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Martin Packer

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  1. @jjwells Private businesses can make business decisions any way they want to.

     

    Of the three things you suggested, they've said next to nothing: Linux client, web app note merging, Web app HTML5 offline storage.

    It would seem to me, though, that note merging is the easiest and most likely. But I'm just a customer of Evernote's (though an IT technical specialist of 30 years' standing).

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  2. One day someone will write a pipeline toolchain for Evernote notes. Sort filtering - perhaps limited to tables or lists - would be an early candidate for a stage in such a toolchain.

     

    (And I don't care if it's Linux (unlikely), Windows (I have it under KVM under Linux) or OSX (I have that too). :-) Or even iOS.)

     

    I'd even accept the notion that the output is a NEW note.

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  3. To me we should ask for two (potentially deliverable) things:

     

    1. Beefing up the web client. *
    2. Asking Evernote to test with WINE and maybe even support the project actively.

    The advantage of 1 over 2 is that it helps a larger proportion of the user base.

     

    * I'd say the GreaseMonkey / Firefox extension approach to augmenting the Evernote Web Note Editor - and I've played with the former - can help but has limitations. Not least because they are Firefox-specific. But at least Evernote has extensions in Safari and Firefox to build on.

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  4. Interestingly, I wrote a GreaseMonkey script (that unfortunately I don't think I can share outside my employeer*+) that allowed you to change the background colour. The point of this is that figuring out what that means is an interesting challenge: Items whose background is explicitly coded in the HTML (style attribute) probably shouldn't have their background changed. Or should they?

     

    In the context of the normal clients no element will have its background style set. In the context of web clippers and apps (such as vJournal) that set elements' background colours it's entirely possible for this question to become real.

     

    * Copyright is their prerogative, not mine. :-(

    + If you want to know who they are (irrelevant as that is) look me up on the web. :-)

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  5. I like the idea - but when at 35000 feet in a tin can that doesn't (economically perhaps) favour internet connection that's not very helpful.

     

    I looked at the HTML that Pygment I mentioned creates and it's tough as it uses classes rather than the style attributes. The latter is what Evernote tolerates in ENML.

     

    Maybe that's only a minor problem, though.

     

    Regrettably I can't actually work on this (because my employer would probably be most grumpy with me). :-(

  6. Wondering if this could be done with a Syntax Highlighter as part of the toolchain - something like:

    1. Put the code through a language-sensitive highlighter.
    2. Convert to HTML.
    3. Convert to ENML.
    4. Send to Evernote.

    This definitely wouldn't round trip and I don't even know which platforms it could be done on. Anyone know of programs that do highlighting for ANY target language?

     

    (And steps 2 and 3 should probably be conflated.)

  7. I always thought - and actually stated at length a few years ago - it would be great if Evernote worked with the WINE folks to make their Windows client work well (enough) with WINE. A few of you might remember that. It was back in the Version 3 days, I think.

    Maybe that didn't happen and maybe @Orbmiser is lucky and the level of WINE (which level?) and Evernote 5 work well enough together.

     

    I'd like to understand @Orbmiser's success.

     

    Thanks, Martin

  8. I'd say, though, that the "shopping list" case is an interesting one: Anyone got a "syncs with Evernote" third party recommendation? If not then that IS a niche where there's some value - for Evernote or a third party. But maybe a niche that wouldn't be a high priority for Evernote or anyone else.

     

    And when I say it's an interesting case it is from a usability and compsci point of view.

     

    And yes I'd use one that was good enough.

  9. Which PDF rendering engine? Are you talking about Firefox's pdf.js or some other? As I happen to follow the Firefox Builds FORUM of the Mozillazine newsgroup I think I've heard of enhancements to it in recent test releases (Nightlies). For me pdf.js works just fine whether on the released level or the Nightlies.

    Or is this a DIFFERENT PDF rendering scenario?

  10. This thread is TL;DR :-) but I tried to scan it anyway...

     

    It strikes me there are two requirements:

     

    1. The ability to scale with attributes on the img tag. For presentation
    2. The ability to drop the data resolution - for the "transfer pain" case.

    I'm wondering how painful round-tripping through Skitch is. I'd've hoped that it was painless by now - but I guess it isn't. To me Skitch should be the sidecar that gets automatically invoked to provide "advanced" graphics functions as much as it is a stand-alone image editor/annotator.

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