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  1. I need to print out the tasks I have assigned to someone. How do I do this?
  2. To remind myself of important notes that I have forgotten about, I use an Evernote app for the iPad called Crusoe. Personally, I don't find much utility in a feature that would randomly put on one of my notes in front of me. The odds that one note out of my 10,047 notes will randomly be of interest to me at a given time is slim. What Crusoe does is show me notes that I haven't looked up but which have an important connection with the note(s) I'm looking at. When you save a note into Evernote, Crusoe lets you build a two-way connection at the tap of your finger to another note (on the iPad). If you do that with everything you save, you quickly build these long trains of thought that you can navigate later on. YOu can see what it looks like here: Crusoe.co
  3. In preferences, Evernote allows me to choose the font I use in the body of my notes. I selected Avenir Light. However, Evernote does not allow me to select Avenir as a font when I am editing a note (between cutting and pasting from various sources, fonts change inside a note, and I'd like to "select all" at the end and make it all Avenir). It makes no sense that a user's default font is not a font the user can actually select from the front menu inside the note. My suggestion is that Evernote add whatever default font is selected in preferences to the user's font menu inside the note.
  4. DTLow & rocku, If you get a chance, and if you have an iPad, please give Crusoe a try. We built specifically to create links between Evernote notes. But unlike the hyperlinks you create in Evernote, our links are two-way and graphical. So you can browse your notes from link to link. You can read about and download Crusoe here: http://crusoe.co/what-is-crusoe/
  5. Before Evernote came out I actually started working on my own Evernote. I started building a web clipper, but I barely got started when Evernote came out and I was happy to not have to build my own. For years I used Evernote just the way you describe. I thought tagging / notebooks were more than just categories of information, but they aren't. They are no different than manila folders in filing cabinets. Now, filing cabinets work, don't get me wrong. But as my tag list grew I realized I had to memorize my tags if I wanted access to those notes (and those short tags were like codewords...tough to remember what I meant by them all as time went on). Most of my tags had five or fewer notes attached, and there was no way I could keep track of all those tags. I cut the list way down so that most of my tags had 20 or more notes, but then i was having to look at too many notes. My mind doesn't put information into categories. You and I start talking and my mind will just start serving things up, seemingly without my even thinking about it. So I wondered if there would be a way to make my mobile device work like that. That is, when I think of X, show me three other notes that I think are completely relevant to X, without my having to remember tags or notes or anything else to put my hands on those other three notes. That was my motivation going in: have my notes serve themselves up the way my mind would serve them up if I had perfect recall (IOW, I want notes to serve themselves up based on how I actually think rather than by some latent semantic indexing algorithm). And I want notes to serve themselves up independent of whether I remember those notes.
  6. But once you forget about that file, how can you find it? To search for something you first must be aware that it exists. We lose that awareness when we forget. You need some kind of system of reminders to put it in front of you at the right time and place. You can go to your AI notebook and read through everythiing in the notebook, but most people don't have time for that. And even if you do that, you might see the article when you are thinking about something entirely unrelated to the reason you saved that particular AI note in the first place. So without that context, it fails to register when you see it again. So even if you read through the entire notebook, you'll be seeing most notes out of context. I have this experience every time I come across a note and think "why the hell did I save this?" I've lost the link, the context. We save information like a paragraph from an article because it might be useful later on (or right now). But merely saving it and putting it in a file (or multiple files w tags and notebooks) is no different than photocopying everything and putting it in my steelcase filing cabinet. Once I forget about these pieces of paper, I'm never going to see them again. (I had an opportunity to present this to the CIA and I pointed out that they had the documents needed to track down Bin Laden from the get go...the problem was that it was merely stored in a file).
  7. gazumped, You make an excellent point! There are many notes I save that I don't want to remember: documents from my insurance claim, tax receipts. Those are nuggets of data. There is no reason to link notes like that. But most of the notes I save are excerpts from articles and books--stuff I do want to remember. And by "remember," I mean I want to remember why I thought it was worth saving. That paragraph about AI you saved is something you want to remember. If I had seen the same paragraph I probably wouldn't have saved it. But you saved it because it speaks to a lot of stuff you already know. The research says we forget about 90% of what we read 30 days after having read it (unless we keep the synapse in our minds from breaking by using that text again). If you have, say, 2,000 notes, you won't be able to put your hands on that paragraph again once you forget it. You might search evernote for "AI" and get 300 articles, and you'll see it again if you go through them all. But that paragraph you clipped either confirmed something you already knew, it contracted something you already knew, it added to something you already knew, took a new direction from...you get the idea. If you linked that paragraph to two or three other notes you'll be sure to see it again if you think of any one of those other notes (and of course vice versa). Sorry about the Apple limitation! Pipeline is iPhone and then web-based version.
  8. I request you give us the same colors as currently exist on the Amazon Kindle. Kindle users who are already heaving highlighters can continue with their same workflow.
  9. I just participated in an Evernote panel here in Chicago, and at one point or another, each panelist emphasized that we save notes FOR A REASON. That reason is--inevitably--because how each new note LINKS to something we already know (e.g. another previously saved note). We wouldn't save any notes without there being a tie-in, or link, to something we already know or think about. So yes, these links are...everything. And the linking feature being discussed here is available in Crusoe. I invite anyone interested in linking their notes to download Crusoe for the iPad (iPhone version coming soon). Crusoe is a mobile Evernote app for the iPad and it allows you, at the tap of a finger, to create two-way links between your notes. And as you build these "trains of thought" you follow links forward and back down different pathways. Check out the website here: http://crusoe.co/ Download here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crusoe/id1020912650?mt=8 FYI, check out the attached image to see what your links look like in Crusoe. You can also watch a quick video if you scroll halfway down the page here.
  10. Hi Phil,

    Let's say I'm using the app I'm developing (let's call it RocketApp), which is an app that does stuff with Evernote notes. My app runs only on the iPad for now.  It's expensive for me to pay developers to recreate all of Evernote's search features, and I'd rather use EVernote to find specific notes anyway.

    I'm wondering...would it be possible to have the folllowing happen when the user taps the search field:

    1. The user's iPad automatically goes into multitasking with Evernote as the secondary app on the right hand side of the screen.  
    2. The user uses Evernote to find one or multiple notes.
    3. When he taps on the primary app to return to RocketApp, Evernote passes either the multiple or single GUID it has from it's last search over to RocketApp
    4. RocketApp populates its screen with those GUIDs

    I'm not technical in the least, but I'm trying to find out if this would work.  IMG_2799.thumb.jpg.d3bcfdc907b8ed1f6fca3

    1. Rocket J. Squirrel

      Rocket J. Squirrel

      By the way, when I wrote "would it be possible to have the folllowing happen when the user taps the search field" I meant would it be possible to have the following happen when the user taps the search field in RocketApp.

    2. Rocket J. Squirrel

      Rocket J. Squirrel

      Here is the original question I posted in the forum if you want to reply there:

       

       

       

    3. phils

      phils

      I'm not an iOS expert but to my knowledge, it's not possible to communicate between the primary and secondary apps like you're wanting.

      (FYI I'm traveling internationally for the next few weeks - in Pottsylvania of course - so may be online only sporadically.)

       

  11. Thanks Scott, Here's what my app does. Opening screen is roughly like Evernote opening screen except you see only six notes and the title are shown in full. Now let's say you clipped a sentence from an online article because you think it reinforces something you read the other day. Tap on that note and it drops to the bottom of your screen. Tap on the other note you have in mind and now the two notes are connected so that whenever you pull up one note, you'll see the other. what you just did is you save the reason WHY that note matters to you--because of how it ties in with the first note. In my app, you don't save notes you connect them. And then, whenever you pull up any note you'll see all the notes that are tied to it. Of course it all comes down to the user interface which is very cool, but I'm just curious--does that sound like something you'd use?
  12. A related question: How do you manage your notes when you have thousands and thousands of notes? I know how to use Evernote, and I look up stuff all the time since I have everything on planet earth stored there. But... I can't look up a note after I've lost all memory that it even exists. Sure, I can click on a tag and then start working through all the notes in the tag to see if I've forgotten anything worthwhile, but I just can't imagine doing that. When I want information, I want something specific, so I can only want what I can roughly remember exists. (It's getting kind of existential.) For me this problem is a big deal. I think my app mostly solves this problem, but honestly, I just don't know how big a problem it is for other users. I'd love to hear thoughts.
  13. Thanks for that reply. My app is running into trouble when people have over 6,000 notes (or something like that) and I'm wondering how many users have that many notes.
  14. I have just under 5,000 notes. I have seen users with 7,000 notes. I am developing an app for Evernote (nearly finished) and it would help a great deal if I knew how notes per users breaks down. Something like this (I just made up the numbers): Number of users with <300 notes Number of users with 300 - 500 notes Number of users with 500 - 1,000 notes Number of users with 1,000+ notes 92 million 400,000 128,000 98,000 Is there any breakdown like this out there anywhere?
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