gggirlgeek

I'm still on EN v5.9.1 for lack of dark backgrounds so I didn't know about this v10 fiasco until today. The facts are that I need my notes on all of my devices, and I HATE HATE HATE the web interface. Also, $100/year is just too much to pay, but I am willing to pay $50/year max. So my hunt is on.

My use-case: Pretty typical. Webclips and simple note taking with some scanned documents -- maybe 4000 notes. I use it on every device. I do find myself using Notepad++ more often because of its tab-sessions and its ability to open so many file formats. I also LOVE its syntax highlighting. So, Evernote for saving and syncing stuff; Notepad++ for scrap notes and experimenting with scripts. I use Ditto for snippets and memory jogging.

I am considering Zoho Notebook. It's free. Why isn't anybody talking about it? I've searched the forum. The only problem I've come across is the lack of a clean list view. I'm willing to see if I can get over it if it's as good as it seems.

I'm also considering Nimbus, but you guys say it's slow with 1000's of notes.

Third, I'm considering Clipto-pro Desktop -- a cross between a clipboard synchronizer and a note taker ON STEROIDS. Drawback: I haven't figured out how to paste webclips and images into it quickly. It seems to only accept the text and url's (which it shows preview snippets of.) I can only import images via file browser??? I've posted this question to the developer so we shall see what's up. This could replace Ditto and Evernote potentially. It's very new though, with a lot of promise.

I'm going to give all 3 a whirl with a big chunk of notes to weigh them down. I'll come back and check on things here.

Thank you! Dear God, Thank you!

I have tried messing with this for YEARS, and I've tried every possible solution, but nothing worked.  Why won't the developers help us out with this if it's so simple????

Note: I am using Evrenote portable (v5.9.1.8742).  I simply made sure the script was pointing to the path of my Evernote.exe and not EvernotePortable.exe.  I also made sure the right drive was selected in the script instead of "C:".   Now my notes are changed on ALL computers!

Note: I also needed to make sure SwissArmyKnife was renamed to sfk.exe and placed in the path matching the script (C:\sysutil\sfk.exe). (Alternately you can change the script path to simply "sfk.exe" with no path, and then copy sfk.exe into the same folder as Evernote.exe.

You're my hero!!!!

If you use note templates, as Robin Lee's (welcome to the forums!) comments suggested, you can have any background color you want. However, changing it is the tricky part, and it is also not possible on mobile clients to change text color, so that can be an issue as well. I hope we'll get the feature someday, but I guess other things like control over fonts, text size, highlighting, etc. (clients vary on their support) would probably be a priority for many people as well. Evernote developers have plenty to keep them busy over the summer

If you would like some background color templates, please see this page:

http://www.princeton.edu/~cmayo/template.html

This web app does seem to address that.

http://evernote.com/trunk/items/colorstache

But it would be great if it was incorporated into Evernote natively.

These links are invalid now!

Also the templates I created from the first link don't work in Evernote note anymore!  I just get some kind of Snippet view.  With no way to change my note background this really sucks!  Please give us some options, Evernote!!!  Our eyes hurt!