DISQUS

Phil Libin · 8 months ago

Mrshl,

Nice list! Thanks for thinking this through and writing it up. We're already hard at work on a few of your suggestions and will certainly take the rest under careful consideration.

Thanks for sticking with us and helping us make Evernote better.

theprawn · 8 months ago

This is a great list! As much as I love Evernote, there are a few things [on your list] that irk me daily. The web interface is, indeed, all but unusable. Web clipper is nice, but I cringe when I have to go manage notes online while away from home. Doesn't help that I prefer to use an "unsupported" browser.

You're wise to hold off on your delicious import. After much debate, I caved and imported. The tag list because huge and wholly useless and the performance hit the app took was dramatic. So much so that after regretting the import for a few months, I finally just backed up and deleted the bookmarks notebook then spent hours culling the empty tags. I might re-import the bookmarks, but after manually moving the tags into the bodies of the notes.

I know shared/collaboration in notebooks is something they say they've been working on -- hopefully that's coming sooner rather than later.

At the end of the day, Evernote works--it's simple/flexible enough to let you use it the way you want to. For the most part.

John · 8 months ago

I'd add some other things: LOTS of lethal formatting glitches when cutting/pasting content from Firefox, particularly lists or code snippets tend to be wordwrapped into one useless paragraph. (This tends to work from Internet Explorer.)

Frequent random slowdowns/brief freezes.

Buggy searching--sometimes I need to find a note by scrolling and then reindex it. Weird. (Makes one wonder why there's a need for a "Reindex" feature right on the Note menu. Scary.)

No importation of text colors.

Major glitches in cut-and-paste formatting of some monospaced text (e.g., from a CMD command window).

No intra-note or even intra-Evernote links. (OneNote is great this way.)

And finally, at least of the things that randomly come to mind: there should be SSL security even for free users. I really don't think security of information should be a premium option, and if it is, you should really emphasize that to users, i.e., not just that the Premium version is secure, but the the free version is NOT.

Otherwise, and in many, many ways, a very nice product, and one that I've come to use instead of OneNote for at least my lightweight notetaking/keeping/retrieving needs, and one I continue to recommended to others.

Torbjørn Vik Lunde · 5 months ago

I'm a new user to Evernote. Although I am very happy with it point nr 2 annoys me quite a bit. I'm not a huge fan of organizing thing into tags, but rather into folders. I use nested tags, but I find it a bit backwards. For instance, if I add something to a sub tag, I can't find it by looking into the parent tag. Of course, since this is tags this is the correct behavior, but I don't find it very intuitive.

Mark · 5 months ago

Great website! Sorry for posting my feedback under this article, this just happened to be the last one that I read. I love how you've been reviewing the different sites as I'm in the same boat as you are now. Trying to find the best way to capture notes. Currently, I use the google toolbar send to feature with blogger. However, it has several limitations like not being able to tag and not being able to capture anything other than text.

It'd be great if you could do an article that runs down all the tools you use for productivity. i.e. Tumblr for web notes, evernote for ???, blogger for your blog, tiddlywiki for tasks, google for calendar, etc

Anyway, keep up the good work and I'd love to hear more about your productivity system.

raveofchesterfield · 4 months ago

I really miss a option to view tags in a cloud instead of a long list.
I dont know why evernote doesnt implement it in evernote. Tag clouds are everywhere nowadays, but not on Evernote.

I also miss the function to view the shared notebook pages as blog-style-pages (as you do in google notes)

If evernote fix this two unctions it would be a much better service.

Shannon Wagner · 2 weeks ago

Agree that tag navigation needs improvement.

Also trying to figure out whether shared notebooks can be brought into my offline (desktop) client? It seems like they are only available in the web client?