Links within notes

[soralsokal 43]

I found plenty of article and tutorials on table of content. But they all seem to only consider it for many notes.

 

I would link the table of contents to be in one note only. Anyone know if thats possible?

[BobbyV_Cali 23]

I understand what your describing, but it just a sounds like a lot of work. I don't want a different note for what would be a different section in my note. 

For example, say I'm working on a software project, one section might be how to build the software project, another section might be how to run the tests, another section can be meeting notes with the customer. Now I could just export that one note and email it to a coworker who needs to work on the same project. If I go note crazy how do I share all that info? Share a bunch of notes? My whole company doesn't use evernote so I can't share a notebook. But I can export to PDF and email 1 note easliy. 

Different strokes for different folks. 

[DTLow 5,736]

On 2016-12-03 at 8:52 PM, BobbyV_Cali said:

Share a bunch of notes? My whole company doesn't use evernote so I can't share a notebook.

Actually you can share a Notebook via a browser

fwiw  I had to maintain a series of notes like that for a project
My solution was to use public browser links instead of internal Evernote links
The recipients viewed the notes in their browser
When I viewed the notes, it defaults to the browser but it also shows a "View in Evernote" box

[gazumped 11,652]

Hi.  It is possible to export a public link to a notebook;  so colleagues will see your read-only notes in a web browser if you have created a specific public notebook for that client.

[jheuer 6]

+1 Please

[Doff 12]

Markdown supports headings and ToCs - naturally built in anchor points.

Please consider voting for markdown too? 

 

 

[Stacey Harmon 1,104]

I would love to see the ability to create a note link that jumps me to a place lower in the same note...like the html jump to anchor code in webpages. 

Have heard this desired from others in conversations outside this forum so I'm posting it here to see if it garners any other support. I would LOVE this feature.

[Tiago Forte 3]

+1 to this idea. It would allow much finer-grained control of links between notes, allowing us to jump quickly between sections of notes. 

Another way to do this would be inline tags. Allow us to write #keyword anywhere in the body of the note, and be able to search for these inline tags separately from the note title, note tags, and normal text. 

[CalS 5,280]

2 hours ago, Stacey said:

I would love to see the ability to create a note link that jumps me to a place lower in the same note...like the html jump to anchor code in webpages. 

Have heard this desired from others in conversations outside this forum so I'm posting it here to see if it garners any other support. I would LOVE this feature.

Until/if EN implements this, you can use a text expander tool to accomplish this fairly easily on a desktop.  I use PhraseExpress in Windows.  

You can create a phrase containing <doubleclick><Ctrl-C>-<Ctrl-F><Ctrl-V> and assign it a hot key.  I have assigned Alt-Right mouse to mine.  Then when I hover over a word and press the Alt-Right mouse combo focus will jump to the next occurrence of the word in the note.

This works for any word in the note.  So if you format your JumpTo links with an underline and color for ease of access, it will simulate an in-note link.  In the meantime.  FWIW. 

[Stacey Harmon 1,104]

Thanks @csihilling...I'll look into that. I'm on Mac but am guessing there are parallel options. I give it a try while I patiently wait  

[CalS 5,280]

You are welcome.  If you don't find something you like, I think PE is releasing a beta for Mac.

[Tiago Forte 3]

This is such a clever hack of text expanders. I use one for Mac called aText, but it doesn't have the ability to listen for keys, only text replacement. I've been thinking of switching to a different program for awhile, and this may be the motivation I need to make the jump.

It's pretty annoying having to do a search in the universal search box, then click on a note, than do cmd-F, then cycle through each occurrence in the note. Seems like the most natural thing you'd want to do after doing a global search is see all the specific places it appears.

Thanks!

[CalS 5,280]

You are welcome.

[atkinson58 9]

On 9/14/2015 at 4:51 PM, The Ronin said:

Thank you both very much for your conscientiousness and responses.  I really appreciate it!

 

The Ronin

 

p.s.  For you kind Evernote programmers out there, formally integrating bookmarking/embedded header links into a Note would be very useful, please consider doing so.  Thanks.

+1  This is a needed feature...

[pank24 0]

This thread is open since 2014 and Evernote Dev Team hasn't taken note of this essential feature request.

Wonder why its not been taken up by the developers even after 3 years, when there are soo many threads voicing / requesting this feature.

 

 

[DTLow 5,736]

8 hours ago, pank24 said:

This thread is open since 2014 and Evernote Dev Team hasn't taken note of this essential feature request.

Evernote has not shared their request list, but I'm confident they've taken taken note of this request.

As to which requests they implement, that's another discussion.  It's their product, and I can accept that some requests are rejected or not implemented immediately.  I do indicate my support by adding my vote to the requests I favour

[dbr12 10]

I have some notes that are very long and it can take a while to scroll to an area down below in the note.  I'd like to have the ability to have a link that, when clicked, takes you to a later part within the same note or different location within the same note.

[tavor 668]

Seconded.

Internal note links is a longstanding request. 

[CalS 5,280]

19 hours ago, dbr12 said:

I have some notes that are very long and it can take a while to scroll to an area down below in the note.  I'd like to have the ability to have a link that, when clicked, takes you to a later part within the same note or different location within the same note.

In the meantime, awaiting EN implementing the feature or not, you can accomplish this by creating your own hotkeys with a tool like PhraseExpress (hover or click in the link and hit the hotkey).  Or just use Ctrl-F to find the target.

[CalS 5,280]

I found the post where I described the PE setup.

 

[tavor 668]

9 minutes ago, csihilling said:

I found the post where I described the PE setup.

 

Love it. Going to implement this in AutoHotKey.

[CalS 5,280]

12 minutes ago, tavor said:

Love it. Going to implement this in AutoHotKey.

Yeah, worse case it is a quick find and highlight other instances of a word in a note.  Works in any document actually.  No typing required.  

[terablade2001 5]

Anchor points inside notes, and a way to link to them efficiently (from the same note, or external link to note and to anchor) is something I need for evernote. This provides an extra level of information organization. Please in the next update take it into consideration. +1

[Gauthier 7]

I need to manage projects with a lot of information, and I really need this thing. 

[Gauthier 7]

On 27-1-2017 at 7:56 PM, csihilling said:

Until/if EN implements this, you can use a text expander tool to accomplish this fairly easily on a desktop.  I use PhraseExpress in Windows.  

You can create a phrase containing <doubleclick><Ctrl-C>-<Ctrl-F><Ctrl-V> and assign it a hot key.  I have assigned Alt-Right mouse to mine.  Then when I hover over a word and press the Alt-Right mouse combo focus will jump to the next occurrence of the word in the note.

This works for any word in the note.  So if you format your JumpTo links with an underline and color for ease of access, it will simulate an in-note link.  In the meantime.  FWIW. 

I've read your answer, I get the idea behind it, but I don't understand concretely which software you use to do that and how you do that within the software ? 

I have TextExpander on Mac (5.1.4, before the new "online subscription model"), but I don't think I can do that kind of thing with it.

[CalS 5,280]

6 hours ago, Gauthier said:

I've read your answer, I get the idea behind it, but I don't understand concretely which software you use to do that and how you do that within the software ? 

I have TextExpander on Mac (5.1.4, before the new "online subscription model"), but I don't think I can do that kind of thing with it.

Don't know about TextExpander.  The software I use is PhraseExpress, I use it on Windows.  They have a free version for Mac you can find  here.   The actual phrase looks like the below.  With this phrase I hover over the word, Alt-Right Click, and then I can cycle though instances of the word in the note.  Any issues post back and I will help if I can.

[kmkonline 3]

Is it possible to implement the link inside post so we could create a small index at the top of the page then we could jump down to the session we want immediately ? 

Thanks. 

[jefito 5,589]

There is no support in Evernote for internal note links (what is called an "anchor tag" in HTML). This has been requested before.

[CalS 5,280]

And until/if EN implements the feature you can create hotkeys using a text expander to accomplish the task, if you like..

[jefito 5,589]

11 minutes ago, csihilling said:

And until/if EN implements the feature you can create hotkeys using a text expander to accomplish the task, if you like..

I like to run Evernote barebones...  

[CalS 5,280]

3 hours ago, jefito said:

I like to run Evernote barebones...  

Yeah, don't have much need for anchors myself, but if one does it would work.  

It's that repetitive keystroke/click stuff that drives me a bit away from bare bones.  I prefer to think of it as bare bones with an after burner.  

[kmkonline 3]

May be let me explain my case a little bit more.

i am using Evernote shared folder to share all the notes and materials to students.

each lecture will be composed to around 2 notes, part 1 and part 2.

Normally we will have Google Slides for theory based materials and then scroll down for materials with photos and instruction to do some hands on works. 

Sometimes we might need to scroll back up to search for something. If we could have an internal link would help them to do it more efficiently. 

I did think of create several notes to do this job but each lecture would require around 5-6 notes. It would be ok for lesson but it would be confusing when they do assignments / revision later.

i was using WordPress for my lecture notes before, may he need to think again the flow of lesson. 

Thanks 

[DTLow 5,736]

8 hours ago, kmkonline said:

I am using Evernote shared folder to share all the notes and materials to students.

Are you sure you want to use the Evernote note format for this material
I'm thinking pdf format might be a better choice

I use Pages as my editor, saved as a pdf
I have better control of the word processing features, including Table of Contents (links)

[kmkonline 3]

Thank you for the ideas, I used to distribute PDF file in years before I start to put everything in Evernote. 

I understand attaching a Word/Pages/PDF would enhance the format and layout for the materials but student need to open another software.

but it would be an extra software opened during lesson. Now they will only need a Browser to finish everything and everything could be copy and paste easily. 

Thanks again 

 

[CalS 5,280]

Not an in note linking solution in EN today.  Closest you might be able to get would be to split the two notes, cross link all the notes to each other and maybe a table of contents.  Not optimum for sure. 

[AdamE 1]

Hello,

One thing that almost pulled me away from Evernote to Dropbox Paper was the left railing which shows all H1 and H2 titles as a table of contents which I can quickly scroll through for a high level view of my notes, and use to quickly navigate to sections of the note. Google Docs has this as well with their 'outline' tool. 

It's not a new concept and I'm surprised it's missing from Evernote. It would help in reducing the number of notes I need to create just to divide things up nicely -- especially for large, more serious documentation. 

Thanks for your consideration!

Reference: 

https://dribbble.com/shots/2877917-Table-of-contents-in-Dropbox-Paper

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11187364/google-docs-navigation-outline-tool

 

[jasonbp 0]

does anybody know of any alternatives to evernote where this feature is available? Onenote isn't a good alternative to evernote in terms of saving stuff. What do lawyers use? How do they save and retrieve highlight stuff in pdfs and their docs?

Also when they add the anchor link feature, they should also make it available for pdfs also, where you can navigate to anywhere in a pdf with a link.

[AchillesThunder 2]

+1

[Mike. 19]

+1. Maybe even a preset anchor that's on all notes that scrolls to the bottom. #bottom.

[manavortex 0]

+1

[MCMc 6]

Table of contents WITHIN a note -- i.e., a ToC that jumps to headings created inside the existing note, NOT to other notes. 

(Moving the discussion below to Feature Requests)

 

[benmctee 1]

+1

Anchors would be extremely useful!

[JennyRain 0]

Submitted feature request for this. 

[Read&Weep 0]

+1, please implement!

[Gedonie 4]

+1

[hype23 3]

Implementing it shouldn't be that difficult for the devs. 
All you have to do is write the note with its Table of Contents in the format below:

<a href="#jamminProductivityOrWhateverIDNameYouWant">PRODUCTIVITY</a> 

<a href="#anotherID">HEADER 2 </a> 

<a href="#andAnother">HEADER 3 </a> 

[...]rest of your document [...]

 

<p id=PRODUCTIVITY> PRODUCTIVITY <p>

[...]block of text here [...]

 

<p id=anotherID> HEADER 2 <p>

[...]block of text here [...]

 

<p id=andAnother> HEADER 3 <p>

[...]block of text here [...]

 

[gazumped 11,652]

4 hours ago, hype23 said:

Implementing it shouldn't be that difficult for the devs.

I imagine they'll manage to cope somehow,  but there are a few thousand other 'essential' and probably equally easy fixes already in the pipeline.  Which one would you suggest they dump to get to this one next?

[netnotes 3]

+1

[Nimmy 0]

At times, you may be interrupted while reading long notes and will need to earmark the paragraph or line within the note so you can come back and continue reading without wasting much time trying to recall where you stopped.

Is it possible to provide a feature to place a bookmark within a note?

While on that idea, bookmarking the whole note as something that you were in the middle of is also a good idea.  This could perhaps be achieved by providing the user with a small representative icon in the toolbar?

[Amorgeddon 0]

This is a must have feature.. and a reason why i use word for more complex Notes...

[BobbyV_Cali 23]

Everyday I think more and more about switching away from Evernote. I think soon I'm going to start using google docs for my larger notes since I can add a table of contents there. And if I have to do that then maybe I just move completely to apple notes for my small notes. There is really not much keeping me in Evernote if I can't get the features like this one.

[DTLow 5,736]

On 2017-10-02 at 1:53 AM, Amorgeddon said:

This is a must have feature.. and a reason why i use word for more complex Notes...

Complex Notes seems like an oxymoron, but it might be based on your definition of a note; example a brief record of something written down

I'd recommend a dedicated word processor for serious writing

[BlueLobster 2]

I saw this posted on Reddit and it offers a good solution to anchoring to certain parts of a note...

 

It’s nice that Evernote allows you to link other notes together but sometimes you want to link to a certain spot in that note. It doesn’t matter if it's a long note or a short note, there is sometimes a need to find the exact sentence or even word that you need to link to in that note. But Evernote lacks text anchoring so this becomes really hard and makes searching for what you need impossible at times.

I’ve come up with a solution that I’ve been using for a bit now and it works perfectly. It’s so simple that it will work on just about any note program or Operating System as long as it has search.

The idea is simple. You need a string of text that is unique and never repeats, you place that in the place that you want to find again on that note. So all you got to do is search the note with the unique string of text and you’ll be taken to it in the Evernote note.

The problem is that how do you pick the unique string of text? You could keep an index of all the strings you used but that is cumbersome and annoying. It’s important to not repeat any of the used strings or you’ll end up with many results unless you want to do that as a way to group them but then we have tags for that.

So instead I use Epoch or Unix Time for my string anchor. I go to this website… https://www.epochconverter.com/

With Epoch or Unix Time every second, it’s a different number that won’t repeat and it works perfectly for this. I refresh the site to get a new number and I paste the number in the location I want to remember. Then in the current note, I put that time stamp in there and say search to find that note and that location. I’ll add an “a” to the beginning of the time stamp that stands for the anchor so that when I search I don’t get the current note I’m working on and I only get that one single note and it’s location in that note. If you share a computer or a notes program you can do your initials instead of the “a” to make finding your locations easier.

Example of Epoch Time: 1507813587

How I put it in the note that I want to refer back to: (a1507813587)

All I do to find that note again is search “a1507813587” and Evernote search takes me right to that spot in that note.

The great thing is that it works on any program that has search like Apple Notes, Bear, iA Writer, and so on. Even works on the Operating System too if you want to use Spotlight or Windows Search to find that note.

 

 

[robrawks 0]

+1

[kodiak347@gmail.com 0]

The ability to bookmark or create in-note links would be fantastic, especially in long notes!

[kodiak347@gmail.com 0]

May want to consider voting for this as an option as well: "Internal Table of Contents (that links to headings or anchors within the note, NOT linking to other notes)."  It's a little different concept but would allow for you to create sections inside of longer notes for quicker access.

[Phowpinyo 0]

+1

[RobLewis 26]

+1

[Ulf Bohman 0]

+1 

Is this Solved ?

Anchors is very much needed. At first I thought I just couldn't find the function, But now I am afraid it is missing ?

[DTLow 5,736]

On 2017-11-04 at 7:51 AM, Ulf Bohman said:

At first I thought I just couldn't find the function, But now I am afraid it is missing ?

Correct, this function is not supported in Evernote; which is the reason for this feature request
You can indicate your support using the voting buttons in the upper left corner of the discussion

My notes tend to be brief but I was able to implement "anchors" in a word processing document attachment to a note

[xJMV 0]

Would be useful for lengthy notes and clips from the web clipper. When clipping long notes with various headers, you could be allowed to place the text cursor and then click the ToC icon in the "style toolbar" to generate a ToC exactly where you want it to be placed.

[Thorz 52]

I don't know how long we have been waiting for this feature to happen. I don't understand why this has still not been implemented, it has been asked for multiple times by several users in this forum, like we can see in this old thread: 

It cannot be that hard Evernote? It appears that the layout is already in place on the HTML for implementing this, so why have you not given us this very useful function?

It is a pain to administer a long note used for investigative purposes in Evernote because we don't have the ability to create an internal TOC inside a note. This is one of the main reasons I use Evernote, to gather information about a specific topic and register it in one note. You cannot expect that we use a notebook for every topic we investigate so that we can use the TOC function that is available today and only works for indexing separate notes?

I do not want to use cumbersome third party services like the ones described in that old forum thread for creating TOCs within a note, this services never integrate seamlessly with Evernote and require that you give them access to your Evernote credentials, something that I don't feel comfortable with as I also have sensitive information on some of my notes.

What do we have to do to get this implemented? I have been a premium user for more than 3 years and really hope that Evernote could listen to their customers.

[gazumped 11,652]

Hi.  I understand your frustration,  but while Evernote does listen to its customers, this is only one of several platforms from which they get feedback,  and their current 'to do' list is probably a couple of thousand items long.  They're fixing bugs,  improving key systems where Support requests indicate they're not working properly,  and introducing or developing new features so that they can maintain their position in the marketplace.  User requests for extra bells and whistles also get in there,  but they have to be requests that benefit a big section of their audience.  Your suggestion may be too niche for them to give it a high priority.

Evernote don't do anyone any favors either,  by steadfastly not responding to this sort of exchange.  They won't (in most cases) confirm whether or not they're working on it,  or have dismissed it as too specialist.  I understand why - they don't want to give competitors advance notice of new features so they can start developing their own versions quickly.  But it is annoying.

I've developed a different workflow for my own research,  which works pretty well - I keep my notes short,  often one clipped page or photo long,  plus my own comments.  Multiple notes per project are tied together because I have a 'project control note' which lists a standard title format for each note.  I'll use yyyymmdd - project name - clip source - content keyword(s) as the title,  and have a saved search for intitle:"project name"

Each time I run the saved search,  I generate my current table of contents for the research and can instantly see my notes in date order. (The sort is saved for that search)

When I'm generating a report on something I'll do something similar,  this time with a title yyyymmdd - project name - report - content keyword(s).  I can run my search as intitle:"project name" intitle:report to see a list of report sections.

I can use the Evernote Table of Contents feature to produce a note containing my list as links,  and then use cut and paste to change the order if I need to.

Not sure that's a 'work around' as such - I find it much easier working with small notes;  multiple notes can be open as individual windows,  and editing is easy and quick.  Even if Evernote introduce direct links immediately* I probably wouldn't change my process.  It passes the most important test: it works for me!

* I should note that while Evernote don't usually comment on work in progress,  they once - embarassingly - did post a couple of days after I said to someone "there's no way they're ever going to do this" to say "That <new feature> will be included in our next release".  Which is why I now carefully say they don't (usually) comment...  It also means you never know whether or not your requested feature will be in the next release.  I'm in the Beta programs for just that reason.

[CalS 5,280]

As a workaround I use a PhraseExpress phrase such that when I hover over a word and press Ctrl-Shift-LeftMouse focus is transferred to the next instance of the word in the note.  I use underscore as a prefix to all of the links to avoid false positives.  FWIW.

[DTLow 5,736]

On 11/23/2017 at 5:32 AM, Thorz said:

I don't understand why this has still not been implemented, it has been asked for multiple times by several users in this forum, like we can see in this old thread: 

I don't have access to the priority list for the development work.
My notes tend to be short, so an internal TOC is not my priority
Users can indicate their support for a future request using the voting buttons in the top left corner of the discussion

If I needed it, I'd make use of scripting and the search feature
I also break my notes into sub-notes and make use of the note-linking feature

 

[DTLow 5,736]

On 2017-12-15 at 6:49 AM, jessedwilloughby said:

Very surprised it is not standard for note taking, projects, planning, and work flows.

Maybe not standard for notes, but Table-of-Contents is a standard word processing feature

My solution is to use Word/Pages with the document as a note attachment.  This gives me access to many wp features, including ToC 

[Nikolajmk 2]

I have been looking for this feature for years now, so sad to see it still has not been implemented. 

[Mike Johnson 15]

+10^evernote

[Vanveen 0]

This feature has been requested for the past 5 years, as far as I can tell. I'm not sure why it hasn't been implemented: there is at least one third-party hackaround to do anchor links, and it's clearly an ongoing part of the users' mental workflow model. 

Might be an exercise in futility, but here goes. I want anchor links to an external document. So, for example, I have a long and complex project list. Yes, each project could be composed of numerous individual notes, each "Copy Internal Link"'ed to the main project heading. But I'd rather have a list of projects with two or three subheads. When I click the subhead "Research consulting firms" it would go DIRECTLY to a document entitled "Research" and zip down to the "Consulting Firms I Looked At" heading. This is because it may not be worth my setting up a whole sublist of research notes by category, at least not yet: instead, a big "box" where I could root through a specific request and then ignore it the rest of the time.

This model is frequently encountered in workflow arrangement: see Allen's original 43 folders concept and Tharp's "project boxes," which are uniquely suited to complex, messy, indeterminate projects like creative endeavors (in art or business). 

[Luke Milton 3]

Love the idea of BOTH :

1. Anchors/bookmarks
2. Collapsible sections (which could almost be equivalent to comments)

This is just essential Evernote.  Many of us have deeply complex notes that don't split well for various reasons (I've used Evernote for 10+ years, I know the options and paradigms- just understand single long notes work better for some of us!)  Please implement!

[DTLow 5,736]

4 hours ago, Luke Milton said:

Love the idea of BOTH :

1. Anchors/bookmarks
2. Collapsible sections (which could almost be equivalent to comments)

This is just essential Evernote.  

These are useful word processing features; not sure about "essential Evernote"

My solution is to use a word  processing editor (Word/Pages).   I add the document as a note attachment.  Evernote works well with office/iwork documents

>>Many of us have deeply complex notes that don't split well for various reasons (I've used Evernote for 10+ years, I know the options and paradigms- just understand single long notes work better for some of us!)

I avoid deeply complex, long notes (oxymoron?).  I don't think they work well with the Evernote editor and format

[DTLow 5,736]

On 2018-01-23 at 11:04 AM, Vanveen said:

I want anchor links

Which is the point of @kmkonline's feature request post

Please consider adding your support using the voting buttons in the upper left corner of the discussion

[say_hi_to_zippy 0]

This would be a great feature! I'm still waiting for this. It should be straightforward to set headers and then generate a TOC in a note. Then finding the content later would be much faster. 

[DTLow 5,736]

7 minutes ago, say_hi_to_zippy said:

This would be a great feature! I'm still waiting for this. It should be straightforward to set headers and then generate a TOC in a note. Then finding the content later would be much faster. 

Please consider Indicating your support using the voting buttons in the top left corner of the posted feature request  (linked below)

 

[davidont 0]

I would love it if we could tag a specific line or paragraph within note... and/or add a Task (ToDo) box to a specific line. Then search all notebooks by the tag or the Task box to see a list of all Tasks. This is something OneNote does very well. I prefer Evernote but I have to use OneNote for this reason.

[Gauthier 7]

On 1/23/2018 at 11:06 PM, Luke Milton said:

Love the idea of BOTH :

1. Anchors/bookmarks
2. Collapsible sections (which could almost be equivalent to comments)

This is just essential Evernote.  Many of us have deeply complex notes that don't split well for various reasons (I've used Evernote for 10+ years, I know the options and paradigms- just understand single long notes work better for some of us!)  Please implement!

I've been waiting for this for years... I'm paying and I don't see any sight of this feature coming... Come on...

[DTLow 5,736]

On 2018-02-03 at 7:38 AM, davidont said:

I would love it if we could tag a specific line or paragraph within note... and/or add a Task (ToDo) box to a specific line.

 

2 hours ago, Gauthier said:

I've been waiting for this for years... I'm paying and I don't see any sight of this feature coming... Come on...

To indicate your support for this request, use the voting buttons in the top left corner

[Vanveen 0]

On 10/15/2017 at 6:25 PM, BlueLobster said:

I saw this posted on Reddit and it offers a good solution to anchoring to certain parts of a note...

 

It’s nice that Evernote allows you to link other notes together but sometimes you want to link to a certain spot in that note. It doesn’t matter if it's a long note or a short note, there is sometimes a need to find the exact sentence or even word that you need to link to in that note. But Evernote lacks text anchoring so this becomes really hard and makes searching for what you need impossible at times.

I’ve come up with a solution that I’ve been using for a bit now and it works perfectly. It’s so simple that it will work on just about any note program or Operating System as long as it has search.

The idea is simple. You need a string of text that is unique and never repeats, you place that in the place that you want to find again on that note. So all you got to do is search the note with the unique string of text and you’ll be taken to it in the Evernote note.

The problem is that how do you pick the unique string of text? You could keep an index of all the strings you used but that is cumbersome and annoying. It’s important to not repeat any of the used strings or you’ll end up with many results unless you want to do that as a way to group them but then we have tags for that.

So instead I use Epoch or Unix Time for my string anchor. I go to this website… https://www.epochconverter.com/

With Epoch or Unix Time every second, it’s a different number that won’t repeat and it works perfectly for this. I refresh the site to get a new number and I paste the number in the location I want to remember. Then in the current note, I put that time stamp in there and say search to find that note and that location. I’ll add an “a” to the beginning of the time stamp that stands for the anchor so that when I search I don’t get the current note I’m working on and I only get that one single note and it’s location in that note. If you share a computer or a notes program you can do your initials instead of the “a” to make finding your locations easier.

Example of Epoch Time: 1507813587

How I put it in the note that I want to refer back to: (a1507813587)

All I do to find that note again is search “a1507813587” and Evernote search takes me right to that spot in that note.

The great thing is that it works on any program that has search like Apple Notes, Bear, iA Writer, and so on. Even works on the Operating System too if you want to use Spotlight or Windows Search to find that note.

 

 

I love engineers. 
This is a beautiful solution to the wrong problem. You've optimized for solving the "need a unique identifier" problem. Unfortunately, in doing so you have destroyed the non-trivial problem elements, e.g. findability via such metadata as English denotation ("Chapter Two: How To Skin a Horse" is much more findable than "a1507813587").  Do you have a table of contents, ' "Chapter Two: How to Skin a Horse" (1507813587)? ' 

I think the real issue here is that anchor links are fundamental to modern HTML/CSS specifications, involve no custom or elaborate code, presumably would not break the code base, and would be incredibly useful to this product. Or in other words, what's the holdup here? How many points would this take in an Agile environment? At $70 a year, is Zoho or Scrivener a better option?
 

[DTLow 5,736]

5 minutes ago, Vanveen said:

I think the real issue here is that anchor links are fundamental to modern HTML/CSS specifications, involve no custom or elaborate code, presumably would not break the code base, and would be incredibly useful to this product. Or in other words, what's the holdup here?

I agree anchor links are supported in the base html code

Please add your vote to this request using the voting buttons in the top left corner of the discussion.  This request has 92 votes.

This is one of the factors Evernote uses in identifying development priorities.

[Melissa Leach 0]

Upvoted request. I am a UX Researcher, and the lack of in-note table of contents functionality limits my ability to use Evernote for work docs. My stakeholders need a TOC to jump to their priorities to even consider reading a document (otherwise they become overwhelmed and do not read a word of my report). Right now, I have to opt for Google Docs. I imagine lack of TOC is a deal breaker for businesses considering Evernote.  Thank you.

[DTLow 5,736]

2 hours ago, Melissa Leach said:

limits my ability to use Evernote for work docs. My stakeholders need a TOC to jump to their priorities to even consider reading a document (otherwise they become overwhelmed and do not read a word of my report). Right now, I have to opt for Google Docs

You might consider using a word processing editor like Word/Pages.
The document file can be attached to the note; Evernote works well with office/iwork files

[laike9m 1]

+1 for this feature!

[deevernote 5]

+1

[manavortex 0]

Yes, please. I need this. 

[rmm30 6]

+1 for this feature

On 2/28/2018 at 10:08 AM, Melissa Leach said:

Upvoted request. I am a UX Researcher, and the lack of in-note table of contents functionality limits my ability to use Evernote for work docs. My stakeholders need a TOC to jump to their priorities to even consider reading a document (otherwise they become overwhelmed and do not read a word of my report). Right now, I have to opt for Google Docs. I imagine lack of TOC is a deal breaker for businesses considering Evernote.  Thank you.

 

[wiltonpaulo@gmail.com 0]

+1

[dawa68 0]

+1 for this feature!

[Vladimir Zotov 0]

+1 Anchor feature is must have!

[DENNISKIM 0]

+1 Please ! internal link 

[Nick Sousa 0]

Is there a way to use a Selection clipping and have it get highlighted and/or jumped to when the Evernote embedded URL is accessed? The Evernote correctly displays the Selection, but when I access the associated URL it starts at the top of the webpage.

 

I'm assuming this may not work, because if there aren't HTML anchors from the content creator then there isn't a way to go directly to that specific subsection of the webpage.

[gazumped 11,652]

Hi.  If you're clipping the whole web page,  then the resulting note will show the whole page.  You're right there's (currently) no way to jump to the note highlighting a location within that page.  If you copy or clip that section to another note however,  you can get the URL to point to that instead.

[Jenny Famularcano 0]

Please please please, Google Drive and Dropbox paper can do this... why can't evernote?

[sputnik77 0]

+1

basic Html, still killer feature..

[FH1207 0]

Although Evernote users can set lots of tags or keywords into different notes OR they can copy an internal link into another note. However, once the content of the note becomes too long, then it will be inconvenient to go back to the top of the note. Thus, I want to suggest that Evernote should have a tool or a function to let users set a "go to top" or "note's its own internal shortcut" which will be much beneficial for users to return to the top of the note, instead of scrolling back to the top. In other words, if people can set some internal links in different sections, it will be easier to shuttle between different sections and paragraphs in THE SAME note. Sounds pretty useful, right?

[BernardZit 0]

On 8/29/2014 at 10:09 PM, Bryanne said:

Hi all,

 

Evernote is brilliant - could not navigate life without it!!

 

A feature that I feel is dearly needed and would be tremendous to have is the ability to create an anchor point in notes.

 

eg if I am working on a lengthy note and constantly referring to other notes at the same time I want the ability to specify a point where I am working in that note so I can go straight back to it.

 

Also, when you open a note it goes straight to the start of the note. You always have to scroll down to the bottom of the note to add to it.

 

Many thanks for any comments. 

This feature request is around since 2014 from multiple users. How can this still not be a thing. Evernote (!) please make it happen. Otherwise more and more people will go to other tools that already implemented this feature.

 

[Timmbert 0]

It all depends on how you consider your data.  I have project that can be broken into sub-projects.  In this case, separate notes work fine.  The issue is the next level down.  Without the ability to manage and insert bookmarks (or whatever you want to label the function) within a note, you will always have to "workaround".  And please don't say you can have links to links to links, this is not a viable option for project management.   Too much risk of data being ignored.  Because of this and the inability to sort within notes, I have to use other solutions for larger projects.  I would like to use Evernote for all, just isn't an options as it currently stands.

[MaxMia 0]

Hi Evernote - any feedback on this feature request?? 

Would be a game changer, I have long notes and at minimum,  need the ability to link to a section. Collapsible sections would be even better. 

[Cakegiyh 10]

must have feature. I'm considering moving to Google docs or dropbox paper because evernote lack of this functionality...

[Dima SIck 2]

We should move this topic to the top! lets do it!

[gazumped 11,652]

Just to reiterate the standard work-arounds:

1. Any time you need a link to part of a note,  move that section into another note and create an internal note link.  Your table of contents note becomes a 'parent' to several child notes.  If I share that type of note I tend to make the main note an executive summary of the content,  followed by (or interspersed with) links to the various sections.  If I want to change the order of the whole document,  all I have to do is change the order of the links.
2. Word processor apps like Word have tools to help you manage longer documents and jump around in the content.  If that's what you need,  just attach the word document to a note and edit the document if you wish to make changes.

I use several third party apps to help manage my workflow.  It won't improve anything if Evernote provide this new feature - a dedicated word processor also has layout and indexing and references and page numbers....  Evernote (mostly) doesn't.

[Stakh 4]

Most wanted thing last few years  But Evernote team doesn't care.