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Just for the avoidance of doubt - which taskbar?

Hi - welcome to the forums. What hardware do you have? Do you use the web version of Evernote or an installed client?

I'm sure an improvement is on a list somewhere, but with Evernote there's a lot of scope for additional (or more elegant) features. Considering what this product looked like even 24 months ago, I'm sure they'll get around to improving this.

Why is what so complicated? JMichael gave a four-line guide higher up this thread which includes embedding a hyperlink behind any text of your choice. If you explain what you're interested in doing maybe we can be more specific.

Once again, I am reminded - read the question with the grey cells switched on. Burgers is (of course) absolutely right - birds nest, but stacks don't!

Hi Duane, welcome to the forums. Stacks are already 'enabled' in that all you have to do is drag one notebook on top of another in the left panel. Create a new notebook to be the stack parent if necessary and either drag and drop other notebooks into it, or right-click the notebook name and use 'add to stack'.

Sorry for the extra traffic - that was the only way I could think of to link Evernote and your video. Outside Evernote you could look to setting up a link in your home page which opens your video software, then browse to the file from there - and have a look at 'share' when you open the video player itself in case you can post a link to it into Evernote. I don't think it will be possible yet, but as Android develops it may be part of an upgrade at some stage...

Welcome to the forums. I don't believe it's possible to create a link to a video which will play it from the home screen, much less put such a link into another app to run it from there. You could add the video to the note and play it from there.. (depending on the size, and whether you have a free or prem account)

Welcome.

Don't have an XP machine to remind myself of the 'official' procedure, but I had a work-around when I needed a link for a different purpose - open a spreadsheet and set up a link from a cell to the file; then copy the full path, which shows up neatly in the dialogue box. I think in XP you could go to ~tools ~folder options in explorer and choose 'display full path in the address bar' on the ~view tab. You can then copy and paste the path - but you have to type or c&p the file name separately. Edit: Memo to self: search before enter.. Had a look in my search engine of choice and it says drag and drop the file into your Run dialogue window. You can cut and paste the full path from there. Doh.

Hi Debbie - not sure what you mean by 'link to notebook'. If your main project note contains a list you could link to that note, or save a search which would lead to that note plus all the others containing a key term or (sorry) an appropriate tag. There's no way (AFAIK) to jump to a specific notebook however, other than to click/ tap on the name.

I use CamScanner for Android which can save both pictures and PDF files. A photograph is better for many individual 'scans' because you don't need to turn on the computer for a single sheet of paper, and printing on boxes, bottles and other 3D items is (obviously) unscannable. Also wall-charts, whiteboards etc can be captured with full notes. I did build a full-on camera stand for some large items where camera shake and picture quality was an issue, but mobile cameras are smart enough to take the picture between shakes for most normal cases. With handwritten and picture notes, don't forget to add the best title and tags you can - OCR can only go so far with my hand scrawl too. My eyes are a lot better at interpreting the content once I found the right note.

On the basis that it would take (thumb in the air) 200,000 USD to create a completely new product, and each new user is 'worth' around 5 USD per month - but that's not profit that's just income - you'd be wanting a take-up of somewhere between 5,000 and 50,000 premium accounts. Please note I don't speak for Evernote in this; entirely my own opinion. I have no idea what percentage of income goes to R&D. Covering the cost may not be the problem - what if they have other productive plans for the next 24 months? Even covering the cost may not be the only issue - aren't there a lot of forks in the Linux pie?

Why? See previous discussions here about tags vs folders...

Thankyou (I think I tried that, but I'll give it another shot!)

I've got an ongoing issue with upload stats aired in a previous thread and with a support ticket - briefly as with the examples above, my web and mobile upload stats show me (courtesy of a recent reset) as using 25MB of my limit, while my desktop shows 229MB. The support team suggested the classic - completely close Evernote, backup the database, uninstall the application and then re-install allowing the server database to sync to my new install. I'm (reasonably) sure that would work, but it's an hour or several that I don't have at the moment. I'll get around to it - but if this is happening, wouldn't it be convenient to have a menu option to reset the upload count / sync it with the server setting?

Actually I'd like to amend my previous suggestion - notes with the same name are relatively common; usually a default of some sort. The same name does not indicate the same content. In fact my main problem is notes with different headings but the same content - when I grab (or upload) the same image twice (or more) times with my somewhat variable wetware supplying different titles each time. A search for exactly the same note size might find quite a bit of duplicated content.

Would be convenient and helpful to have an Evernote "duplicate finder" that checks for note name and size, since I found that some of my notes are named identically because they're all about one event, but each has a different image / different contents. As JB found though, most of my duplicates were default headings - which it's useful, but hardly vital, to clean up. When duplicate notes matter is when you find your routine search turns up two notes that are titled differently but still have the same content. If/ when that happens I'll worry about it.

Exactly the same process I think - List View / Select links / Copy Note Links and then Paste into Excel 2007. All separate lines. Maybe if you dump the list in a word-processor first? Actually JB you may have hit on a trick I didn't think about - because these are all active links, the deletion process isn't as painful as I thought it would be. All you need do is delete all but one of the highlighted duplications (I seem to have x4 of one heading!) by clicking the respective links, then deleting the notes from their opened windows. It's not automatic, but it's not exactly a hard slog. Edit: Although you might want to check that the notes are actually identical and do something less destructive first - like maybe move them to another notebook? Evernote doesn't actually prevent you from having two identical filenames, and maybe you were just amazingly consistent in naming all the notes from one event!

Depends how many rows your spreadsheet has. As far as I can see it should work with up to 10,000 - 50,000 titles fairly easily, depending on your spreadsheet and the speed and memory of your machine. Excel 2007 forinstance goes up to 1M rows and will highlight duplicates for you via "Conditional Formatting". Spreadsheets are pretty good tools for identifying duplicates. The only practical problem I see is that once you have your list of duplicated entries you're back to purely manual checks to find and delete them. So I'd go with method 2 unless you're really stuck for space or overwhelmed with duplicates!

OK - how's this for lateral think: Either sort notes by title copy note titles into excel (or your spreadsheet of choice) as a list use a simple formula (if a1=a2, then "x") to generate marks against duplicates delete all other titles from list (sorting is iffy, because a1 no longer = a2 even if it did originally...) find those names in Evernote Kill! () Or: Don't sweat it Carry on with normal searches If you notice a duplicate kill it then

Darn. I knew that.. Depends on the OS of course. If you're in Windows it's easy - find the file in Windows Explorer, shift+right click; look for 'copy as a path' and paste the path into your Ctrl-K window with "file:///" - without the quotation marks.

Right click note Copy Note Link Highlight note text Ctrl-K (windows) to open link window Paste note link

I agree that visual mapping is a powerful addition to Evernote's current set of 'brain' tools - +1 for the suggestion, meantime Mind Mapping of various sorts and apps like Workflowy are your only other options to peterf's suggestion above...

I've been using Evernote for a little while now - around 2 years seriously, and initially I was very uncomfortable because there were no folders and sub-folders in Evernote. It seemed impossible to adequately sort my information into categories and cases that could support a specific thesis. However as I got used to the tagging system I began to see many advantages in using tags, not folders - and as I develop my usage of Evernote I'm beginning to think that I have overtagged my notes anyway. The search syntax is so powerful (again, once you get used to it..) that filing and finding information doesn't really require any organisation on my part. I'm moving towards tagging notes only to show that they form part of an ongoing grouping that relates to a client, or an action. As example I'll look at dozens of notes related to banking regulation; I'll find them through searches for obvious keywords, and probably discard 70% of what I find as being repetitions, background or just irrelevant static. The ones I'm going to quote from though, in an article, letter or report will be tagged with the name of that action so that if (when) I get any ensuing grief, I can check back with the source material easily and without repeating the search and discard part of the exercise. Some of the really good notes now have several tags indicating that they've been in different forms of output at different times. I don't say this style of working couldn't work in a hierarchical filing model, but it is possible to do quite complex things 'only' with tags. Some visitors to the forum have insisted that post-it notes are essential if they are to use Evernote; others that a Mind Mapping layout is required. I don't suggest that Evernote disregard all such requests - the owners of the software have to make their own decision what development is physically and economically feasible within their own business plan. They'll likely be driven by sales take-up - when numbers of new customers start to dry up, they'll need to see what might restore their attraction; but currently with 20Million (ish) largely satisfied users, Evernote can afford to take the long view. They have a reasonably smooth, well-liked product and lots of detail work to iron out the rough edges between different clients, not to mention the new ones that come online in the next few years. The existing customer base will get unhappy if the product slows down, or adds unwieldy bloat to the menus, so EN have to keep massaging their infrastructure to keep pace with demand. For the forseeable future, Evernote will look pretty much like it does now - that's the "if it ain't broke" principle we all know and love - so if you really, REALLY require something else before you'll accept the product, it's not an unhelpful attitude to say "try elsewhere", it's just realistic. There are apps out there that add in the post-it feature; there are MindMapping and dozens of other specialist tools (I use several myself) to add functionality to Evernote. It's a mistake to think that Evernote should be the singe piece of software that anyone requires - extra features will always be available; it's what your laptop / smartphone / pad is there for! And of course if the next Better Mousetrap function is sadly lacking from Evernote, the Trunk and the Apps Markets, you always have the Evernote API from which you can develop your own...