(Archived) Evernote (Editable Drop-down Menus)

[litmin@menau.org 0]

Quick question:  Could Evernote please add the feature of editable drop-down menus to notes.  This way I can treat a note like a simple database. Tables are helpful and the is great but the ability for drop-down menus we be a huge plus.  I will like to make my note look like this:

 

 

I am not saying color wise, etc.  I am just taking about a constructing a simple database within a notebook. I hope it is something being thought about for the near future.  If not please could it be? 

 

Thanks. 

[gazumped 11,658]

Not sure that Evernote will consider this on their roadmap - they're all about (IMHO) becoming a turnkey Swiss Army Knife for filing and finding things without involving too many menu-depths of choices en route.  It's a nice idea,  but I suspect if Evernote implement that there'll be calls for spreadsheet functions as well,  and more options in the drop downs,  and generally more bloat-potential.  I'm still preferring slimmer, sleeker and faster as my top three options..

[litmin@menau.org 0]

Most people use Excel or Numbers for spreadsheets and there is no need when you can just add the document to a note.  In my department we do it all the time. But drop-down menus would allow you to get more even out of tables.  Thus a function that already exists could be enhanced and in multiple ways.  I don't believe that it would slow Evernote down to increase the function of something that already exists.  Also I just realized Tables cannot be moved around on a note.  That is not helpful when you are trying to establish a specific note template for yourself.

 

By the way I do like slimmer, sleeker, and faster but we also should enhance what already exists.  This way I and others do not have to keep looking for apps that sync with Evernote.  

[gazumped 11,658]

There's a fine line in here somewhere that Evernote don't want to cross - I use lots of other software; design / print / planning / spreadsheeting / mindmapping...  and I really would not like to imagine what an amalgam of all of those functions into one application would look like.  Plus the various specialist firms that have developed these packages are maybe 20 years ahead of Evernote in R&D of their specific area.  Nice to add a few extra features that everyone can use in most cases - not practical to spend the war chest adding something that others already do rather well.

[Metrodon 2,184]

I'm not saying it's never going to happen, but having been round here for a few years....I'd guess that it is so very unlikely that this would ever happen as to be almost worth saying that it's never going to happen...