I LOVE evernote. Can't live without it. But as I start to use it for more than just scans and clippings. I have the WORST time with formatting in Evernote. It's the type of stuff I expect in cheapo, immature app.
Neither typing delete (forward or backward), Simplify Formatting nor. I find problem pages copied into Word first, then re-copy/ pasted into. I tried using the remove formatting and simplify formatting options, but neither works. To copy out the entire note into notepad delete the note and recreate. Most word processing apps support line spacing; I use Word/Pages.
But evernote in pretty much all other ways seems extremely mature. So I don't understand why such simple things dont work well.ExampleRight now I am making a checklist note. (It's a labor hospital bag checklist). Been working on it for a few months.
Adding things as we think of it. I have a couple sections. Each with a new list of checkboxes. Or parts of it get all messed up. Like there will be new lines between checkbox and text, so it goesline with checkbox and no textline with textline with checkbox and no textline with textetcI put the cursor AFTER the check box and hit DELETE (NOT BACKSPACE) and it deletes the check box.OK.
That SHOULD work. But it doesn't. Not a huge deal. I'll just try another way. so instead I try putting the cursor at the start of a text line and hit BACKSPACE. It deletes the line break AND the check box. Groan.Forget it.
I'll just delete all the check boxes and start over. So I delete all the check boxes. I just have a list of items one per line. Highlight them all and click the check box button. And I'm back where I started.line with checkbox and no textline with textline with checkbox and no textline with textetcAt this point I'm getting pretty annoyed. If this was an isolated incident I would not care. But stuff like this seems to be the norm.
I have had SO MUCH TROUBLE with this note over the past few months. I don't know if it has anything to do with editing on my android phone app sometimes or not. But even so, the various apps should be compatible!!Other problems include pasting stuff from other sources and the text being ridiculously large, or other various problems with line breaks from pasted text.Am I the only one? At first I just let it go and figure it's bugs that will get worked out. But I have been using the app for years now and it still sucks at this. And this one note, which I have been working on adding things here and there for months has pushed me over the edge.
So curious if others have problems, and if so any way to fix this? And/or are the bug fixes in the works for this stuff? I can understand your frustration, but due respect - once it starts to be annoying, just stop banging your head! Quite a few of us (I think) use for outlines and lists because it does that really well, is available from any browser and can be copied and pasted into Evernote if/ when required. Evernote is improving its editor software, but it still has a ways to go to get something that will work in any support OS on every supported device. I'm grateful for the stuff it does well - for everything else there's workarounds. Banging my head on a wall was getting tiring which landed me here looking for advice.
Thanks for the tip! Workflowy looks pretty snazzy, I might have to give it a try. I do hope evernote gets their act together though. (or there are perhaps some tips/workarounds I can use in the meantime).
I do like having evernote has my universal reference material app. One search box for everything. I suppose until then though I may have to add workflowy as another app to organize my life.Question about workflowy. I see I can hover and click complete.
But can I get checkboxs for easy one tap completion on my phone? Part of what I want with this labor bag list is to be able to easy check things off as I pack last minute items. I LOVE evernote. Can't live without it. But as I start to use it for more than just scans and clippings. I have the WORST time with formatting in Evernote.
It's the type of stuff I expect in cheapo, immature app. But evernote in pretty much all other ways seems extremely mature. So I don't understand why such simple things dont work well.What versions of OS and Evernote are you running?EN Win seems to be having more issues with this than EN Mac.
I'm running EN Mac 6.4 on Yosemite (10.10.5), and rarely have formatting issues like this.Evernote is in the process of developing and rolling out a new common editor. You might voice your issues in one of these threads:. (Windows).(latest EN Win release). I'm on windows. I guess that might be part of my problem. I commented on the Evernote Windows thread to point them here to read about my problems if they want.HII would like to help with the formatting issues you currently having with Windows.
Can you give me some details on the windows problems you are seeing?, so I can help our and/or take up the issues with Dev & Design to improve the experience.If you don't wish to share all the issues here, my direct email is 'J Miller at Evernote Dot Com'. Hey - thanks! First - while I have your attention. Evernote is great, except for these formatting issues and one other non-related thing. The glaring and absurdly missing feature. Encrypted notebooks! I want the ability to encrypt a whole notebook so I can put sensitive notes there and have them protected from other eyes but still have them sync.
I'd prefer this feature be implemented, so that I have option (per notebook) to either require password each time I see notebook (i.e. Protect it from you/cloud and from other people on my own PC), or to only require the password the first time I open the notebook on a new PC, so that it's really just to protect it from you/cloud. Others on my PC could see it. But I don't have to futz around with entering a password everytime I want to see it. But you (evernote) still have zero knowledge) I see no reason this feature should not be implemented. If you offer local notebooks and encrypting parts of notes. You should offer encrypted notebooks.
They would be like local notebooks except they sync! Hindi song imran hashmi phir da rhaoon dar darb mp3 online. And I don't have to worry about backing up in case my PC crashes.OK - with that out of the way.So, the issue described in OP is the main one I am having now. (quoted below) I described that one in detail.
Other problems I don't recall the details I just know the often involve pasting stuff from other sources and the text being ridiculously large, or formatted strange. Editing causes strange results. Or other various problems with line breaks from pasted text.It reminds me of some web page wiki rich text editors. Where it seems like the underlying html is not being edited in an intelligent way. Resulting in strange spans or font tags, etc.One thing I will say regarding my original problem is that I was poking around and found the 'simplify formatting' option. Performing this caused the issue described below to go away. Since then I have not pasted anything.
(I mostly use evernote for page scans from scansnap, and web clippings using chrome addon. I actually don't do much manual pasting/editing. Which means that the issues i have are far and few between. But it seems like a large percentage of manually manipulated notes) But the next time I do and have an issue, I will try the simplify formatting again. Perhaps that will help me.
(Might be nice to have that as a button just like bold/italics/strike through, etc for one click mouse access)In any case - I will post back here (or wherever you like) to describe issues in detail as they come up. Or actually I use Jing/screencast a lot so I could even post a video link showing the issue in action. My reports may be few and far between though because I don't do manual editing much, but I am happy to report if you tell me the best place.Thanks again. Right now I am making a checklist note. (It's a labor hospital bag checklist). Been working on it for a few months.
Adding things as we think of it. I have a couple sections. Each with a new list of checkboxes. Or parts of it get all messed up. Like there will be new lines between checkbox and text, so it goesline with checkbox and no textline with textline with checkbox and no textline with textetcI put the cursor AFTER the check box and hit DELETE (NOT BACKSPACE) and it deletes the check box.OK.
That SHOULD work. But it doesn't. Not a huge deal. I'll just try another way. so instead I try putting the cursor at the start of a text line and hit BACKSPACE. It deletes the line break AND the check box.
Groan.Forget it. I'll just delete all the check boxes and start over. So I delete all the check boxes. I just have a list of items one per line. Highlight them all and click the check box button. And I'm back where I started.line with checkbox and no textline with textline with checkbox and no textline with textetcAt this point I'm getting pretty annoyed.
If this was an isolated incident I would not care. But stuff like this seems to be the norm. I have had SO MUCH TROUBLE with this note over the past few months.
I don't know if it has anything to do with editing on my android phone app sometimes or not. But even so, the various apps should be compatible!!
Agree with poster, I am patiently waiting for note editing to be improved. Many times I will try to use Evernote during a meeting but always end up spending too much time adjusting formatting issues. Seeing the recommendation to use workflowy and copy/pasting notes, I searched for out liners that integrate with Evernote and found Xwavessoft Cound Outliner (IPad and Mac only). Downloaded and works awesome. Syncs all outlines and notes perfectly with Evernote.
Will use the IPad version and may end up buy the Mac version. For iPad users I would check it out. Agree with poster, I am patiently waiting for note editing to be improved. Many times I will try to use Evernote during a meeting but always end up spending too much time adjusting formatting issues. Seeing the recommendation to use workflowy and copy/pasting notes, I searched for out liners that integrate with Evernote and found Xwavessoft Cound Outliner (IPad and Mac only). Downloaded and works awesome.
Syncs all outlines and notes perfectly with Evernote. Will use the IPad version and may end up buy the Mac version. For iPad users I would check it out.Thanks for the recommendation, I will take a lookIn addition to not being able to create the type of outlines you want in Evernote. What other features or improvements would you like to see in Evernote note editing?J. What other features or improvements would you like to see in Evernote.Apologies to be redundant. But I realized you never actually acknowledged my other feature suggestion above. And since this thread has your attention I want to make 100% sure you saw it since it was amidst my huge post.ENCRYPTED NOTEBOOKS.I quite literally have on my RTM list every 6 months to look for Evernote competitors who might offer this along with a good enough set of features that I can abandon Evernote for a product that makes it easier to both have privacy when needed, and cloud convenience.
Your only options for privacy are local notebooks (no cloud backup) or encrypting bits of text I must type a password every time I want to see (Onerous) and I can't encrypt attachments or photos, so no could backup/sync for those if they need to stay private.I need to be able to just create notes in a protected/encrypted notebook. Evernote/you have zero knowledge. Yet I can access them freely and without password on my own PC/phone if I so choose. (of course I know I would need to enter the password once. I just mean not every time.
Unless I choose that)See previous post for more details about how I think it should be done.Please. Tell me this feature is on the roadmap. Fix that and note formatting, and you probably have me locked in for life. I'm sure that this does not go as far as you would like, but at least there is some progress on encryption.SeeThanks.
Good to know. I didn't even realize the whole not history issue. That's a HUGE glaring problem.My main thing is this. I don't need to encrypt most text on my pc. I don't let people log into my windows profile. And if anyone who ever uses my PC might know how to get to files of a different user, it would be me. The people I want to protect my note from is the Cloud/evernote.
Which is why I want something completely different. A notebook that remains unencrypted and fully searchable on my own PC. I can access with no password (except the first time when I login initially).
But that is encrypted before sending up to the cloud such that evernote employees could never access it.I know that#1 this might mean no image text search because I think OCR is done in the cloud. I'm fine with that.#2 Some people DO want the notes to be stored encrypted locally, which is why I recommend 2 types of encrypted notebooks. Fully encrypted. (requires password every time you want to open the notebook) and cloud encrypted.
Works like any other notebook in your local PC app, but is encrypted such that evernote (the company) could never read the note on their servers. (Much like how my lastpass works. I leave it unlocked on my personal PC profile that I never let anyone use. So I can early search and use it. But lastpass the company still has zero knowledge). Picking back up on this thread- I have experienced really frustrating formatting issues with Evernote. Randomly, if I am typing in italics or bold, if I cross a certain word threshold the formatting starts to go wonky- it will take off the italics or bold on the entire section or portions of my text.
It seems related to word count, but sometimes if I go back and undo/redo it a few times, the formatting sticks. This also happens if I select text and then apply italics/bold (not just typing in italics/bold). Picking back up on this thread- I have experienced really frustrating formatting issues with Evernote. Randomly, if I am typing in italics or bold, if I cross a certain word threshold the formatting starts to go wonky- it will take off the italics or bold on the entire section or portions of my text. It seems related to word count, but sometimes if I go back and undo/redo it a few times, the formatting sticks. This also happens if I select text and then apply italics/bold (not just typing in italics/bold).One thing I didn't realize that helped me was 'simplify formatting'. If you right click in a note you should see the option.
I think it tells the shortcut too. It ctrl+space for simplify formatting and ctrl+shift+space to remove formatting. If you don't need any formatting the latter is great. If yuo want to keep some formatting, but are having issues after pasting from web or something like that the simplify formatting can be a life saver.
It's a bit of a hacky work around. But I have found it helpful until evernote gets it's editor in gear. For the last few months, I have been experiencing some frustrating automatic reformatting behaviour when I go back to a note:. Within bullet points I often use shift-Return to start a new line without creating a new bullet point.
A few days later and all these new lines have lost their indentation and now start on the left edge. On one of my notes, all the horizontal lines got mysteriously replaced by bullet points.
Sometimes I'm unable to use the delete or backspace keys between bullet points. My approach has been a separate note for each day.I use a template to get startedI try to avoid lengthy notes like your journal process.I also archive my notes in PDF format - it seems better protection against corruption.A disadvantage to my process is that I can't scroll down to see entries from previous days.Thanks, for the advice, Guru.I like to keep the days together in a month as, like you say, it's easier to scroll to previous days. But mainly, if I do a search, I feel I can find things more easily without opening multiple notes. I'll experiment with it though and see if it makes things easier.I'll also give templates and PDF archiving a try too.Cheers. In the latest version of the Android app, the Undo-function had been moved into the editing menu.
This is really inconvenient and annoying. Please bring it back to the 'front page' so I can reach it easily even I make a mistake.Also, from the latest version pasted text changes font size between cut and paste. If I cut a sentence from the end of a paragraph and paste it into the middle of the same paragraph the inserted text changes to a smaller font.
Is this related to Evernote or my keyboard app, Swype? My biggest issue with Evernote is transferring what I've written in a note into a new wordpress post I'm creating. The formatting comes out nothing like I had it in Evernote.
There are paragraphs where there were no paragraphs. There are hyphens where there were no hyphens. Sometimes there are no paragraphs where there were paragraphs. I mean, for as amazing as Evernote is, I think this is a horrible issue. I would really love to see you guys fix this issue.
Because I love Evernote and don't want to use anything else, but this is becoming a pain in my ass. I have to reformat the document every time using word or pages. Delete everything I originally posted in my wordpress post as to get rid of whatever buggy code is now in the document due to Evernote formatting, and then paste everything from Word/Pages back into the new wordpress post.Ugh.I've attached an example. You can see where there are paragraphs and hyphens, and those weren't there originally when I wrote it.PS. Hope you don't mind the writing;-). Jason,1st thanks for your involvement in a forum and being the go between us and support / dev' So, the issue described in OP is the main one I am having now. (quoted below) I described that one in detail.
Other problems I don't recall the details I just know the often involve pasting stuff from other sources and the text being ridiculously large, or formatted strange. Editing causes strange results. Or other various problems with line breaks from pasted text. 'this is my big problem. As all have said, love scan, email, clip in. But cut and paste - frustrating.while don't expect miracles, this thread has been going on since Jan and it is now Sep and what seems simple to implement isn't.even the editor for this form seems to have more features than evernote.mentioned it think (show code) - would love to see something as simple as in word - button - show format on/off (then at least we could see what was causing the problem).this editor (forum) doesn't cap 1st word after.
Or new line (example is not cap at start of my paras.sorry lets stick to EN (and maybe somewhat random and I am typing quick here) - just get the basics right - maintain list numbering,.i actually googled 'Evernote text format in note' and this topic / forum came up 1st. So be it iPad or win or make, I don't want to have to add an app to do basic editing., and I use iOS, Mac and win platforms and understand differences in key struck and commands, but delete is delete and backspace is backspace, new line is just that, and if I want parra I add back to back new line, not have space line inserted. Sorry a bit disjointed but caught off guard that my search hey a source of reporting that is exactly what was looking for.went to test formatting & clear on my iPad (am out at moment) and no size / font change on iPad editor bR in EN - bug, operator error or IOS issue?again, sorry if disjointed.
Will bookmark this note and revisit when time & at Windows.ThanksLarry2016SP11 11:00 Sydney. The more you fly United, United Express® and select MileagePlus partners, the sooner you'll achieve Premier status, which gives additional benefits to our most active members. These include bonus award miles, upgrades, priority travel services, fee waivers, discounts and benefits when traveling with Star Alliance TM member airlines. Hi everyone, I do not understand, why Evernote cannot simply give us the features that are already available.My understanding is, that Evernote Web uses the editor TinyMCE (www.tinymce.com).
And when I checked last time that editor comprised already all the features desired by people in this forum.What I do not understand, but maybe someone from Evernote reading this can explain, why is Evernote using a version of TinyMCE that is 2 years old? At least the tinymce.js loaded in my Evernote declares itself as being version '4.1.0 (2014-06-18)'. Other features are coming, though they need to have the same base library and editing experience across all platforms firstsThe thing is, that I am using Evernote now, not in the distant future.
And I am also paying for it right now, not in the distant future. So, when is this rewiring and library writing going to happen?Recently, I found out that Evernote dropped one crucial (at least to me) feature: Pasting images from the clipboard directly into the web editor.So far I did this all the time and it worked very well until the feature was dropped; suddenly it was gone. My bug report was first answered like this. After speaking with my Senior Advisors, they informed me that the ability to copy and paste images into Evernote Web was recently disabled when we identified inconsistencies with the way that various browsers support the copy and paste functionality. Since not all browsers handle copied and pasted images in the same way, we discovered that in some cases images were not saved to the note which resulted in the loss of the image.
To prevent this type of loss, we disabled the paste functionality.That is a full 180 going from 'feature request' to 'we disabled it on purpose'. Honestly, I do not like it. I like Evernote and use it daily, but with regards to the web editor there seems to be no progress being made since a long time. After reading the forum and Evernote support's answers to my bug report, I get the feeling development to the web editor is on pause.Dear Evernote support, when do we get a web editor that is on par with the rest of the internet?
Messy file formatting is usually the result of using Direct Formatting inconsistently in a small document (500-1000 words), or EVERYWHERE in a larger document (manuscripts, manuals, essays, etc.) Using direct formatting in a larger document makes it near impossible to make quick edits to font formatting that will update consistently throughout the entire document.Based on content size alone, cleaning up a smaller document is much easier than a large one. They all take time, and the time required is directly related to the amount of content.Note: Graphics shown below represent Word 2011 for Mac. Use Style Inspector and Reveal Formatting to identify styles being used in Word 2007 and 2010.Small Documents: In working with small documents, it is infrequent to utilize a great deal of heading, subheading, paragraph, or event bullet styles. With these documents, it’s often easiest to reset the whole file and start fresh. Here’s how to get to “square one.”.
Open the file your wish to clean. Select ALL content (short-cut: CTRL+A). Open the Styles drop down menu or dialog box. Select “Clear Formatting.”In clearing the formatting, you reset ALL content formatting to the default font style and size that is defined in your Microsoft Word software. From here, you can start from scratch and apply your desired styles in the correct locations by using Styles.EXAMPLE:To assign a style to your heading, select the text for your desired heading and click on the heading style you prefer in the “style” selections. (Remember, various levels are allowed.) If the existing heading styles don’t reflect your company/personal branding, you can edit them by selecting the “Modify Style” option available in the dialog box or “Style” quick access window.Large Documents: I don’t necessarily recommend resetting an entire manual or manuscript back to “Clear Formatting,” as with a great deal of content, it may be difficult to distinguish an emphasized line of text from a heading when all content is formatted exactly the same.
This, of course, depends on your own familiarity with the document and its content, and it can be where the cleaning becomes exponentially more tedious.In a situation like this, I would review the document and correct the Direct Formatting components with Style components piece by piece. Not all Direct Formatting is clear when reviewing a document on your screen, which is where the option to “Show Style Guides” or “Show Direct Formatting Guides” comes in handy. (See below.)In this image, you can see the Styles used as indicated by the colours/numbers on the left, and the Direct Formatting is indicated by the frame around the text itself.Using Styles in place of Direct Formatting does require some practice, but it can be a great timesaver down the road. By creating document that uses “globlal” styles, you show professionalism and consistency in your work.
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