As well, I found the most used tags in my Evernote and can connect them to the task list. E.g. My tag, "Read_often" finds me a large number of very inspiring notes in Evernote. I made a note titled "Read-often", and placed the "Read_often" tag at the bottom. Now I've made a task "Read through your Read_often notes" before which I place "🏷️Read_often" and ask that I'm shown this task every week. So every week my task finds the "Read_often" note I made, then I click on the down arrow of the tag at the bottom, find the hits corresponding to read_often and read happily away. Have I made sense? In short, I agree with the consensus emerging on this page: EN task feature IS worth nudging to greater functionality! A lot of hard thinking has given us this gift: let's make it better.

What value would this have, Claudiofpiga, for an individual creator who's not sending tasks around to others? Is your thought that this is a way of putting a particular emphasis on certain tasks, which can take on special meaning for you because they're sequestered in the Assign section? If true, then your examples were just put forward as arbitrary entry tickets to the special space that is under the Assign tab. Sounds kind of interesting for very special projects. Thanks. Am using more emojis because of the ideas of this thread.

I'm thinking of leaving Todoist to go all-in with Evernote Tasks but want to bring certain conventional task identifiers along with me. The line describing the EN task has great flexibility: you can put task feature abbreviations at the front of the task, and links and descriptions at the end. So I'm coming to use capital P or capital A dash, followed by, no space, a word for the Area or Project I'm dealing with. E.g. A-Do_French_Lessons, P-Wax_floors. This is like a tag, not always needed but useful at times. Whether or not you use the A or P "tag", you can them type Pri1 or Pri2 or Pri3 to signal priority levels. Another possible addition is NextAction. So a full example is <P-Wax_floors | Pri1 | NextAction> then, after a few spaces, you type the Task itself. It looks OK, and has the virtue of loosening up Evernote's restrictive visualization of EN Tasks on present dates. Open your EN Tasks, then type Pri1 and/or NextAction. There's your workday, in GTD style.

I make tasks in Todoist with a date and time. Since I added a Todoist calendar option in Google Calendar, the aforementioned tasks show up in Google Calendar. Wait a bit, and they show up in Evernote's Calendar (which had been set to communicate with Google Calendar). These Todoist-initiated events in Evernote Calendar can of course be processed into Evernote notes (as dark icons in the top right of the calendar item). The upshot: I have the flexibility of Todoist tasks which do double duty by entering into the instructive notes I make in Evernote. Patricius

Getting comfortable with the EN integration with Google Calendar, it dawned on me that if I added a Todoist calendar to GCal, TD tasks will end up in my EN Calendar widget (both all-day and time-designated). Why not add the advantage EN gives us to contextualize calendar items with our EN notes to those "Evernotified TD tasks" in the Calendar widget? Guess what: as long as we consult the EN-colonized TD tasks in the Calendar widget (not those bare-boned tasks in their Todoist location), we have stumbled onto the best of both worlds, haven't we?. You don't need to go back to TD to get the enriched, contextualized versions happily ensconced in EN's calendar widget. Sure, TD can be useful still, but to get both the contextualized depth in a time slot afforded by EN, ALONG WITH the quick topicality of TD tasks ... This gives me the feeling of connecting my enriched notes/tasks not just to contemplation, but to achievement and action. Anyone else doing this? Patricius

I like PinkElephant's approach a lot: Say I'm noodling in an EN note about how to have an efficient task app like Todoist NOT gain its own conceptual, textual weight which distracts from or competes with Evernote, but joins Evernote's substance and weight to itself. Nimbleness and focused weightiness. The excitement of EN tasks feature is that its tasks are able to be rooted in a context of thought and problem-solving coming to us in-house. But EN cannot be as nimble as TD and can't give us recurring tasks, etc. The solution, which many of us have already resorted to, is to integrate. I copy the web link from the EN note I'm working in, and I type a Todoist task like this (TD puts the descriptive text into square brackets and the URL into parentheses): The result is a Todoist with real weight coming from the heartland of our inquiry in EN, and an EN with a real nimbleness borrowed from Todoist. Maybe the best of both worlds will have to come from integration rather than bending singular apps out of their proper shape.

Ctrl+Q is marvelous, but works inconsistently for me. In the Win desktop version, clicking Ctrl+Q anywhere outside the note -- note title area, up at the top near Evernote or note heading, on the side -- works just fine. But in the web version, nothing seemed to work: Ctrl+Q or Ctrl+Alt+F.

Good idea which I might implement. The journaling sidefile may provide an intellectual / existential context wherein you can develop and record new granular tags to be put into texts .

Well, DTLow, you're a bit above my pay grade, me being a non-techie. I have many many EN tags, and to be honest don't look forward to applying my work-around to a multitude of inline tags (lack of a better word). I'm in the PC world, but if in Apple would be interested in your Applescript. What I do like about my approach, which is in the early stages, is that I can have fine-tuned concepts that are granular and to the moment -- even epiphanies in a few cases. I'm thinking, not just applying a tag to return later. Using EN tags for fine work is like painting with a big Sharpie.

DTLow, tagging in Evernote leads you to the overall note. But you can't find the particular paragraph or context that embedded the tag's meaning in a way that excited you, and made you want to return to this granular context. E.g. if as a poet I'm learning to write a sestina, and in a long note I quote lines from a brilliant use of the sestina I want to remember, a tag is too cumbersome. An inline tag takes you right to the lines, guided in your search by "_sestina". You can cast your eye on the window on the right for several such granular sestina usages. Better this than Evernote tagging system IMO.

Thanks for the response. Tried your idea. Neither "x" nor "|" works in Evernote as a search starter the same way as the underscore _. But you must have meant, these things work in WorkFlowy. But see, I'm trying here to love the one I'm with. So I'm sticking as far as possible with the green elephant.

In my seventies, writer of prose and poems, I want my 13-year relationship with Evernote to be like my 52-year marriage: resourceful, good-humored, affectionate. I've looked fondly at Roam and Notion, but find Evernote slowly gaining in the functionality to do similarly creative, 2nd-brain things. ONE. A test and example word: take an odd word like "smigma" and plant it in this format -- "_smigma" -- in any 5 notes deep in your database. Then go to the Search window and type it in the same format: quotation mark, underscore, the word smigma, then a closing quotation mark, like so: <"_smigma">. That search will find all 5 inline tags in the contexts of their notes. Casting your eye on the found instances of your seminal keywords/tags should set your mind alight. TWO: I'm doing side-by-side windows. Working on a poem, I set up another tab of Evernote web and make a note for rough work on the poem. I make a web link in the original version to the rough version and work happily with them side-by-side.