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  1. > collaborative editing It's about time! My wife and I shared a shopping list in Google Docs for years. Sometimes we'd both be editing at the same time and we could send each other messages inside the document in close-to-real time. In contrast, our shared shopping list in Evernote keeps spawning additional copies or failing to record changes one of us has made, possibly (we suspect) because we had multiple instances open on different devices at the same time. If Google could handle this in a tiny corner of their sprawling business, I should think Evernote could find a way to do it since it seems a pretty essential feature of their only product.
  2. I've been looking around at possible Evernote replacements and I notice that some of them seem to have the same problem. (E.g., Dropbox Paper.) It boggles my mind that all these designers think (1) the only use for a checklist is as a to-do list, and (2) the user necessarily wants a task stricken when s/he marks it complete. Neither of these is true, as all the screaming in this and related topics attest. As I've pointed out elsewhere, if nothing else it should be possible to manually remove the strikethrough formatting after it is applied. You could do a mass removal by selecting the entire text, hitting the strikethough format button, and hitting the button again. The first hit would format the whole note in strikethrough and the second one would remove that formatting. But the only way to remove the formatting now is to uncheck the box. And from Evernote we get . . . crickets.
  3. As I see it there are two strategies that Evernote might pursue if it doesn't want this automatic strikethrough "feature" to drive customers away. The first and most desirable would be to make the "feature" optional. Failing that, it should provide a decent workaround. The checkbox workaround is ineffective because a <CR> at the end of a line beginning with a checkbox converts that and subsequent lines to the checklist format (with mandatory strikethrough). I thought I could defeat this problem by preceding each checkbox with a space, as suggested above. That seemed to work during my original creation of the note, but when I returned to it the next day the first <CR> I entered converted the entire note to the new Checklist format. Another workaround that should work, but does not, would be manual removal of strikethrough formatting. This should be possible in two quick and easy steps: (1) select the text to be un-struck, and (2) click the strikethrough symbol. To un-strike the whole note, one would (1) type CTRL-a to select all text; (2) click the strikethrough symbol to give that format to the entire note; (3) with the whole document still selected, click the strikethrough symbol again. This should remove all strikethrough formatting in the document. But because the mandatory strikethrough formatting in the new Checklist format cannot be manually removed, none of these steps have the desired effect.
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