One more thing, I was intrigued by "Right now, as far as I know, tablet navigation doesn't sync but they are working on making the tablet experience better." I'm hopeful for a more desktop like client on the iPad. There is such a gulf between the feature set and the promise of v10 was to make things more consistent across platforms.
Yes, I think that's the plan, to make it more like desktop and have an overall better experience. Multi-select for tablets and phones would be a huge improvement as well if it comes.
Yes, I think I've mentioned before that it's a real inconvenience to only have Note Merge on Desktop as it's something I do quite often. I think the same way that Mail on iOS does it with a simple Select button that shows a checkbox next to each item so you can select them would a simple enough UI.
You mentioned that you use EN for all annotations. Now that you joined the Walled Garden (AKA: Apple ecosystem), you may want to try the annotation tools that are built into the Preview and Mail apps. I find them a lot easier to use, as they don’t require that I go to EN when the PDF or Image I need to annotate is not in EN to begin with and I have no reason to store it in EN.
I'll take a look. I keep forgetting the keyboard shortcut for a screen shot lol. I also don't use it as much as I should as its mainly my travel laptop. Will get more used to it when the Win PC goes poof and I get a Mac Mini lol.
I believe that the shortcut for screen clippings is Shift-Command-4 and the shortcut for configuring the settings for the type of Screen clip, is Shift-Command-5. I rarely have to take a screen clippings of the entire screen, so I have the settings default to using the crosshairs so I can drag them over the area I want to clip and send the output to the clipboard so that I can then paste it in the app I need to use.
As far as purchasing the Mac Mini goes, once you completely enter the Walled Garden, you will be kicking yourself for not having taken a bite of the apple years ago… 🤓😱🤣
Unless you're into video editing, I really think that buying a Mac Studio would be a waste of money. For regular office and personal computing, the Mac mini is M4 Pro that comes with 24 GB of RAM is more than is needed. I edit photos with ON1 Photo Raw which needs a robust computer to work without timing out or overheating and so far I have not had any issues running this app. Sometimes, I hear the fan come on, but it doesn't slow down the response.
Before I upgraded to the new Mac mini, I had an older Mac mini with an M2 Pro processor and I believe 16 GB of RAM. That too was plenty fast (incidentally, that Mac mini survived the tornado that destroyed our house--the room it was in had completely lost the entire roof as a huge tree feel on it, meaning that it was being soaked in the rain for hours; I didn't think it was going to work, but I was pleasantly surprised me when it came on). When the new Mac minis came out late last year, I decided to upgrade because of their small form factor (I have limited space on my custom built desk). I really didn't need to upgrade, but I went ahead and traded it and got like $450 back from Apple for the old Mac mini M2 Pro. So I'm a happy trooper as they say...
An unexpected benefit of the ability to define a precise font size is that monospace 17 allows me to perfectly line up the days of the week with checkboxes to make a nice little tally chart to show the days I have completed an activity. Dummy example here:
For some reason, I've never really associated the EN Annotation feature with PDFs... I'd always considered it to be an image annotation tool. but you've opened my eyes. I particularly like the way the pages of a multi-page PDF are displayed, making it very usable.
So you can annotate your Evernote "copy" of the PDF, then share it with someone directly from EN, or download the annotated version from EN and store it in your file manager. 👍
I don't think so and I'm not sure that will happen as Skitch is quite old but I think they will improve annotation.
Something interesting... when Bending Spoons bought WeTransfer they also got an app called paper which is now showing as part of Evernote. Its nly iOS but maybe in the future...
That is interesting, I think I remember Paper being one of the first iPad apps I used with a stylus. Hopefully they make more use of that technology to improve the Skitch based version.
I’ve always found this Annotation tool a bit lacking for PDFs compared to Preview or others. The main thing is that it feels like you’re annotating an image of the page rather than a text document. The text highlighting behaves more like a real highlighter
pen would, but I prefer when it actually selects the text and highlights it neatly behind - just like when you highlight text in a Note. Also wish you could delete and reorder pages. Still, I’m happy they’ve given it some attention at least.
One more thing, I was intrigued by "Right now, as far as I know, tablet navigation doesn't sync but they are working on making the tablet experience better." I'm hopeful for a more desktop like client on the iPad. There is such a gulf between the feature set and the promise of v10 was to make things more consistent across platforms.
Yes, I think that's the plan, to make it more like desktop and have an overall better experience. Multi-select for tablets and phones would be a huge improvement as well if it comes.
Yes, I think I've mentioned before that it's a real inconvenience to only have Note Merge on Desktop as it's something I do quite often. I think the same way that Mail on iOS does it with a simple Select button that shows a checkbox next to each item so you can select them would a simple enough UI.
Jon
You mentioned that you use EN for all annotations. Now that you joined the Walled Garden (AKA: Apple ecosystem), you may want to try the annotation tools that are built into the Preview and Mail apps. I find them a lot easier to use, as they don’t require that I go to EN when the PDF or Image I need to annotate is not in EN to begin with and I have no reason to store it in EN.
I'll take a look. I keep forgetting the keyboard shortcut for a screen shot lol. I also don't use it as much as I should as its mainly my travel laptop. Will get more used to it when the Win PC goes poof and I get a Mac Mini lol.
I believe that the shortcut for screen clippings is Shift-Command-4 and the shortcut for configuring the settings for the type of Screen clip, is Shift-Command-5. I rarely have to take a screen clippings of the entire screen, so I have the settings default to using the crosshairs so I can drag them over the area I want to clip and send the output to the clipboard so that I can then paste it in the app I need to use.
As far as purchasing the Mac Mini goes, once you completely enter the Walled Garden, you will be kicking yourself for not having taken a bite of the apple years ago… 🤓😱🤣
There seems to be a lot more than you think going on with Mac OS and the Air is very well made.
Might remortgage the house and buy one of those studio things 😂
Unless you're into video editing, I really think that buying a Mac Studio would be a waste of money. For regular office and personal computing, the Mac mini is M4 Pro that comes with 24 GB of RAM is more than is needed. I edit photos with ON1 Photo Raw which needs a robust computer to work without timing out or overheating and so far I have not had any issues running this app. Sometimes, I hear the fan come on, but it doesn't slow down the response.
Before I upgraded to the new Mac mini, I had an older Mac mini with an M2 Pro processor and I believe 16 GB of RAM. That too was plenty fast (incidentally, that Mac mini survived the tornado that destroyed our house--the room it was in had completely lost the entire roof as a huge tree feel on it, meaning that it was being soaked in the rain for hours; I didn't think it was going to work, but I was pleasantly surprised me when it came on). When the new Mac minis came out late last year, I decided to upgrade because of their small form factor (I have limited space on my custom built desk). I really didn't need to upgrade, but I went ahead and traded it and got like $450 back from Apple for the old Mac mini M2 Pro. So I'm a happy trooper as they say...
Yeah I think a studio would be overkill. I hope you got sorted after the tornado!
An unexpected benefit of the ability to define a precise font size is that monospace 17 allows me to perfectly line up the days of the week with checkboxes to make a nice little tally chart to show the days I have completed an activity. Dummy example here:
https://share.evernote.com/note/d622b203-c9b3-cf49-43ce-127c4ef35662
Oh yes. That does look nice. Its the little things!
Rgus is a very useful Friday TTT - thanks Jon!
For some reason, I've never really associated the EN Annotation feature with PDFs... I'd always considered it to be an image annotation tool. but you've opened my eyes. I particularly like the way the pages of a multi-page PDF are displayed, making it very usable.
So you can annotate your Evernote "copy" of the PDF, then share it with someone directly from EN, or download the annotated version from EN and store it in your file manager. 👍
One great thing about the PDF annotator is its non-descructive so you can always get back to the original after drawing all over it.
So...have they pretty much incorporated most of the functionality from the old Skitch app into the Annotation features in EN?
I don't think so and I'm not sure that will happen as Skitch is quite old but I think they will improve annotation.
Something interesting... when Bending Spoons bought WeTransfer they also got an app called paper which is now showing as part of Evernote. Its nly iOS but maybe in the future...
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/paper-sketch-draw-create/id506003812
That is interesting, I think I remember Paper being one of the first iPad apps I used with a stylus. Hopefully they make more use of that technology to improve the Skitch based version.
I’ve always found this Annotation tool a bit lacking for PDFs compared to Preview or others. The main thing is that it feels like you’re annotating an image of the page rather than a text document. The text highlighting behaves more like a real highlighter
pen would, but I prefer when it actually selects the text and highlights it neatly behind - just like when you highlight text in a Note. Also wish you could delete and reorder pages. Still, I’m happy they’ve given it some attention at least.