Evernote’s Missing Feature
22 September 2008
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Evernote is Missing an Important Feature
Evernote=Love. Writeboard=Pain.
I do most of my writing in Evernote - including all the writing and image handling for Ninjaplan. But I’m working on a collaborative project now and am forced to explore other applications.
The biggest collaborative writing system currently available is Writeboard. But Writeboard has substantial limitations. Writeboard requires arcane html-like markups. In Writeboard, writing in italics requred _adding underscores_.
You can read Writeboards in lovely Verdana font, but all the writing is in ugly Courier New font. If you want to attach images or any other type of file, you will have to pay to update. After spending a painful week using Writeboard, I have returned to Evernote.
Collaboration is Evernote’s Missing Feature
- I can share notes between computers within my own account.
- But I can’t share a Notebook with another Evernote user without leaving the Evernote system.
My only options for externally sharing my notes are to email them to someone else’s email address, or publish them for everyone to see on the Internet.
The Evernote Collaboration Workaround:
This is a dirty trick: sign up for a second Evernote account.
I think this kind of thing is frowned upon, but until sharing is implemented, there is no other way. (And when they finally do implement this feature Evernote’s import/export features will make merging your accounts easy.)
So this second sign-up is going to be a shared account. Now I can share my Notes with another person, even though Evernote thinks that both computers are me.
Am I the only one? Or would you like Evernote to implement Notebook sharing too?
I agree completely!
I thought about the workaround as well but as I use on work comp, home laptop and iphone find it rather annoying to always be signing in and out of accounts.
R’s
Me, too. I would love to have a running shared grocery store list that my wife and I constantly work from. When I have time to go to the store, I’ll get all of the things we both have requested…same for when she goes.
YES!
Evernote: One of the great strengths of cloud-computing is the ability to collaborate. But, especially in project development, us users don’t always want our undeveloped ideas to be made public for the world to read!
Please say yes to semi-public collaboration!
I agree also….
I miss that feature very much
any information from evernote if the will do something in that way?
I work in collaboration on projects with other people. Across distance and the Apple-Microsoft divide.
I would love to be able to capture ideas, websites, pictures - all the things that Evernotes does well and share them with colleagues.
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