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Internote Linking
Link notes together through some sort of link or hyperlink. This makes it easier to keep track of a related pair or three notes - not enough to form a tag and more closely intertwined when working together.
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This is an essential feature.
Evernote needs two things:
1) Ability to link between notes
2) Ability to refer to notes by URL. This way I can refer to notes from MindMeister for example, and all my other great Web 2.0 tools.
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This feature USED to be in Evernote, in version 2.2.
(If you really want it, and can live with Evernote only working on your desktop, I think you still download version 2.2 from the EN site).
The feature allowed you insert links to other notes and to whole "categories" (the old term for tags) into your notes.
It also allowed you to insert these links into external applications as well - as a custom protocol handler like Eric refers to. So for example I was able to add links to notes into my XMIND mindmaps. I could then just click on the link in my mindmap to bring up the note in Evernote.
I BITTERLY miss this feature. I'd still be using Evernote 2.2 if I could, but unfortunately EN2.2 can no longer handle my database, which is over 800MB with more than 8,400 notes.
Evernote have ASSURED me (I've written to them many times about this!) that the Note Link feature will eventually appear in Evernote 3, but tell me that this is still MONTHS away (sigh...)
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Applications like Skype register custom protocol handlers with the operating system that allow links like callto://user_73434. This would be a really awesome feature for Evernote. I would really like to see the ability to link to notes in Evernote from other applications or from notes inside of Evernote itself.
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This would be a fantastic feature; I was very torn between a wiki and Evernote as my main note store, obviously Evernote won, but I would still love to have some more "wiki-like" functioning where I can create connections between related ideas (this is, after all, how the mind works). I do still keep some of my own thoughts in a wiki as it lends itself better to certain kinds of random ideas, but if Evernote introduce more connectivity between notes I'll probably move entirely to Evernote.
Any idea how soon this kind of feature might be implemented?
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When can we expect it? This feature is the one thing that keeps me from switching from VoodooPad to Evernote completely. -
Inappropriate?It would be also great to have a visual display, infosthetics style of how notes link to each other.
First off all I loved what you've guys done for the Mac version (which I don't have because I don't have a Mac) in terms of zooming out and seeing all the notes, so I'm thinking of something similar with the interlink
Have the notes be connected to another, like a web, if anyone is familiar with MindManager or just mindmaps, or something like a taxonomy for the lack of words, maybe I'll post a picture next time.
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I like this idea as well. My suggestion would be that you don't have to connect every note. Some notes can be stand alone but still tagged as the same thing as the linked notes you're viewing. This would make it even better to view notes for a project visually.
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Inappropriate?This would be a fantastic feature; I was very torn between a wiki and Evernote as my main note store, obviously Evernote won, but I would still love to have some more "wiki-like" functioning where I can create connections between related ideas (this is, after all, how the mind works). I do still keep some of my own thoughts in a wiki as it lends itself better to certain kinds of random ideas, but if Evernote introduce more connectivity between notes I'll probably move entirely to Evernote.
Any idea how soon this kind of feature might be implemented?
I’m hopeful
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For me the wiki won! Linking between notes is absolutely necessary. Why has evernote neglected it so long?
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You know Daniel, I have no idea... I'm a bit disappointed that Evernote although making great improvements on the Mac and Web has neglected many of its PC users... which is a bit of shame. I don't know how many PC vs Mac vs Web users there are but I imagine the PC segment is large. Although their business model is a bit strange too now that they're not charging for the software and focusing on the web which is a money loosing venture (or at least for them it seems).
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They have actually recently released an alpha version of the new version of the windows software; apparently it required a major re-write to get it up to a standard that would allow them to add make all the improvements people want, which is why it's taken so long. But hopefully this means us windows users won't be feeling neglected for much longer!
Also, re: your comment on their web-based business model; I can't see how it's a "money losing venture" as web apps are the way most things are going these days. The tactic for most of these things seems to be to get as many free users as possible, make your product completely indispensable to them, and eventually enough of them will pay for the premium version to make a profit. It seems to be working for Evernote! It certainly worked on me - I recently paid for the premium product even though I don't have a lot of spare cash, simply because I was making enough use of Evernote that I kept creeping up close to the monthly limit and I decided it was worth it. -
saskia - that's a good point. The reason I said money loosing venture is from a SvN post that mentioned Evernote wouldn't be profitable until 2011 or something. But what really amazes me about the company is that they're not a startup and yet everyone still treats them as if they just came out with a brand new product - they haven't, they've been around forever and hey guys at Evernote - anyone listening out there? It's time to step up and do a better job with windows line of products. And of course I would be willing to pay for the work and I'm sure others would as well if there was a bit more value.
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Inappropriate?Applications like Skype register custom protocol handlers with the operating system that allow links like callto://user_73434. This would be a really awesome feature for Evernote. I would really like to see the ability to link to notes in Evernote from other applications or from notes inside of Evernote itself.
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Inappropriate?I'm curious - does anyone know if this could be done through the Evernote API? They released it recently and I haven't yet had the chance to go in and play around with it. Has anyone any experience with that? Maybe a coule of volunteers will take some time since Evernote is too lazy to do it themselves ;-).
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i agree. i think evernote should move faster but this API note is news to me. if its extensive then it could allow others to build on it. im hopeful.
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Inappropriate?This feature USED to be in Evernote, in version 2.2.
(If you really want it, and can live with Evernote only working on your desktop, I think you still download version 2.2 from the EN site).
The feature allowed you insert links to other notes and to whole "categories" (the old term for tags) into your notes.
It also allowed you to insert these links into external applications as well - as a custom protocol handler like Eric refers to. So for example I was able to add links to notes into my XMIND mindmaps. I could then just click on the link in my mindmap to bring up the note in Evernote.
I BITTERLY miss this feature. I'd still be using Evernote 2.2 if I could, but unfortunately EN2.2 can no longer handle my database, which is over 800MB with more than 8,400 notes.
Evernote have ASSURED me (I've written to them many times about this!) that the Note Link feature will eventually appear in Evernote 3, but tell me that this is still MONTHS away (sigh...)
I’m disappointed...
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Inappropriate?This is an essential feature.
Evernote needs two things:
1) Ability to link between notes
2) Ability to refer to notes by URL. This way I can refer to notes from MindMeister for example, and all my other great Web 2.0 tools.
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I would consider these features to be top of my wishlist for Evernote too, they would make a massive difference to the usefulness of Evernote. I frequently want to link related notes using more than just tags, and I'd love to be able to paste a link to notes into other applications & websites that I use.
I thought that maybe I could get around the lack of these features by running a search for the note I want to link to, then copying the resulting url for the search (e.g. http://www.evernote.com/Home.action#T.../%2522Evenden%2520%25281999%2529%2522) from the address bar. Unfortunately this doesn't actually work, it just takes you to the default "All notebooks" view. If we could at least link directly to a search url then that would provide a reasonable workaround until we have full note linking. -
Inappropriate?In my mind, it defies belief that Evernote doesn't have this already! It seems a reasonable product otherwise, if a little bloated, but this feature is much more obvious and fundamental than all the other cruft in there.
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I'm surprised you Evernote bloated - to me it seems to be stripped down to the bare essentials. And although I'm a strong opponent of featuritis, I do wish Evernote had a little bit more oomph - like for example Omni's product that makes automatic AI type of connections between notes. I don't think Evernote - the company - is headed that way though.
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Inappropriate?I think I may have written in with the suggestion at some point. Either way, it would be an incredible addtion - my impression is that a lot of people create quite an elaborate Evernote storage system, employing notebooks, tags and searching for different purposes. Not really surprising when you consider the scope of the program - fundamentally to organise all the information in our lives.
Having the extra option of just inserting a link, without having to mess up your system and knowing you'll see the connection without having to check the tag or anything - now that'd be great. I'm glad to hear they're allegedly working on this.
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On windows - don't know if it's the same with mac - I still don't get why you get to use the same tags for different notebooks. I think in part why people create elaborate org schemes is because they're trying to work around the limitations of the software. Yeah I've heard that they were working on adding a link a long time ago... but I guess we still have to wait.
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Inappropriate?Personally I wouldn't want to be prevented from using the same tags for different notebooks (everyone has their own way of organising their notes; for me there is a lot of overlap between the kinds of info in each of my notebooks), but I can see why some people might want the *option* to restrict tags to specific notebooks. It would be nice if Evernote was more customisable to each user's needs, although there's always the danger of overcomplicating things and essentially ending up with different users using very different versions of Evernote, which would make support more difficult, for instance, and would create a steeper learning curve for new users.1 Comment Add a comment
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hmm - I thought on the Mac you had separate notebooks with separate tags? Maybe I got the wrong impression.
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Inappropriate?Is there any movement on this? I would think that at the very least permalinks for individual notes would be essential for any web 2.0 company. Aside from solving innumerable integration problems, it would also gradually draw more users into the Evernote fold. Inter-note linking could easily be built on top of permalinks for individual notes. Would be very excited to see this implemented in the near future. Until then I'm satisfied with Evernote but not gushing.
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