Mark, I completely understand the challenges involved with implementing formatted text on multiple platforms, but I think that standing here frozen because it isn't feasible to do it all at once isn't the a good option. If it must be done in pieces, so be it. Dwight, your point is very good. I, too, would probably be willing to cope with a short term mismatch of editing capabilities with the understanding that it would be corrected fairly soon.
If it were me planning this and I intended to implement RTF (or some other formatting option) in phases, I'd make RTF optional and make it opt-in. If you are working across multiple platforms and not all of them support RTF, you can choose to leave the notes editor in the default ASCII mode and never have to worry about it. If you know that you are only working with platforms which have RTF support, or you don't care if you get extraneous gibberish as long as you can have formatted text where it's supported, click the check-box and enable RTF in the notes editor. The first time you set it, I would probably give you a warning about all platforms not supporting rich text formatting, etc, and make you confirm that you read the warning, but after that it's basically as Dwight says, and no further warnings would get in your way or bug you. Trish On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Mark. I understand that a forced synchronous cross-platform flash-cut > is a bear. As an alternative I would be pleased to have RTF support on one > platform with the understanding that if I viewed an RTF note on a platform > that doesn’t support it there will be miscellaneous Ascii gibberish > sprinkled across my content, and that if I edit an RTF note on a platform > that doesn’t support RTF I will lose the formatting and make the gibberish > permanent. I would accept all of this if there was a commitment to deliver > RTF support to the remaining platforms in some finite period.**** > > -Dwight**** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mark Levison > *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2013 4:14 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [MLO] Formatted Notes**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:**** > > Just want to mention that Evernote on my Android phone creates, displays, > and edits notes with bold, italics, underline and bullets, and syncs it all > well with Evernote on Windows.**** > > ** ** > > Dwight and Joel - I was the one who made the point. My point was the > implementation cost is higher than you think because it needs to > implemented on all platforms at once. You can't have rich text on windows > and not have it on Android/IPad/IPhone etc otherwise the odd platform > out destroys your formatting or even the note. Oddly enough I suspect the > legacy platforms think BB 7/8 etc would be the biggest issue.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Mark **** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Holmes245 > *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2013 3:09 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [MLO] Formatted Notes**** > > **** > > The bullet feature would help me as I've used that in other programs > before I found MLO as a way to check mark off stuff. If I were a college > student, I would have used MLO for assignments and would have used that > feature to mark off tasks that were a part of that assignment that didn't > necessarily need a separate task. I still use MLO for this with other > things but I'm limited to the act of inserting my own "bullets" with the > minus sybol but can't mark anything out. MLO, for the most part, has forged > ahead except for this aspect of it.**** > > **** > > If I remember correctly, I think Andrey mentioned somewhere (or maybe > someone else did) that he's not sure how to incorporate this into the > software and have it sync accross platforms because the mobile devices > wouldn't have rich text editing. Hey, I personally don't mind not having it > on the mobile app. It's the PC software that needs to have it. Maybe have > the edits displayed in the mobile apps but not have it be editable? **** > > **** > > Joel**** > > **** > > > > On Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:15:14 AM UTC-5, Majorbillion wrote:**** > > I 2nd that. I mentioned it before too. **** > > **** > > I use the notes quite a bit and many times I wish I could boldface, > underling, highlight indent, and bullet. **** > > **** > > The organizational usefulness of outlines works well for planning. But if > you have a lot of information that you collect, free form notes is some > times the only practical way to record this info. **** > > **** > > Eddie**** > > **** > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Heinz Gäggeler <[email protected]> > wrote:**** > > When it will be possible to insert and edit formatted notes in future of > MLO?**** > > **** > > I think this is a feature that is requested since years!**** > > **** > > Here in Google Groups it's possible! 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