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First, thank you , Pink Elephant without your post I'm not sure I would have found the settings. But it is super hard to see this. 

On my Ipad, I had to tap the subtask (I had a note with a list of other tasks) not the note itself. Then I got this which had the two icons:

In Windows it was different and super difficult to see. You, again, have to click the individual task and then a small set of four dots appears. Clicking those dots will bring up a pop up with controls on due date and time. This is what this looks like. 

I'm on iPad and Windows, can't figure out how to find the menu to add a due date. Adding a reminder with date did not add a due date. 

See it when creating but can't retroactively add.

On 11/3/2016 at 8:13 AM, gazumped said:

Hi.  This may be a device issue,  because the Samsung Note 4 I use times out annoyingly well no matter what app I'm using - including Evernote - and also applies my default screen brightness.  I have PIN login (on the device) turned OFF unless I'm out and about,  because I inevitably have to wake it up when I want to add or edit a note,  and pin-ing in multiple times per day is annoying...

Have you tried the app Screebl? I find this works well with my Samsung devices and rapid timing out.

One more overall thought. This might be a case where having a small dedicated notebook would be the way to go.Then each project could have its own note and the list of projects is always accessible at the note book level. 

19 hours ago, s2sailor said:

Not necessarity, It depends on your use case.  As an example, I have a weekly status note where I keep track of different topics and provide dated entries in each.  This note gets presented to a group of people.  I would love to be able to collapse any entries that are not important for that particular meeting to help provide focus on the issues that do need to be discussed.  This could be duplicated with many separate notes and links but manuevering through that live in front of a group would be very messy.  Much similar to be able to just collapse or expand sections as needed.

I'm not sure it is that different.

In your version each project has a name and some kind of button or open arrow beside it. You present the note and for each project you wish to discuss, you click the arrow and it opens that project in the note. If each project only has a few lines as you show above then your use case might prove more slightly more effective.

However if you have less than a screen's worth of projects with only a few lines each project, the most effective thing to do in that case might be not to have any hide or drop down or link at all, with a screen's worth of projects, just list everything out.

But if you have a project with more than a few lines of material underneath it or say meeting notes with third parties then I think the Evernote linking system is similar to the collapse feature. 

Let's look at the steps you'd go through in each system with a large project system.

In your version, you click the project and it opens several screens worth or material or even more sections that you click open to reach whatever section or sections you want to discuss with the group. To move onto another project cleanly, you'll need to scroll up and close up each of these opens OR at least close the big one  up. Or you could continue to scroll down in the note until you reach the next project.

In the current Evernote situation, you open a similar note and click on a project. Instead of opening in that note you are taken to a new note where you may have more sub-projects that you may click to jump to. So far this is similar in ease to your version. How about going back? Use the back arrow button which you've added to your toolbar. This is the one place where your system might have an advantage because in your system if you arr close to the top of a section, you could just close the whole section in one click. On the other hand if you have scrolled down quite a bit the Evernote system will get you back quicker since you don't have to scroll back to the top. 

And the Evernote system has an advantage of opening each project away from other projects which might help with focus and possibly confidentiality. 

Notelinks are the way to go to replicate this sort of organization. Yes, in Evernote that will mean separate notes, but the effect will be the same.

i also have a Surface Pro, but for me Evernote suits my work style better. I want a note taking app that converts my handwritten notes to text. Evernote does this well, and it lets me use the pen in an intuitive way, going back to edit while still taking notes. Onenote on the other hand only allows for the pen to be used to take the notes, if I wish to return to edit, I must use a finger tap. I suppose you could say this is getting more bang for your tool, but to me it interferes with the process. (and if anyone knows how I could stop this behavior, I'd like to know it exists in all the Microsoft office products). 

On 7/15/2016 at 4:23 PM, s2sailor said:

I still can't see a situation where I would want my EN data locked but it would be ok for someone to have access to my contacts, emails, texts, etc ...  Not complaining, just trying to understand the use case for this request.

Guess: other app is may be locked down already.

On 7/6/2016 at 11:10 AM, gazumped said:

Hi.  Why unlock the phone with a fingerprint and then unlock Evernote too?  Isn't the one protection sufficient?  Have you looked at pass code locking?  (I appreciate that the link talks about iOS unlocking too - but why do it twice??)

Not my request, but I assume that some folks need to hand their phone over to someone, but don't want to provide full access. That might include children or customers.

I have a different take on this. Evernote is cloud based. I would suggest either putting all your tax related materials into a local notebook so it does not sync to the cloud, but understand you can't access this notebook or add to it from other devices. OR encrypt files with information in them that you don't want anyone to have. This would include account numbers, social security number, etc. Once encrypted you can put these files into your notebook and that notebook can sync. Notes like receipts for deductible items don't have to be encrypted if they don't contain confidential information.

On notebooks, I mostly like your idea. What I would suggest you  consider long term is closing down a year's tax documents by tagging them all with something like "2016-taxdocuments" and then moving them to a general "Tax documents" notebook and deleting the year specific notebook. I wouldn't do this until I was done using those documents, but this would act to save notebooks which do have a cap in Evernote. 

23 hours ago, AllenS said:

I have windows... so this is worth looking at. 

The difference would be that in Onenote, I print, then decide where it is to go, regardless of placement of a file on my computer.

With this, in Evernote, I print, but it has to be to an 'authorized folder' on my computer, chosen ahead of time and registered in Evernote, then it gets sent to my default folder for later re-filing? If I understand correctly, it is still not as smooth as in Onenote, in which I can print in WordPerfect straight to Onenote without having to convert to PDF. 

I need to play with this, I may be making it seem harder than it is.

Thank you for your response!!

Yes and no. The import folder will go to whatever notebook you set up. BUT you can have multiple notebooks. I have several import folders for the notebooks I most use. You'll also want to decide if you want Evernote to delete the PDF file in the folder once it imports it. 

So the most straight forward thing to do is to copy the note in question however many times you need reminders. Set separate reminders for each action on each copy or to do as gazumped suggests above and create separate notes. 

I've used a lot of similarly priced to do list apps, I can't think of one that would allow such individualistic multiple reminders (although many have a repeat function). Only very expensive project management software can possible do this. 

 

I have been a paying member of Allrecipes for several and I will get to the point of why I am throwing that in here. There were some changes to their website effective 9/1/2015 that now make it impossible to find our personal recipes and weblinks. I collected recipes from other websites which were visible on all my electronic devices. I had installed Evernote Food and periodically used it, but it wasn't until today that I was thinking of going back to using Evernote Food as a replacement for Allrecipes only to find that it is being discontinued. I've already migrated my recipes once before when a software company/app went out of business. It seems that we users cannot trust that these apps that we've come to rely on will be with us indefinitely. Every 5-10 years websites are either changing the look of their content or discontinuing it altogether. I have hard copies of some of my recipes and berated myself for wasting paper and being redundant, but now it seems that keeping hard copies is the most efficient and lasting way to keep our recipes and memories of food we have enjoyed in restaurants kept in a binder or some other hard copy. The downside of that is the information cannot be sync'd or viewed by all of our devices and we'd have to have the binder around in order to access recipes, shopping lists and menus. I don't think that Allrecipes will make changes to comply with users complaints about their new format, nor do I think Evernote Food will either. The user is always left hanging out there with no means of support or directed where to go when their particular app bites the dust. 

 

For your purpose of collections and saving recipes is totally do-able in Evernote itself. Personally, I only used Food for journaling. 

And I know nothing about the underpinnings of software, but the one file thing concerns me as that is how Outlook works and pst files are known to get buggy and crash. 

I am not a CS person so some of what I say may not pertain to you.

First, consider how you want to take notes. Even as a high tech person, you should give some thought to taking your notes by hand because doing so causes greater success in your most important low tech asset, your brain: http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/to-remember-a-lecture-better-take-notes-by-hand/361478/

However, you could consider a high tech way to use this low tech method. There are now several including Samsung Note Tablets and phones which have a pen that converts your hand writing to text: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-note/, Live scribe pens which write on paper but then send your notes into your computer and Evernote:  http://store.livescribe.com/?gclid=CJTirKq1tr4CFc1QOgodhlsA9Q.

You can also utilize Evernote's handwriting option and your own finger or an add on stylus. Consider the Jot Script stylus: https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/stylus?sku=STYL001001&gclid=CMyX3cq1tr4CFQNqOgodE04AEQ

Or you can take your notes the old fashioned way in a notebook and later scan or use your phone to copy them in. Use the digital page camera in Evernote if you use your phone. Use the Evernote scanner: https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/scanner?sku=SCAN00101 to scan in ordinary paper. Or buy the moleskin notesbooks from Evernote for even more power when you use the page scanner on your phone: https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/moleskine-family

I can't seem to set this up. I go to the security page where I have three choices of things to do. The last of which is to set up Two Step. The word "Enable" is in blue but unlike the other two choices, it does not operate like a link, no little hand or underline appears when I mouse over it. However, I can right click it. When I click on it, I am taken to this generic page: https://www.evernote.com/SecuritySettings.action.

 

The other two options result in pop ups. 

 

I am a premium user, on Windows Vista. 

 

I've seen this behavior and am checking into it, but the link should still work, even if the mouse over isn't registering it.  Can you left click the link regardless of it not reacting to your mouse over?

Sorry, it took me some time to get back to you, but I did some real life. I checked again this morning and it is still doing the same thing. Yes, it does act as a link if I click on it, but it takes me to that generic page I put the link of in my post. As far as I can tell there is nothing to do on that page. 

Edited to add: I realized after hitting post that the generic screen I was seeing was the same url as the real security page I had started on. Let me post a picture of what the generic screen looks like. 

I can't seem to set this up. I go to the security page where I have three choices of things to do. The last of which is to set up Two Step. The word "Enable" is in blue but unlike the other two choices, it does not operate like a link, no little hand or underline appears when I mouse over it. However, I can right click it. When I click on it, I am taken to this generic page: https://www.evernote.com/SecuritySettings.action.

The other two options result in pop ups. 

I am a premium user, on Windows Vista. 

I agree with Grumpy Monkey. When I first came to Evernote I was sure I needed nested notebooks with many levels. I have learned that I was wrong about this. Tags can be even more useful because I can some tags that run through multiple notebooks.